Despite crinoline hats and organdie frocks, the sudden heat on Wednesday combined with the excitement of watching Opera Eve "bring home the bacon" when one's split bet of five dollars both ways had been placed on Rochester, made the after-oon a tiring one, though ver delightful withal. Tiffin parties it Doxes were almost as numerous as @inners had been on Monday night fand the Ufts were full.of people hurrying to be in time for an ante-tifin cocktail In the Caleinas, the Henchmans, the Sassoons, the Whites, Miss Law's "Mr, Wayfoong's" or some other box. The women's dresses have already been described length in a former issue of this paper, so sartorial remarks can bbe confided to the observation tha! the coy little petticoats with embroidered serried hems peeping one just below the dress line, are evidently to be te dernier eri in Shanghai this summer.
Wednesday must have been Sir Victor's lucky day, for he added to hig triumph of the afternoon by winning the cup at the monthly tournament. of the International Bridge Club, held that evening, with the redoubtable Major Bassett as partner, A Famous Cricketer Distinguished visitors to Shanghat who. watched the Champions. with lively interest, were Mr. and Mrs.
Abell, on their way Home leave from'India via Japan and America, They leave for Japan, to-aay as a matter of fact. Film stars, potentates and. even princes are frequent visitors to these shores, but it is not every week 0 month that Shanghai has a. chaner to entertain a triple Blue who h: wicket for Oxford two years running. Mrs. Abell, whose photograph appears on this page, says she finds Shanghai a little different from her expectations. She had imagined Inarrower streets anda less cosmopotan atmosphere. Like 60 mary English girls, she herself was mean performer at the wicket as a Schoolgirl at Downhouse College 'Timothy and John, Mr. and Mr Abel' {wo small "sons at. Home, fare already learning to fetlow their famous father's footsteps.
In Charity's Name 'Subjects pertaining to sport bring to mind the fact that Mrs. John Liddell' is throwing open to the public her lovely garden at 578 Hungjao Road this afternoon. The admittance fee is very small and the funds are to go to the Ministering Children's League. Mrs. Ivan Clark, the "enthusiastic Chairman of the BW.A. Gardening Section, who is arranging the affair, has a painfully clear mental picture of how she sat at the gate of the Keswieks' garden for two solid hours last year without collecting a solitary $0 cents, owing to lack of advance publicity." Every one knows how lovely Mrs. Liddell's arden is at this time of year, and might be an excellent idea to send the children out there for a peaceful afternoon in the open, while mother fand father are Losing their money at the races.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.