Shanghai has two noted and inter sting visitors in her midst this week with the arrival of Lady Muriel Paget and her daughter, Lady Glenconner. Lady Muriel Paget is the mother of Mrs. Christopher Chancellor and is the quest of Mr. N. S. Brown at the Demand As an illustration of tne amount of money which some people can Spare for mere articles Of bigotry and virtue" the total. sales during] the Three weeks the Antique Dealers? Fair at Grosvenor House "amounted to over £100,000; more than £5500 a day. Frequently a dealer's stall was completely sold out by the evening, but it was replenished by next day's opening hour. And every article sold was guaranteed Renuine antique. 'The Fair was. not_ wholly for the dealers' profit, an entrance fee present moment. Lady Muriel was Was charged, half of 2 delegate of the British Red Cross which goes' to the fat the Fecent Conference that was Personal held in Tokyo, and both she and League.
The Queen, Lady Glenconner are active social who is a real. con-smart for. morning wear workers.
Lady Muriel is especially noissure of antiques, Interested in China's Red Cross work particularly of old sweaters On and child welfare and intends to see prints, visited the Fair much of China from this point three' or four times, possible during her short visit. }and this naturally gave She hopes to be in Shanghai for [ta good advertisement. two or three weeks, after which On the other hand, the demand she will return to Leningrad where for the beautiful products of ancient he is in charge of relict work among craftsmanship seems to grow all the British subjects in Russia. more intense in proportion to the rigid simplicity on which modern Comings and Goings artificers Senor Gusto Cisneros, Spanish have not been home for sometime inister to China, and Sonora must prepare yourselves for the Cisneros, arrived recently on the s. extent to which so-called modern Shanghai Maru, and are staying with architecture has fastened itself upon Dr. and Mrs. E Birt. Senor London and the surroundings. A Cisneros, who is the Dean of the cynic might say that as our deity is Spanish diplomatic body, has resided motor-can, we take his temple, the in China for ten years, and will Garage, as the Gnal expression of return with Sonora Cisneros to Beauty, for emulation in all our Peking after a short sojourn in domestic, civic and ecclesiastical architecture. In the prettiest part of the lovely common between Woking Mr. R. J. Corbett left Shanghai and Cobham T saw the other day last Monday night for a prolonged [two mew houses which would have visit to America. Mrs, Corbett is in done very well as garages or Indiana while her two daughters are factories, but did not appeal to one in school. One at Scripps College in San Diego and the other at St Marys in Minneapolis. Mr. Corbett will, join his friend, Mr. John "Mueclo United "States Consul in Shanghai and they will take an extensive motor trip, Tater joining Mrs. Corbett in Indiana, Her friends will be glad to bear that Mrs. U. MI Tavella, who has been seriously ill at the Country. Hospital, is improving, and will soon bbe able to go back to her home.
Mr. and Mrs. Tsyee Pel gave a most interesting dinner, recently, in jas homes, and anyway were not in Keeping with the common. In towns such buildings do better. But with no desire to "crab" the people who for new ideas, one can-honour of Mr. Forty Laucks, of Pennsylvania. Mr. Laucks, arrived on the s. Empress of Russia recently and was a delegate to the fificenth International Red Cross Conference in Tokyo. Mr. and Mrs. Jack Hunter arrived in Shanghai on Tuesday last, after a long holiday in England. not but wonder whether the bare unmoulded walls, rectangular furniture, and the' splashing of glass and chromium plate, are a stage on the road to real beauty, or a phase which will perish as niterly as the plush monkeys and fans of the early nineties, and the fumed oak and" copper of the art nouveau period.
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