Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-06-08
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Guo ldteSl SWEEP bn1ng. -fE
IT is dangerous to ask woman idle
questions when she is adding up gro
Gerry bill. a.
"YEs, Agnes, I'm going to have
cream-colored summer silk, provided pa
doesn't veto the appropriation ma has
passed.
"IN the bright complexion of my
youth I'll have no such word as pale
and she reached for the rouge-box with
the clutch of an angel.
A SENTIMENTAL woman at Mayville,
Canada, has put strong iron fence
around the tree whereupon sweetheart
OF youthful days once carved her name.
"A JUDIoIoUs wife is always nipping
Oft from her husbands moral nature lit
tie twigs that are growing in wrong di-
rections. She keeps him in shape by
continual pruning"
A SEASIDE belle left her bathing shoes
hanging out of hotel window to dry,
and the next day the local paper an
nOunced s'that such hotel had put up
new awnings of an antique design"
AN American bridegroom who married
an English lady the other day gave her
set OF diamonds mounted in iron pyrites
and flask containing a few drops of
water and few grains of earth from
America
IT is predicted that the belle of the
summer resorts this season will be
dressed in fluffy stuffs somewhat punched
and obscuring about her hips, but short
enough in skirt to make a compensatory
show of her feet.
Two little girls in white preceded a
bridal party to the altar in New York,
recently, strewing daisies along the
aisle. Each carried ON her left arm a
large basket of those golden hearted ma
tives of the fields.
In Buffalo, says the Detroit Free
Press, when lady is trying hard to re-
member something, she puts her tongue
in the left side of her cheek. "In De-
troit she simply closes her left.eye into
a sort of a wink, Fuckers her mouth to
the right, and in ten seconds can re-
member clear back to Daniel in the lions
den.'
He loved her: ssDon't you love her
still?" asked the judge of a man who
wanted a divorce. Certainly [ do"
he said; 81 love her better still than any
other way, but the trouble is she will
never be STILL" The judge, who is a
married man himself, takes the case un-
der advisement. -C2a5cago Tribune.
The Partisan makes an exceedingly
nice distinction, saying. &c I have said
once before that there are two kinds of
beauty-involuntary beauty, or that
which one receives at ones birth, and
the beauty which can be assumed. This
last kind, which we will call social
beauty, is. according to us, much super
ior to the other 60
A TERRIBLE Chicago critic, writing of
feminine star, says: g Her habit of
dropping her arms to her side with
thud is fatal to grace. She is awkward
In tragic stride, and will discover, after
a while, that standing In a slight stoop,
with ones back to the audience, is a
very poor. way OF indicating the very ex-
tremity of mental torture. y"
THE Albany Argus says: "There is
woman in West Carthage who, at times,
Grapes her house in mourning and puts
Grape on the door. She pins back the
curtains with butcher knives and lee
lures to an imaginary audience. She
goes out on the street as bride and
again as a person In deep mourning.
Her husband is afraid of her, and sleeps
dressed in his working clothes, prepared
to get out of the house at any time. y
CLARA BELL, who saw $50 women in
Turkish bath-house in New York, says:
There are many comely bathers, to be
sure, with fine forms, and smooth, white
skins, but the revelation of hollow
chested maids and fabby matrons, of
spindle shanks and hairy arms, of corns
and bunions, and of various unshapei-
ness, was something beyond my power
or desire of description. An old walrus
of woman waddled her red 800 pounds
about with lank, rb-displaying wearer
of eyeglasses. saw several persons
whom I had seen before, and, bless me,
how altered they looked without their
clothesr'
Miss LoTTIE MALoNEY, daughter of a
farmer living near Symrna, Del, in, or
der to Tighten family burdens, betook
herself to the city and went into domes-
tic service. One day, while passing an
hour in one OF the parks, she encounter
ed DR.. Leon, one of the most highly re-
garded physicians in the city, who was
much taken with the young lady's in
genuous but saddened appearance, and
exerted himself exceedingly in order to
obtain an easier position for her. Time
has amply justified the good opinion the
doctor formed of her, and he has by due
process of law, adopted her as his
daughter, his nearest blood relative be-
ing nephews, She is now known as
Lottie Josephine Leon, and is heiress to
$500, 900. - Esass
WHY do women with red or yellowish
hair wear "dead gold and green's that
remind the beholder of badly cooked
vegetables? Why do pale-faced, brown
haired women wear the deep red and
orange hues which can $50" only with
the olive and pomegranate tints and the
blue-black hair of the south? Who is
accountable for the terrible terra-cotta
garments in which some otherwise HARM
less maidens pervade fashionable crowds,