1939-01-13 — Page 32

THE CHINA MAIL FRIDAY SUPPLEMENT, JANUARY 13, 1939

"Brewery

Gulch

Gazette"

The he-man editor of the Bisbee "Brewery Gulch Gazette” rolls up his sleeves and shows effete Eas- terners how Society News really ought to be written:

Last week's paramount social item was the tea tendered to Miss Norma Johnson by her prospec- tive bridesmaid. Miss Barbara Reavis. This dernier cri or piece de resistance, as the case may be, of the local Junior League season was held in honour of Miss John- son's coming induction into holy matrimonity with Lewis A. (Lew) Smith, who makes his home at Morenci at such times as which he is not playing hooky to spark his financee at her domicile in this old mining camp.

The nuptials will be solemnised at the Little Episcopal Church- Up-Opera-Drive on the afternoon of May 28 and the Pekoe party above mentioned was a gesture of goodwill and felicitude

on the part of Miss Johnson's multifari- out and hotsy-tot-sical wampi- cular associates in lieu of the sentimental holocaust, if that means what I think it does. As the ruckus was confined to members of the contrary sex. I will have to confine my depictions to the slants of the lady secretary of the Gulch Y.W.C.A. who claims that every- thing was very de rigeur and fin de siecle indeed, even if eleven snorts of the tea dished out to her at the shindig failed to knock her hat off.

The guests, upon entering, were each presented with a card de- corated with a nosegay. You will have to figure this amenity out for yourselves, as we of the Gulch are

WHILE THE GOING IS GOOD. This turkey had evidently heard that Xmas was on the way judg- ing by the way it eludes capture. A picture from Wethersfield, near Braintree, Essex.

far more familiar with gay noses than with nosegays and we wish its understood that these two commodities or accessories are by no means one and the same thing. Mesdames Souers and Shattuck juggled the tea balls and many petals of the Yucca Club brought back their cups for a second help- ing.

The room lighted by the more luminous of Bisbee's redheads, of which Miss Johnson is one. And it is report- ed that the femininous

gar- biture was so uniformly seduci- tory that it left no opening for

was attractively

feline remarks. Miss Johnson an- nounced that she wants a mood of carefree jocosity to dominate the wedding ceremony and that if she catches anyone turning on the weeps, she will let fly smack at the breezer of the first offender with the bridal bouquet, in which there will be concealed a sturdy cabbage for this purpose.

I have already been engaged to sing "Oh, Promise Me" as in- cidental music to the parson's comments, with "Mamma, That Moon Is Here Again" as an encore -if the asambled entourage will stand for one.

UP-TO-DATE

"How old is your baby sister, little boy?"

She's a this year's model!"

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CELEBRATION

"Isn't this the

third morning you've missed your train?" asked the stationmaster.

"That's right; I'm on my holi- days and I'm doing it on pur- pose."

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