Those who had the honour of being invited to the Dance given by ""B" Company of the S.V.C. at the Astor Hall on Tuesday spent u very pleasant evening, for the Dance was as delightful a one as this famous Company has ever given. The fine Hall was beautifully decorated with flags and trophies, the Bee, the totem of the Company, shining forth in a transparency from the centre of the gallery, Coloured fairy lamps twinkled all round the Hall, and along the front of the stage, on which tivo military tents were pitched, and whence M. Vela and his assistants' sent forth brilliantly the music which animated the flying feet of the dancers. Everything possible had been done by the Committee, Captain T. E. Trueman, Lieuts. F. Clifton ind E. Q. Cooper, Sergeant A. H. Brooks, Privates H. W. Gye, W. King, J. W. Miclonhausen, and 1. H. Purcell, Hon. Sec., for the comfort alike of the hosts and the guests, and the floor was soon filled with happy merry-makers, chasing the hours in the most seductive of recreations. The New Woman who is above being taken round the waist by a man-thing, and whirled about at his pleasure, has not yet established her baneful influence in. Shanghai. All the colour-brightness was not left to the ladies, the uniforms of the Royal Navy and of every branch of the Volunteers being well represented, the hierarchy of the Volunteers mustering in force. The music and floor were good, the mme was capitally compiled, and if the Hall was s little too hot at first, it was soon cooled down to a Eaneing bogan soon after nine—s sumptuous pleasant temperature. From ten o'clock—
go-as-you-please supper was at the disposal of the wearied and hungry, while the smoking-room was continuously filled with the fathers who had brought their daughters to repeat the fascinations to which they themselves had succumbed when the world was some twenty yearser more younger. It was altogether an extremely Bhanghai, as we saw in the Gondoliers, pretty and successful Ball, for the girls of
need not fear the rivalry of any of the capitals of the Old or New World. The Stewards, Col.-Sergeant G. Peace, Sergeants W. Whitfield and D. Macdougall, and Corporals J. W. Haffenden, J. J. Mansfield, and I. J. Thomas, were indefatigable in their efforts to make the reunion go off well, and they fully sueceeded.
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