Mr. Christopher Chancellor returned to Shanghai from the north a week ago, but Mrs. Chancellor has, Unfortunately, had to remain Peking in care of her small daughter, who has been seriously ill and is not yet out of danger. Mrs. Year Deas, who held an exhibition of paintings Shanghai a year or two ago, is also in Peking making the most of the artist's short season between the blistering heat of summer and Peking's bitter wintry weather.
Mr. and Mrs. H. J. Fairburn welcomed a grown-up daughter from Home last week. Miss Fairburn has been studying music in Vienne for the past seven years, specializing fon the piano, and will probably be heard in Shanghai during the coming season.
B.W.A, Gardening Section Getting off to a good start is an] ugur of" successful season to come, it'Wve recall club traditions correctly. One" Shanghai group, at Toast, Bas hus far registered the happy fact 2 good attendance at its frst autumn lecting. and that is tne Gardening Section of the Bu WA which met itr 2°. Trueman at 8 Columbia erday.moraing atthe home
Gircie. Mrs. Trueman, always. gracious "hostess, gave' the. twenty-'Sad members present an opportunity {o benefit from her own "broad ex-Perlence by describing. the most im-Portant factors to watch in planning! Bnew garden.
Be certain to raise the garden above the road levels, she warned her listenfers; in order to manure "adequate Grainage, and then ensure a maxi-num slices by incorporating ferilizfers for a depth of two feet below tne Surface." Next, she advised, play. the Dart of the wise and forward looking fordoner by" planning the garden on paper, taking care to plan the beds ich fashion as to avoid straight lines wherever possible, for straight, lines tare not likely to please the isermaling eye of an artistic gardener.
Wedding and an Revoir Shanghai will lose one of its young "older residents" to-morrow, when Miss Pamela Brooke who is being! married to Paymaster-Lieutenant John Harvey McGregor at the Cathedral this afternoon, will leave for England by the Blue Funnel s. Hector. Miss Pamela Brooke the eldest daughter of Mr. J. W. Brooke, a well-known architect She was educated at home and shortly after her return to Shang:
few years ago she joined the stof! of the Shanghai Waterworks Company. She will bid farewell to her young friends in Shanghai who will certainly miss her, as it is hardly like by that Paymaster-Lieutenan' McGregor will serve on the China station. By an unlucky coincidence Mr. Peter Brooke, a brother of Miss Brooke's, is returning to Shanghai from school on the Blue Funnels: Teiresias which will arrive here a day after his sister departs for] home.
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