The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-01-12

dred Maggie, Emma Shanks Savior
Nellie Shepherd. Vera Taylor. Vida
Taylor, Katheryn Way, Edith Bair
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states are: Anita Adams. Florida;
Mabel Cadman, Pennsylvania; Pansy
Lee, Missouri; Pauline Ross, Okla
homa.
Mischa Levitzki, the celebrs ted
pianist, who is to appear on the pro-
gram with Governor Capper at the
patriotic meeting in the city auditor
ium, January II. is heralded by the
American and European press as be-
ing one of the greatest living pianists,
and since his initial bow to the Amer
lean public one year ago, his success
has been almost unprecedented in the
annals of piano playing. Many critics
have said of him that he is even better
/ than Paderewski.
The Topeka Elks have very kindly
donated the services of this famous
artist from their concert course for the
great war conference to be held in the
auditorium next Thursday night.
The following program will be
given:
Chromatic Fantasia and Fugue in D
Sonata in a Major M6 6aG4
Six X, Variations on the Theme of the
TURKISH March From Ruins of Athens
C.r
Mocturne. F Sharp Major. CHOPIN CHOPIN
Three Etudes. Major. Ch0pin
Three iEtudes, c Major: CHOPIN CHOPIN
Waltz, A Flat Major, OPP. "a, No. /. .Chopin
EarGa 3It G. Major Rubenstein
Rhapsodie, No. -. Observation-Disclosures. Iiszt
X X :
Mrs Cliff Stratton, formerly Miss
Lenore Monroe, who is living at DEM
ing, N. M, while Lieut.. Stratton is sta!
a m cd
terested in the needs of the hospital
at the camp. She says that rags are
Daoiy needed and asks that Topeka
women send them to her at her home
address, 7O4 Zinc avenue Denoing
n. NJ.
Among Topeka women interested in
gathering supply of these rags are
members of the Good Government
club among whom are Mrs. ]. D. Nc
Farland, Mrs. Lee Monroe. Mrs. Nor
man Keller and Mrs. r. L. Cofran
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There's man in our town who,
with his wife, returned at the dawn
of this beautiful wintry day from
pasadena, Cal, where, he says, on
January 1, three persons suffered sun
strokes on the streets.
X X
| Dear s. R.:-You will perhaps re-
member that I told you in my letter
last Saturday that one Topeka young
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beautifully set in platinum and had a
platinum band, set in diamonds
awaiting only the ceremony Well
would you believe that there is an
other Topeka girl wearing a new dia-
mond set in platinum with a circIet
of diamonds in platinum for a guard?
Both these rings were the gifts of her
fiance who expects to leave for France
and whose parents are said to have
loads of money.
Have you been out to any of the
new homes which several of the Young
matrons of the West side are occupy
ing? We are all just crazy about them
and while some are more complete
than the others they are all adorable
One of them. that of Mrs. Fred Davis
has a perfectly white kitchen and the
sink shines like Italian marble
If the soldier boys enjoyed their
Christmas packages any more than we
girls are enjoying their thank your
notes they certainly had merry
Christmas. Several of the girls have
had real high brow notes thanking
them in the best of grammar and
spelling while others were written
without a capital letter and so poorly
spelled that we think the boys must
have written them that way just for
fun. You know what a model of pro-
priety Hazel Nelson is. do you not?
She got letter from the man who re-
ceived her Christmas package telling
hef tnat ne would very much pre-
ferred a testament to the cards and
tobacco which she sent as he used
neither. He also said he was trying
to live right and would be glad to help
her to do so.
number of the Topeka girls whom
know paid holiday visits to their
soldier-boy sweethearts at the various
camps, but if there We're any secret
marriages during their visits we have
not heard of them. We were sus-
picious in a few cases but after a
careful investigation are obliged to say
that we do not know.
They saw that a vonne lady Cor gen.