Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-22
CHIT-CHAT.
A FLIRT-"Sofa and no father"

| "A KEG OF peer Is included among ap.
propriate wedding gifts in Cincinnati.
A BROOKLYN girls speaks of one OF
her fellows as her night blooming serious
beau.
The most fastidious ladies now say
pillow protectors instead of pillow
"shams"
AT one of the fashionable weddings In
London last month bride carried bou-
quet six feet In circumference.
CINCINNATI calls the Boston girls
"gray and lanky," but Boston says that
the &c skinny, sallow" heroines belong to
Philadelphia, and then the rival eastern
cities talk about their neighbors.
For the everyday dinner, to which
every lady sometimes invites her most
intimate friends, it is considered the
height of hospitality and grace for
her to carve and help the plate of each
guest.
WHEN Boston girl is presented with
bouquet she says: ooh, how delicious
~ sweet; its fragrance impregnates the
entire atmosphere of the room" A
down-east girl simply says: 81 smells
scrumptious; thanks, Reuben. . Waits.
AMERICANmanufactu advise women
to buy enough knitting silk to finish an
article before they begin it, in order to
avoid the difficulty of matching, says an
exchange. What cruel minds to deprive
the poor shoppers Of the delight of
matching"
AMONG the presents displayed at re-
cent wedding in Ellenville; Ulster coun-
ty, n. Y, was silver butter-dish heaped
high with twenty-dollar gold coins, gift
from the brides father. One admires
butter for being golden in color, but
this is the richest pat we have ever heard
of.
A NEW figure in the German is the
windmill. Four ladies cross their right
hands, and with the left select gentle
men, who in turn give their hands to
ladies, then the ladies to the gentlemen.
They then all change from the right hand
to the left until all the dancers are whirl-
ing in windmill fashion throughout the
room.
MISS CLARA JEROME, the heroine of
the latest international episode" in
New York society, wore at her wedding
recently lace shawl yellow with age,
which was worn in New York thirty
years ago by Mrs. Leonard Jerome. 1t
was of the most delicate texture, and
could not be duplicated in New York
so the gossips say.
"CLARA BELL" the lady correspond
writes from New York, says: edo you
know what martingale is It is that
loop at the rear of the harness through
which the horses tail is thrust, and it
serves to hold the whole toggery OF
straps back in place. Well, women
wear martingales now"
WHEN handsome Jack was cautiously
going up behind pretty Miss Dashie to
steal a kiss which she wouldn't have
granted for any amount of pleading, hel
little brother, who happened to look in
the door behind Jack, yelled to her tC
look out, and so she was able to avoid
letting Jack kiss her. And somehow she
boxed her little brothers ears when they
were alone together.
: The New York Herald has something
to say in favor of a hot-tempered woman
!, she always makes the spiciest dishes
You never knew mild-tempered woman
to make rich and spicy pie. Her tes
is always mild; her chicken is as tame OF
the table as it was in the coop. But &
sharp-witted woman, with tongue like
a buzz-saw, will devil a crab, dress {
outlet, or serve rum omelette to {
turn"
Mr.. MACKEY has given his wife thu
dress which the French Indian company
were manufacturing for the ex-empres
when Bismarck's little game shut up thu
Tulleries. It is pronounced by tn,
learned in lace the ne plus ultra in Poin
d'Alencon. Seven different stitches arr
employed, some of which were only dis
covered by unravelling lace Aouncs
which once belonged to Nine de Pom
nador1r.
A STORY is told of an American LADY
who, while abroad, made her reputation
at a watering place. She one morning
dropped letter on the piazza of the
hotel. When it was picked up, it was
found to read as follows: "My deal
madame, as your agent, I hasten te
make my semi-weekly report. I have
in your absence, three hundred new
horses in order to carry the wheat to the
nearest depot. Wheat is rising, and ]
hope that you will not think that ]
was officious in chartering all the freight
trains of the railway for the first two
weeks in June" The lady received four
offers of marriage within week after
she dropped the letter.
The girls of Tennessee are lovely, but
we tell them frankly that it won't do.
They had ball last week in Nashville
in honor Of sixteen young ladies, and it
appears that twelve of the lot habitually
write their Christian names as Sallie,
Minnie, Mamie, Callie, Maggie, Nettie,
and SO on. This is alarming. IF the
girls are rich as well as beauteous they
may perhaps get married to fellows
named Charlie, Johnnie, Tommie, Fred
die, Willie or Harrie, but who will
guarantee their felicity afterward? The
only solid ground for the hope of bliss
in this world is firm character and a
good education, and we fear that no girl