Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-30
SOCIETY CHiT.CHAT.

"Longtry is the way Mrs Langtry
pronounces it.
SLOWER time for round dances is the
dictum in st. Louis.
BosToNIANs throw beans instead of rice
after the departing carriage of bride.
The profit on fashionable New York
bonnet is from ~ to al.
The cobweb style 6f pentf,anship Is no
longer fashionable for yotind ladies.
"WHY is young man like kernel OF
corn?" asked a young lady. Because"
said another, abe turnd white when he
pops"
THREE sisters in Butler, Kentucky,
named Phillips, were recently married at
the same alter, in presence Of one hun.
dred guests.
IT was a Cincinnati young lady who,
when she was presented with a pair of
opera glasses, asked how in the world
she was to keep them on.
The women of the land are once more
divided into two classes those who
have sealskin sacques and those who
have not.-BOstOn Globe.
A BALTIMORE paper does not believe
that young lady of refinement is called
upon to take an introduction to gentle
man wearing paper collar.
HrAnp in parlori "Have you quite
recovered from your summer in the
country ?" almost. ! still have oc-
casional touches Of ague, but am very
much better.
The daughter of Texas cattle king
has just returned from Paris, where, she
says, she walked through the Tooratoor-
ais and visited a shottoe, where she saw
the statutes of Physic and Catharine DE
Medical.
SHE wouldn't stand to have tooth
pulled for one million two hundred
thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked all day in tiny boots two sizes
too small for her and thought nothing
of it; but then nobody saw that tooth,
and several saw the boots.
A PROMINENT hosiery man is quoted
by the Constitution as saying: "At-
lanta women have the biggest feet l
have ever tried to encase in silk, isle or
balbriggaD. Why, have had some of
them to go all through the stock, and
protesting not to be suited, inquire for
stockings for their husbands, and under
the pretense of laying in a surprise for
the good man, really measure their own
supplies"
"DoCToR, said lisping fashionable
belle, who had graduated at boarding
school, to gentleman who had been in
troduced 10 her at an evening party
doctor, which do you prefer, tholidity
Of intellect or brilliantly? Thum adj
mire tholidity; but ath for me, ath
Shakethpeare thayth in his Bride of
Abydoth.' prefer tholidity aud bril-
lianthy combined" The doctor sank
into the nearest chair exhausted.
Az Indiana girl, deciding to change
her manner OF life from good to bad. de-
sired that all who knew her might believe
her dead, while she came east under an
assumed name. She wrote a letter say
ing that she was about tJ commit suicide
by drowning III the Ohio River. Then
she left some of her clothes on the bank,
and made her escape i'll the night. But
a railroad conductor recognized her,
vciled aud mufficd though she was, and
her scheme. therefore, did not deceive,
though all search has failed to find her.
THoUGHTLEss people who imagine
that girlhOOd is free from the cares and
anxiety of mature years will be sur
prised to know that the spring time Of
existence also complains of its trials and
petty miserics. MY sister Is called
more Jolly and good naturcd than /, i"
SAID sweet sixteen to her friend, "but
| then she has none of my troubles. Her
hair curls naturally and is never out of
crimp in the worst fog imaginable, aud
when exposed to the sun she burns a
fashionable terra-cOtta color, of tender
shade, with little Or no red in it ~