Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-04-26
FiRESIDE CHIT-CHAT.

WRINKLES disfgure woman less than
Miniature. -Dupuy.
DICTATED stockings or stockings hay
Ing separate compartment for each toe,
is the latest exhibition of feminine fool
ishness.
AT house where they do a great deal
OF fancy work and keep white poodle,
an innocent gentleman asked, 6 Who
knit the dog ?"
ONLY about one out of fifteen of the
American girls who go abroad to become
great singers or painters are ever heard
OF after returning home.
IT is not easy to be widow; one must
reassume all the modestv of girlhood,
without being allowed to feign It's ignor-
ance.-Madonoe de Girorolin.
A WRITER in Lippincott's Magazine
says: "Woman is primarily a being
who hstens,' and a graceless and libel
GUS wretch at our elbow says: "Yes,
ata keyhole.'
WOMEN of the world never use harsh
expressions when condemning their
rivals. Like the savage, they hurl ele-
CANT arrows, ornamented with feathers
OF purple and azure, but with poisoned
points. Partisan.
THE New York Mail and Express saws
that photographers patronized by society
have arranged for many sittings of young
ladies who will officiate as bridesmaids
at fashionable weddings. Photographs
of this kind are ''all the rage"
The man who became engaged to a
widow on the way home from his wife's
funeral is outdone by Philadelphia
woman who got up Irritation with the
man who came to inform her of her hus-
bands death, and married him next day.
FASHION has extended to birds. A
New York man has had large orders for
storks. These ugly-looking creatures
are great eaters, and can be taught to
stand on one leg precisely as if they
were aesthetic and were being painted for
panels by young ladies. Strange to say,
a stork on one leg is more too too than
a stork on two legs.
AT a recent New York german the
cream was frozen In horseshoes, with the
nails of a different color to the shoe it.
self. For the first time there was intro
| duced the latest Partisan thing in din
ner favors-large imitation roses In diff
ferent colors, with stems, leaves and all,
filled with frozen ices and other sweets.
| The flower opens SO that its contents can
be eaten with spoon.
CERTAIN New York ladies are accused
of securing st the engravers the cards of
the aristocracy and displaying them os-
tentatiously upon their drawing-room
tables, as if Mrs. So and So had just
been in. The wife of Boston congress
man was once detected at Washington of
writing "with the compliments of"
upon card of Sir Edward Thornton and
attaching it to the handle of bouquet
CLARA BELLE has made discovery.
There SEEMS" she says, ''to be vast
differ ence, to mems eyes, between the
tweedle-dee of an outer dress and the
tweedle-dum of underclothing. I can't
understand why, but it is so. Nine men
out of ten will rush wildly to window
to see woman in flowing white across
the way, and turn away disappointed
when they find that the snowy garment
is wrapper instead of chemise."
Our CONTINENT says: "The exercise
that is best adapted to develop all parts
Of the body IN a natural, healthy man.
FER is domestic labor. It is always at
hand; it can be taken regularly every
day, and there is such variety that almost
every muscle can be exercised" This is
addressed to the girls, and means that
they must bang the piano at least an
hour every morning, and embroider slip
pers for the minister in the afternoon.