Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-12-10

silk petticoats for evening wear, quilted
and edged with lace.
A STRANGER in New York visited a
fair there, and after being importuned
by dozens of the fair sex for some time,
replied, 81 should like to take chances
in all the gambling schemes you're run
ming, but when | left home ] only put
3d. 900 in my pocket, and have already
been in this fair half an hour. I must
save at least SIS to take me back home"
but he remained ten minutes longer and
next day he was obliged to pawn his
watch to pay his hotel bill.--Nosristsyn
Herald.
MISS MARY EAsrMAN's lines seem to
have fallen in unpleasant places. She
says: MEN are willing that women
should work if they will work for moth
ing. Men are always ready to surrender
to women the work that does not pay.
Drudgery, that gets nothing for its pains,
Ia dropped into the hands of women.
That after diligent examination she
found but one place in which she would
not have to accept one-third less wages
on account of her sex, and this was in
an oyster canning establishment in Bal
timore.
A GENTLEMAN in Paris paid visit
the other day to lady, in whose parler
he saw portrait of lovely woman, of
say fifty-and-tventy. Upon the en-.
trance of the lady her visitor asked her
If the picture was family portrait, and
was told that it represented her deceased
daughter. "Has it been long since you
lost herr" asked the gentleman. "Alas!
sir" replied the lady, "she died just
after ber birth, and / had portrait
painted to represent her as she would
nave appeared if the had lived till now"
Talk about woman being particular
about dress-did you ever watch man
buy an ulster? He strays in apparently
by accident, looks over pile of coats,
and the gentlemanly clerk puts one on
him. It's too big plaid, hackman's over
coat; the next one is too big stripe, col
lege students; the next too fine, regular
parsons gown; then one fits too much,
one fits too little; one has arms too long,
buttons too big; another has arms too
short buttons too small. And he keeps
up this straying all over town, sampling
every clothing store, filling clerks with
high hopes and subsequent disgust, till
at last he buys the first coat he tried on,
wears it week and thinks it I" inn
mense," and the rest of the winter
spends his spare time trying to trade it
off for secondhand coal.box buggy
N. Y. World.
THERE are now fifty girls among the
students of Cornell university, and
thirteen of them are freshmen. Michi-
gan university has 1874 women students,
and its president says of the experiment
of educating the sexes together: "After
our nine years experience in co.educa-
ton, we have become so accustomed to
see women take up any kind of university
work, carry it on successfully, graduate
in good health, cause no embarrassment
in the administration of the institution,
and awaken no especial solicitude in the
minds of their theoretical discussions OF
coeducation, by those who have had no
opportunity to examine it carefully,
read strangely to us here on the ground.
1t is cause of sincere congratulation
that, both in this country and Europe,
the opportunities foNwomen to obtain as
extended an education as men are rapid
ly multiplying"