Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1875-08-11
Small Talk for the Fair Sex.

oAhOEN HATS dI0 ROluR Oue "
fashion at the seaside.
THERE'S no place so good as home .
except her home.
WE are told nothing was made in
vain; but how about fashionable girl !?
is she not maiden vain?
Miss EVANS latest novel is written in
"original Greek" At least it seems so
to the ordinary English reader.
INDIANA papers report that Mrs. Star,
of Lafayette, has twin kle, twin killed.
little Stars for her husband twice.
Tile cunning breakfast called the
Lady Washington has become an
almost indispensable article of lady's
morning toilet.
The convenient polonaise has not be-
come passe. It is still popular, and
especially when the front is arranged
with t06lier and jacket.
Ten dollars was recently paid for a
single hair of Missions head. Perhaps
she can afford this sort of thing, as she
gets her husbands hair for nothing.
COTTON fabrics are SO low priced at
present that ladies who know how to
purchase advantageously are supplying
themselves with abundance of material
for underclothing.
Two rival bellies met at fancy ball
last winter. Chow well you look un-
der candle light" exclaimed one. "And
how charming you are in the dark -
said the other.
II is declared to be a good ground of
divorce for woman to tie her husband
to gate-post during violent thunder
storm, Nth a patent hghtning-rod
hitched to his spinal column.
IT is announced that Nellie, the Sec
ond daughter of Judge Thomas Russell,
our Minister to Venezuela, is affianced
to General Zbanow, distinguished
Venezuelan. Miss Russell is seventeen
years of age.
A SISTER of Ex-Governor Senter, O {
Tennessee, fell into trance SO clossly
resembling death that she was prepared
for burial. Upon revival, she said she
had been with her father, who had been
dead many years.
Who can sound the depths of wo-
mans love? We mentioned last week
that "Smoky City" policeman shot a
drunken husband while beating his
who, perhaps, saved her life. ~
Miss SUSIE DICKINSON, sister of Anna,
is making her home at Pittston, Pa,
this summer, being engaged in literary
| labors. Miss Susie is said to be much
prettier in face md form than her more
heroically nodded sister.
| The Armour basque is designed for
full dress toilets, but, of course, can be
adapted to all sorts of cheap goods, and
when carefully manipulated forms use
full and becoming garment; but when
arranged in mode materials the effect is
charming.
ANNA LOUISE Cary hasn't gone to
Europe yet, but she's going very soor.
And then those sheep skinned Russians
will have the only woman in the world
who has reduced the art of coquetting
with an audience to an absolute, pleas
ing perfection.
ELEGANT neckties have square ends,
invariably trimmed with scrap of old
real lace, or embroidered in a lace or
open pattern. White lace neckties are
also very much used, and if of real lace, =
as all the finest are, cost from ten to
twenty dollars each. a#
FEATHER trimmings are now arranged
with SO much ightness and beauty that
they are considered as suitable for sum-
mer as winter wear. They are mounted
as fringe as well as bands, though it is
as bands they are used for the trimming
of bonnets and parasols.
No two sides of any human face are
precisely alike. It is the same with
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Toned alike. One hand is almost always
larger than the other; so with the foot,
the leg, and the arm. But the greatest
of all marvels is this: never were two
human faces alike.
Poor women! When they wear loose,
ample skirts everybody condemns their
extravaganza. Now that the pretty and
graceful tie-back skirt comes in, the
newspapers call it indecent. Why, it's
the prettiest thing in the way of dress
since Eve left Eden, and what's the use
of bowling about it?
AN Allegheny correspondent is gal
liant enough to concede "the superiority
of both the German frau and the Amer
lean girl He has probably learned
the song:
g how happy could be with elther,
We're tother dear charmer away
CRooUEr slippers are fast approach
ing the style set by the ancient Greeks,
consisting simply of sole with very
sharp pointed toe, scarcely an inch
wide, and a slight strap crossing the
instep. They are designed to exhibit
the dainty caprices in hosiery, but la
dies who wear over threes are not par
tial to them.
THE gossaner waJerpruvI vloak is
one of the most desirable and useful
garments lady can possibly own. The
material is indeed waterproof, and is
light and easily carried. By all means
provide yourself with one sof these
cloaks if you travel this season ''down
by the sad sea waves, " or climb up the
rugged mountain sides.
The little Hartford girl who gave ut
terance to the following idea was puz-
Zlinp her mind with a problem that has