Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1880-11-17
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| WIG "euunS mao only one leg apiece.
SARA BERNHARDT's dressmaker's blu
at Felix's, Paris, amounted to 1860
francs.
MANY belts for ladies are made in the
basket patterns sort of waist basket
pattern, as it were.
AS THEY were leaving the theater he
| thOughtfully said, won't you take
cold ?" Certainly" she replied, as she
took his arm.
THE Cincinnati SATURDAY. Niqht
meekly remarks: "When q girl talks
| about the two strings to her beau, does
she mean his suspenders ?"
| Mr.. Love was married the other day
Ithaca at the age of So. It was an old
Love affair.-New York Commercial
AdUertiser.
ISN'T it kind of curious that no woman
goes to the telephone to answer a ring
without wondering if her hair is all right
and her train in the proper shape?
SOMEBODY notes that love is more in
teresting than marriage for the same
reason that romance is more enticing
than history.
Coal scuttle bonnets,s according to
the observing "Tete-a-T ete !" of the
Boston Transcript, are fit only for dear
little baby faces, pouting innocent-loo
ing mouths and clear, guileless eyes.
AN Indian woman recently gave birth
to a female baby with two heads.
Heaven help the father of that girl when
it gets big enough to wear bonnets.-
Philadelphia Chronicle.
VAeARIEs of fashion:
When lovely woman is not jolly
But hides some secret grief within,
What art can cure her melancholy?
Seal's-kin.
THREE candid American ladies, who
registered at an inn in the village of Sim
pelu, filed in the column headed "Oc-
cupation with the words, Looking
for husband"
A POLITICAL procession at Dunbarton.
n. H., was delayed while young man
took his sweetheart down from what he
considered her unbecoming position as a.
Goddess of Liberty.
A DEBATING club in o neighboring
town is wrestling with: "Can a COM
munity exist without women ?" Itmight
exist for while, but then it wouldn't
know what was going on.
A Jersey, like coat of mail,
The shapey form incases,
And to dainty waist can't fail
To add developed g aces;
To draw it on requires a knack
Quite easy to attain,
But what business tits, good lack,
To get i. off again
New YORK bellies are wearing the
Zulu hat. i is hoped that they viii not
adopt the Zulu full dress. 1t would
occasion remark, except as one of Queen
Victoria's receptions. A Zulu full dress
costs about twenty cents, and is cut ex-
tremely decollette at both ends.
AT a recent wedding in Slawson the
tride's father gave the young couple
$500. A friend spoke to him of the
magnitude of the gift. t'You haven't
got a manageable daughter, and SO don't
know" answered the father; "but I
think I got off cheap. "-Dan6ury NeaUs.
The hand-painted Christmas cards for
this year are even quainter than those of
last season; they represent the same old
fashioned little girls and boys, but show
them in action rather than In repose.
The coloring is to be as old in style as
the drawing, and the effect is to be as
quaint as possible.
A CINCINNATI youth In two column
account of wedding, says that the bride
wore gown with ''surplus neck"
that the bridesmaids had gowns that
were s'surplus in the neck and that
the brides mother wore a lavender satin,
':cut surplus in the neck" In fact, he
seems to have thought that too many
clothes were worn.
LAWYER KoMIsKY, arguing in divorce
suit at New Orleans. held that hus-
band had legal right to make his wife
stand in corner with spring clothes
pin on her nose. " If such mild means
of compelling obedience are forbidden
he said, "what is to become of the hus-
bands authority as the master OF his
household ?"
AMONG the gifts displayed at San
Francisco wedding recently was the
check of the brides father for 500, 900.
The cashier of the bank on which the
check was drawn was a guest. It was
observed that he looked queerly at the
document, then turned up his nose and
remarked: "Why. he hasn't $500 to his
credit in our bank"
GA YOUNG Lady, well known in Liver
pool on account OF her beauty" says the
London Truth, "was married last week.
When the canon who was officiating
read the words, love, honor and obey
the young lady declined to repeat the
last. Three times the canon paused for
an echo. but in vain. Then he went on
with the service. But is this young lady
married or not? What-should her dis
obedience lead to an interview with Sir
James Hannan-will that eminent Judge
rule on the subject? ?"
A PENNSYLVANIA brides memory some
times fails her. A young lady living in
Kimberly threw cold water on her lovers
suit for many years. He-was persistent;
| and, finally overcome and wearied out
with his importantly, she consented to
marry him. There was snowy ceremo-
ny, and they started on their wedding
Journey. After week the bride returned
to her home. declaring that she had no
recollectionof anything between her last
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