Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-11-05
WOMEN'S TALK.

FEMALE burglars are operating in
different parts of Pennsylvania.
The English druggists sell prepare
ton which, if used once week, fecks
the hair with gold here and there.
BETWEEN the yes and no of woman
| would not undertake to thrust the
point of a pin.-Do.1 Qui1ote.
NEVER be to warm in your praises of
a lady's lady friends. Friendship should
be encouraged, not discouraged.
CORRESPONDENCE cards with tiny
goldfish, and the pitiful inscription
Please drop line" in one corner, are
the last refinement in stationary.
The young lady who comes out of her
boudoir 30 sleek and cool and fresh and
pink and white and sparkling, thinks she
Is mighty nice, and the joke of it is, she
is right.
IHE waists of some of the new dresses
have only three buttonholes. The chem
lsettes worn with them ale made with
full shirrings and are very high in the
throat.
HE difference between q self-made
man and self-made woman is ten old
papers, four hair switches, ninety-eight
hairpins and pretty little box labeled
face powder. a.
In one of the corridors of the Wilkes
barre courthouse drunken woman of
great proportions met rotund lawyer,
whom she Rugged until he cried for
help.
In Concord, the home of the Massa-
chusetts philosophers, there 100 women
who pay real estate taxes. Fourteen
pay poll taxes, yet only seven have reg
lstered as voters.
SOME women are very absent-minded,
and frequently forget where they left
the dish-pan after usingit, but the world
hasn't yet produced woman who ever
forgot where she hung her false hair be-
fore retiring.
LAST year Kate Claxton paid one
dollar per night for borrowed baby to
to use in her in her play of double
Marriage" During her summer vaca-
ton she has provided herself with one Of
her own as measure of economy.
PRENTICE MILFORD, writing of
Queen Victoria's court ladies, says that
their faces are aristocratically scraggy,
sallow, thin and bloodless, and that he
should have taken them for prize show
of elderly spinsters.
The Cincinnati young woman who
shot herself because her young man died
is recovering, and the western news
papers are administering good advice to
her, the general tenor of their counsel
being that their are good fish in the sea
yet.
ONE hundred and thirty persons are
required in Vassar college to wait on the
girls and attend to the estate. And
these are but handful to the number
who wait on the girls outside the college
with view of attending to the estate
of their deceased fathe1s.-Keokuk
Gate City.
ONE of our Boston preachers said, Sun
day afternoon, "The little good any os
us can do must be done with our hearts
humping against the hearts of our fellow
men," And every young woman in
church looked at every other young
woman and smiled approvingly-Boston
Transcript.
A POOR sewing girl in Brooklyn
brought suit against her uncle, who
refused to pay over to her small legacy
bequeathed to her by her deceased
mother. The case dragged along in the
usual way until the girl. broken in
health, driven to distraction by the worry
and the cost of the litigation, lost her
reason and took her own life.
AN aristocratic Chinawoman has ar
rived in Winnemucca from Idaho, &C
companied by her son and attended by
Tartar woman. The lady has regular
features and fair complexion, but the
great distinction between her and the
Tartar woman is in the size of her feet,
which were no larger than those of an
ordinary four-year-old child.
The Iagwacht of Berlin describes the
different kind of work performed by
women in various parts of Germany.
They saw and split wood; they carry on
their heads water, wood, coal, sand and
stones: on the farms they pillow, harrow,
NOW and thresh the crops; they help to
build houses, carrying bricks up the
ladders; in the large cities they sweep
| the streets, and besides all that they per-
form their ordinary homework.
THERE is a great deal of fine India
null muslin used now in pretty, delicate
accessions to the toilet, as neckeTchiefs
6US6U Will DE0tOu ldC0 duU pluuCU dt
the throat with narrow bunch OF long
looped ribbons; ties are made in variety
of ways of this fabric, finished at the
ends with pleated Breton lace, and
cravats passing around the neck tied in
front made of linen cambria or null,
and edged all around with Breton.
The stockings of Paris ballet dancers
are purchased separately. A large sum
is expended under this head. These
articles are supplied by special manu-
facturers. Each pair costs five francs.
A fresh pair is given daily to the premiere
danseuse, pair every two days to the
second, two pairs per week to the third,
a pair every ten days to each of the
quadrille and a pair, every fortnight to
each of the others. The danseuse never
returns the old ones to the theatre.
| In the last few days young lady and
gentleman in this county, both in good
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