Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-07-06
CHIT-CHAT,

#!tt' turn them vaguely over,
And marvel now the girl kissed,
." That night she promised to be true,
Could jam number seven fist
| Into paltry number two.
eyes, I was" Eyes, L do" eyes. I
did, yes, am, !" and eyes, I have, 4"
are among the late blossoms in slang.
LUCKY American bridegrooms if you
were Englishmen you would be obliged
to furnish all the house linen. Your
father-in-law does it all.
WHEN French woman doesn't like
her eyebrows she shaves them off and
buys a new pair for forty cents. Nature
can't begin to compete with a woman for
style. -.......... y
SAYS society paper: "The nearer
the bangs come to the eyebrow the more
fashionable is the wearer." A hint to
quarrelsome husbands. Hit her square
on the eye if you want her to appear styl-
ish.-Philodel1ohio Chronicle.
LONDON Truth implores the Prince of
Wales not to wear a chimney-pot hat,
and says that if the prince would eschew
that abominable and conventional cover
ing, he would earn the gratitude of
those millions who would follow his ex-
ample.
"WoN'T you please play us some
thing, Miss Hammerandbang ?" asked
Fogh. 81 should like to ever so much, :"
said she, looking at her watch, "but
really / have no time" $50 I have
heard" replied Fogg, "but we will
overlook that, you know.
A CURIOUS feature of fashionable
horse-raceis that if you bet with young
lady and she loses. you don't win. Her
betting is merely nominal. It's matter
OF form. No gentleman likes to SCOOP
in the contents of young lady's purse.
Yet, as rule, she has no such scruples
for the young mans bill-bag. She will
rake in the entire total of his pile if she
wins. Graphic.
In ancient Greece laws were passed
restricting the number of wedding guests
to thirty. The brides mother had the
special duty of carrying lighted torch
behind the carriage, while the bride
groom's mother received the guests, torch
IN hand, at his door. The bride arrived
furnished with household utensils, and
was presented with sweetmeats when she
reached her bridegroom's house.
CT SAW more intoxicated women at the
Derby than on any former OCCASION"
says Edmund Yates in the London
World, "and not merely the females
with whom inebriety is normal, but
decent-looking women, apparently the
wives and sweethearts of artisans and
small shopkeepers. Perhaps the heat of
the weather upset their calculations as
to the amount of liquor they could take
with impunity."
The New Haven variety of the aesthetic
girl seems to differ from every other
variety. In that collegiate city, accord
ing to local authority, in order to be
aesthetic, "you sit around and be ex-
cesslve, and when any one speaks to
you, you glare at 'em and say, How
quite? You cut off your eyelashes to
look stony, and you wear sort of shroud
while sestheting.' In order to be utter,
you hold your breath until you are ready
to burst and then let it out quick"
"MARRIED life," said Sir Richard
Steele, is always either an insipid, a
vexation, or happy condition; the first
when two people of no genius or taste
for each other marry upon reasonable
settlement (these make up the crowd;
the second, III the marriage of persons
OF quick taste and resentment, brought
together for various reasons, probably
with view to self-advantage, the third
and less frequent, the happy marriage,
where two persons meet and voluntarily
make choice of each other
WHY will ladies persist in wearing
gold dust in their hair at dances asks
writer in the London Truth. It is not
pretty to look at, and it is most unpleas-
ant for their partners, as it flies into their
eyes and pretty near blinds them; in
fact, on some it has the same effect as a
strong pinch of snuff. [ was at ball a
few evenings back, and noticed a good
looking girl acting the part of a wall
flower. "Why don't you ask her to
dance?" I said to an enthusiastic
waltzer: "Oh," replied he, 'she's too
dusty!'
LAURA has once been told that it suits
her style of beauty to be extremely ami
mated; so she is always on the sparkle,
even though Brown is telling her, in
broken accents, that "when he saw the
judge put on the black cap he nearly
tainted away" etc. Whereas, Maud
knows that her great charm lies in GER
tain hungry look of inefable yearning
toward the infinite, and piles it on
Charles, who is assuring her that all he
"got to eat in Spain was fat pork stewed
with garlic and broad beans, and Jolly
scrumptious, too !"-Londoa Punch.
The reckless conceit of some men is
amazing. While lady selects her rib
bons with an amount of care that is
simply indescribable, and indeed i'm
measurable with our present insufficient
means of computation, the average man
will seize upon the first necktie offered to
him with confidence in the wisdom of
his choice which is positively indecent.
A woman, making deep study of what
tints her complexion will bear and what
it will not, heightens her charms when
her decision is made, while man with
blazing red nose sails out complacently
with necktie of pale blue to set ones
teeth on edge withal.
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