The Cradle sponsors are holding a Bridge and Mahjongg tea at the Foreign Y.M.C.A. on February 14, at 3 p.m. Tickets will be $6 for a table, ud reservations may be made hrough Mrs. W. H, Plant, Telephone 71077.
Of interest to many will be the announcement that a Benefit Tea Dance will be held at the French Club on March 4, commencing at 5.30 p.m, and continuing until 9 O'clock. This is to aid the funds of St. Tichon Orphanage, and Lady Maze, the chairman of the organizing committee, with the assistance of several other prominent ladies in Shanghai, is sparing no pains to make the affair a great success both for patrons and for the funds: Tickets will be $3 each, including tea, and those who prefer to play bridge or mahjongg may do so in special rooms which will be provided for the purpose. A cabaret show will be staged by professional artists. menses. It appears that the deceased Wife has been ill for some time, so her husband had thoughtfully provided the coffin beforehand, ordering a "large size" in case anyone else in the family was constrained to use it before the promising invalid. "Then, if you have the coffin already, boy, said the foreign missie," do you need so much as $50?" The widower explained that this was for a funeral said the astonished do you mean to tell me that want to make a feast and a
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