Club a number of the younger married set are appearing for tea in what would at first glance seem strange costumes for that hour. For the tea gown has entirely been idisearded and sweaters and skirts and berets wander into the lounge in sport brogues. But they do not stay long, for tea in this case is not a reason for conversation. Immediately over, the ladies dash out the bowling alley and there For Charity's Sake One of the most praiso.worthy inspirations for giving a tea is. charity, and the aged and crippled women for whose benefit the Jewish Women's Benevolent Society held ten-dance at the Astor House on Sunday afternoon certainly should have their pitiful lives gladdened materially, For the large ball-room was simply packed and there were not enough tables to go round. Music is always delightful accompaniment to the tea hour, particularly when it is not professional and when 9 charming young matron in fa long, blue frock plays the cello 20, expertly as did Mrs, Regina Po The amount of applause]
she received after her con-ion of Chopin's Nocturne, and a group of Spanish Dances by Granadas, was audible evidence of the "tea-party's" approval. Miss Phyllis Ackerman gave several interpretations of Russian and Egyptian dances. That young lady has gone on to Vienna now, she merely having stopped off Shanghai in order to help out the Charity Tea. Mrs. 1. Abramovich, who wns to have sung, was unfor tunately ill and could not attend, Sandwiched A. novel method of assisting in' charity functions has recently been inaugurated in England, Patrols of girls wander about the streets as "aandwichmen," the boards, between which they are inserted, carrying information concerning the fortncoming affair. Usually the sand wichman is about the most dejected of human beings, but sbout their new rivals there is nothing of the "down and out" element, for they strenuous hour or two of rolling; duck-pins, in preparation for the duck-pin tournament which will take place soon. Some of them rol a "wicked ball" too, and of course, due to the Jexereise, are slender enough to look In Hospital The appendix seems to be a really obstreperous portion of the anatomy lately for doctors have been busier than ever relieving sufferers of that small object.
Mrs. Norman Rutherford's friends are more than sympathetic in regard to her hurried visit to the Country Bos as much as her small sen Pat underwent the same operation a few It would seem that runs in the Rutherford family.
In view of the fact that there iso much of that particular malady in Shanghai it is hoped that patients have more faith in their doctors than Mr. Dough, in Punch" who recently refused to pay his doctor's bills en the groun that he wasn't at all sure that she appendix, which was preserved in a jar and presented to him, was really his.
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