From time to time comes news of former Shanghai residents who have either departed from China for good who are on long, leave. Friends of Mr. Edwin 8, Cun-bingham, the former American Consul-General here, will. be interested to learn that after more than a quarter of a century spent in foreign countries, he is now becoming acquainted with his own, He is enjoying himself thoroughly, motoring over the south, February to April he spent in Florida and now he ig touring the mountains of own native state of Tennessee, and those of North Carolina, Kentucky and Virginia. As the warm weather comes he will proceed to Maine which will be new to him.
Mrs. U, M, Tavella who has been away for more than a year visiting in Europe is to return to Shanghai soon. Most of the time she has bet in Vienna studying theatre and poster art. She expects to return by way of "America, stopping there to see Miss Blanche Mary Grambs, the young Tientsin and Shanghai artist, Who as the result of a miraculous operation last summer was cured of lameness and almost immediately afterward was given a one-man art exhibition, an almost unheard of thin for one so young. Miss Grambs wh taught herself is now continuing her art, course in New York. She is making a particular study of etching.
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