Governor House Scene of Splendid Affair Attended by Past and Present Shanghai Residents Br O, London, June 23.
Complaint is often made that the younger generation of the "China hand" is not following on to support old institutions as it should, even the annual functions of the' China Association, Certainly the young people of today are firmly of the opinion that crabbed age and youth cannot live together, particularly in their pleasures, "Don't let's go to the Dogs to-night," sings A. P. Herbert's Don't Jet's go to the Dogs to-night For Mother wil be thor suntiechootes al he tues, nels hace the best balloons, Knd ifthe roumdost men in town re daneing matters figure down. him, Mr, C. A, MeLellan always gives a big party for these evenings:
doctor's orders, was in the farl has not Been too well and, under condition "of having digged a vinegard and being unable to drink of the wine thereof" But he is better and the doctor will soon be thrown to the dogs—or should one say the wild stags? Mr. D. J. Donne was oneing with all his lightning variety: you will be seeing him and Mrs. Bonne at next winter's Shanghai dances. Mr. and Mrs. C. R. Burkill were there; he has begun to forget that he even hed any trouble at all getting into a shoe, and isnot going to test the nastiness of Har-Fogate's 70 springs after all.
So the elders go off to the pletures, the prize-ring, andthe rood-house, while the juniors sit at home sorting postage stamps, making. wool nats and listening to Yale relayed {rom the League of Nations Union.
ast night, however, the parents had evidently been moved by com= mon determination thatthe "young Thould. go" out and. ace life, They dressed hem in frilly frocks "and fallecoats (according to tox of course) {G0"them to" Groavenor House, pre-tented" them to Lord Winterton, President of the China, Assocation, who with Lady Winttion was, re: gently on to the ballroom floor, Eeiving the guests, and pushed them
there the witchery of the band soon the rest.
By common consent Tast_ night's soiree touched the high-water mark. Kast year there wore not quite. many" people as In. previous years. This time the "room was "crowded More. than one father remarked, Hike: t9'ste all these. youn people Aout" and more than one. mother exclaimed "How your dear. glels do fivow up!" But there, was too. much njeyment and good feeling. inthe imomphere for any suspicion faltiness. Grosvenor House was doig things as it_can do. them? and due to "Shanghai People do Dress Well"
'We were an exceptionally well-dressed crowd: there 1s no flattering function to be laid in saying that' Shanghai people do dress well. But details are beyond me. Tt must, however, frankly be said (and in this T have the approval of several Indies present) that by far the most striking Igure was & Chinese lady, Mrs, Sun, who has_ lately arri with her husband. She wore a black silk dress embroidered with large silver flowers, with short sleeves but high collar in the Chinese style. She always wears Chinese clothes and T fam told that when at Ascot last week, she was the centre of all eyes.
As midnight drew near, the parents began to think of bed-time for their offspring; or it may have been the other way about. The band seemed to think so too, 'The last one-step quickened to a mad jumble rumbo, carioca, Black Bottom, Paul Jones, Sir Roger de Coverley and the Bion Boating Song. 'Then fan abrupt stop in the middle of a bar, the one long drawn note, and we' stiffened to attention for "God Save the King."
Tt had been a first-class evening, another admirable pearl on the chain of memory, another agreeable link Between China's past, present and to whole weight of the association in Its light as well as its graver moods, fon the excellence of all his arrange: ments, particularly in seeing that the Gifferent parties found their tables Feserved for them on arrival without trouble to themselves, The list of official guests was longer this year than before, which one ventures to think is a welcome sign. "Your head may be so full of grand and noble thoughts that you haven't time to think of the dandruff on your collar, but most people won't They may believe in the principt joing good by stealth, blushing to find it fame. But they cannot afford to neglect the arts of publicity and it ia.a regrettable fact that the mo splash you can make in local way: the more pull you can exert in the things you want done.
'OMelaidom Forgotten At first our official guests wore seated with proper decorum round the official table. But the atmosphere fof the evening is against anyone remembering. their omelaldom, Soon the Chinese Ambassador was dancing with that gracefulness which, with the art of perfect speech-making, he imbibed at' Pennsylvania University. Sir Alexender Cadogan didn't dance I think, but he seemed just as pleased to be there. Sir Hughe Kcnatchbull-Huguessen was danai assiduously and making as many ace quaintances as he could. He has, fam told, already acquired almost as many Chinese words as would pass him' for Tinghsien. There were several Chinese guests but they spoke English too well for Sir Hughe to need his Chinese vocabulary among them. come.
"The oMeial guests included:—the Chine. Ambassador, Earl Winterton and Countess Winterton, Sir Alexander Cadogan and Lady Theodosia Cadogan, Sir Hughe and Lady Knatchbull-Hugessen, Admiral Sir Frederic and Lady Dreyer, Sir John and Lady Pratt, Sir Edward and Lady Crowe, Sir John and Lady Maffey, Sir Victor and Lady Wellesley, Sir Eric and Lady Teichman, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Orde, Dr. and Mrs. 'W. C. Chen, Dr. and Mrs. C. C, Wang, Mr. Tennysor 'Tan, Mr. Liu, the Misses Cadogan, Miss Elisabeth and Miss Alethea Knatchbull-Hugessen, 'Among the Shanghai people and their friends attending were:—Mr, and Mrs. Archibald Rose, Brlg-General' TD. Hammond, Mr. INJ.
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