The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-11-21

with bouquet of roses and lilies of the
valley. Miss Blanche Endlich wore
a gown of blue cloth with corsage
bouquet of yellow roses.
The decorations for the Endlich
| home were palms, roses and chrysan-
themums. At one end of the living
! room was an altar banked with flow
! ers and ereenery, and the pathway
| leading to it was bOrdered with tall
vases tied with pink tulIe and filled
with white chrysanthemums. The din
| ing table was strewn with roses and
smilax, and the centerpiece was an
i electric fountain wreathed in white
NUNS and pink-roses-
After a wedding trip to California,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. August will return to
/ Topeka and will be at home after De-
/ cember 20, at the Throop hotel.
Out of town guests at the wedding
were: Mr.. August's sisters, Mrs. M. d.
Bear and Mrs. H. Mendelssohn of New
York city, and his brother. Mr.. Albert
j. August of st. Joseph, Mo.
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| The Topeka branch of the war
/ work council, the chairman of which
! is Mrs. Paul Walker, announces that
/ its campaign will close tonight at 6
I O'Clock, and every cent of the ten thou
/ sand dollars apportioned to this
{ branch of the organization, will have
been subscribed
The committee which has made the
! campaign is a small one in numbers
| but certainly enthusiastic and efficient
/ enough to make up for numbers, when
J it is considered that the amount has
: been raised in an extraordinarily short
: time and with almost no publicity at
, all. Before anyone knew what had
( happened, six thousand dollars had
been given to the fund. and the re
! naming four thousand was raised in
/ the same quick and quiet way
! Oh, our town can give all risht
when she is interested. but there Is
J nothing like knowing the proper ave
nues of approach for shy little old To-
pel1a. rs-T so
If Won have already begun racking
your brain, gracious reader, to think
of some gift to send a beloved man Tor
! Christmas, here are some suggestions.
Presupposing, of course, that he is in
some training camp, it is no wonder
you are up a tree as to the gift. First,
there is a camp chair. 1t has can
vas back, stout wooden arms and big
enough for a man of average size to
occupy in moderate comfort. 1t folds
compactly and doesn't weigh heavy,
and it is not awfully expensive.
Another thing you can buy is an
unbrea kable thermOS bottle, made of
porcelain instead of glass 1t is
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coffee hot at night.
/ The wrist watch has come to be
indispensable to the soldiers, and as it
no longer brands man as sissy"
any soldier would be glad to have one,
if he isn't already provided. 1 notice
that some of the men wear their
! watches on the inside of the wrist in
stead of on the back. That may be
the method that redeems it from eff
feminacy.
as acceptable as anything the men can
get, except, of course. tobacco, for
which they probably won't insist upon
waiting till Christmas.
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Mrs. R. Hargreaves will entertain
Friday afternoon at her home, 1915
Harrison street, for her daughter,
Mrs. May Sherman. who is leaving
soon to make her home in Mexico,
and for Mrs. Fred Woodbury., of Oil
vet, Kan, who is visiting Topeka
friends. The guests will be the MEM
bers of the Mothers c. E. society of
the First Congregational church, of
which Mrs. Woodbury. was formerly
member, and there will be few
other friends also as guests.
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To the music department of the
Woman's club belongs the honor of
striving, in the midst of war and
want, to keep alive in the public mind
an interest in musical art. They gave,
without charge, a concert Tuesday
night to which everyone who wished
to come was invited.
A program, representing some of
the best things in the new and older
classics, was presented by a quartet
of singers, who are Mrs. George W.
Parkhurst. Mrs. Horace Whitehouse,
M. Hugh Dickerson and Mr.. Glen
wood Jones.
] The first part of the program was
a cantata. THE Morning of the Year"
+ by Cadman. This composition, which
: is one of Cadman's newest works, was
/ given in Topeka last season, and was
so well received at that time that
numerous requests were made to have
it repeated The number was given
for the second time in Topeka last
night. 1t is made up of solos duets
and quartets, and contains many love-
/ ly passa ges-
The remainder of the program was
as follows:
Cavatina-from Faust ....--....... Guonod
Mr.. Jones
Mon Conr Louvre a ia voix-from samson
Mrs Whitehouse
Love Duet from Madam ButterfIy-Puccini
Mrs. Parkhurst. Mr.. Jones
The Prologue from Pagliacci. .Leoncavallo
Mr.. Dickinson
! One Fine Day-from Madame Butterfly.
Mrs. Parkhurst
Quartette-u-n Iii ben Rammentomi-
/ from RigOletto Verdi
Mrs Robert Carver played the
piano Accomplishments.
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