Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-09-15
!kAFFEE-KLATCH.

WEDDING cards are to be made smaller
than ever and made as plain, quiet and
gentee1 as possible.
Young women often keep their lovers
by tears. eyes, says Grumwig; Glove,
Like beef, IS preserved by brine"
The Older a sparkling coquette or O.
fashionable belle grows the more match
less she becomes.
"THE SUN shines fog all" while the
moon looks placidly down on few
spooney couples,-NeaO Have,e Rev5ey.
A YOUNG lady resembles ammunition.
because powder is needed before the
ball.
The number of brides who have VISIT
ed Niagara Falls this year is 42S, and all
but one tried to look as if they had been
wives for fourteen years.
! MY dear doctor, where shouId you
recommend me to go this summer %
"Whe1e should you like to go?' "I
don't care where, provided my husband
isn't there"
HAVE our English cousins any eense
of color? A lady on the foggy isle who
| lately wore three skirts-one brown. one
orange and one yellow-was much adj
mired.
HE last valse but four-time 2:3O A..
NJ: Wife of his BOSOM" Don't keep.
looking at your watch, Algy! One would
think you were In church,! '-LOndoas
Punch.
OLIVE LOGAN saws that the first duty
Of girl on finding herself ugly-looking
and ungainly is to cultivate such a sweet
temper that some one will be tempted to
marry her. Olives mysterious marriage
is now explained.
A LADY at White Sulphur Springs is
compared to the mother of the seGrac-
CHI" because when asked by reporter
for description of her dress she said:
81 don't wear very handsome costume.
but l have the incest husband and two
of the sweetest children in the room.''
The most insulting sort of impudence
Is tolerated at seaside resorts. Have you
taken bath this morning ?" is a ques-
tlon that may be asked of lady at such
place, and it is rarely ever resented.
The same question in town would sever
friendship end cause somebody to get
hurt.--NeW Orleans Picayataae.
LADY CHOPPER, one of the beautiful
ladies OF London, was Miss Minnie
Thornburg, of San Francisco. She is
about twenty-three years of age, is tall,
stately, slender and a blonde. One
journal puts her height at six feet three.
Her features are perfect. Her mother
was called the handsomest la dy in Ohio.
FASHIONABLE Galveston young lady at
social gathering remarks jestingly to
Gllhooly: 81 wonder how much would
bring it I was put up at auction and sold
to the highest bidder?" "Just about
$4,000" Why, my iewelry alone is
worth that" ssYes, that's what I put it
down at in my estimate"
The new French slipper with its low
heel which displays SO well the fanciful
stockings of the period is easily lost off,
and when loser at ball is belle the
slipper is claimed by the gallants and
cut into a number of trophies. "Your
slipper was so tiny, and you are so adj
mired, that it wouldn't half go round,''
was the complaint that lately brought
the bushes to the face Of a young New
port dancer.
IT is recorded of Parisienne at Trou-
vile this season that she changed her
dress nine times a day! First she
donned breakfast gown, then a walk
ing dress, then bathing costume, then
another walking dress, and after that a
yachting toilet. That makes five. The
four others we're tea gown, dinner
dress, casino costume, and ninth and
last very careful toilet for a select
little supper and card party.
"OH, pshaw!'' petulantly exclaimed
Miss Lydia Languish, looking up from
the last new novel In response to sum-
mons from her mother to come and
assist in preparing dinner. 'sOh pshaw !'
[ am just where Edward de Coursey
Montalbert is about to propose to the
lady Ethelinda Adele st. Clair, and
wish dinners had never been invented p
And the look of supreme disgust that
flashed from her eyes showed that she
meant it.-Bin0hanatO,a Republican.
Is your programme full, Miss Bee
tlecrusher?' asked a young man of a
western damsel, who had just struggled
out of the refreshment room, with dis
appointment in her eye and an "order
of dances" in her hand. Programme
full % said the daughter of the Setting
Sun. "Waal, I guess noti I haint had
nothing but piece of cake and an ice
cream; an they don't go far towards
filing my programme, 1 can tell you."-
Boston Conenaercial-Bul
Mrs. J. W. MAcKEY often entertains
her American friends al her Trouville cot
tage on the coast of France The cost
illness of the table-servicean decorations.
reminds one of the "Arabian Nights.
Not only gold, silver, and priceless por-
celain were used, but amber, coral, and
precious stones were pressed into the
/ service. Ices were served on crystal
plates inlaid with uncut gems, and wine
and liquors sparkled in TASKS of araber>
or were contained in hagons of gold,
cloisonne, and enamel.
The newest thing In note paper is the
address and date In an exact fac sinaile
of the writer's handwriting in one corner,
and deicately painted flower, crest, or
even tiny landscape having some con-
nection or association with tie person by
-xI,c,,, 90 or1oroG n, tho otboy A. c.,