The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1921-04-18

til o'clock for all parents and rela
tives of members of the fraternity.
Practically all the parents of the town
members were presen. Special music
fectly scrumptious refreshments of
angel food and sherbet"
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The Business and Professional
Mems Dancing club will have dane
ing party Wednesday evening at KEEL
lam Hall.
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The members of the forestry depart
ment of the Woman's club and the
Ceramic Art club will be hostesses
Tuesday afternoon at the art exhibit
being held at Boswell hall.
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Mrs. II. o. Garvey left today for
southern Kansas, where, at Pittsburg,
she will tbe the guest of Senator and
Mrs. A. c. Graves; at Columbus, of
Lieut.. Gov. and Mrs. Charles S. Huff
man, and at Chanute, of Mrs. t. f.
Morrison, giving her lecture, Master
pieces of the Old World in each OF
those cities. She will return to To-
peka the last of the week.
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Shanghai, China, has the advant-
age of hearing a wonderfully good
ter recently received from Miss
Frances Taylor. formerly of Topeka.
who is now teaching in the American
school in Shanghai.
There are so many foreigners
here" continues Miss Taylor, and
just now so many Russians. The mu-
nicipal council has a wonderful SYM
phony band which plays every Sunday
afternoon. 1t is made up of Russians,
Italians and F'ilipinos. mostly, and is
led by Paci. a wonderful musician.
Sunday, March 13, they gave a
MozartLiszt concert, playing Quintet
in A Major, Opus 10S,' and Concerto
in d Major by Mozart. Venise ct
Naples and Les Preludes,' both by
List. The concerts are all free.
Mischa Elman has been here this
winter anG is to return again soon.
Schumann- Heink is expected in April,
so you see I'm really not in such an
outlandish place after all.
II saw Charles Ray here the other
day in a picture that 1 had seen at
the Orpheum just before l came over,
two years ago. The prices are high
for admission and the hours late.
Nothing begins here until 9:15. Our
school is certainly growing. we are
using nine or ten big houses to take
care of us. The children you know
are from the missionary and business
families of China. so they are really
unusual children"
The Holbrook girls have issued in
vitations for their spring formal, to
be held April % in the gym at the
college.
Mrs. N B. Campbell will entertain
Mrs P J. Clevenger's team of the
Woman's club Thursday afternoon at
her home S31 Fillmore street
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Skirts, the article of wearing APP
parel which has been shortly" seen
for coUar11 OnfhS
are obviously conforming to the laws
of nature or the superstition of the
race and are now completing the
seventh turn of the cycle. 1T is
demonstrated once more that history
repeats itself every seven years. says
the Dry Goods Economist.
Turn back the pages of fashion s
notebook to 1916 and look at the sill
houette. Skirts measured from three
to five yards at the hem and hung
from fitted yokes They also cleared
the floor a good eight inches" The
1921 style bears all the earmarks OF
the 1916 style, except that it has not
reached the shoetops Certainly not
! not in Topeka, at any rate), neither
| is it confined to sloping tops. Another
advantage the modern skirt has over
! its competitor of seven years ago is
| the development of individuality
which makes the field wide from
which TO draw inspirations. At the
style show last week at Pelletiers
skirts were modelled which were circu-