Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-09
CHIT-CHAT,


A WIDOW and daughter, belonging to
one of the wealthiest families of Grand
Rapids, were the brides in double we'd
ding.
A woMAN's house is the exponent of
her character. For they are dainty,
orderly, refined; or untidy, unrestful,
1nharmonious, just as she is.
The three styles: Some girls are
born fat, some achieve fairness, and
some Tx themselves up fat with old
newspapers and things.-NeU Orleans
Times.
| MATCHMAKERs should be careful not to
wear the lately imported Paris gowns.
on the founces and waistcoats of which
are embroidered red spiders and their
webs. The design is too suggestive.
BRIDES are getting tired OF appearing
all in white like snow drift, and fair
New Yorker, who will be married this
autumn, will have her satin gown covered
with carnations, roses and forget-me-
nots, outlined in gold and worked in
| color.
BRIDES are betrayed because as rule
they converse in whispers, press each
others hands under the table, sit in
dark corners from the moonlight, by the
excessive newness of their clothes and
their brand new boots, for who ever knew
a bride to wear an old pair?
BELLE HARDIN was clipping at Vir-
ginia, Ill. Her father overlook the
couple, anu the swain was about to give
up his sweetheart without struggle.
when she coolly drew pistol and told
her parent she would shoot him if he
interfered. The elopement proceeded.
LONDON Truth states that the rage
for monograms has burnt itself out, and
the lady who wore her husbands heraldic
emblems upon her court dress and on
the sleeve of her walking dress in the
park, did much toward showing up the
snobbishness of advertising ones name
and rank upon ones garments.
EDO you see that woman over there ?"
said an observer 10 the audience, indicat-
ing the person spoken of; Sc that woman,
L am perfectly certain, pets dog. Her
face has taken the shape of her pets;
and such cases are by no means uncom-
mon. [ can nearly always tell woman
who has pet dog, If she has had it any
great length of time. Her features in
variably betray her."
In New York the places where paints,
hair dyes and powders are sold are called
identifying parlors," and the estab-
ishments often occupy three floors of
large building, the lower floor being
elegantly fitted with mirrors and coun-
tiers, and the upper ones devoted to the
identifying process, where there are
many attendants waiting to begin the
process.
JONES was always complaining of his
wife's memory. "She q ever can remem-
Der anything" said poor Jones; "it's
awful p "My wife was just as bad,
said Brown, till I found out capital
recipe" "What is it?" said Jones
eagerly. "Why," said Brown, "when-
ever there's anything particular I want
the missus to remember, L write it down
on slip of paper and gum it on the
looking glass. See 2" Jones is now
contented man.
The face veil is the speciality of the
American woman's toilet. English
women rarely wear them, as it destroys
the effect of their mannish style of dress,
while French women are too fond of dis
playing their fashionable hats and bon
nets to enwrap them in gauze. And
though opticians are constantly speak
ing and writing of their injurious in
fuence on the eyesight Am erican women
will persist in wearing them-probably
to protect their frizzes.
A MEDICAL paper devotes column or
more to the question, is love dis
ease?" and funny man rises to explain
that he should say it was softening of
the brain and heart. Symptoms-Sigh-
ing, gnawing sensation to sou-sou-west
by south of center stud button; de-
sire to bite somebody, hatred OF relatives,
longing for Beautiful Isle of the Sea,
with the loss of appetite and sleep, gen.
eral lassitude. Cure-Cold shower
baths, cooling drinks, chopping wood,
and some other girl.
EVERYBODY says it's going to be wild
and giddy winter here in society. Lots
of young girls are coming out Ever so
many old maids are coming in. Did
you ever see Philadelphia swell? He
makes you die laughing-not that he's
funny-but he is such sily-billy.
Don't you know, he's always talking
about his ailments or those of his fam
lily. PAS got a thingamagig on his
knock; ma caught an awful cold at Bryn
Mawr and Susan has malaria in her
knees. Then he rushes into politics,
lands on his back, of course, and then
attacks social questions. They dress SO
funny, too. It isn't English-as the
Boston fellows do-and I'll be blessed If
it's American. Plain black and blue
neckties are-so il seems to me-the
acme of style among the swells.-Phita-
delphiG Letter.
A SHORT time ago husband helped
his wife out of her carriage on their re-
turn from dining out at fashionable
residence in New York. She was hung
around with trophies. When she laid
down the bonbon bag, the bouquet with
its rare vase, the tiny footstool of Parma
violets, the elaborate dinner-card, and
the latest device of Maillard in satin
boxes, he proudly brought forth from
his pocket the finger-bowl doyley which
he had thought was intended as din