The energetic and charming ladies under the capable chairmanship of Mrs. Y. C. Wen are to be compile mented on the success of the Chineve Women's Club Ball so well-staged at the Paramount "Ballroom last night, The function supplied an opportunity, gladly taken, to provide Shanghai with a social entertainment well-calculated to bring out those attractive features which 30 greatly help in developing a sense of social tunity. Foreign friends were present in force and the whole atmosphere testified to the remarkable import lance of the part played by Chinese ladies nowadays in the general s0- cial life of Shanghai. Those who remember the gorgeous pageant of last year will agree that Chinese feminity has its own distinctive note to make, both in the artistic development of current fashions and in the cultural appeal which the dance-floor is supposed to combine with its admitted tribute to other end more frivolous affections.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.