Special Packing Tase for"
Bride's Dress Italian Outstandings Hard to Collect By 0. 38. Game Br 0. M, Gum London, Aug. 2.
'A. special vacuum packing. case lined with zine has been made for the dress in which Miss Joan Poole, daughter of Sir Reginald Poole, will be married in Holy 'Trinity Cathe-aral, Shanghai, to Captain Charles Larcom, M, on October 28. your readers' no doubt know the bridegroom is Flag-Captain to Rear-'Admiral Chilton. Miss Poole has chosen one of the new autumn bridal colours for her dress—pale lavender blue: it is on classical lines, with a train 18 inches on the ground and is worn with a three-quarter goat with deep cuts of Russian sable. The vacuum case is necessary *to keep the silver embroidery from tarnishing, Several years ago 1 recall a bride coming out via' Siberia and her wedding dress went astrayon. the Journey. The marriage was fixed for 48 hours after the lady's arrival. But the resourceful Chinese tailor came to the rescue, and it was equally a credit to him and to the bride that she looked extremely well in the hastily concocted dress. That! lady was Mrs. Noel Davies, wile of the former Health Commissioner master of the Paper Hunt Club.
Mr. and Mrs. RW. Davis and their children have been back in London for two or three days, all looking very well. Rodney " has. been fixed up at a preparatory School at Malvern, where he spent the last month of last term, and distinguished himself by being frst in a swimming competition, though he could not win it, according 10 the rules, as he had not been at the school for the whole term. The family have now left for Rustington ittlehampton, where they stay we is up in September,
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