The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-02-12

OudptGT VI the American Or
ganIsts, was held at eight o. clock
Thursday evening Horace White
house, dean OF music OF Washburn
College, was On that program for d
Bach number and Miss Mildred Hazel
r1gg, supervisor of music in the To-
peka school played Frank number
The meeting OF the association was
continued thru Friday Mrs Esther
Payne Muller played the Mcdowell
Concerto in G Minor, with Miss Ann
piano part
Miss EvaIine Hartley, of the music
department of the Emporia Normal
SCHOOL sang on the Friday evening
program Miss Hartley has many
friends in Topeka and frequently
visits her relatives here
At one Of the sessions the subject
or piano technique was discussed The
Parsons Sun says of that part Of the
meeting
Piano technique was literally dis
cussed at the morning session at the
state Music Teachers association Mr.
Muller, of the Muller School of Music
IN Topeka, gave some valuable ideas
to the music teacher. Mr.. Muller is
recently from Holland and is a teacher
and pianist of the highest rank"
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The college girls and the sweet
young buds have a new phrase to tell
that they are making an effort TO
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that a certain young man in our town
has been sn1itten with the charms of
a young college girl for some time.
when another coed becomes inter-
ested in him and decides to annex HIM
A friend asks. who fs-your newest
catch?'' And she comes back like this:
Il am not sure of the prize yet, but
m vamping on Lucy's preserves
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Mrs. Harry French will entertain
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o'clock valentine luncheon at her
home. HOS Harrison street
The sororities out at Washburu
have taken to nicknaming one an
other The Kappa Alpha Theta
queens have dubbed their honored OPP
ponents. the Alpha Phi group, the
Alpha Fleas,' while they retaliate by
calling them after their initials, the
".kaG.T
An especially appropriate feature Of
Z the program at Memorial hall in
honor of Abraham Lincoln's birthday
was the singing of The Star Span
/ gled Banner by one hundred school
4 children from the Lincoln Junior
Payuter as cornetist, Miss Edna Kin
/ caid, as teacher and W. G.. Magaw.
as principal The same group Of
singers led the audience in singing
I
/ Lincoln statue. Miss Edna Kiucaid
teacher OF music in the Lincoln Jun
I ior High school, has q Girls G1ee
I club of forty voices, a Boys GIee club
/ of fifteen voices, and an orchestra OF
/ thirteen pieces. Other Junior High
schools Of Topeka are at Sumner and
( Quincy schools with L T. Reynolds,
/ teacher. z. F. Stanley and C. NJ Nor
row, principals. Regular music classes
are features Of the work of the Junior
chesras add to the enthusiasm of the
students in music. Interest in music
/ is gagged by the large number Of first
year high school students who elect
TO take music The work in music il
all OF the Junior High schools is IN
der the direction of Miss Mildred Haz-
elrigg. supervisor of music in the To
peka schools.
THERE'S A WOMAN IN OUR TOWN
I Who is said to be playing around
with one of our stately and diguifie6
educators They say she has him eat
ing out of her hand and that he make:
it the first law of his life to humoi
her every wf1i11. Inasmuch as he i.
far from dociIe in his dealings in gen
era1 with woman, lovely woman. ever
those who gossip about the younz
woman have to acknowledge that sh,
has mastered the trick of manage
ment- y If only she would teach it t,
the mans WIfel
Notes and Personal Mention
Mrs. J. Willis GIeed of Kansas City
Is spending few days in Topeka witt
her daughter. Mrs. PendIetona Miller
. DR.. Mary Riggs Noble of Colorado
Springs. who Iectured in Topeka a few
weeks ago, is now in Leavenworth, ant
| is giving a series Of addresses for tn
: women and girls of that city.
Miss Gertrude Barnes and Mis-
Maude Barnes have returned from
months visit in Chicago.
= Miss IVA Mitchell who has been il
) at her home at 355 West Fifth street
IS improving
Mrs Frank Britton has returne'
from Usage City, where she spent tn
week end visiting friend
} Word has Just been received from
Camp Pike. Little Rock, Ark, tina
: Lyman Rice, son of Mr.. S. J. Rice, VIII
. is with the Washburn Ambulance com
pany, and who underwent an opera
ton on January 4, has taken suddenI
worse, and his parents have been call
/ ed to the camp.
Mr. Mack Akey of Camp Doniphan
| is spending the time of his furfoug
/ in Topeka at the + H Close home.
I DR. Harriet Adams has given up he
house at 1901 MuIvane street anI
J viii make her home with her cousin