Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1882-05-24
FIRESIDE CHIT-CHAT,

man, she opens it, to be sure no one is
listening outside.
A YOUNG lady being told by friend
that silk dresses were very much wore,
said that she knew it, for hers had two
or three holes in it.
A LONDON paper says that the Duke
of Marlborough's collection of china is
complete and uninjured Mrs. MARI
borough evidently did her own work.
TOILET art criticism First lady
"Dear me; never saw Mrs. Potts look
SO pale" Second lady" Nor [; she's
probably been out in the rain without an
umbrella.
ENGLISH theater and dinner caps are
six inches in diameter and are perfectly
fiat. consisting of many folds of cream
lace, with flower, plush loops or rib
bon loops in the center.
A WITTY lady, who lis, however, some
what given to exaggeration, was trying
to tell a friend what a poor appe-
tite she had, and said, " I eat very little;
flea would be barbecue to me-"
"YOU have played the deuce with my
heart" said a gentleman to his lady
partner during a game of whist "Well,"
replied the lady with an arch smile, "it
was simply because you played the
knave."
SAID his prudent friend: "Why, So
for a carriage is extravaganza. Go in
horse car or take a Herdic." And the
extravagant man replied: ''I can't.
You see the lady I'm going to take isn't
my wife. "-Bostoaa Post.
NEVER fold a gossamer waterproof in
side out; it is the inside which should be
kept free from soil of any kind. If you
think this is superhuous advice, please
observe the manner in which most of
your acquaintance fold them.
The count is leaving the saloon of
charming lady friend. Going SO early,
my dear Count?' st am, madame-I
muslin fact, I have an engagement
that cannot be avoided. I go to regret
elsewhere not being here" Bows pro-
foundly and EXIT
A WOMAN who does all her own house
work attends toseven children and turns
her dresses half dozen times to make
both ends meet, may be a good Chris
tan, but when lady in a 81 900 car
riage and a $500 dress halts at the door
charitable object, she can hardly be ex-
adelobia Meas.
"MovING next week, / presume"
said New Haven woman to her neigh
Dor. "I'm sorry you are going to leave
us. ooh, but we've concluded to stay
another year. The landlord is going to
paper the dining and" elm
deed I" was the response, and as she
drifted into the house and slammed the
door she grumbled to herself, "I was SO
in hopes they were going. '-New
Haven Register.
JOHN OWENS said to Gath that the
best women he had ever known were
little cranky on their age, especially when
their daughters are growing up. He re-
ferred to one lady who had married
son and several manageable daughters,
and who related that she was married
worry young-when she was not much
more than fourteen-and the interlocutor
looking at her wrinkles, she said: "IIl
tell you how those come-on my fathers
side. Ny mother married a very old
man."
ONE of the most brilliant women in
America, long leader in society, was
asked once what fate she would choose
for her daughter, if she could control
her life. "To be the obscure, loving
wife of a man who loved her." was her
reply. Dorothy Patterson, who was
known and loved throughout great Brit
ain as "Sister Dora, the faithful, self
sacrificing nurse, and head of great hos
pitfalls, said, shortly before her death,
81 should have been better woman if
[ had been married to a man fit to con-
troll me, whom I could have loved and
obeyed."
A PRETTY idea was carried out at
fashionable wedding in London the
other day. The brides dress was of
white brocade, and the bridesmaids ap-
peared each in a different Color, or
rather tint, SO pale of hue were their
dresses. One was in pale blue, another
in pale pink, third in pale yellow, and
the fourth in pale green, while all four
wore large picturesque white hats
trimmed with feathers, and flowers to
match their respective dresses, and each
carried bunch of flowers which also
harmonized in color with her gown.
n AENTUCKY man SoCr0Gly mdrrl0u d.
girl and had the certificate locked up in
his friends safe, with the understanding
that when the husband had made enough
money to marry, the clergyman at the
wedding should produce the certificate
instead of performing the ceremony.
But instead of being married the couple
were divorced at the end of three years,
and not until then did her friends and
| family know of her marriage. Two
years later they made up and were mar
ried again. No one knows the cause of
their divorce. but it is probably because
she wouldn't consent to be deprived of
the pleasure of being married out-and-
out, like other girls, instead of having it
tamely made known at the wedding that
she was an old married women. Few
are the young women who would SUBJ
nit to such humiliation.-Det
Free Press.
The Yarmouth BIoater.
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