Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-23
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

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AN Iowa girl said to young gentle
man: "Pa has 40 horses, and only one
me-"
A CITY hall clerk in San Francisco is
said to label his documents "Noah's
Bees, because they are found among the
archives.
FIFTEEN tons of yellow snuff are an
nually sold In Massachusetts to mill
girls, who use it for dipping" or rub
bing the teeth.
A SUMMER correspondent at Mount
| Desert writes of lady's dress that is ''a
| perfect dream" It must be rather lack
| ing IN substance.
VERY hideous do the women look at
the watering places who have artificial
| compilations, especially under the glare
OF that telL-tale electric light.
SOME mean fellow says that ladies who
tie bright satin ribbon bows and stream
ers around their waists must expect to
be taken for packages of prize candy.
AT dinner parties in Newport they
serve frozen-apricot ice in the form Of
cupid, and ships of ice-cream with glace
rigging, the hull of tuttifrutti, all at
anchor on sea of spun sugar.
AN interesting phase of society life is
seen when young man goes to call on
8 young lady and his setter dog follows
him and waits outside, each passer-by
stopping to read the name on the collar
Mr.. AND MRS. HERRICK were separated
by divorce at Corinth, N. Y, eighteen
| years ago. Both married again and
lived long distance apart until lately,
when they met and Immediately eloped
| together.
| IT was the acute ear of London Truth
which heard the lady who wears the
combination of yellow and blue of
| marshmallOw and 90 electric tints de-
scribed as 81 the yolk of egg and light
| ming woman"
How few girls of the period have the
Emery, musical laugh" read about in
books. The present style of loud mer-
r1ment is akin to the noise made by the
revolving pin wheel that has been wet
~. 7. Mail and EIOreSS.
| CODES your wife take much exer-
cise?" asked Henderson of Fogg, whose
family is at the seaside. Exercise p
exclaimed Fogg; 81 should say say so.
She changes her dress six times every
day. "-B08tOaa Transcript.
"WELL, John, next months Septem-
Der, and there's TO be an early fall-that
sealskin sacque, you know" "Oh, no,
wife, don't know. I've vetoed that
sealskin sacque scheme, you see." "Oh,
yes, [ see; but I've passed it over your
veto"
! AT the marriage of coIored couple at
Brunswick. Ca, the other day, the
bride was asked "to love, honor, obey,
ETC., the man whom she held by the
right hand" She quickly replied, 81
will just as long as he treats me right,
and den after dat I'll quit 'im."
AN Allegheny young man took young
lady out IN the river in a boat and
bluntly asked her to marry him. She
refused, and when, few moments later,
| they di8embarked at the base of the mid
die pier of long bridge he got into the
boat alone and rowed away. The maiden
was three hours prisoner.
A GIRL was thrown out of a wagon and
seriously hurt on the day before her
wedding at Media, Pa. Therefore the
ceremonyEwas performed while she lay in
| bed, with the bridesmaids grouped
around, and as many of the guests in the
room as it would hold. AS gratifca-
"
wore the bridal costume.
SUN-BURNT girls are fashionable this
season. "The dainty belle of the Fifth
Avenue ballroom" says Andrews
American Queen, =" sits calmly on some
rock by the sea, volume of Goethe in
her lap, her hat and parasoi beside her,
| gloveless, suffering the intense rays of
the sun to scorch and burn her delicate
skin deep-red, and then brown, just
for the sake of being in the fashion"
A PHILADELPHIA father objected to his
daughters young man, and ordered him
''not to hang around any more, or he'd
turn the dog loose" The girls heart
was broken, and, bent on vengeance,
she poured quantity of arsenic into a
glass Of milk, and left it for her parent
to drink. But the scheme was fortunate
~ detected, and the intended victim
threatened to have the young lady locked
up in an insane asylum. In the eensa-
ton which all this is creating the young
man has dropped into oblivion.
AT Saratoga, writes a correspondent,
the display is superb. The women
dress more than ever, and wear more dia
monds. Some of them must devote their
entire time to putting on and taking off
clothes. Many of them wear not less
than eight costumes every twenty-four
hours. When I think what throes the
average woman suffers in the process
of robing and disrobing, 1 marvel at
their endurance. They yield to the
strain at last. am convinced that a
number of the cases of nervous prostra-
ton are ascribable to the long-continued
agony of the toilet.
The expediency of removing the por-
trait of the first husband to the garnet
before the second comes into the
house is soundly demonstrated by the
experience Qfan Indiana gentleman, who
this last week came back with his bride
to her house at the end of the wedding
journey. In the parlor hung the por-
trait of her first love. The sight Of the
familiar face so touched her that she
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