Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-18
SOCIETY GOSSIP.
The glory of woman is her heir.

fingers.
GRACEFULLY arched eyebrows, SAYS
the Boston Courier, are beauty's tri-
umphal arches.
This world without woman-lovely
woman-would be like a blank sheet of
paper-not even ruled.
GALL civilized women says the New
York Times, " are more or less gsthet-
ically insane on the subject of Lace
ALTHOUGH given the freedom of every
club In Canada, the Marquis of Lorne
has not yet honored any by his presence.
The mole burrows in the ground, but
the wart proudly parades in the full glare
Of midday, especially when it is on O.
woman's nose.
CHICAGO has narrowing divorce case
"Plows VS.. Plows" Opinions are di-
vided, share and share alike.--NeaU York
Meas.
AN anti-Hssing society has been or
ganized by the ladies of Rescagoula,
Mississippi. Up here the boys prefer to
kiss the girls and not their aunties
"SHALL [ hereafter darn your stock
ings?" is said to be the fashionable lam
guage for young lady to use when
u1ahIuS leap-yeaf proposal.
A FUNNY elopement has taken place
between Charles Swoyer, four feet high,
and Anna Walchmayer, six feet, both of
Gainesville, La. They were arrested at
Columbia but afterward released.
A ROCHESTER, couple disagreed. In
stead of getting into row they divided
their chattels equitably and then sepa-
| rated. They went arm in arm to the
place Of parting, babe each other kindly
goodbye, and one started for Kansas and
the other eastward.
IT is mean woman who will paste
last years plate OF fashions for bonnets
into this years fashion book and lend
it to her female friends, just before Easter
Sunday. Post.
ga WOMAN remarks the Boston
Transcript, "thinks she fulills the
scriptural injunction of doing good in
secret when she doth masquerade
Hence the success of the charity ball.
The Boston Courier says that the
women of the country are about to
organize a general protest against the
unnecessary and pernicious custom Of
emblazoning their age on tombstonesr
Mrs. T. ADoLPHUs TRoLLoPE, the
clever novelist, is quoted by Miss Brews-
ter as exclaiming: "Have you any ugly
women in the United States? For sure
~ only beautiful ones come to Europe
from your country"
BEWAKE of women who wear high
necked dresses and always keep their
eyes cast down. They are full Of pride
and jealousy-natures of iron and pas
sions Of fire. When they are welded
they are dangerous.
ALGERoN CHARLES SwINBURNE, of the
carrotty locks and freckled face, is said
to be one of the most devout worshipers
at the shrine of Mrs. Langtry, the
favorite Of the Prince of Wales.
No, George Augustus, @ trousseau % is
not the French for trousers. It is the
French for more things than you can
learn the name of in month. Get mar
ried and you will know more about it
Brooklyn Eagle.
SIS it possible, miss, that you do not
know the names of some of your best
friends ?" inquired q gentleman of lady.
Certainly" she replied; 81 don't even
know what my own viii be year
hence"
A YOUNG widower of Alabama has in
his possession the photographs of five
young ladies. AS soon as he receives
two more, one for each day in the week,
he will shuttle them, draw one, and the
lady drawn will at once receive an offer
of marriage. To which, if she has any
sense, she viii promptly reply: ''No
Cards. y Philadelphia Bulletin.
THE woman who can sit still and snil-
ingly entertain male visitor, perceiving
all the time that he has succeeded in
wriggling all the pins out of her new
tidy and is at that precious moment
calmly sitting on it, and will be proba-
bly, for the next hour, is sure of a reward
in the next world If she does not receive
it In this.
Mrs. j. w. MAcKEE is probably the
best living example of the vulgar
parvenu. Her lsSest exhibition of her
self is the hiring of celebrated Partisan
modiste to work only for her, in order
that there may be no duplicates of her
fashions and styles. She has the reputa-
ton of being the most richly, though not
the most tastefully dressed woman in
Europe.
LETTER from Jenny June: "New
York will shortly receive an accession to
its fashionable forces In Miss Bessie
Minturn, daughter of the late Robert
Minturn, the ph1lanthrophist, who has
been pursuing her classical and mathe-
NAUTICAL studies at Cambridge, England.
Miss Minturn viii take B. A. in this
month of March, and will then return to
New York to reside. Miss Minturn en-
joys an annual income of $4,000 from
her fathers estate, and has lately given
$40, 900 to Girton college. She keeps her
groom and horses at Cambridge"
A LONDON letter says: SIT is the
fashion here to-day fer the .jeuneuv dorec
of the period (there are still few LETT
to make handsome presents to the reign
ing society bellies. How society can
tolerate such breach of conventionality
is a mystery. Lately one of ladies re-
piled to languishing swain, who, at her
knees, begged permission to bestow
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