The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-04-10
JoURNAL-sATURDAY EVENING 1920

And this is one of the things Miss
Curtis will tell at her lecture on Fri
day afternoon.
I'VE are going back some time, but
you are tired after helping fight the
war and then fix up afterwards for a
year and a half" they said, and You
don't wonder if they are always so
alert as they were today. They see
amusing things on every side and are
as philosophical about it all as many
of the boys who were in it. And yes
they appreciate what their work means
without being sentimental over it.
AS Julie Brown said, "Of all the
gardens in France, and there are many
wonderful ones, ours was the most
oeautiful-our garden of children ="
Topeka man who visited with
Nellie and Sarah Kouns in New York
a short time ago, knows definitely of
their plans, which are sure to interest
Topeka people. After leaving the Fri
without doubt the hit" they are
spending the month making records
for the Victor and Aeolian companies.
They will sail on May 6 for Paris,
where they will spend two weeks.
From there they will go to London to
stay until October, and in the fall they
expect to begin a grand opera tour,
starting in Italy and taking them thru
that country, parts of Switzerland,
Austria and France. In the United
States it is almost impossible to go
from vaudeville to grand opera. and
for this reason the Kouns sisters are
going abroad to take their step up.
After once breaking into opera it is no
trouble to come back to this country
in that role.
The vested choir of the First Metho-
dist church is pTacticing on Haydn's
Creation" which it will give some
Sunday late in May. Sunday morn
ing they will sing The Heavens Are
Telling taken from the Creation"
The choir is directed by Mr.. Paul
Loveless.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred H. Woodbury., of
| Olivet, are the guests of Mr.. and Mrs.
Fl. l.. Shirer. Mrs. Woodbury. was the
guest of honor at o'clock dinner
given by the C. E. Mothers club of
the First Congregational church at the
home of Mrs. w. l.. Stark. The Wood
burys have recently purchased a
home in Emporia, where they will
spend the school months each year.
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Mrs. L. A. Eddy announces the mar
riage of her daughter Bessie TO Mr..
| Jay Shidler at the Eddy home, In
dian HILL" near Topeka, Friday eve
ming, April 8. Both the bride and the
/ bridegroom are memb ers of old Shaw
nee county families and have many
friends. They are both graduates of
the Topeka high school and Mrs Shi-
der was a student at Manhattan
During the war he served for fifteen
months in the navy. Mr.. and Mrs
Shidler will be at home after May Is
on Huntoon street west of the city.
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| Miss Marian McAfee, Miss Nanon
a concert in the assembly hall of the
Silver Lake high school Tuesday eve
ming, April 10, at s O'Clock They will
be assisted by Mr.. Tom Powell.
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Mrs. Lee c. Campbell, 61S Polk
street, entertained at dinner Thursday
evening in honor of Mr.. and Mrs. r.
W. Emerson of Tampa, Fla, who are
visiting friends and relatives in To-
peka. Mrs. Emerson is remembered
as Miss Betty Baker, the daughter of
Mr.. and Mrs. D. F. Baker of Tyler
street.
A committee of twenty are doing all
| they can to personally invite all the
business and professional women of
! Topeka to be present at the second
meeting for organizing a league of
such women in Topeka. A national
organizer will be here next week and
| a meeting will be held at the Y. w.
| c. A. Tuesday evening. There are all
sorts of possibilities in such an or
! ganization, as proved by the places
where it has been tried. and so far it
| looks as if Topeka women would re-
spond as eagerly as they have in larger
cities. All women in business are in
vited to be present at the Tuesday
evening meeting, whether specially in
terviewed or not.
Miss Ceora Lanham will go to Alta
Vista Monday night to give an enter
tainment She will have story hour
for the school children and in the eve
display her costumes in the Methodist
church. She will be the guest of the
Rev. and Mrs. Fred Whittlessey, for
merly of Topeka.
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Notes and Personals.
Mr.. and Mrs. +. F. Hodgins will re-
turn Monday from Pasadena, Cal,
where they have been spending the
winter.
Mrs. Guy Porter, of Minneapolis
Kan, is visiting her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. J. C. Gafford.
Mrs. o. c. Wynn of Mcpherson is
the guest of her parents. Mr.. and Mrs.
J. H. Edwards, at the Virginia
Mrs c. E. Nutter, formerly Miss
Rose Gilberg, will return to Topeka
soon to spend the summer here with
Mr.. Nutter. She has been studying
voice in Chicago this winter.
Mrs. w. H. Caldwell, who has been
ill. is convalescing at her home, 724
Clay street.
| Mrs. Lester A. Heckard of Wichita.
who was a soloist at the State Music
Teachers association this week, has
! been the guest of Miss Edna Armita ee