Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-03-17
CHIT-CHAT.


bride was logged out in white ga1lze."
HARPER's Bazaar pays woman SIS, 900
per year just to write about dresses and
cloaks and such things.
The worst thing that one can wish
ones worst enemy is to have her hat
blown off some day when she is walking
out in her ulster.
A MICHIGAN girl has been arrested for
carrying q revolver. This is right. No
young lady should be allowed to wear
bangs in her hip pocket. philadelphia
! Chronicle.
THERE are bridegrooms who kiss the
bride, bridesmaids, cousins, aulnts, neices
and grandmothers; those are the know
ing fellows, who do not mean to let their
wedding degenerate into serious affair.""
London Truth.
/ ROBERT CoLLYER, in late lecture,
declared that woman "who is not fit
for poor mans wife, as q rule, is not fit
to be any mans wife, especially In a land
like ours, where no man knows how soon
he may be poor.
AT fancy ball recently given in Lon
don the hostess three little girls were
dressed as kittens, with dead kittens on
their heads, and her two logs as cupids,
with nothing on but blue scarfs and
wreaths of pink roses.
A LECTURER was explaining to little
| girl how lobster cast his shell when he
had outgrown it. Said he, "What do
you do when you have outgrown your
clothes? You cast them aside do you
not ?" "Oh, no." replied the little one,
"we let out the tucks."
| MISS KATE FIELD is In New York City
proposing the incorporation CT a COM
pany with capital Of S250,000 for the
| purpose of establishing a ladies' CO.
/ operative system of apparel She wishes
dresses, bonnets, shoes, ETC., to be nicer
and cheaper.
Miss EMMA ABBOTT, having been told
of some criticism upon the warmth of
her acting in love scenes, responded: Sc I
| detest the conventional, STACEY, stupid,
lOve-making scenes so often depicted by
women who were never in love, and know
nothing of the passion. I have been in
love, and know what am acting.
The Princess of Wales dress at the
opening of parliament was of Sc exceed
ingly rich dark vanille velvet, bordered
with dark fur; the corsage of pale vanille
and silver; the jupe of volants of bro
cade, bordered with fur, and over this
train of dark velvet, lined with pale
vanille satin, and bordered with fur"
81 SHALL know better next time,
said Mrs. Keepupwiththestyle. "That
hateful milliner told me the hat was
something new and there were four hats
just like it in church; but might have
known better. I saw the new moon over
my left shoulder. OF course I'd be un-
lucky. "-NeaO Haven Register.
A CORRESPONDENT of the Springfield
Republican writes that Mrs. Francis
Hodgson-Burnett. the novelist, is a
plump little woman-too plump for her
low stature; she has pretty brown hair,
which she wears in a club braid behind
and frizzed in front, to cover, as she
says, 'my horr1d, great forehead" 1t
is noble forehead, square and project
ing; her mouth and jaw firm, with
pretty, white, small and even teeth, and
a charming, cordial, jolly sort of laugh
and smile. .san
LEAP year so far is a failure. The
fact is girls do not know how to make
use of their new privileges. Their
mothers or maiden aunts forgot to go to
the polls when they were told they might
vote for woman or sister to represent
them on school committee, and why
should the chocolate caramels of society
remember to invite a man to go to the
theatre or to come and take an ice-cream
with cake when they meet on the corner
of the street ?-Boston Gazette.
POWDER balls are given by ladies of
fashion abroad, at which all the guests
are expected to wear powder, and dress
in light colors, and Louis XIV. styles to
correspond. At one given lately the
young ladies' affected silvery white tJlle,
and the elder ones palest Turquoise, straw
color or pale green costumes, relieved by
black velvet. Much white and black
were worn, and the decorations of the
room were masses of white blossoms
against maiden hair fern, which was sim
gularly appropriate.
OTHER women's girls may 60 over the
border, but each mother thinks her own
as safe as if youthful blood was iced like
a champagne cup, and the fire was not
lighted that would make it boil. Those
who know better do not care to inform
against young creature who never Of
Tended them, and who is only fulfilling
the law that governs lambkins and kid
ings. It is not their business to spoil
their sport, and the Office of private de-
tective is both thankless and ungracious.
London Truth.
The bridegroom was not present at the
time appointed for wedding at Har-
mony, Ga. The bride, who know his
bashfulness, said his courage had prob
ably failed him. Somebody suggested
that horn be blown to call him, and
this was done. A responsive whoop was
heard from the woods near by, but the
young man did not appear until scout
ing party brought him in by force. 1t
was not until he became fearful of losing