Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-02-11

CHIT CHAT.
ALTHOUGH it is leap-year don't lope.
THE pale of civilization-Pearl powder.
THERE'S one leap-year in every four
Breahes there man who asks for more?
SMYrHEKINs calls it the decorative
womania. ''-NeaU York Mail.
THE young queen of Spain wears the
fashionable idiot fringe.
ETIQUETTE no longer demands that the
host and hostess receive together.
"My wedding trip" said the groom,
as he tumbled over the brides train.
The empress of Russia received dress
from Paris the cost of which was S., 900.
THE peach blossom, Persia's mystic
flower, Is favorite in embroidery.
The latest decoration for table linen is
the monogram of the mistress of the
house embroidered in flowers.
THERE is young lady who follows the
fashions SO closely that she will not eat
oysters unless they are scaloped.
SPANISH women, who drink far more
alcohol than women of the north do, are
very seldom drunkards.
IT is the latest freak in ''society" to
become engaged to young men who are
still at college, says the New York Mail.
Mr.. GLADSTONE says: 81 use the ex-
preston women with greater satisfac-
ton than [ use the name of ladies'"
THEY say Mrs. Langtry can be more
graceful In stubbing her toe than most
women can In throwing kiss.
She my idyL when wooed;
My idol when won;
Ny ideal when in after years
Ways idle had she none.
oil City Derrick
LADY BURDETT- Courts is a friend of
the brute creation. It is said that many
London costermonger takes pride in
his donkey through her influence.
CATHARINE DE MEDICI is quoted as
having asserted that the highest thing to
be said In praise of a woman is that she
can cook good dinner.
SOCIETY bellies in Washington now af-
feet the banjo, which they are learning
to play. There are many costly ones
with ebony handles and silver mountings.
ONE hundred years ago New York
hair-dresser advertised hair pins from
two to fifteen inches long, and now no.
body needs hair-pins Of half that length.
SHORT skirts are now worn for dancing
dresses, and the gentlemen are no longer
obliged to wait for the ladies to sidetrack
their train before they can pass.-Keo-
katk Gate City.
A YOUNG girl, at Sandy Hill, n. Y,
ran into the Office of staid old lawyer,
kissed him, and said that she accepted
his offer of marriage, though he hadn't
made any. She had gone crazy.
If it is embarrassing for woman to
have improprieties said before her, it is
perhaps even more embarrassing for a
before woman.
SOCIETY young men of moderate in
comes are looking hopefully forward to
the day when 800 bills will be given as
"favors" at the Germans. The ten
dency is strongly in that direction at
present.
RICHTER is credited with saying that
"with women marked irregular noses
signify far more talent than with men,
and except in the case of a few, beauty
must always sacrifice something to ge-
MUS"
Z" A sCHooLMIsTREss thinks that pupils
ought to have great hearty laugh every
day." This desideratum might be
brought about by the schoolmistress
reading her love letters to her pupils
NorriStoac7a Herald.
THE women who wish to go to Europe
alone answer all opponents by this ques-
ton: How can women vote and attend
caucuses and perform all their other
official duties If hampered by the neces-
sity of finding somebody to go with them
whenever they step out of the house.
WOMEN read this: A girl down in Mas
sachusetts who painted pottery has be-
come insane. And in the horrible dreams
and hideous fancies that glare upon her
darkened mind she imagines she sees all
the things she has painted. The medi-
cal men say there is no hope for her.
HaaOkeye.
"WELL, girls, said the mother, "you
are big enough now to be of some use.
1t may make you mad to tell you of it.
I am going to discharge the washerwom-
an. Wiring out, wild belles! is to be
the NOTICE In this house." And visions
of parboiled hands running the scales on
a washboard instead of piano fitted be-
fore the minds of those sad daughters.
In little family discussion, the other
day, the madam remarked, somewhat
tartly: when / marry again" 81
suppose you will marry fool" inter-