Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-10-15
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.
SPANISH lace scarfs are still worn.
GOLD braid is again very fashionable
in millinery.
Doors made from the same cloth as
light suits are out of fashion.
COLLARS and cuffs of new gingham
are now IN vogue, and are quite elabo-
rately embroidered in white
GRAY ostrich plumes, tipped with
scarlet or somessother brilliant color, are
promised to be all the rage.
HE new costumes have elaborate
pockets, and it seems possible that the
days OF leather bags are numbered.
ONCE more have Roman sashes been
revived. They are worn to form large
loop at the side of the waist.
CINCINNATI will have an archery
tournament to compete for the champion
badge, now held by Michigan woman.
A GIRL only II years old was married
in Colchester, VT, last year, and now has
deserted her husband, taking her infant
along. -.
The little poke of cottage bonnet of
last winter is retained by the nilliners
and is shown at the openings of the fall
styles. -. -
A NEW and unique style Of trimming
is made of leather. 1t is made in Swift
zerland, and there is every reason to
believe that it will become fashionable.
GONE touch of nature" -George has
promised his Ethel the first shot, for
luck. A covey rises.) Ethel Cat the
critical moment)-"Oh, George! Per.
haps they, too, have loved"
A SET of eight China buttons, intend
ed for house dress, has been painted
by lady in Boston. Each button has
different design, executed with wonder
full spirit and delicacy. The subjects"
are butterflies. rs
The ex-Empress Eugene is worth
more than So, 900, 900 and yet earth holds
no more unhappy woman than she.
What's money to her, when she remem-
bers her dead son, the misery of lonely
widowhood and the loss of her throne.
Mrs. GEORGE LUX has just died in
Utica, n. Y, at the age of 80 years.
She has seven children, forty-three
grandchildren, and thirteen great
grandchildren, all living in that city,
who survive her. ....
MRS. ANN GRANVILLE is an English
woman nearly 90 years old, who is said
to be the best female rover in the world,
having, with crew of four other wo-
men, won victories over similar crews in
England and France, and in some cases
over boats manned by men. al
In Paris it has been discovered that
the larger the hat the prettier it's wearer
the higher the frill the whittier the throat
the longer the mittens the finer the arm
SO that women are not unlike kernels
in big shells-every garment they put
on them is too large for them.
A PERSON once asked Rosa Bonheur if
she did not regret being unmarried and
without children. She replied that
"almost any woman could marry and
have children. Few could produce pic
lures like Rosa Bonheur-they were her
children"
THERE is a colored woman here who
was raised as boy; does not recollect
when she began male clothing; still
dresses and acts like man; does mans
work and bears mans name. She has
an aversion to being with women, OF
doing their kind Of work, and says she
would go to the penitentiary before
she would wear a Iarboro, N.
c., S0uther7sor.
A NEVADA paper says: cold Mother
Dildine, the hermit, of Twenty-one Mine
Desert, paid her semi-annual visit to our
town last Thursday, for the purpose of
getting few supplies. Notwithstand-
ing her age-63 years-she is as spry and
active as girl of l6. She wants pur-
chaser for her five hundred goats, and
says she willreturn to her native town in
Massachusetts if she can effect sale of
them. She left for the mountains again
with pillow case full of eatables and
clothing"