the Marine Engineers' Institute gave its Fast dance of the present season on Monday at the Masonic Hall, which was very tastefully decorated for the occasion, As usual, it was a Fancy Dress dance, and the youth and beauty of Shanghai were there in quaint and pretty frocks of very various periods and from various climes,! peasants, queens, Japanese musmés, sailor iris, follies, as tasteful as fancy could feign and carry out, There were soldiers and firemen: beggars and police-mon, Sikhs and \d a largenumbe: of gentlemen of entieth century, '.ovspicnous in the crowd were some in black and white dominoes, with the legend on their backs '*'Lhree Cheers for the Engin which met' with universal approbation. Tito! hall was pleasantly filled without being crowded, the music was excellent, and the floor in capital order, and the eighteen dances on the programme were throughly. enjoyed, for though beauty} does not need the adornment of gay: attire, Tennyson was right in writing:
For, let no woman think, however fair, She is not fairer in uew clothes than So that to none oan any other say (Wrrn Apo.oaies To G: M. H. P. 1x "T have no need of thee." Yes, plant
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