It was fortunte that the bitter cold of Inst week had made way for so' autumnal weather before on Friday, when Miss Rhoda Ramsay was married to Mr. Harold Craig, the child of Hankow to the child of the Saskatchewan. The bride was the last unmarried daughter of Dir. and Mrs, Hugh Ramsay, who for many yours disposed a generous and genial hospitality in the great toa centre, where no one was better liked or more esteemed than the second son of Sir Alexander Ramsay. The bridegroom is " cousin of Sir Jame Gibson-Craig, Bart.
Mrs. Hugh Rameay, a daughter of the late General Sandys, made a new departure when, an the occasion of her widowhood, she settled with her three daughters in Shanghai, not then the residential city it has since become, to provide the comforts of home to her younger oon, just starting in business. On Friday she made another new departure, for the wedding, which took place at eleven o'clock in the Cath dral, was the real marriage, and not a perfunctory sequel to any previous ceremony at the Consulate, By the wish of the bride and bridegroom, the wedding was to be as quiet as possillehe bride therefore wore her travelling dress of reseole cloth trimmed with velvet and a white hat with many nodding feathers ax abe walked up the ile on the stitutes. arm of her eldest brother, Mr, Hugh Ramsay, already following in his father's footsteps at Hankow. The general effect, however, was quite bridal, owing to the quietly pretty travelling dress being absolutely veiled by an exceptionally beautiful shower bouquet of white cornelias and white geraniums, the latter threaded on to ong streams of white ribbon finished off with many bows and knots—the whole a real triumph in floral decoration.
Misa Lily Lavers, in white muslin over pink silk, with en infinity of baby ribbon trimmings, and also a white hat, served na_ bridesmaid, while Mr. Noel Ramsay officiated as best man, both he and the bridesmaid wearing particularly beauti fal white camellias us wedding favours. Mrs, Hugh Ramsay, at whose house all the guests were entertained after the ceremony, wore the conventionsl bride's mother's colours, puce brocade with a bonnet of delicate blue and puce very skilfully and becomingly intermingled.
For the most part the friends who had assembled to wish the young couple joy had known the bride from babyhood, and for yeara had valued the devotion with which she hrd steadily but unobtrusively done her duty as daughter and sister. Mr. Warren, the Hankow Consul-General, was it, and among the other guests Mr. and Mfrs. Bourne, Mra. J. L. Beott, Bir. F. Anderson, Mr. Dudgeon, Mr. Archibald Little, who proposed the health of the bride and bridegroom in exceptionally feeling speech, Birs. Archibsld Little, Mrs, and Bias Wright, Mee, and Mins Lavers, Mrs., Miss and Mfr St. Croix, Mr. and Bra. Snethlage (th latter of whom wove the wondrous on. Gepisin and Bre. BMackenzis, and Br. act of), Mr. and Bfrs, McBain, Bir. Harding, Min. G. Gardner.
The presents were not of course us numerous and varied ne would have boon the case had all friends and acquaintances been invited, but they made a gory pretty appearance, the dining table being set out with silver offerings, among which some of the most beautiful and useful were gifts of the bride's mother. All. other presenta rare, however, thrown in the sade, by 2 magniGeent' cloisonne. inconee-burnet from Peking. One of the missing Imperial texls, which la understood to" be' aleo among the. wedding presonte and to. of achd gold, was apparently. too valuable to be left lying about even with a. poli man standing at the door, The staircase had been very prettily; decorated with bamboo and plants an flowers, whiler 'Trinity Cathedral, as taal ata wedding, showed to great advan. tage, the sombreners of its somewhat masilve architecture' being relieved. by splendid scarlet. poynsettias, as well feathery bamboo and those white flowers hich ate especially connected with bridal ceremonies.
"The happy pair left among ® shower of rice to tiff nlone at Mr. Craig's residence on the Bubbling Well Road. They were, however, to return for diner with the bride's family in the evening, and then to start by steamer for © wedding tour up the Yangtze.
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