The Hays free press. [volume] (Hays, Kan.) 1908-1924, 1917-02-03
KANSAS DAY OBSERVED.
Saturday Afternoon Club Gives its
First Public Kansas Program.

The women of the Saturday After
noon Club certainly f'did themselves
proud in the very fine entertain
ment given at the Normal on Monday
night. The auditorium was filed TO
hear the program which had been
prepared in commemOration of Kan
sas Day. One of the finest Of mu-
sical effects was unfolded in the
duet played by Mrs. Shively and Mr.
Roberts-the former at the piano,
the latter at the pipe organ. The
selection was from Rubenstein and
the sweet silvery ripples of the piano
in contrast with rich swelling tones
of the organ appealed deeply to the
musical sense of every one present.
Kansas Day song to the tune of
America was sung by the club mem
bers and then Mrs. Snyder read a
very interesting and comprehensive
paper on ''Kansas Men" Mrs Read
gave a pratiotic touch in her selec-
ton of "Old Glory which was well
received. She is one of our new
readers and is a graduate of the Le-
| land Powers school of oratory. The
solo, ''Song of Thanksgiving" by
Mrs. Matthew, was heartily applaud
ed after which Mrs. Flood, came on
with her very excellent paper on
kansas and Budget of Writer'S
most of which was given extempore.
Mrs. Flood was in splendid voice and
gave much pleasure to her audience.
| When Mr.. Wooster appeared to rem
4 der his very good bass solo-he re-
ferred to something Mrs. Flood had
said in her paper and remarked that
| he did not know what a ''mere man"
could add to program of this kind,
but he supposed it was one of the So
called "evils of husbandry." He was
not visibly embarrassed, however.
Before giving her selections "Where
the West Begins" by Chapman and
''The Call of Kansas" by Miss Esther
Clark, Mrs. Hale read a letter she
recently received from the author of
the latter, relating the conditions
under which the appealing beautiful
poem was written. While the reader
was true in her interpretations, she
was far from being at her best, as
she was suffering from a severe
headache. Miss Schoenhalls' paper
on kansas Women" showed much
research and presented TO her audi
ence names of women who aave
/ achieved state and national fame in
| literature, science and politics. Miss
| Schoenhalls has a very pleasing per-
sonality and is at her best on the
! platform as well as In the school
room. Miss Helen Pestana in her vo-
cal selection again demonstrated to
Hays audience the wonderful range
and purity of her voice. "She sings
| so easily" said someone, "and al
ways impresses one that she still has
reserves to draw upon" Mrs Woos-
ter's reading f'The Home Coming of
| Colonel Hucks," one of the VIM. Al
len Whites most touching short stor-
/ les, was received very well indeed.
This is the selection Mrs. Wooster
gave in Topeka, last week, with so
much success The curtain went
down at the close of this number
and for a few minutes Miss Keller,
who gracefully presided as chairman,
expatiated upon the beauty Of the
sunfower and gave the reasons why
the legislature decided to make it
the floral emblem of the state. Then
the curtain rose and a very clever
surprise, happy idea of Mrs. Lees
greeted the audience. In the rear
of the stage was a large "sunflower
garden" background (the artistic
work of Ralph Reed and in the CEN
ter of each yellow petaled blossom
appeared a face-a living face-and
these faces opened their mouths and
sang ''Wher the Sunfowers Bloom"
In the roughish, coquettish chorus
girls it would not be easy to recOg-
nize the dignifed and demure maids
and nlatrons of the club-and it
would be difficult to tell which face
was the fairest flower. The singers
were, Mrs. Matthew, Mrs Brenner,
Miss Hopkins, Miss Pestana, Miss
| Shafer, Miss Grass, Miss Agnew,
Miss Nichols and Miss Unruh- The
spot light gave the radiant effect that
helped make this number so attrac-
tive.