Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-06-14
SOCIETY CEIT-CHAT.

| talk of having regular '' Jumbo time. -
A New YORKER will make dimple in
your cheek for thirty cents and warrant
it to stand in any climate for six weeks.
Boston ladies smoke cigarettes at their
| Greek and Sanscrit tea-parties, and adj
dress each other as dear fellow" and
cold boy"
NOTHING makes a woman crazier than
to plant mignonette, and when it comes
up, to ascertain that the seedman put
cabbage seed into the wrong envelope
Puck.
MISS JANE CHAMBERLAIN, of New
York, now sojourning in Europe, is pro-
| nounced the most beautiful American
maiden who has yet appeared at the Eng
lish court.
THE German empress, who was recent
ly on visit to her daughter at Baden
Baden, sent one of her ladies in waiting
the other day to Ems to greet the En-
press Eugene, and present her with a
handsome bouquet of violets.
Mrs. LAURA ANDREWS, st. Louis
lady who appeared in court arrayed 4" in
an elegant dress of brown silk and a
more elegant polonaise of light brown
| brocaded silk" was sentenced to four
months In jail for stealing Mrs. Collins
poodle dog.
That was an unpleasant child to let
loose IN society who wanted her mother,
| a lady sensitive on account of her exces-
| slve obesity, to go down on all tours one
| evening while the parlors were full of
| company, in order that her doll might
take her for Jumbo.
HE meanest church organist lives in
Philadelphia. He is all bent with age.
and the other day, at the wedding of an
| antique Philadelphia belle whom he
knew many years before, he astonished
every body by playing fantasia on the
| air ''When You and Were Young"
A "vIsIToR writes to the New York
| Sun to complain of American women for
biting their lips and comforting their
faces on the streets. It is point well
made; some scowl, some corrugate the
| forehead as if in distress, some twist
mouths or open them and put things in
them.
Mrs. FAIR during the war fed hun
dreds, if not thousands, Of hungry boys
in blue as they passed through New York
| city. She was well off then; she is poor
now. The other day the house commit
tee on war claims agreed to give her ST.
900 as partial return for her generous
expenditures.
A NEW departure has been made in the
attire of ballroom walters in London.
An association has been started, all the
members of which adopt neat livery of
black with gilt buttons, and knee
breeches with silk stockings. Dressed
thus the walters will not be mistaken for
honored guests.
The last fashion in menus is a horn
shaped bag in paper, on which is written
the name; from the inside peep out three
rosebuds. AS an invitation to dinner,
little cards are sent with tiny gilt table
engraved upon them; should the invite
| be for tea, teapot stands on the table;
underneath merely appears the date and
signature.
The pastor of church at Patterson,
New Jersey, recently gave "pulpit
notice" relating to himself. He contra
dicted report that he was going to be
married, and limited very strongly that
with his limited salary such thing
would be impossible. There was sad
ness among the women of the congrega-
ton with manageable daughters.
A NEW notion: Engaged Sister Cen
gagged to thing with cheques-that is
| to say, checks that is to say, with both)
-"Oh, how nice ! The Provident Low
ers' Mutual Assurance Association Qim-
tied, guarding all accide1ts-and see
Ii he dies, or gets broken all to pieces,
or anything, you get-Oh, how jolly 70
Engaged Young Man" And if the girl s
looks fall off, and all that, does it say
anything-?" Chorus: The idea Is
it likely ?"
A LONDON society paper announces
| that "Mrs. John L. Lord, described as
the wealthiest American lady in London,
| is entering upon the season with great
flourish of trumpets. She and her
daughter were presented at the drawing
room by Lady Peterborough, and prep
arations are being made on gigantic
scale for her forthcoming dance, which
is to be one of the events of May. Toe
garden at the back is to be covered over
with an enormous marquee"
IT is usual, when an unmarried gen.
tleman is sent to Washington to repre-
sent foreign government, to predict
that he will speedy fall victim to some
pretty American girl. Mr.. De Bildt, Of
| the Swedish Legation, some time ago
wagered ], ZOO cigars with Baron Mayr,
who was then the Austrian minister and
unmarried, that he would marry before
he left Washington. The baron nGst
have liked cigars better than wife, for
he won and received the wager from Mr.
De Bifdt.
In the attire of Partisan women, stripes
have ousted plaids and checks. The
stripes may either be simple or COM
posite-of one color or of many colors. In
this matter of colors it is further to be
remarked that the ladies now display
perfect craze for yellow, in spite of the
symboiical insignifcation- infdeity =
attached to that hue in France. At the
Longchamps races the ladies' hats and
dresses displayed every imaginable
shade of yellow-gold, saffron, wall
flower, buttercup, canary, crocus, and
harvest-moon.