Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-18
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT,

AN extraordinary thing in ladies' bon
nets-an unpowdered Chicaoo
| Cheek.
"TALK of human pride,' says the
Philadelphia News" can anything equal
the haughtiness of a BOARDING house
keeper who had just two applications for
one vacancy?'
A MAN IN Moore County, n. c., whose
first wife was his fathers second wife's
sister, has capped the climax and further
mixed the genealogical tree by wedding
his sons wife's sister.
AN American girl wears a gown with
a flight of embroidered swallows. begin
hing on her left shoulder and ending at
her right foot. More swallows fly about
her parasol. "-LOndO7a Truth.
A WOMAN has suggested that when
men break their hearts it is all the same
as when a lobster breaks one of his
claws, another sprouting Immediately
and growing IN It's place. Hartford
Times.
WITH her cloth coat and waisteoat.
high collar and Stanley scarf, the girl of
the period looks masculine enough to be
elected chairman of a meeting to advo-
cate the right of all women to vote at
the polls.
AN exchange gives this timely hint:
Ladies should be careful in adjusting
the invisible nets, which are all too visi-
bic when, drawn too tightly across the
forehead, they give the appearance of
abhorred wrinkles.
AN English fashion paper speaking
about removing the glove before shak-
ing hands, says that the custom is no
longer obligatory, it being an old
fashion, surviving from the time when
gloves were very loose and removed In a
moment.
AGAIN are the stories told of liquor
sold by mOdistes and milliners to their
lady customers, and of the items on the
bill for 6 trimmings" These stories are
periodical and want to be taken with
more or less salt.-NeV York Mail and
Express.
VISITOR to a baby-show down in
Maine thus sums up his conclusions:
=" For pure unadulterated foolishness
about baby, father can out-foolish all
the rest OF the family-yes, and will
throw IN the grandmother on the moth
er's side, too"
In Boston landladies do not advertise
for "boarders. They simply announce
through the columns of an influential
and respectable journal that it would
afford them great pleasure to cater to the
ldiosyncrasies of d few "remunerative
guests. "-NeaO York Commercial Ad-
UeTtiser.
SOME latter-day philosopher has said:
| "Send me all the dresses q woman has
worn III the course of her life and I Will
write her biography from them" Ger
ta1nlyl A handprint on the back of q
dress would indicate that she waltzed,
| and there'd be lots of similar indications
to be found.-Boston Post.
A FASHION item states that birds
heads, wings, tails and breasts of various
sizes and sorts, will be seen on dresses
as well as bonnets. Nothing is said
about another part of the bird, i. e., the
bill, but no doubt that will continue to
be the most prominent feature of both
dress and bonnet.-NOrristOa Herald.
81 Do" said young man at Color
ado wedding, when the minister asked
if anybody knew why the couple should
not be united. The objector explained
that the bride had promised to marry
him; but that was not considered a sui
fcient reason for stopping the ceremony,
which was concluded amid the tittering
Of the assemblage.
A LADY who had company to tea re-
proved her little son several times
speaking, however, very gently. At
last, out of patience with him, she said,
sharply: Jimmy, if you don't keep
still I'll send you away from the table. !"
Looking at her In surprise he asked:
"DIdn't you forget to use your COM
pany voice then, mother ?"- Detroit
Post.
AT wedding not long since, among
the presents displayed was 81, 900 bank
note from the father of the bride. After
the wedding was over the old gentleman
folded up the note and put it In his vest
pocket. The conduct of that doting
father reminds one very much of the
promises OF reform made by candidates
previous to election as contrasted with
their performances when the election is
over.
LAST week our "devil % managed to
work very rich one, but fortunately it
was noticed before the edition was
worked off. We gave him marriage
notice to set, in which we stated that the
happy couple were at Niagara Falls
where they would spend their honey
moon, but the typo made it read the
happy couple are at Niagara Falls whera
they will spend their money soon. -
Marine City Reporter.
TIE greatest novelty of all in Paris is
the hay hat; not the straw hat, hut hat
made of hay, like a stack, and round
which is entwined garland of fruit. A
hay hat is unadorned with anything
used for trimming to this day-no rib
bons, no Inning, no feather, no lace. i.
handful of currants is liked when not a
fruit garland. And yet hay hat is
pretty-something like a nest on the
head. There are wire structures for the
shape, and it is as tidy as if on these the
hay had been laid on with pitchfork.
The writer has seen one with dove on
it, and round the doves throat neeklet
of stones.