The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1920-12-25

3ouf snaoes OF blue. The hat and
handbag are of the same color
scheme and carry out the oriental
ideas.
Hopkins university. Doctor Maxey
has been head of the bacteriology de-
partment of the state at Washburn
| college.
The guests will include a few of the
members of the state board of health
and number of close friends.
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Miss Mary Clark will give dinner
| Sunday evening at her home in Fill
more street for the members of the
bridal party of Miss Fayeben Will
liams and Mr.. William Wolfe, whose
Mrs. David Hill of Salina will enter
tain with a luncheon Monday noon
complimenting Miss Williams.
The marriage of Miss Fay Smith
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. j. ]. Smith
and Mr.. Earl Taylor son of Mr.. and
Mrs. David Taylor. will take place this
afternoon at O'Clock at the home OF
/ the brides parents, north of the city
The Rev. S. S. Estey will read the
marriage service. Preceding the cere-
mony, Miss Marguerite Gohlke will
sing and will also play the wedding
march. Only relatives and intimate
Mr.. Taylor and his bride will make
their home in Polk street. Miss Smith
has been the art teacher in the Oak
land school for the past two years, and
will continue her work after her mar
riage.
Mrs. Fern I. Coppedge. formerly OF
/ Topeka, but who is now making a sue
cess as an artist in the east, was the
subject of a story printed in the Phil
adelphia Public Ledger of last Satur-
day. Mrs. Coppedge is a fellow OF
the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts and a chairman of exhibits at the
Plastic club.
The article is as follows:
my childhood was spent in centra
Kansas, on the edge of what is called
the short grass country My parents
were plain living people, with very
biased ideas on certain subjects. The
necessity for absolute truthfulness was
practiced and preached continually
and hence barred many books thai
might have thrilled my early years
/ Fairy tales were taboo in our home
and the nearest approach to then
came spontaneously from pictures seer
in~the clouds. These ideas were sup.
pressed by my parents with the bes
Intentions, imagination was lacking
that's all.
Il never had paints or crayons tc
was made with a subfreshman elias:
in the Topeka high school. after my
marriage and our removal to thai
place incidentally, it was the frs
city 1 ever saw. OF course, I didn't
know painting was to be my forte
only knew l was starved for the sigh
of vivid colors. and great trees and
hills. Only one whose doorway haC
opened out for eighteen years on q
stretch of flat country, scared and
brown in summer and deadly white
in winter, could appreciate my feel
ings
Mrs. Coppedge's work is confined t.
landscapes, with a few very fine har-
Dor views. made in Gloucester, Mass.
one of which, THE Port of Glouces-
ter" is now on exhibition at the Art
club.
After a year spent with the draw.
ing class in Topeka, 1 went to Chicago
IL shall never forget how 1 worked
day after day for mora than three
1lunths without single comment
from my master. Then one day, wher
1 was particularly depressed, he stood
back of me. and with his cane pointed
to Still life 1 had finished, and com
| meuded Il to the class That occasion
always recall as my first big thrill
The last five years have brought many
more, but that one stands alone"
| When asked if an artistic strair
could be traced to some of her ances-
| LOTS, MIS-. 0OppeOSe TepIIed: n
afraid not; we've tried. but were un-
successful. Perhaps, tho, the talen
was dormant in my progenitors. and
just exploded in me-"
| In the three years that Mrs Cop
pedge has lived in Philadelphia eight
of her paintings have ben shown al
the Art club. The grayness of hel
youth may have been the inspiration
for the brilliant pictures produced
now, as Mrs. Coppedge intimates. but
few painters use such daring splashes
| of color. with ruch assurance ano
such happy results.
A meeting for all the members OF
the Phi Delta Theta. alumni association
in the city will be held Sunday after
noon at 8 o'clock at the chapter house
I172S Euclid avenue.
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Phi Delta Delta Women's Legal
fraternity has installed a chapter al
the University of Kansas School OF
Law. Lawrence. Kan. The installation
and initiation services were conducted
by Anita Wilson Veale and were fol
lowed by a banquet at Eldridge house
Miss Veale is the guest of her
grandmothers. Mrs Georgia K VIII
son of Valencia and Mrs George w
| Veale of Topeka. She is a graduate
of the University of Southern Cali
| fornia College of Law and of ths
George Washington College of Law
and was recently admitted to the bal
in California