The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1922-02-11

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Wolfe has posted a list of require
ments for English students from the
2-B to juniors in high school.
The members of the committee are,
Miss Wolfe, chairman; Miss Julia E.
Davis, secretary; Miss Minnie Jones.
Miss Ethel E. FrielI. Miss Anna KEEL
| ley, Miss Ruth Roby, Miss Bertha
Hyde and Miss Emma Partridge.
| The chart makes the requirements
for each class the same all over the
city.
Princess watahwaso, who for sew
eral years has been singing Indian
songs to American audiences, will sing
} here at the high school auditorium
February IA. Princess Watahwaso is
a fuIIblooded Indian of the Penob-
scot tribe. Her New York audiences
pay as high as $2.75 to hear these
songs. but the children of the grade
schools Will hear her in the afternoon
of February IA, at a charge of fifteen
cents She will sing in the morning
to high school students, and an offer
| ing will be taken. Princess Watah-
waso has declared that she will not
/ take any reimbursement, so all the
money taken in will go toward send
| ing the T. H. S. musical organizations
to Emporia. where they hope to carry
off first honors, as they did last year.
The Faculty Book club was enter
| tanned at the home of Miss Abigail
McElroy by Miss Ella P. True and
Miss McElroy. It was the third meet
! ing Of the club. The meetings offer
| the opportunity for discussion of the
books among the members.
The club was organized in the fall
of 1920. 1t is unique in that it has no
| officers nor constitution. Miss Carmie
| Wolfe acts as chairman Of the meet
/ ings.
Some of the books that the MEM
bers read are His Family" Blind"
The Brimming Cup" Alice Adams"
Roll Top Desk. ''>-sThe Education of
The Alps" 1.-The Seventh Angel
Queen Victoria Hail Columbia -
"A Poor Wise Man" "Margot As
quith.'' ''Fortitude.'' Mirrors of
ton of Edward Box" Eminent
Victorians." Hunger" Dust" Ga
lusha" Orphan Dinah," Edge of the
Jungle" Labrador Doctor" Growth
of the Soil" and 1.-The Square Deal"
At the beginning Of the year, the
club members had the choice of ten
| books from the fifty which the club
| had purchased. They will be per-
mitted to keep one book permanently
at the end of the year.
A larger crowd than usual attended
the Y. W. C.f A meeting Tuesday at
ternoon in the high school auditorium.
The Rev.~John Wells Rahill talked
to the girls on THE Spiritual Life"
He said he was much pleased to. be
asked to talk on this subject and was
| glad that the girls were interested IN
hearing>a preacher discuss it. He
quoted "Ruskin's Sesame and Lilies"
and froW the Gospel of st. John. He
| brought out the fact that the spiritual
| life is not the life of pleasure, luxury.
| drudgery or work; it is the normal
/ life, 1t can be obtained by communion
and obedience to God.
Ruth Naylor furnished special mu-
sic. Mildred Adams made an an
| nouncement about the membership
| campaign. Miss Sallie Glass invited
Sherwood Eddy talk to the cabinet.
The meeting closed with a song and
| the benediction.
The printing department of the To-
| peka high school is inadequately
equipped to meet the demand for
printing this semester. Many more
pupils have enrolled this year than
heretofore. The equipment of the de-
partment is as follows: two power
presses, two foot presses. six type
cases and the other equipment which
| is absolutely necessary to even the
smallest shop.
According to Mr.. c. A. Hays. print
| ing instructor, the department is
| short of the necessary equipment. for
he cannot accommodate more than
twelve students at one time, comfort
ably.
This weekend Nj. Hays has gone
out of the city to inspect a printing
press, which if bought will be used to
print the high school paper the T. II.
! S. World.
The teachers of the school have
| been requested to lock their rooms
during lunch period and when they
leave for the day. At the beginning
of the year each teacher was given a
key. but few have made a practice
! of locking their room.
Latin VIII classes taught by Miss
Laura Ewing are making notebooks.
Any reference to the "AeIreid" found
| in modern novels, magazines. or ,ad-
vertisements are to. be put into the
| notebooks. A committee will be ap-
pointed from outside the class to Judge
them, and the person having the best
notebook will receive a picture from
Miss Ewing.
A new set OF rules governing the
use of the library and its contents has
| been prepared by Miss Bessie Bough-
ton and o. KID by r. r. Cook These
rules were given to a representative
of each English class at a thirty-min-
ute lecture, Thursday afternoon. They
are not vet ready to be made public
but will be given just as soon as pos
sible.
The two Journalism classes have
i subscribed for the Kansas City Star,
| the Portland Oregonian.. the New
| York Times and the Christian Science
| Monitor. These papers are used by
the CLASSES for clippings to be used IN
| clipping notebooks and for the study
| of newspapers. No regular text book
! is used in the class.
BIG MODERN ANTIQUE TRADE.
Germany Making and Passing Off
| ''Objects of Art to Unwary.