Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-19
SOCIETY CHIT CHAT,

HE widow of a Californian who was
once millionaire is now a chambermaid
at Rockaway Beach hotel.
AN Englishman sent young girl a
New Years card with these words upon
it: "Golden sunshine will be YOURS at
last. A jury has just compelled him to
pay her $4,000 for breach of promise,
and the prophecy is fulfilled.
SUBSTITUTION: It was at q party.
Miss Angelina had been persuaded to
preside at the piano. 'FThere," said
Seraphina, as Angelina took up piece
of music, "she has taken tune from
the rack, and now she will put us all on
it."
A YooNG lady at Newport recently,
slipped upon the waxed floor of the
dancing hall, got herself tangled up in
falling and broke her arm. She was
carried home and if she were a martyr,
and all Newport had been sending her
flowers and notes of coincidence.
PROBABLY the most delicate question
of etiquette on record is that which has
just arisen at Salt Lake City out of the
death of the original wife of the late
Brigham Young. The point is Just low
much black the surviving widows shall
wear and how long they should mourn.
CARL SoHURz grew bitter in his Phi
Beta Kappa address at Harvard "The
great war that education has to carry on
IN society, he said, els a war against
the brutal self-assertion of vulgar wealth,
with no quarter for the pleasure hunting
idler and merciless contempt and ridicule
for the sno b.
AT fair of the Congregational Church
at Palestine, Texas, forty young women
gave an exhibition drill with fans, show
ing how gracefully and bewitchingly
these articles can be used. Then tbe
fans were sold by auction, the prices de-
pending on the popularity Of it's con-
trlbutor, the whole profit reaching three
hundred and fifty dollars.
AT Cedar Rapids a young man be-
came angry at a girl to whom he was
paying attention, when he caught her
around the neck, and, holding her firm
ly, deliberately embedded his teeth in
her right cheek. The wound was most
painful one, and ultimately resulted in
blood-poisoning which has given the
young lady very sore face, and kept
her under the doctors care ever since.
THE Boston Traveller relates that a
young lady of that city one of the "es-
thetics," lately visiting decorative art
room, took occasion to remark upon the
way things are done in "E-O-A" Gowa),.
accenting the last syllable, and pro-
bouncing the "a 4" as IN day. The per-
son addressed did not understand, until
explanation followed, what place was
meant, though she herself pronounced it
E-owa, accenting the first syllable.
ONE of the greatest bellies of the re-
cent cadet hop at West Point was Miss
May Anterior, of Boston, who was liter
ally laden with glittering decorations,
favOrs of which she had been the recip-
lent during the German. Among them
were sunhowers, fans, cigarette cases,
figs, knapsacks, and what the girls cher
ish most of all-cadet buttons. The
button collecting craze was carried to
such an extent that some of the hand
soonest cadets had to be taken from the
ballroom, being literally without but
ton left on their clothes. They looked
worse chan an o3elisk after a reic-hun-
ter's raid.
"WEAT will your wife wear at the
ball, governor p" said the millineryman
of society paper to one of our ex-
governors recently, at a fashionable
watering-place. e'My wife is not going
to to the ball, sir" Impossible, gov
ernor. have telegraphed her name to
my papar as among the guests. Now
(appealing), what would your wife wear
if she was going?" ''Sir," replied the
ex-governor, In his austerest manner. as
he turned on his heel, F'since you have
sent my wife to the ball, dress her your
self" And sure enough there was an
elaborate toilet " described next morn
ing.
AT the fashionable hotel at Old Point
Comfort, the ether day, beautiful
young laaY made the unfortunate mis-
take of entering the dining-room I'M
chaperoned. AS no one speaks to an
other there without an introduction. she
was unnotieed, and some wiseacre COS
sip started the story that she was the
wife of winchester of a New York
hostelry. Beautiful as she was, all ad--
miration' Instantly died away, and, in the
eyes of many, she became a most inner
feet creature. Judge of the general dis
tress and modification when, the day be-
fore her departure, her husband a
prominent naval officer, for whom she
had been waiting, returned from China.
The busy7oodies too late found that she
was an heiress, and that her father. q re-
tired annay officer Of high rank. was an
invalid GpcO0. at the same hotel.