Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-09-20
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT,


A YOUNG widow pines awhile and then
spruces. R0iLaOay Journal.
Love is never lost. IF not recipro-
Gated, it will flow back and soften and
purify the art.-IrUing.
A LATE fashionable freak is to have a
silver horseshoe fastened on the arm at
the meeting of a long tan glove with a
short sleeve.
QUAINT little smelling bottles are now
seen dangling from the waist belt of the
girl of the period, and now she can faint
whenever opportunity offers.
HERE is a terrible warming: A we'll
known leader of fashion at Newport was
not asked to one of the recent dinners
because she enameIs her face,
PALMLsTRY, one of the prevailing
crazes In English society, is, it appears,
a black art, an unrepealed act of parlia-
ment, imposing on all who practice it the
penalties OF scourging, cropped ears and
confinement in the pillory.
ENGLIsHwoMEN of the lower orders
have no distinctive dress, not even the
neat cap and jacket of the French peas
antry; and, as they start devoid of taste,
and with little power of improving it, the
!
ETC., etc., are not surprising. London
| Queen.
F." HAVE seen enough during the sum-
mer, +" remarks returned Chicago mer-
chant, who has been SUMMER esorting
at the seashore, "to convince me of one
thing, and that is that the average Amer
lean man and woman, if they have lit
tie money and good chance, have in
finite capacity for making tt emselves RI
! diculous."
SAYS an English girl: 'English
women can't hold candle to French
women in the matter of flirting. It
seems to come naturally to them. Even
a French spinster has a sort of air about
her as though she had no idea of saying
goodbye to youth and fun and liveli-
ness, as an English old maid too often
| does"
The New York Sun says that I" the
seductions which fashionable society
can offer, are sure to affect people who
have not acquired an actual distaste for
polite social pleasures. Sometimes they
turn mems heads, and oftener still
women's." It's not the still ones whose
heads it is apt to turn so much as the
chattering ones.
A NEVADA girl had very perceptible
moustache, and on the morning of her
wedding day she undertook to remove It
with caust1c preparation. Her lip was
burned to such black and swelling
condition that she refused to show her
self to the guests. AS the bridegroom
would not consent to a postponment,
the ceremony was performed privately,
and the company consoled themselves
with & dinner. The bride started on her
honeymoon journey closely yelled, and
unkissed by her friends.
The girl raised with no profession or
trade feels that unless she catches hus-
band while her young beauty lasts, she
will be an old maid and failure. The
way to give her fair chance is to give
her larger lite, and to let her feel that,
though good marriage may be the
highest estate of woman, bad one is
her greatest curse, and that she need
never marry for home. If the gentle
men who go about marrying two Or three
wives year had women of this kind to
deal with it would be better for them
and for society. Baltimore american.
A CORRESPONDENT says that at the last
| garden party of the Grand Union at
Saratoga, a Philadelphia lady, Mrs.
Albert FL. Moore, bore off the palm for
expepsiveness in dress. She wore rose
point lace overdress, including hustle
| and skirt, also point lace stockings. the
whole valued at $40, 900. With these she
wore diamonds in such profllsion that
their value was variously estimated at
from $4O,0 to $1,000 She was q
young good-looking matron, and her
handsome husband kept her close on his
arm, while detective in citizens dress
followed step in the rear. Providence
| Press.
AN English statistician says that no
less than 1000 swans skins are annual
| ly imported into London alone for the
exclusive manufacture of the 'puffs +"
used for the purpose of laying powder
| to the face. Every swans skin makes
about sixty puffs, which would make an
annual consumption of 100000 puffs.
Is, then, the natural Wilderness of the
English skin myth? The same Eng
hsh statistician says that tons of rice and
wheat powder are consumed annually In
England, aud he regrets the waste of SO
much rice and wheat, which might be
better used to feed the starving. -Lady's
Pictorial World.
PEOPLE who think the waltz immoral
will be interested to hear that patent
irreproachable waltzer" has been in
vented. It consists of a stout frame of
light wood of about five feet in height,
and remotely resembling an old-fash-
Toned kite-frame. At the top of the
frame is a padded crest " for a lady's
hand, and at about the middle Of the
frame is iointed arm, capable of being
placed around young lady's waist and
securely fastened in that position with
thumb-scre The frame has two feet,
furnished with casters, each one of
which has universal joint. SO that it
can turn freely in any direction. The
whole affair weighs only five pounds, and
it is made to fold together, SO that lady
can carry it in her hand, either with or
without shawl-strap.