Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-05-19
SOCIETY GOSSIP.

In England bridesmaids are wearing
Indian muslin dresses and large yellow
sashes.
IT is the fashion in Washington to give
parties exclusively to either ladies or
gentlemen.
SOMEBODY earned So, 900 by embroider-
ing the blue silk panels for New York
drawing-room.
PROFESSIONAL beauties are becoming
almost as numerous In New York as they
are Id London.
The fashionable parasol this summer
will be wafer with pin stuck through
the middle of It.
The kettledrum, whose social glory is
extinguished at the east, has turned up
in full feather on the Pacific coast.
The Springfield lMass.) Republican
asserts that a certain parlor carpet in
that city was taken up last week for the
first time in twenty five years.
The girl puzzle is the latest. In con-
sists In putting an average girl In front
of ribbon counter in a dry goods store
and have her find the particular shade
she is after.
AN arnless Mexican woman plays the
piano beautifully with her feet. Some
of our amateurs might attempt this.
They will never be able to play with their
hands, and they might as well try the
new method.
AN item is going the rounds of the
press that a ''sudden kiss made young
lady In Indiana insane" In Illinois the
girls ale all going crazy because they
are not kissed often enough, suddenly or
otherwise. Bloomington Eye.
SOME admiring poet said of his best
girl: ''Upon her face athousand dimples
smile for me-" Which only adds more
emphasis to the adage, Glove is blind. :"
How like the mischief a girl would look
with a thousand dimples on her face.
The poet must have meant freckles.
AT fashionable weddingin New York
lately the bridesmaids wore short dresses
of white silk. trimmed with lace, with a
cape fastened In front with brooch of
pearls each brooch being the gift of the
bride. Instead Of wells they wore yellow
straw bonnets with large white feathers
and long sleeves.
A sALEswoMAN In shop on Washing
ton street, Boston, has on odd pet. It
around its neck. The little animal is
dress, and plays about her shoulders, in
and out of her sleeves and neck as pretty
as you please.
WHEN at Miss, Eleanor Sherma1's we'd
ding, the other day, the bride cut the
cake, the fateful ring was found in the
slice taken by her younger sister, Miss
Rachel Sherman. It was a peculiarly
bright and happy wedding. "Oh, yes, -
said the bridegroom joyously, "every-
thing has gone right with us from the
first.
ONE of the strange freaks of fashion
has brought into general use by the
ladies as ugly piece of attire as was
ever seen. Instead of the handsome,
long and well-ftting six or eight-button
glove of the season, Biarritz gloves now
conceal well-turned wrists and graceful
arms with their loose and slovenly look
ing creases. The remind one strikingly
of stockings down at the heels.
A GENTLEMAN from Elmira, who has
been stopping In Utica, says the Herald,
on a bridal tour, tells a good story at
the expense of some one. His bride was
All eastern lady. While IN the hotel with
lady friends she aroused herself from a
doze, and rubbing her eyes, languidly
remarked, "Oh, dear, tell you-I just
would never marry a man who had his
arms cut OFF, The laughter of her
friends warned her thaG she had made a
speech, and then there was a scene.
A MANUFACTURER of dimples is herald
ed by New York newspaper. He comes
from Paris, of course, and the process of
his art is thus described: 81 make a
puncture In the skin at the point where
the dimple is required, answered the
professor, ga puncture that cannot be
noticed when it has healed, and with a
very delicate instrument l remove a
slight portion of the muscle. Then | ex-
cite slight inflammation which attaches
the skin to the srlbcutaneous hollow L
have formed. In few days the wound
If wound it can be called-has healed,
and charming dimple is the result"
A NEW method of saluting ladies on the
street has lately been adopted by the
nobbiest swell gentlemen of tender
years. It is done in one time and four
motions. The hat, by a right-hand
grasp, is lifted from the head, brought
forward ON line with the nose and then
suddenly lowered to the pit of the stom-
ach, and then as suddenly the hat is re-
turned to it's place, following the same
angular route The head at the first
time. must be bobbed forward about
three inches and Immediately sprung
back to it's natural position. The beauty