Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1881-11-30
CHIT-CHAT.


cost $50, 1000.
AN exchange has been tampering with
an old saw" Mans work is from sun
to sun. Woman's work comes on the
hired girl"
HE woman who will write an anony-
nous love letter, says society critic. is
not worth knowing, certainly not worth
loving.
IHE help problem: A Michigan woman
has gone to England to bring back 800
servant girls.-Er. Which will last
her, according to general run. lust about
eleven days.-Lockport Union.
SOME novel hand screens are made of
satin stretched over wire frame bent
into the shape of large fan. On one
side broad band of flowers is sewn. and
the simulated sticks are painted on satin.
A HANGING wall-pocket is covered
with blue satin gathered in knots. with
two pockets of blue on the outside.
whose ornaments ale cupids flying over
wide brook painted on cream white
silk.
"THAT woman, said one of her friends
OF dame who painted outrageously.
does not seek to hide her age, but to
bury it. And that one," abiding to
another friend passionateiy fond of per
fumes, "adores all extracts except
those from her family Bible"
No." said the charming actress to
her devoted lover, ono, Charlie, I won't
marry you; but you can have the priv
lege of paying for all my little suppers
and carriages after the theater, and you'll
be envied by all the boys. That ought
to satisfy you.-BoStoaa Post.
"OH, yes" said Mrs. Brown, as she
surveyed with evident pleasure her little
parlor sideboard, covered with cold china
and decorated with highly colored titles,
Mr.. B. remarked last night that I was
becoming quite an atheist" and the old
lady's countenance fairly beamed with
delight as her eyes rested on sixteen
cent Japanese teapot. -NeaO0rk CdLl.
The man who was about to marry for
the sixth time, and who replied. "We've
usually sot," when asked by the minis
ter to stand up, has been heard from
again. He recently led No. 7 to the
altar, and when asked for the ring, re-
piled, "Parson, I've hooked onto six of
'em without ring, and I reck' n we kin
git along this time. I'll try and remem-
Der it In future, though. "-Detroit Free
Press.
The assertion made by one or two
fashion writers early in the year has
proved true-namely, that the return to
crinoline was inevitable. Slowly but
surely it is looming up in increasing pro-
portions. The small hustle was long
since replaced bya much larger one, and
now the full crinolette, reaching from
the belt to the foot of the skirt in the
back, is seen, and it is to be feared that
fashion will stop short of nothing but
that hideous rotundity which Leigh
Hunt calls "less an habiliment than an
enclosure.
The wedding gift which President
Grevy presented to bis daughter was an
artistic cabinet, the secret drawers of
which are damasked velvet lined caskets,
and each of them contained surprise.
Among their other contents were two
fans of old lace mounted with carved
ivory, several bracelets, and numerous
other Jewels, which, according to the ira
dition, must beplaced between the Indian
cashmere shawl and the diamond parure.
Neither the trousseau nor the wedding
presents were exhibited. Among the lat
ter was barcarolle composed expressly
for the bride by Comte de Beust.
TAKE the prevailing tone of CONVEX
sation among our young ladies and gen.
tlemen In their intercourse In what is
called good society and it might well be
imagined that there is scarcely thing
in all the world to be serious about, or
that has claim to hearty interest.
Vapid compliments, Unmeaning civilities,
pointless badinage, tedious proclivities
about matters of no importance, uttered
in tones thatindicate that heart and brain
have no part or lot in what is said, and
until the parties separate in mutual
WEAKNESS, these are the component ele-
ments of fashionable jargon.
AT the recent Franco-German ball,
" Mrs. John Jacob Aston wore an i'm
ported dress of baby-blue satin, trimmed
with very deep old point dAngleterre
lace, yellow with age. The train was of
several colors of brocaded satin. The
corsage was cut in deep square. Mrs.
Astor's diamonds consisted of large
necklace, to which was attached mag
nifcent brooch. At the bottom of the
square was d Splash Oh uldlnOuuS LII tuo
shape of Marguerite, and from each
shoulder across the front of the corsage
extended open necklaces. Mrs. Aston
also wore tiara of diamonds, with sew
eral diamond stars in her hair. The dia-
monds consisted of three full sets, and
were much admired for their beauty
A cooUETrE is being who wishes to
please. Amiable being! If you do not
like her, you will have no difficulty III
finding female companion of different
mood. Alas coquettes are but too rare.
TITS career that requires great abilities,
infinite pains, gay and airy spirit lis
the coquette that provides all amuse-
ment; suggests the riding party, plans
the picnic, gives and guesses charades,
acts them. She is the stirring element
amid the heavy congeries of social atoms;
the soul of the house, the salt banquet.
Let anyone pass very agreeable week,
or it may be ten days, under any roof,
and analyze the cause OF his satisfaction,
A I. T. 10 xx7orr row