Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-31
FlRESlDE CHIT CHAT.

BONNET and muff cowslips are worn
with ichen colored suits.
IT is now the fashion among the
French aristocracy to wear black silk I'M
derclothing.
The newest bedsteads have four posts,
cornice, and valances, with ceiling
pieces, and also decorations on the side
wall.
CALL young girl witch and she is
pleased; call an elderly woman an old
witch and her Indignation knows no
bounds.
1T is the fashion in Milan to grow
fruits instead of flowers for houseplants.
Some elegant parlors are almost convert
ed into little orchards.
FASHION at picnic demands that a
girl shall get wet sooner than to hoist an
umbrella that does not match her suit.
Neeo Orleans PScGya1,ae.
"WHAT comes after T?" asked a
teacher of pupil who was learning the
alphabet. He received the bewildering
reply: "You do-to see Liza"
AN American young lady, whose bon
net was as rarupantiy picturesque as her
rufae, has obtained the honor of no
tice by the observant Labouchere.
AN aesthetic Philadelphia young wom-
an, who is in deep mourning, complained
of the brilliant hue of the postage-stamps
which she is obliged to put upon her
heavily bordered envelopes.
A WOMAN in Berks County, Pa. has
been found guilty of being common
scold." The court sentenced her to "a
hours imprisonment and fine of 81, to
which was added further sentence of
10 days in Jail for being ga common
mischief-maker.
The sunfower agony is beginning In
Paris. Nos bellies 3oetites are already
appearing with two or three baby sun
flowers on the left shoulder, and the
Partisan predicts that the aesthetic flower
will soon be witnessed there in the full
bloom of it's glory.
| A WELL-KNOWN musician of New York
was recently invited to an evening party.
AS he was entering the hallway he heard
two or three gilded youths mentioning
that he was expected to "do his best
there that evening, and that it was to
hear him that they had come. He
quietly left.
| A PHILADELPHIA girl was SO thought
less as to tell a friend that at her we'd
ding the names of the doners would not
be displayed with the presents. Of
coufse the friend told. Her wedding
came off the other day, and the pre- sents
were not displayed either. They con-
sisted of 1872 plated sugar spoons and
1880 salt-cellars. Philadelphia NeaOs.
A VERMONT girl corresponded with
stranger in California, made a marriage
engagement, and went across the CONT
nent to get, as she supposed, young
and wealthy husband. She found, in
stead, gray and ugly crank, whose sole
property was leaky hut In lonely cam
yon His neighbors offered to pay her
fare back home, but she declined it, and
has married him.
AT the Garfield tea party held recent
ly in the rotunda of the capitol, at
Washington, there was one beautiful
stranger who excited every ones inter-
est. She was tall and graceful, with
delicate features, belonging to the
Spanish type of beauty. In
quiry revealed the fact that she was the
wife of Mr.. Ream, of the Indian Terri
tory. Mrs. Ream was princess of the
Cherokee Nation, with a musical name
of that dialect, before she conventional
lied it by marriage.
SWELL people in Washington no longer
| go to the dressing-room to remove their
wraps at evening parties, but take their
footmen along, and the stand in the
hall and serve the purposes of clothes
pegs until the party breaks up and the
guests vanish to their homes. row of
footmen in the hall. heaped to tie cock
AIDES on their hats with the furry and
luxuriant opera-cloaks of their employ
ers, is the customary sight at all great
entertainments, and the certain index of
the distinguished character of the
guests.
| The New York correspondent of the
Boston Advertiser tells of q precious
miss who thought she knew enough
about cart " to make her criticisms
worthy of some attention. The other
day lady showed this independent
young thinker picture hanging on the
wall of her drawing room, and Ill most
deliberately decorated frame Don't
you think that pretty picture ?" she
asked. st like the frame very MUCH"
was the reply. "But, my dear. that is
masterpiece of Guido Guido ?"
asked the young critic, " Wasn't he the
man that shot the President ?'
The brass bedstead is becoming quite
common luxury. A few years ago
these bedsteads were ertilely unknown
in America, now one hoast L. New York
exhibits twenty styles. Tney are so
very handsome in appeafauce, are so
light and are so easily moved from one
side of the room to the other, aud, above
all, they are free from ali Impurities, as
no dust collects upon teen, that proba-
bly, in time they will entirely supercede
those of wood. 1t bas ken time to
prove that they do not lta AL to increase of
work in the need of constant polish, but
q wash has recently been Invented which
renders the metal impelvous TO the in
fluence of moisture.