Many people maintain that Oetober is the month that Shanghai has' most reason tobe proud. of. She is at her best in October (they say). Dry, cool weather... sume mer 9 thing of the past races to look forward to... autumn Visitors to break the "hiontony seeing the same old faces....people coming back from home leave all the good things "combined "in fact, to make for the best month of the "year. for Europe next Friday. Madam Koo intends to join her husband la Geneva, and will also put her two children to school in Europe. caught a glimpse of her and her sister, Madame U.Y, Yen at the Jdress show which took place last Monday. More details of that Other arrivals are Mr. and Mrs. Robert Fraser, well-known Tientsin residents, who have come down hero Fect attire Yor autumn and winter, 'The fashions show no very starting Changes if onp 1s to Judge by Mine Garnett's parade of models' shows case Monday afternoon it ie ore erally said by women who are or home, that Shanghai is quite up to nate enough to take frequent date" with regard to. dresses "and coats, but that we fall down bedly lover hats. The models in question sunnly eh our lat at Vogues, shown. 6 very few, if" any hats, were Quite a larger number of worner were there, dressed (since we are on the subject of clothes). in. any. to fur coats. As it wasa very thing from sleeviess summée frocks bhat afternoon the fur' coaters mus.
Actually it is the month of pre-aration." And preparations are in full swing at the moment. Ponies to live now that Mr. Praser has Move, have felt uncomfortably "wan been transferred to Shanghai. They Iniy"cuntersalaneed far ie. te felt, are at present staying out at Mes cave being prepared for the autumn meetings... hostesses are "pre-'Paring. fox" the forthcoming' season joes the A.D.C, is rehearsing' hard for the next show Sohn Lidgell's bungalow at Hang wile he usual matter in spite of the vast number of apartment houses that like mush:
Ino longer have to sit wrapped in fur coats one night, and stifle in an excess of steam heat the next, B.F.R.C, Tea Dance Let's cast an eye over thes various preparations, Quite a large Fraser, I "believe is. encounerin more than the usual number of dif ficulties since, all unrealising, she Placed herself in the bands re ear which went at the usual Droalmeck speed and-—to use her own "words—nearly. stunned her twice and ended up by hitting a number "of people' seem te he Ficks with stockingless legs.
Another leading, dressmaker' 1 hear is going to follow suit and hold an exhibition of her' mode's ropy shortly." Well wel, they Paris of the East inly do say that, Shanghai is he!
Shanghai "Art Eh a 1 inghai Art Club, which has quite a fascinating little studio jon. Hart road, is once' more in full Swing after the summer. Tt has Proved a popular render' vous for All who have artistic inclinations in the way of drawing and painting; actively. involved in the tea dance that is being organised by the Committee of the B.F.R.C, It is, the words of one of its members, to the mammoth' scale, and wil take place at the Canidrome on the twentieth.,".ll profits from the event will, of course, go to the Reereation Centre which is badly in need of funds, Mrs. 1 3. Toeg, who has for many ye. 4 done such very valuable work for the centre, is arranging the tea, and an udded attraction willie. provided. by some Bhanghai's best looking young. girls who are to attend the dance as ushers dressed in pyjamas, From what Iveay, gather' their purpose Will be rather'more ornamenta) than Useful as far ay the actual work concerned, but their very. presence Sethe dance will no doubt drawn Je.ge number of our young bachelors Sahil all im the interests of a deser¥
'Also, if gossip we must, T hear the pyjama.. suggestion was not Beem. Thefe fe still'. strain amount quite so popular as it might have
controversy" about the matter.
However, we all have our. little fads, and since. the pyjamas are to designed by" oUF artist Emund cog, 'm sure they acute worthy of" their wearer Amongst those who have promis to'attend ave uss Ethelwym Spence an active member Mise Jennifer Stenhouse, Miss Mary Hayley Bell, Miss Joyce Middleton, Miss Sheila Hooper, if and when slit comes lack from Peking... all the youth and Weauty, in tact Mrs H. Reynell is another who is working hard to make the event 2 successyamd Mrs. Spence has been filetted the task of rounding the girls. Teddy" Weathorford's band vill play for the dancing, and itis hoped that some of Shangha's best known hostesses will take parties along. On the whole" Think the show promises to be a Tact and Toothpaste
nite so popaler in some quarters The Seavengers, T hear, were not as T thought when T wrote of their activities last week.
To be fair, T must give both Piet there ints of view. a scavenger's complaint, that "you can't have any fun in this town without getting into trouble for it."
But secondly there ig the joint of View of one of Shanghai's leading hostesses whose house, was Invaded "(while "she was' out) "by sine bright young person who too liberty of conducting her male partner on a tour of inspection Found the said hostess' bedroom and bathroom, " They were ostensibly in search of a tube of toothpaste, but T doubt if many women would consider that sufficient justification for faking "a strange man round) her fate rooms.
What they really required was, perhaps, tact, rather than toothpaste, Arrivals There have been several interest ing arrivals this last week. Madame Wellington' Koo arrived here Saturday a week ago from Peking. She is at. present. staying in. the Gathay Hotel pending her departure A Titbit Rumour has it that an interost™s engagement is about to be announefed at any momer. The partie: con-corned are one of Shanghai's popu-lax young bachelors and the cousin of a former Shanghai resident who Imarried one of the younger bachelors wren for those who have more mn than talent it is popula: for it provides excellent tuition, 'The little garden with its roe fes makes a good subject for skete! Jag, ud. models are provided in the' st the classes comprise pupils of all ages from very youth ful aspirants to adults for "whom drawing and painting makes an absorbing hobby.
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