By unt Dox Shanghai, Mar. 30.
What is this thing called love? The matrimonial wave seems continuing unabated in Shanghai, spite of thoroughly unsportsman-Uke behaviour on. the part of the weather. Instead of balmy breezes and buds bursting into bloom, brides-to-be are collecting their trousseaux in an atmosphere of icy winds and drizzling showers. Slow: ers of a much pleasanter variety algo descend upon them in Shanghai where the American custom of sur-Prise parties of feminine friends, each bearing a gift for the future establishment, I a very popular one. After a sories of these affairs the average girl usually finds herself the proud possessor of enough Linen, keitehen utensils and tea sets to start young emporium.
Miss Joy Pett has been going through the shower stage all this week, preparatory to the great event which takes place Afternoon at Holy Trinity Catheral. Miss Pett will be. remembered for many years in Shanghai for her performance in "Dick Whitington" last Christmas, rendered even more interesting by the fact that a Pett, very possibly an. ances: for of her's, was a close friend of the original' Sir Richard Whyting-tong immortalized ever afterwards fas ihe man who became "thrice Lord Mayor of London.
"Another colneidence—Mise Pett caught the Bouquet at her future Sister-tu-law's wedding week's ago, or rather, she. aay who had abe magnificently sprung affair one dances On at the French Club, but it is well up to the average, and everyone was having too good a time to be critical.
Race Club's Concession Talking of the Race Club, the new rule admitting lady members in the ow Club House under certain conditions, seems to be another step) forward in the right direction, from the feminine viewpoint. AN that is necessary for wives and lady relatives of members 1s a nomination on the part of their male relatives, who undertake to be responsible for their behaviour! This, husbands fand fathers say, is a grave respon: sibility and requires weighty pon-
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