The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-20

the war work council of which Mrs.
Paul Walker is chairman, and the
remainder is to be secured during the
next few days by a number of young
women who had luncheon together
yesterday at the Y. M. c. A. Covers
were laid for Mrs. Paul Walker, Mrs.
G. c Bowman, Miss Bernice Ema-
hizer, Miss Annie Sweet, Miss Allena
Grafton, Miss Ruth Foster, Mrs. r.
@. Herrick, Miss Violet Crumbine,
Miss Mary Burnett, Miss Edith Con-
nell, Miss Alice Lyman, Miss Daisy
Neil, Miss Jean Lindsay, Mrs. Jack
Sleeper, Miss Huntsberger, Mrs. F. +.
Ginger, Mrs. Arthur Miller. Mrs.
Frank Foster, Mrs. Dick Alden, Mrs.
Clark Zugg, Miss Mary. MacLennan,
Mrs Horace Hall and Miss Ernestine
Klein.
Miss Nellie Kouns and Miss Sarah
Kouns have been giving concerts on
the Pacific coast during the last few
weeks and have met with the usual
/ success. The San Francisco Chroni-
Gle contains the following notice of
their appearance at the Orpheum the
alter of that city:
The biggest successes are made of
the simplest elements Here is plati-
tude but it assumes Importance in the
+
yesterday afternoon at the Orpheum
| by Nellie and Sara Kouns, singers.
! They came unheralded by a single su-
perlatiVe. They were just singers No
] evidence was adduced at all that they
! had. once upon time, been mem bers
/ of thesEmma Abbott Opera company
I or that Richard Wagner had contem-
/ plated them for roles in his music
/ drama when Brazil invited him. No
/ notice that they were from the Royal
! Opera of Munich, or the Court Opera
| of Berlin, was posted, and they were
not direct from La Scala or Covent
| Garden.
I They were apparently content to
rest their regulations as singers on
4dhS- present FsehsF&than-ons the past
and they were quite right. They held
yesterday afternoons audience in the
spell of hushed silence while they
I sang. They won so many encores that
the program was perceptibIy and de-
| liciously delayed. They sang with the
spirit and they sang with the under
/ standing. Better still, they sang with
the heart.
And that brings me back to the
opening platitude of this story The
success they achieved was the result
of the simplicity of its projections.
Both know how to sing-a rare and
| golden possession is theirs. Coupled
with naturally gifted voices is the
which bespeaks conscientious study
actuated by high ideals. Their songs
were worthy, but kept mainly to the
simphcities of melody, and their
voices were as true to the pitch as
AttPs harp or Elmans violin. They
offered their numbers simply and
presided over their music with the
manner of gentle-women By all
means hear them.
!
| Who says that we may say to those
who are opposed to the soldiers in
the trenches having tobacco that she
would want to smoke cigarettes her
self if she had to spend seven days in
succession in the trenches No, she
isn't a low brow at all, but a broad
minded human being who wears a
hood on her college gown
X
Brig. Gen. Charles 1. Martin and
I Mrs. Martin have issued invitations
for a dinner dance which they will
give at Temple hall in Lawton. Okla.
on the evening of November 20. A
number of Topeka friends have re-
! ceived invitations to the party. which
/ will be a large and fashionable affair.
4 X
/ Miss Babel Hayes will be hostess at
a One-o'clOck luncheon Wednesday at
which Miss Lillian Trapp. whose en-
( gagement to Mr.. George A. Sawyer has
been announced, will be guest of
honor. The guests will be limited to
close friends of the honor guest.
All members of the Native Daugh-
ters of Kansas have been asked to
work for the Red Cross every Wednes-
day afternoon at the rooms in Crosby
Brothers store. Every Native Daugh-
ter is urged to come early and stay
late. Mrs. w. T. Crosby, a member of
the executive committee, will have
| charge of the organization each
Wednesday afternoon.
X
THERE'S A MAN IN OUR TOWN
Who attempted one evening during
the teachers convention to take some
| of the guests in the city for joy ride.
He decided on two of the best looking
! young women whom he saw on the
street, drove his handsme car up and
, offered it for their service. When he
was apparently not heard the first
time" he said, "Oh, would you rather
walk than ride with a good sport %
The good sport didn't know those
young women were secretaries at the
Young Womans Christian association
and that they had been going out that
same street almost every evening for a
year.
No little CONSERVATION was caused
in the mind of one of the kinder