Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-08-30
SOCIETY CHlT-CHAT.

chemists say that it will soon embltter
their lives.
SAYS q lady: 1.-The finest lullabys
that have ever been sung and app!auded
have been heard from maids of forty,
who had no fear that the baby would
wake and squall.
EMMA VoLLER, of Red Bluff, CAL,
was so mortified by her sweetheart's ap-
pearance as an aesthetic at an entertain
ment that her mind became disordered,
and she died after suffering intense men
tai agony.
The thing now for city girls rusticat-
ing in the country is to whittle miniature
hay-racks out of white wood and send
them to their admirers in town. This
probably signifies: tCome and make
hay while the sun Shines.
A MARRIAGE at Dover, N. H., was of
a couple who plighted troth twenty
years ago. He had been after his for
tune in Colorado gold mines, and she
has been teaching school at Dover, love-
letters going to and fro all the time.
IT isn't often that a couple is married
in three languages, but at wedding in
Cleveland, Ohio, one day lately, the
justice performed the ceremony in Eng
lish and German, the bride responded
IN Bohemian and the groom answered In
German.
A YOUNG lady having set her cap for
a rather large specimen of the opposite
sex and having failed to win him, was
telling her sorrows to a couple of her
confdants when one of them comforted
+,
Mollie, there are as good fish in the sea
as ever was caught" Mollle knows
that replied her little brother, "but
she wants whale. - Exchange.
He sat at her feet in quiet peace He
looked into her face and said softly:
" All, dear, I could sit here forever"
"Could you, love?' answered she.
eyes, sweet" "You are right sure you
could, darling" CT know it, my own. :"
every well, then, you sit there, for I
have an engagement to go out with young
MIR. Fitzspooner, and [ won't be back
this evening. Turn down the gas and
fasten the night latch when you go
away"
A NOVEL illustration of enterprise in
political affairs was the inducement held
out to attract crowd at political meet
ing held by democrats in Concord, n.
c., recently. The feature of the oc-
casion was two marriages, which were to
take place In "Poplar Tent" The
brides elect were two pretty young girls
of the county, and the grooms two
brawny- chested young well-to-do farm
ers. The brides were given away by
one of the democratic speakers.
The secret of Mrs. Langtry's beauty is
out, for the lady recently told an Ameri-
can interviewer that she was the only
girl in a family of seven children, and
shared the out-of-door sports of six stout
brothers. Noting this, the New York
Hour remarks: "Most American ladies
whose beauty has survived their Both
birthday can tell similar stories, and SO
a few red-cheeked, bright-eyed women,
who, though past three-score, are daily
getting more enjoyment and solid COM
fort out of life, at home and abroad, than
their over-indulged daughters can ever
hope to do.
SHE was a saucy little mink and had
been reading book of quotations. The
following evening, when a silly swell
called upon her, she said: "Have you
ever been Rugged by Fortune?" The
young man colored up, and with evident
embarrassment replied: CT never met
the young lady. Why do you ask ?"
His charmer said nothing, but handed
him marked copy of the book. The
young mans eye fell upon the paragraph:
90 When Fortune caresses a man she
makes a fool of him." He had just
enough sense left to feel that the night
was chilly for him.
He blushed to the tips of his ears as
he stepped up to the society editors ia
bic. ''Good morning. What is it, sir?"
was the amiab1e greeting. "You made
a little mistake In our announcements
yesterday, sir. very likely. It is al
most impossible not to make mistake
sometimes. What was it 2" "You said
me and Lizzie Pipkins were bothered,
when we are not bothered at all. We
are betrothed, sir. Quite difference. :"
q All! [ presume you see the difference
now more than you will in the future.
However, / viii smooth the matter out.
Good morning, sir. ''-NeaU Haven Beg
ester.
BE industrious, daughter. Thus the
pGSG WOueu nave ever 1OunQ the pest
husbands at the post of duty Rebecca
went to the well to water the came1s and
caught Isaac's matrimonial agent.
Rachel went out with the sheep and
found Jacob and kiss waiting for her.
Ruth wrought in the wheat field and
married rich. Abigail hustled around
and baked 200 loaves of bread, and
loaded up whole commissary train,
which she personally lead out to David,
and got second husband within week
after her first was petrifed, and if you
persistently buckle down to a wash tub,
you feel assured that no man will marry
you for your money Bardette.
A LAWSUIT in city near the heart of
the continent conserns the diet of nine
pug dogs. Two weeks board in the bar
gain. The bill of fare agreed upon was
ample, including white cabbage and as
paragus. A four o'clock lunch was
promised. Spring water undoubtedly
was likewise provided, and possibly a
ride In an open car after each meal was