Brookings County sentinel. (Brookings, Dakota [S.D.]) 1882-1890, 1882-11-23
SOCIETY cHlT-cHAT.

THERE is 0 woman q little distance
from Boston who has been separated
from six husbands by divorce.
Ar recent wedding in New York q
march composed by the bridegroom es-
pecially for the occasion was played.
"AHl" moaned Q widow recently be-
reaved, "what q misfortunel / know
what kind Of husband I have lost, but
how can know what kind Of husband
his successor will be
ANEW YORK belle was given S125, 900
for the purchase of q wedding trousseau
and she is having II all made in this
country. Her friends are dreadfully
mortified. Star.
THE New York Graphic says: "The
beauty Of Miss JEANNE Chamberlain, Of
Chicago, the Rose of the West as she
is called in England, still continues to
call forth o more than ordinary amount
Of British admiration.
A WEDDING at Owensboro, KY, was
interrupted by the mother Of the pros.
pective groom appearing on the scene
and claiming and carrying of the furni-
ture with which the couple intended 60
ing to housekeeping.
A MONTANA woman sued for divorce
because her husband kissed the servant
girl. '.You want this man punished p
asked the Judge. 81 do" said she.
"Then," said the Judge, "I shall not
divorce you from him."
ABout this time the good wife begins
to knock down little change daily from
the market money TO enable her to pre-
sent her husband with an impracticable
pocketbook or impossible cigar case at
Christmas. - Boston Commercial BM
letin.
EVERY lady should be taught TO make
her own dresses, says western exchange.
We indorse the idea. Not only would
it make female attire cheaper, but it
might prevent some married men from
eloping with pretty seamstresses. -
Philadelphia Chronicle.
ONE of the most beautiful of the
Christmas cards TO be put forth this
year was designed by the wife OF we'll
known bank president. She received
for it $500, which she promptly gave TO
the church Of which she is member. -
N. Y. Mail and Express.
THERE are tricks in all trades, and
one Just discovered is that ambitious
pride's parents now hire presents which
are exhibited with the bridal gifts and
have attached the cards of fictitious FASH
ionables. People who resort to this
method do not know who their grand
mothers were.
NINE girls Of Wheeling took some
pictures OF actresses in stage costumes
to photographer, and posed as nearly
az possible in the same attitudes and
raiment. The portraits somehow got
into circulation in society, and the earn.
est efforts of the girls parents have
failed to gather the cards in for destruc-
ton.
The coming employment Office: "You
say you will give me $40 q week to do
your housework. Have you wife ?"
"Yes." "Any children ?" "No. "
"Will you let me have my gentlemen
company in the parlor?" Certainly"
"And make me lots of nice presents?'
al can't promise that" "Then / won't
come, you stuck-up old curmudgeon."
A CINCINNATI society reporter has
mysteriously disappeared, and foul play
Is suspected although it is possible that
he is hiding somewhere in the Rocky
Mountains, as he was well supplied with
railroad passes. His last article was an
account Of the marriage Of pork-pack-
er's daughter, in which report he used
the term "swell-wedding." 1t came out
in the papers "swill wedding. Phil.
NeVs.
THE person who does the Jenkins for
the Cincinnati Enquirer, writes from
New York that Ladies are "laying aside
gloves this winter, just as gentlemen
are being forced to put them on again,
AZ a part of evening dress. The lady who
IL said to have introduced this fashion
sis Mrs. McCreery, handsome Cali
fornian, who has resided for nearly tif-
teen years in London and Paris, and who
is now here on visit. She appeard in
a proscenium box at the opera a few
nights in a marvellous costume of cardi.
nal red and cream color, with Niagaras
of delicate lace overtiowing the front,
and no gloves whatever, either on her
hand or carried in them"
THERE is story of an imperial high
ness waltzing thrice in the same even
ing with an English lady at the court in
Berlin. She naturally felt, and frankly
confessed, herself highly fsttered by
the compliment. 81 did not intend it
as compliment" was the answer.
"Then," said the lady, somewhat upset,
"your highness must be very fond OF
dancing" 81 detest dancing" was the
still unsatisfactory response. Unde-
tered by her ill success, our fair Eng
lishwoman still prosecuted her inquiries.
"What, then, may l ask, can be your
imperial highness' motive for dancing p
/" Madame" was the exalted personage's
curt reply, :" l dance to perspirel"
Most Of the interesting people here
are Bohemians with balance at their
bankers; for the delicious hint of Bo-
hemianism in everybody in Washington
makes it the fascinating place it is. One
lady-a widow, Of course-whose charms
of manner and person have got her in
vited everywhere, delights in the little
mystery surrounding her antecedents,
and at the houses Of foreign ministers
and on the most distinguished occasions
let's everybody know that she is not pre-
pared to give an account of herself.
"Some people say" she says in the
softest and best-bred voice in the world,
"that I was a dressmaker because ]
make dresses so beautifully, and some
say was circus rider because.I ride SO
well." She is doubtless aware Of the fact
that she is quite as good as her neigh
bors, and that they dare not question
her.-NeU York World.