The Topeka state journal., 1919-05-22

Neese, Mr.. Kenneth Kerans and Miss
Rose Baker.
Miss Rebecca Adams, reader, and
the following members of the violin
department furnished the program:
Mr.. Ignatius Tello, Miss Beth Rogler,
Miss Gladys Heath and Miss Hazel
Swogger, with Miss Ruby Scott, ac-
Companist
In connection with the white Ele-
phant" sale being conducted this week
at lis East Sixth street by the W. G.
7. u, a food sale will be held on Sat-
urday. All of the members of the or
ganization are urged to contribute
something toward this sale, and leave
the food at the place of the sale as
early as convenient Saturday morning
There are still some rare bargains in
the way of clothes and furniture to be
had. One of the attractive antiques is
a large book of steel engravings, with
explanatory notes.
One of Topeka's prominent musi-
clans, Mr.. Paul LaWless, is in Kansas
City this week as leading tenor soloist
with the Kansas City Grand Opera
Society. He appeared Wednesday night
as Don Caesar in Mariana and on
ontU1 Noy hlShl III SlHB the part VI
Tonic in The Daughter of The Regi-
ment."
Mr.. Lawless is widely and favorably
known both in concert field and also
for his church and oratorio singing.
His growing popularity in opera is in
dicated by being given the most popu-
lar nights in the Kansas City opera
week.
Mr.. Lawless is director of our own
Topeka Grand Opera Society and his
appearance here last winter al Thad-
deus in the Bohemian Girl'' delighted
the audience. Topeka will have an
opportunity to hear him as we'll as
the opera society in a popular operatic
concert in the near future and also in
"Maritana," which is now being pre-
pared for presentation next fall.
Among those who are planning to
attend the performance of The
Daughter, of The Regiment" next Sat
urday are: : Misses Myrtle Simmer
mon, Helen Deihl, Juanita Mcdowell
Irene Mcdowell, Inez Tiffany, Vivian
Armagost, Jean Patterson. and Messrs.
Horace Bowman, E. r. Bartlett, N. o.
Nelson and D. H. Patterson. Mrs.
Lawless is now In Kansas City with
her husband.
Swamps are full of vileness and
lilies-Meadow are lovely and weed
ridden. Beauty hides in the muck,
and ugliness squirms under the rose.
There's a quicksand below the scarlet
lotus and the gentle Poppy is Deaths 5
breath. Tragedy has hung her mask
across the street. The nun-faced
woman at the corner is Sin in Sack
cloth. The lady in the Limousine lies
at every smile and the blind mans
wife wouldn't trade the father of her
babies for the richest man in town
And that is as l find Life.
Mrs. Herbert Sund was hostess
| Tuesday evening at her home in Elm
| wood avenue, at a small party in honor
| of Miss Ruth Sund, who will be mar
ried June 5 to Capt. Vernon Spickle-
mire. The guests included Mrs. Le-
Harold Lepper. Mrs. Frank Golden,
Mrs. Will Mooney, Mrs. Ralph Hum
mel, Mrs. J. johnson. Mrs. r. Strauss.
Mrs Ruth Price. Miss Fay Bush. Miss
Clara Banks, Miss Mona Bell, Miss
Alice Linn Miss Jessie Cole, Miss
Miss Aileen Peak, Miss Ora Arnold,
Miss Ethel Nagel,
, The pupils of the ninth grade of
Sumner high school will present a
japanese operetta. Princess Chrysan-
themum.'' at the high school auditor
ium, May 27. Those who will take
part are Miss Martha Owen. Miss Re-
gina Buchanan, Miss Virgiline VIE
man. Miss Mabel Hults, Miss Leah
Affron, Miss Charlotte Affron, Mr..
Percy Harvey, Jr., Mr.. Robert John
ston, Mr.. Carl Mathinson. Mr.. William
Ware, Mr.. Allen Bently. There will be
a chorus of fifty.
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The members of the Washburn fac
ulty will have picnic this evening in
the grove east of Rice hall.
* X ),
An innovation is pI onised in the re-
ception to returned soldiers and sail
ors to be given Saturday night at the
Masonic temple by the members of
the Military Sisterhood and the wo-
men of the Masonic unit. in that all
the boys will have to do will be to
dance and play and eat the good
homemade cake and ice-cream. and
other delicacies, and watch a first
class show, and talk to their friends.
and sit in corners with their girls.
There will be no standing at atteption.