The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1917-08-29

wonders whether the bird is using this
or that method of tone production.
No one cares whether the music comes
from its throat or its head or-its chest.
There is no time to wonder, for what
is being poured forth in ecstacyis pure
music.
The same exquisite satisfaction
comes from listening to the vocalist
pl esented by Sousa Those who heard
Percy Hemus yesterday afternoon
thought of nothing but his divine gift.
Sweet and persuasive, his songs will
inger long. long after the singer has
left us. A rare treat indeed it was to
listen to that God-given voice"
During his Canadian trip Mr.. He
mus sang three or four songs at each
concert, averaging from two to three
encores. His audiences were large
and enthusiastic and he sang to as
many as 5000 people in one day. He
still. has about thirty concerts to sing
with Sousa before his summer will be
completed.
Mrs Ivan Dibble was hostess at a
meeting of her sewing club today at
her apartments in the Congleton
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Word has been received in Topeka
that Lieut.. Charles Ryder has been
promoted to The rank of captain. He
is now captain of the Sixteenth infan-
try, stationed at Syracuse, n. Y. His
mother, Mrs. L. A Ryder, is visiting
him there. Captain Ryder was
West Point man, having finished at
the military school within the past
three years.
The Topeka chapter of the D A. r.
will meet Thursday afternoon at $50
o'clock with Mrs. H A. Kingsley, 1905
Topeka avenue.
The Military Sisterhood will have
an all-day meeting Thursday at Me-
mortal hall.
The members of the Sisterhood are
giving the soldiers a treat today by
distributing glasses of jelly at the
camp. Some of them also are visiting
the soldiers who are i'll in hospital.
Margaret Woodrow Wilson, the
daughter of the president is arranging
for a concert tour which she will give
this winter. She is studying With
Ross David of New York, who is
spending the summer near Oswe-
gatchie, New London, Conn. Nearly
all of Miss Wilson's available time is
filled, and a successful season for her
is predicted.
The presidents family seems to have
set a new fashion for the White House
One hears much less about their
clothes and their parties than about
their activities in public and welfare
ScTNlCc, anu lnIeIlecIuaI acNleVe-
ments- To be sure, they have set
pace in matrimonial alliances, but
they have been occupied at other
things, too. Not long ago there was
a rumor afloat about the enga gement
of Miss Margaret Wilson, but il may
have been only gossip.
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THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
Who gets all her motor wells in
some shade of red. She says that wells
in soft shades of red protect the face
from sunburn and tan as no other
veil will, on account of the light alb
sorbing capacity of that color She
must be right about it. for while she
drives a great deal, the wilderness of
her complexion is the envy of her
friends who take less care of the fleet
ing beauty of the skin.
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Miss Mabel E. Kingsley returned
Sunday from a two months trip. She
afforded the summer session of the
Wisconsin university at Madison for
six weeks, after which she visited her
brothers, H w. Kingsley and Ralph
in Shell Rock Iowa; Madison, S. D.,
and McClelland, Iowa, before return
ing. Miss Kingsley will leave Satur-
day for Oskaloosa, Kan, where she is
the instructor in English in the high
school.
A neighborhood party was given
Tuesday night at the E. D. Spicker-
man home. in Buchanan street, for
Doctor and Mrs. T. s. Morrison and
their daughters, Elizabeth and Mar
garet Morrison. Doctor Morrison is
bandmaster for the artillery band and
will leave with the troops for Fort
Sill. His son, Read Morrison, is SER
geant-major, and is now stationed at
Hutchinson, but will be at Fort Sill
eventually. Mrs. Morrison and her