Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-08-31
CHI U-GHAT.

! PLUMP girls are again III fashion.
A GIRL who pitches her voice for CON-
Fersat1o1 by means Of tuning fork Is
curiosity in the Catskills.
/ AT the latG London fair, when the
prlncesses and duchesses "held the
pilates" over 100000 were "taken H. %
[ WOMAN of the work houses at Louis
vile and Cincinnati are made to break
rock III the streets two hours eyery
morning.
HE young mem at Saratoga wear open
hats on the verandas and balconies and
amuse the ladies by sitting down '&aeei-
dentally" upon them.
SHE was about to sail for Europe.
And will you go to Romeo" he asked.
"Oh, yes p she answered; "we, VIII do
England thoroughly"
A BUFFALO girl never has her wedding
dress made in that city, for fear some
body WILL say she was married in a
Buffalo robe.-Boston Commercial Bull
Ietin
A VIRGINIA coroner has foand a case
where 81 woman died from the sudden
fright caused by a kiss frorn her hus-
band. Husbands, you should know
| BETTER
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS reloices in
Harper's easy-chair that 'tAmerican So
ciety is not inherently hunkyish," and
has no such institution as the profession
al beauty.
THE Burlington (Vt) Free Press
notes the presence at a hotel in that
city of happy couple ON their we'd
ding tour, the bride being the husbands
fifth venture
OF all people, those can the least afford
to dress shatbily who have to make their
own way. Dress can do nothing to keep
attention and respect, but it often nan
ages to gain them.
| HE fashionable girl manages to look
cool, though inwardly she is far from be-
ing SO. But In thin white or cream
dresses, and with plenty of powder, she
may assume the GOODNESS, although she
does not feel it.
Nor bad joke was made at Ascot re-
specting a lady whose dress was pro-
fusely decorated with the heraldie en-
blems of her husband s family. "Why,"
said some one, "should wife not be in
the arms of her husband?"
CRY belle (meeting country aunt:
ooh, I'm so glad to see you! Come and
see us next week, do, for I'm going to
have a German on Thursday" Aunt
with severity: "Not I, child I don't
want to see anyone Of the family that's
going to make fool of herself by marry
ing foreigner.
CLARA BELLE tells the Cincinnati En-
quirer about delicate hosiery that
shrinks every time it is washed, and she
knows Of ''a pair of beautiful light blue
stockings that have descended, washing
by washing, from the biggest of five sis
ters to the smallest, being transferred to
fit with each shrinkage.
New YORK society is going to adopt
the chaperone. Girls must be chape-
roned the coming season to bail and the
alter. Young men are so fashionable as
to say they like it, but wait until their
4" chaperoned wants to see Patti and
other high-priced artists, and they won't
be quite so fashionable.
NOTHING is more disgusting in society
than to see women affect a public devo-
ton to their husbands which is only pub
lie, and, perhaps. there is no phase of
married life that is more closely watched.
People cannot act we'll in public a part
which they are not in the habit of acting
at home. Boston Herald.
FASHIONABLE life seems arranged
solely for display and effect At the re-
cent wedding of Mr.. Auriol Barker and
Miss Cockerton, the bride carried bou-
puet more than two feet in diameter.
The seven bridesmaids completed a
color harmony in rich material, the first
bridesmaid wearing the palest shade of
old gold, and the tint deepening, until it
became a bronze in the seventh lady,
A CORRESPONDENT of the London
Times, writing of a sea voyage from
Liverpool to Montreal, saws that the
young Canadian ladies are declared by
their numerous admirers to be just the
happy mean between the shyness and
reserve of their English sisters and the
freedom of their Am erican cousins, and
if one may judge from the specimens on
board the Sandman, the praise is as dis
eliminating as well as deserved.
IT was not long ago that the English
girl who, in New York society, spoke of
her legs just as she would at her home,
was regarded as impolite, if not b,azen.
[ am glad to say that usage among the
girls of that fashionable hottest of
hottest, the neighborhood of Second
Avenue and Twentieth Street, where the
remnant or hn1cESrDOcker NOBILITY mas
vailed itself from comparatively plebeian
Fifth Avenue, now sanctions the utter
ance by feminine lips Of the word legs.
CLARA Belle.
LONDON Truth very pertinently says:
"The best use to which woman can be
put is to be made the honest wife of
some good man and the judicious mother
! Of healthy children. All the art and
learning that she can compass are not of
so much value to the world as the ex-
ample of life passed quietly in the ex-
ercise of domestic duties and social
righteousness, in the gift to the country
of children who shall carry on the
national traditions of courage and
generosity, of unselfshness and virtue.
| LADY correspondents often write what
| is incomprehensible to masculine minds.