The Archive · 1936

Feng-Chang In keeping with the New Life

Movement, the wedding on Sept. 20 of Miss Chang Ping-yun, doughier of Me. and Mrs. Chang Chen-tse, to Mr, Feng Chanson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Feng Ping-nan, was distinguished the absence of elaborate ceremony: ov lavish festivities, all. gifts being, sent to the Loster "Chinese and Sacred Heart Hospitals. The matriage was performed according Chinese custom. The bride, a student Soochow University, was dressed in a beautifully embroidered red satin robe and gorgeous head-dress befitting the occasion, and, following tradition, no" bridesmaids. attended her, nor did the groom, a B.A. of Chih Tse College, have 'a best man, He is the third son of Mr. Feng Ping-nan, the well-known Cantonese merchant, Photo. Sanzett!, Mes. wi Darby China, principally in Peking and Tien-July of that year. She tsin, and she came to Shanghai in and her husband remained in this city until] June of this year, and gained for themselves a wide reputation for their unselfish work among the poorer classes and unemployed. Hundreds of those whom they had helped here had occasion to miss them after their departure for Canton.

Mrs, Darby was an active worker on the Social Service Board of the British Women's Association, and was especially vigorous in helping to combat "the white slave trifle in Shanghai, giving great assistance to the International Committee for. the Protection of White Women and Children at Shanghai. Brigadier Darby, secompanied by Mrs." Darby," left Shanghai in order to lake the' place of Brigadier Sansom, whose death took place recently. Making their headquarters at Canton, Brigadier and Mrs, Darby have been working since their departure to extend the activities of the Salvation Army throughout this Port of China, their duties taking them often to Hongkong. Mrs. Darby, it was learned yesterday, was at the same training' college' with Brigadier Sansom at home in England, and the two were on the same boat coming out to China in the service of the Salvation Army. She leaves two, sons, one in Hongkong and one in Shanghai, and a daughter at school in Hongkong.

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