Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-10-11
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

Boston Conn. Bulletin.
IT is very proper for woman who
has a bonnet trimmed with bugles to
keep it in a Observation-Disclosures Tran
script.
A SPUR is frequently used by ladies in
riding, but the London Queen does not
regard it as very feminine, horse that
requires it not being fit for lady.
A LOCAL Mrs. Malaprop gushingly
says that she ''does so love to sit at the
piano in the cleaning and impoverish."
This Malapropism is not improvised.-
LOaOeU Courier.
IT has been ungallantly said that the
telephone does what society rules have
always been unequal to-compels women
who use 1t to talk one at a time
tro5t Free Press.
The PLAGUE mania IS over and the
next craze will be the ornamentation of
broom-handles and stove-legs. A stove
leg bearing Swiss view saves two per
cent. in fuel.-DetrO6t Free Press.
TRERE could hardly be a worse breach
of good taste than when upon receiving
note TO write an answer upon the back
OF 1t. [ think this particular example of
1ll-breeding is confined to men. never
knew nor heard of woman being guilty
of it.-Fo1mey's Progress.
The Philadelphia News tells of New
York belle who has met with sad loss:
. By some means her diary, containing
the names of all the gentlemen she had
become engaged to, dropped out of the
car window, and now she can't tell which
of her male friends have right to kiss
her."
They are telling In New Hampshire
the story of the woman who is a member
OF the society with the long name that,
during the summer, she has caught
house flies in wire cage traps, and then
relieved her conscience by taking them
up to the other end of the street and set
ting them free.
"WEL1, I do declare" exclaimed Miss
Fancy Cake to her ma as they sat to-
gether in the parlor, "if the present
fashions don't look for all the world like
the pictures that used to be pasted on
the lids inside old-fashioned trunks
don't you remember?" eyes" said ma,
ma, 'fI remember"
Two Montana girls recently rode on
horseback distance of sixty-fve miles
to attend dance. The local paper SAYS
of them: ''The vim with which they
would shake a foot in the dance would
be as far ahead of the lifeless lolling of
the bail-wearied city belle as gambols
of the wild gazelle surpass those of the
pet poodle"
WHEN the accident occurred to the
train containing the vice regal party,
Ioo
Princess Louise was engaged In making
her toilet and escaped with slight
scratches. If she was doing up her back
hair, and holding forty-eight hairpins
in her mouth, it is a marvel some of
them were not Jared down her throat.
-NorristooOn Herald.
GO IT would seem that Boston is terri
bly, provincial when young lady cannot
have her boots BACKED without attract
ing the attention of two or three hun
dred idlers, and yet, Tuesday afternoon,
young lady who had her boots cleaned
near the Revere House was subjected to
the stare of crowd which in most
cities would have passed by without
giving the occurrence more than pass
ing glance. "-BoSto'a Globe.
IT is the Troy Times that tells this
fanciful story: ''A North Adams man,
member of the theatrical profession, is
reported to have fallen heir to $50, 000in
rather romantic fashion. pretty
young lady, daughter of a New York
banker, suddenly, by marriage in the
family, became the aunt of the actor.
She fell in love with her relative, but
the relationship acted as barrier to
matrimony. Recently she died of a
broken heart and bequeathed $50, 900 to
the object of her affections"
The women of the higher world in
France accompany their husbands in
shooting expeditions, and, if the London
Truth may be trusted, wear some queer
costumes. Here are descriptions of some
of the toggery displayed: The Duchess
de Charities and Countess de Paris wear
blue serge sailor dresses, with glazed
sailor hats. The Countess Potocka wears
cloth jacket of some light color,
trimmed with fur and gold braid, and
short skirt of a darker hue. The
Duchess de Talleyrand, nee Castellane,
wears very simple short dress, water
proof over it, and billy-cock hat.
Queen Pia, of Portugal, wears jacket
and short skirt of moss colored cloth,
white waistcoat, and boots reaching to
the knees.
ONE of the latest things is colored
dresses for bridesmaids. This pretty
fashion had it's origin in the recent visit
to Paris of young English lady of rank,
who seeing on the walls of the Louvre
some restored frescoes of Botticelli, with
a procession of four pretty maids ID
mauve and green, determined that her
bridesmaids should be in mauve and
green after Botticelli. AS anything fresh
by way of varying the trite ceremonial
and costumes of our weddings is well
coined, and as this is one that the most
artistic can approve, our brides can safe
~ follow the new fashion, which gives
play to fancy and life and brilliancy to
the bridal procession, taking care, how
ever, that the dresses shall be in style
alike, with simplicity and good fit as
their striking characteristics.