Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-07-26
SOCIETY ChlT-CHAT.

WHAT makes life dreary is the want
of motive, means a philosopher who
probably was put off the train and had
to walk home.
The Arkansas Travellers aged colored
person says: "My idea o, de better
world is whar dar is a election goin' on
all de time, case den De white folks is
alters perlite.
AT the seashore, as usual, one wave
from woman's handkerchief will con-
tinue to attract more attention than hun
dreds of waves from the ocean. Ph6L0-
delphio Chronicle Herald.
oDosT love me, Clarice?'' cave,
truly, Gerald! fairly dote on butter
ed beete, bat [ will forsake them and
cling TO thee and peach cream" Gerald
rested content.-AndreaUs american
Queen.
A FASHION journal says that the
latess caprice of New York bellies is to
suspend beautifully painted miniature
tambourine by ribbons from the neck.
A satin bag upon the underside contains
the handkerchief.
A YOUNG girl being asked recently as
she returned from the circulating IL
brary with the last new novel, if she had
read Shakespeare, tossed her pretty head
and answered: Shakespeare? Of
course / have, [ read that when it first
came out.
THE most astonished man the clerk of
the O'Brien County (Iowa) court ever
saw was one who recently applied for a
marriage license and nearly went crazy
when he found that just twenty-four
hours before another fellow had secured
license to marry the same girl.
Now is the time when the woman at
the country hotel retires early on Sun
day morning and energies thence about
1870 dressed like morning-glory, and
hunts up her husband, and finds him on
the back piazza IN his slippers, reading
the papers, and smoking. And she
walketh him off to church, and that's
what's unsetting religion in the souls of
our citizens.
AN East Boston father discovered that
his daughter, who has a soul for TO-
nance, proposed to elope, and he didn't
sit up with bulldog and shotgun to
waylay the fugitives. Oh, no! He
went to his daughter and told her he de-
sired her to marry a young man, naming
her lover, and he would set him up in a
good-paying grocery business; and the
young lady at once declared that she'd
rather die than marry any man just TO
please her father.
On her wedding day, an Indian girl
wrote something, sealed it In an en-
velope, and gave it to an intimate friend.
IF I am alive six months from now, ;"
she said, give this back to me unopened.
If am dead, read it" On the day that
the half year expired the bride COM
mitted suicide, and the enclosed was
found to be statement that she expect
ed no Joy from the marriage, but was
willing to give it a trial before deciding
to take her own life.
A YOUNG lady, handsome brunette,
attracted considerable attention recently
by driving through Central Park, New
York, IN a little gold colored phaeton.
She was dressed in a striking costume
of '<Pharoah" red satin, draped with
black Spanish lace, with bright glimpses
of the unveiled satin showing here
and there on the bodice and upper por-
ton of the overdress. Attached TO the
phaetOn was an immense canopy of red
satin, lined with ''sunset" brocade and
edged with deep ruffle of yellow ticelle
lace. The lady wore an Alsatian peas
ants hat of immense brim and high,
towering crown, covered with red and
gold-colored feathers, laid one over the
other alternately. Long Mosquetaire
driving gloves of deep yellow were
drawn on over the closed red satin
sleeves, and at her throat was pinned a
bunch of yellow cowslips.
THERE was a time when Jim Keene
was very anxious to make shine in So
ciety, but his wife had no taste for it.
He bought her veIvets and diamonds.
but they did not tempt her. She put
them all away and sat down In her wrap
per to read. Mrs. Keene was a Miss
Dangerfeld, of Virginia. The Danger
fields are of the F. T. VS.. They are a
branch of the Lee family, and hold their
heads very high. But they never did
care for dress, and preferred to associate
only with themselves rather than with
the vulgar herd. Keene was very much
disappointed by his wife's stand, for be
had social ambitions, ard would. no
doubt, have been leading figure in So
ciety had she seconded his views. He
waited patiently until his daughter
should be ready to "come OUT" but
again he was disappointed. She is IL
years old now, and exactly like her
mother in her tastes. As far as the
ladies of the Keene family are concerned,
they would be as happy among the
mountains of Virginia on 81, 800 year
as they are at Newport on unlimited
millions. So Keene turns to Wall Street
for all his excitement, while Gould, who
has no social ambitions, finds his great
est amusement IN the bosom of his fam
ily.-INeaC York Letter,