Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-01-25
FlRESIDE CHIT-CHAT.
BOSTON bel les bang banioes.

lar, every maiden likes to have her beau
very close.
1T is claimed that Boston women look
younger at 40 than Chicago women do
at 30. Beans.
FLoRAL-YoKEs, as large as an ox-yoke,
are suspended before mirrors or between
the doors at neutrality-suspicious..
SOMEBODY heard a Boston girl say:
"I think he looked like perfect raving
angel in his uniform! He was awful
heavenly
The indications are that the rapid
style of waltzing will hold good as most
fashionable, there being nothing newer
In the way of steps than the " Cripple, :"
with its sidewise slides.
The average lady of society requires
all day to stitch in her ruffies and pre-
pare Ter crimps, and just now she is
kept busy with the numerous entertain
ments preparatory to the Lenten season.
1T was the wife of President Madison
who gave young woman the famous adj
vice: "Give your appearance careful
and serious thought in your dressing
room, and forget it elsewhere"
Two well-dressed ladies we're exam
lining statue of Andromheda, labeled
Executed in terra-cotta. Saws one,
"Where is that ?" CT am sure 7 don't
know" replied the other, "but I pity
the poor girl, wherever it was. "-QuiS.
/ SHE went into q store to buy some
toilet soap, and when the clerk was ex-
patiating on its merits, about made up
her mind to purchase; but when he said
cit would keep off chaps, sheremarked
she didn't want that kind. Cambridge
Tribune.
A BOY who had been watching through
a keyhole the antics of q couple of low
ers, ran down into the kitchen to an
nounce his discovery to his mother.
"Oh, It's such fun - he exclaimed.
"What's such fun ?" asked the old lady.
"Why, to see sister Mollie and Mr..
Fipps play lunatic asylum
LATEST freak of fashion: The rule
now is for every lady to have her age in
dicted on her hat brim. Every inch of
width represents three years. A ten inch
brim means that the lady is thirty years
old; twenty inch brim shows that she
is sixty, and SO on. 1t is charming
conceit. philadelphia Nea0s.
AN observer of society's whims asks if
anybody ever arrived first at fashion
able party, and calls attention to the OBJ
vious fact that to do so would cause a
lady to have Mysteries. AS some snobs
are trying to set the fashion of arriving
late at dinners, he asks that general eff
fort may be made to make social punctu-
atty respectable.
Rev. DIR. ARMITAGE, of New York, in
a sermon lately, said: 'Instead of max
ing them more kindly, more unselfsh
and more prayerful, the approach of gray
hairs often makes men more peevish,
cross and disagreeable. A great many
people will question this statement on
the ground of their own personal ex-
perience.
"YBs," he said to his confidential
friend, " am engaged to her, and I
suppose [ ought to be very happy; but
somehow [ am worried about former
possible attachment of hers. There's
that internal BLACKBOARD, Jones, who
"Why, bless my soul You stupid fell
| low, she hates him like poison" eyes.
yes, [ know-that's what troubles me.
| She hates him too bitterly not to have
loved him once. San Francisco
| Wasp.
Two European ladies enjoy the dis
tinction of a railway carriage of their
very own. One is the Baroness Roths-
childs, who has a perfect boudoir on
wheels, in which she can enjoy the COM
forts of home while flying at express
speed; the other is Mrs. j. W. Mackay,
who, according to a Paris paper, has a
carriage which is like palace in it's
| fairy appointments and decorations, cost
ing $50, 900, besides an annual tax of
| So, 900 for keeping it In running order,
and large additional charge for the cost
of transportation.
SIX yards of silk, American width,
makes a skirt, and few ounces of en-
broidery silk may make it beautiful,
quadruple it's durability and value, and
produce a garment that most women
would cherish for life. Less than ten or
| twelve yards of silk do not make dress
skirt with ''shirrs or hounces,'' and
when it is made it is only presentable for
few months. So it is as a dress re-
former that l urge women to stop
making frills and quilts, and substitute
leaves and flowers as dress decorations.
Jane Grey SaUisshelna.
A WOMAN of good form is only spoiled
by the corset. The curves of the body
are all outward curves. one arising out
of the other. But the chief curves of
the corset are inward curves, which are
not only incorrect, but are the source of
grave damage in COMPRISING unnatural
ly the organs of the body. Another OBJ
lection to the corset is the homes, whose
rigidity obscures that ripping move
ment of the body, which is one of its
chief beauties. AS far as this is con-
cerned, the body might as well be in
cased in cast iron. Another objection is
in the hard cross line of the bust, which
distinctly shows, as do often the laces
under tightly-ftting dress.-Frona
Fashion article.
In London society the dancers appear
to be divided into classes known as
rockaways," choppers, chandelier
craWlers. and the disciples of t,.Ois-