Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-01-28
SOCIETY TALK.

IHERE are I0,UUU English women IN
India.
LEAP year doesn't amount to much
the men are SO COY.
PRETTY girls are very thick in Morocco.
The Moors don't consider q girl pretty
until she weighs over 200.
BOSTON is so highly culchawed that
when two lovers break off an engagement
they call it valedictoIy.
RECENTLY, Thomas Howe, of Barring
ton, N. H., aged 100, proposed to lady
OF IS and was rejected.
IT is leap year, of course, but after all
it doesn't look very well FOR young lady
to go home at two o'clock IN the morning
after sparkling her beau.
IT will never do to advise the patriotic
Boston women to vote as they fight.
There would be too much scratching at
the polls.
A CLEVER English teacher has original
ed the idea of shopping classes, in which
girls might be taught how to buy dress
and housekeeping goods.
light lacing should be encouraged i'm
every possible way. It kills off the fool
ish girls and leaves the sensible ones.
IT is very much the same with pop
ping corn as with popping the question.
1t is usually accompanied with some
agitation and good deal of warmth.
BLUE robes de mutt have not been
popular since freedom tore her 'azure
robe of night by catching it on one of
the horns of the moon.
A YOUNG lady attending balls and par
ties should have q female chaperone
until she is able to call some other chap
her own.-Neao Orleans Picoyu,ae.
THERE are 100000 working women
in our country dependent on their own
resources for livelihood and such home
comforts and surroundings as they can
create.
EVERY American girl who goes to Italy
to learn how to sing thinks it nice to dis
gulse herself under a foreign name so
that even her own relations don't know
her when she gets back.
The Reynoldsville, Penn, paper re-
minds husbands that while their wives
may be fat and forty, they wear the same
graceful, delicate frame they wooed and
won 20 years ago.
A YOUNG lady went from Alabama to
Rome to marry an italian count with
whom she had corresponded, but the
counts wife and four children raised so
many objections that the marriage didn't
take place.
THERE are many hard tasks set for
women in this world, but few which they
find it impossible to perform. Still,
there never was woman who could keep
a fur-lined circular from flying open and
showing the fur.-Bosto7a transcript.
She wore belted ulster cloak,
All buttoned down before,
standing collar, and the tie
think was red she wore
Jockey hat sat on her nose
She carried rattan,
And all who saw her couldn't tell
The lady from a-man.
A WIDOW who appears to be benevo-
lent creature advertises in the London
Times that she has engaged to receive
three gentlemen of good. position as
boarders, and wants three ladies of un-
deniable position to board with her and
" form an agreeable home on co-opera-
tive principles"
The bishop of Manchester, who has
for quarter Of century been engaged
to Miss Duncan, of Bath, is to marry
her next month-unless one or the other
The clergy of the diocese are subscrib-
ing for present to his lordship, the sub
scriptions being limited to one guinea.
The newly married man of the Gowan-
ola Enterprise truthfully says that many
a young man, as he leads to the altar the
bride Of his affection, isn't sure which is
of the most value-the woman or the
silks and the laces that she drags after
her, In many so-called "high-toned"
affairs the young man after time be-
comes convinced in which laid the value.
1t was not the woman.-Elnajr0 Gazette.
IT has been noticed that girls who have
happy homes elope more easily than
those who have been much bullied by
their friends; and this is only natural,
for the latter fear the wrath of their fam
lily most. The happy girl who for once
meets a resistance to her wishes to which
she has not been accustomed, frets under
the curb like a FESTIVE FLY, and, deciding
to bolt, reflects that she will be able to
make matters all right with her friends
by and by.-L01adon Truth.
New YEARS night there was married
in Detroit damsel who had been sew
eral years employed in large manufac-
turing establishment. Her marriage had
been for several days a subject of
pleasant congratulation by her employers
and fellow employees. One day one of
employers who always wears "bed-
tick apron in the factory, said to her,
'' if you will wear this apron on
your wedding-dress when you are mar
ried I will make you presant of $50"
eyes," added the foreman, "and I'll
give you So" The girl accepted the
challenge, wore the apron, and pocketed
her $50.
A LONDON letter describes GO a beauty's
dress as follows: The upper portion,
or body, which extended without change
of substance to very nearly the knee,
was composed of coarselp knitted pink
silk jersey, cut into the figure, and fit
ting it Like the very highest of eelskins.
The skirt was short; cashmere of the
Same color killed in folds and an,,oront