A very lovely and informal wedding took place on Wednesday afternoon when Miss Cassie Lee Oliver and the Rev. A.A. Talbot were united in marriage. Both are members of the Southern Presbyterian Mission and located at Tsingkiangpu. The wedding was solemnized at 20 Route Pottier, the home of Mrs. Raymond Womeldorf and Mrs. Russel Woods, in the presence of the friends of the Mission. The Rev. J. R. Graham of Tsingkiangpu pronounced the vows that made them man and wife, The ceremony was performed in front of an improvised altar of palms and ferns with candelabra and calla lillles, while the house was decorated with quantities of daisies. After the ceremony the bride and groom received congratulations during which delicious refreshments were served. Tea and coffee were poured by Mrs. Nelson Bell and Mrs. R. P. Richardson.
The bride looked lovely in a robin eggs blue silk dress with touches of pink worn with a white hat trimmed with a pink veil She wore a corsage of white roses and lillles of the valley. Mr. and Mrs. Talbot are remaining a few days in Shanghai for their honeymoon.
Society of China The music group of ihe British Universities Society of China has held several very successful meetings this year. At one of these, Mr. J. Hadyn Miller gave a most illuminate ing talk on Hadyn, his life and works, which was ably illustrated with renderings by Mrs. M. Stedeford at the piano.
Mr. Whittington lectured on orchestral music, in which his lucid style and very apt similes made plain what might have been to Ordinary listeners a somewhat abstruse subject. A choice selection of illustrations were played on the gramophone, At the last meeting of the group, Mrs. Evelyn Badeley, after a short introductory talk on Handel. played his delightful sonata in D Major for violin and piano, Mrs. Chur Ho presiding at the piano.
The meetings of the Group will be carried on next season under the convenership of Mrs. Whittington, as Mrs. Badeley has resigned the convenership in consequence of going on home leave. This group is very active, and will doubtless form one of the most popular meeting places of members of the society who are musically inclined.
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