This torrid atmosphere reeks with romance, to-day, romance and tourists. Typhoons, weddings. and sight-seers are in the air (the latter really are—over their travel plans, at least). And all these things, mingled with the tang of fire-cracker gun-powder and the "bang" of rockets, reminiscent of big guns up North, makes life upon the mud flats of Shanghai fairly ex citing.
Useless to dwell on the torridit Besides, it's not so dreadful. Overheard in the elevator the other day were two summer bachelors discussing for the ceremony is still in the indefinite offing. But a group of close friends will have the fist oficial opportunity to congratulate them to night, at dinner in Mrs. Everett's home on Avenue Petain where a party is being given for Miss Sybil McLorn and her fiance, Mr. Geoffrey Gordon Forestier. Mr. Everett is to be best man at that wedding a week from to-day, so it should not be hard to imagine the prevailing atmosphere nor the sound of the toasts at dinner to-night. Afterward all twelve of them will be dancing at the Park Sky Terrace.
Also receiving congratulations this week are Miss "Isa" Sinclair and Mr. Arthur Wilkinson. who "announced their engagement on Tuesday and say they will be married in January. The romance was an office one, (which Scott. Among others see! were Mr. ud Mrs. Hans Berents, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Plowright. Mr. and Mr: Perey Kwok and. Mr. David Kwok, Baron and Baroness Johan Beck-Friis, Mr. W. J, Hawkings, Mr. and Mrs. H. De Vault. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Baker. Mr S. Blom, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Carey, Mr and Mrs. Jasper Marsh, Mr. and Mrs.
Ernst Schuster many a matrimonial expert will tell you augurs magnificently for con-nubia felicity) for both of them are with the Shanghai Telephone Company.
Miss Sinclair is the daughter of Mr. [ana Mrs, Arch Sinclair, old members of the Shanghai Community and of Union Church. Mrs, Sinclair, responsible all winter long for the monthly benefits for the "Limbless Fund", ex-
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