Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-06
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

Wien IL would do her some good.
BEN JOHNSON said GA woman, the
more curious she is about her face, is
commonly the more careless about her
house."
A YOUNG man named Farquhar, famed
III the London clubs for his wit and
beauty, has determined to go on the
stage, being encouraged thereto by the
success of Mrs. Langtry.
A WOMAN at Elgin, ILL.,, preferred a
pair OF diamond earrings to q trip
around the world. A trip to church
with pair Of $500 sinners is good
enough for most any female.
| A WRITER for an English society and
fashion journal says that the word
"smart" is taking the place of the words
stony" and "swell " with fashionable
people who make use of racy idioms.
IHE fashion of painting the veins with
blue paste is gaining favor in London.
Grating in blue blood, aristocracy by
transmission, patricianism by absorpEion
PIebelan arteries will grow blue with
the very ldea.-ChacGgo Inter- Ocean.
| TEACKERAY once said: "Almost all
women will give a sympathizing hearing
old, they grow young again in that con-
versation, and renew their own early
time. Men are not quite so generous. !"
| VICTOR HUGO says: "God made the
finger OF woman, and while he slept the
devil awoke and put nail on the end of
1T. Victor may be laboring under a
deluslon-and we think he is, but it is
certain that man made the pins she
wears about her waist.
HE Nebraska young man who broke
the leg OF rival in combat over a girl
whom both were encouraged to love
| does not feel that he was the victor after
ali, since she has taken to de7otedly
nursing the invalid, and has promised
to marry him as soon as he can walk to
church.
A NEWTON COUNTY, Georgia. widower,
rode up to the gate of handsome wild
ow and asked for match to light his
pipe. The lady gave him the desired
article, when he asked: "Did you ever
think of coming to my house to live? -
"No," she said; "1f [ had it would have
done me no good" In ten days they
were man and wife.
The idea of the moment at English
weddings is to surround the bride with
bridesmaids in colored dresses. The
bride, for instance, wears a dress of
white MORE, and her maids, half dozen
OF them, costumes of ruby tint. The
contrast is very brilliant, and the bride
stands out among her bevy of brides
maids, particularly if she is pretty, like
an angel of light.
A FOREIGN paper says that in Ger
many the sofa is the seat of honor and
to omit offering it's privileges to an in
vited guest is to condemn ones self as
being Ignorant of theusages of polite So
c1ety. But a gentleman may not sit
upon the sofa; to take seat there unin.
vlted is very presumptuous; and to ask
even an intimate acquaintance to sit be.
eide her on that sacred resting place
would be highly indecorous in young
lady.
NEWPORT Dragged about reignine
bell who gloried in the possession Of
ninety-One dresses, diamonds, wigs, rigs
and turnouts, valued at $4,000 in all
Saratoga can beat Newport, Long
Branch, Coney Island, and all the RESI-
put together, so screeches the Sara.
togian, as Mrs. M. Fraley, wife of the
st. Louis banker, is at Congress Hall
with over 80 dresses, and has diamonds
rubles, etcv in sets to match, the dia
monds alone far surprising in value the
boosted value of Newport. bellies com.
plete outfit. All hail to Shoddy!
A HATEFUL Saratoga letter says
"The homely women here surpass al
outside rivals by the dead weight of theil
| 1CrI1T J..
them makes the sight SO much more ag-
graVating. In no other place can one
see SO much shapeless and shaking
mountains Of flesh girded into a carica.
ture outline of Paris dress, and these
fat women parade the porches and sweep
through the parlors as complacently as
any of their bony rivals. They come os.
tensibly to drink of the waters, which
are supposed to reduce the bulk and re.
lleye what the handbook of the springs
calls 'engorged circulation.
81 REMEMBER well, says an old lady,
the first time beau accompanied me
home. My cousin, who was older than
l, and had some experience, notified me
that he was certainly going to ask me to
let him see me home from church, and
oA1o PuU A0 LII Si0ao uSIIO1. NoboOAy
had ever gone home with me before, and
[ thought, what shall say if he
should ask me?' He surely will! said
my cousin. 90 Lordyp says I, then
what shall answer 2 why, said she,
when he says, '' Mehala, shall I have
the honor of seeing you home?" you just
say, ''you can use your own pleasure,
sir" But thought that would be too
bad, though it was the way she did. I
didn't want to seem so independent O
how I was troubled! Sure enough, he
did ask me. I mumbled something OF
an answer, but what it was L don't know
to this day. Anyhow he took me home
from church"
A Mountain Hermit.