Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-10
TEA TABLE TALK.

IF you have been indulging III flip
pant grotesque, stop it. Lady Wilde, OF
England, says it is no longer fashiona-
BILE. The mournfullv severe is all the
rage Just now.
A New YORK woman who has to wash
for q living bns $44, 900 worth of real
lace laid away in trunk. It does her q
heap of good to feel that she could rig
out for picnic if she wanted to.
THEY tell in San Francisco Of very
wealthy woman who is remarkably strict
i'll the discipline of her servants. She
defends herself by saying that she was a
servant until five years ago, and there
fore knows all about both sides of the
subject.
SHE wouldn't stand to have tooth
pulled for one million two hundred
thousand dollars, she said, and yet she
walked all day in tiny boots two sizes
too small for her and thought nothing of
it; but then nobody saw that tooth, and
several saw the boots.
YOUNG Ohio woman just married at
the age Of "a, has sued her aunt and re-
covered 81, 800, because that relative,
since the girl was LII years old, made
her do the work of q man in the field,
clean the COW stables and the hog pens,
and in all that time never allowed her to
wear any female underclothing. She
never put on petticoat until after her
marriage, having been compelled to wear
mems overalls under her dresses.
Two young women went to Troy from
neighboring village, one being clad
mainly In clothes borrowed from the
other. At midnight they quarreled in
the street, and the lender of the gar
ments demanded their return, then and
there, and forthwith stripped her COM
panion of her bonnet, cloak and dress,
and carried them away. The shivering
victim of broken friendship was taken to
q police station, and thence sent home
in an Overcoat.
FoGG says his wife is the most tickle
minded person he ever saw. The other
day she spoke of Miss Blank as a charm
ing young lady and remarkably hand
some woman. "And, said Fogg, 81
told her that was just what [ thought;
that Miss Blank was most delightful
young lady, one whose beautiful face
one never tired of gazing upon, and con-
siderable more to the same feet.
Well, would you believe it, Mrs. Il, i'd
denly tackled about and said: coz, she
isn't SO very pretty! She's got an awful
homely nose, her mouth mile too big,
and she hasn't got bit of expression III
her eyes. Then she's got such disa-
greeable way about her."
THE New York Sun says: "a Eovel-
| ty III bridal attire was introduced by
Miss Hilah Humbert at her wedding on
Tuesday last. The traditional spotless-
ness of the brides costume was invaded
by garlands of pink roses, which
trimmed the bottom of the white satin
skirt and mingled with the orange bios
SONS which caught up the veil. A bou-
quet of pink roses was also carried IN
her hand. Upon the principle that va
riety is always charming, this novelty
may perhaps come to be liked and
adopted, but it remains to be seen
whether future brides will approve and
sanction such an abrupt departure from
old-time and worldwide usage. Miss
Humbert's presents were said to be ex-
ceptionally costly and numerous, even
in this age of prodigality. Among them
was a dinner service Of beaten silver, as
valuable for its artistic perfection as fol
its intrinsic worth.