The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-03-21

ter" were sung by Miss Carolyn Love-
well, and were enthusiastically re-
ceived by the audience.
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THERE'S \ WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who. declaring herself to be utterly
beyond all suspicion of matrimonial
intentions. still is spending good part
of every day driving about in an cleo
trio with an agreeable looking man.
At first one naturally thought she
might be preparing to buy a new car,
but that faith is shaken when the
demonstration processes continue for
weeks and no purchase is recorded.
A Frenchman, one Marquis Paul
Louis Giafferri, famous designer, Is
in America, on leave of absence from
the trenches. He has no end of fault
to find with the way = american wom-
en- dress. The worst trouble with
these foreign critics of American taste
is that they judge all American wom-
en- from the Philippine Islands to the
Jersey Coast and from Alaska to Key
West by a few dozen American wom-
en- whom they meet in designers shops
in New York and Chicago At any
rate the said marquis blew into Chi
cago last Monday, with the avowed
purpose of correcting the American
woman'S idea of Paris fashion and de-
sign. He said to some Chicago Wom-
en-, according to a report of his meet
ing:
Your American women seem to me
to be growing wild. almost savage, III
their selection of color. They seem to
have an entirely mistaken idea of what
Paris fashions are. 1 find them COM
ing forth wearing a conglomeration
of color in a single creation, with no
regard fer the ultimate result
The marquis declared the difference
between the Paris and the American
skies is an important factor usually
| nv dos he
sky, he says. is a duh gray, while the
American sky is beautifully bright.
Thus, he says. the American woman
should wear the lighter shades but
never in more than two colors, care
| fully matched.
/ Il speak of these two coIors." he
said, because your women display
tendency to pattern their clothes after
-ah, yes, Navajo blanket.
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| The Alpha Phi sorority will give
their annual spring formal dancing
party April 90. at Kellam hall.
The sorority girls gave a dinner
party for their initiates at the tea
room in the Mills building, for about
forty-five guests, including members
| of the active and alumnae chapters
and the pledges. The decorations were
/ in red and silver, the sorority colors.
Red flowers were used on the tables,
and the menu cards We're decorated in
red and silver.
The initiates We're: Miss Edna
Becker Miss Helen Bennett Miss Mar
jorie Blank, Miss Rheva Bonjour, Miss
Esther Graham, Miss Virginia KitcheH
Miss Ethel Case, Miss Esther Thomas
Miss Glee Iden and Miss Alice Griffin
Miss Pauline McVey, as head of the
social committee, was in charge of the
| arrangements for the party.
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Mrs. F. C. Kaths will entertain the
| Monday Bridge club at her home 1912
Tyler street next Monday Mrs Kaths
is not a member of the club. but has
been playing this winter as sub
stitute.
The following verses are from the
pen of Percy HemuS, the American
baritone, who is to sing in Topeka
next Tuesday night. They appeared
in a recent issue of the New York
Musical America, and were written
after hearing a recital sung entirely
! in foreign tongues by a singer whose
voice was not equal to the demand.
The verses were suggested by a con-
versation overheard after the concert
when an American frankly said he
did not enjoy the concert, and was
rebuked because he did not appreciate
the foreign atmosphere:
MUSIC ATMOSPHERE.
l always heard you had to have voice to
But sister Mary says as how she lows l
must be wrong
! She SayS-at school in New York town, her
! teacher says
lsThis nation, accepts the people with a
brain-she calls Interpretation.
OF course 1 guess she must be right cause
she sings French and
German-and ancient folk songs" she
| says
Writ back in the days of Sherman.
My sister Marys awful smart to learn
them songs soon
WHY bless YOUR heart she was only gone
from December until June.
/ Sometimes wish she'd sing a song that
l could understand.
| Just simple language that we use in this
L our native land.
l But Mary won't sing American she says il
III sounds queer
/ wish she'd teach me what she learned
bout music atmosphere.
y.
Mrs. E. S. Quinton asked a few
friends to tea to- meet Mrs. Claud,
| Hoover of Cleveland. O.. who is visit
ing her sister, Mrs. S. S. Estey.
III Mrs. Hoover was honor guest toda,
i at small, informal luncheon giyel
by Mrs. o. E. Walker, at her countr,
| place The guests were half a dozel
close friends of Mrs. Estey.
III Mrs. H. Q. Garvey has returne,
from Kansas City. where she visited
4 her sister, Mrs. Charles F. Spencer
and was guest at meeting Monda.
afternoon of the Mary Penney Ora.
Travellers club of Kansas City, Kansas
IL Mrs Gray. who organized the clul
and for whom it was named. was frs