Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-04-25
SOCIETY CHIT-CHAT.

A MAN who visited the signal service
department while in Washington saws it
reminded him of a social party. Ali the
people were talking about the weather.
IT was darling Gweorge +" when
bridal couple left Omaha; it was Z" dear
George" at Chicago; at Detroit it was
George and when they reached Mag
ara Falls it was "Say you'll"
81 GUESS that girl must be the flour
OF the family, remarked the young man
who had been waltzing with her, as he
essayed to brush off the white spot on
bis coat sleeye.-Boston Transcript.
IT has been a matter of wonder why
women should kiss each other; but the
reason is simple enough when you know
1t. That IS the only way they can stop
each other from talking. Boston Tran
screE)t.
"No," said New York belle, who
had just returned from tour of Europe
and Egypt. emo, / didn't go to the
Red Sea. Red, you know, doesn't agree
with my complexion. -Pbjtadelphia
Herald.
" WE'LL, may l hope then, dearest,
that at some time [ may have the happi-
ness of making You my wife ?" eyes,
hope 80, am sure, " she replied; "for
/ am getting tired of suing fellows for
breach of promise.
THE Oakland, Cal, Tribune reports
that several young ladies OF that town
whose vanity is in excess of their COM
mon sense have partially destroyed their
eyesight by the use of preparation for
ooloring the eyelashes and tinting the
eyelids.
I" They say Charley has married. Do
you know his wife? Is she woman of
any intelligence Is she well informed?"
" Well-informed! Well, should say
so. She has belonged to the village
sewing circle for ten years and never
missed a meeting"
A LADY, having read that young lady
wants large figures in carpet to make
her feet look little, remarks that the
young lady does not keep up with the
fashions, large feet being now fashiona-
bic. Most fashionable women have large
feet, the poor, foolish women who have
little feet are actually wearing large
shoes in or0er to be as fashionable as the
ungainly majority.
A STARTLING fashion has appeared in
Paris; 1t IS nothing more nor less than
wearing white wigs by ladies who have
passed their first youth, and are deter
mined thus to take time by the forelock.
Instead of waiting for their locks to be
blanched to becoming gray, they SIM
ply anticipate nature, and add to the
freshness of their skin and the brillian-
oeH 1o57.
The hair dressers are jubilant at the
change, and hope the wig may come into
general fashion.
The skill of the Chinese in dwarfng
plants as we'll as ladies' pedal extremi-
ties is well known. We see it stated in
a recent work on China that the ladies
of the upper ten" in the Celestial
Empire wear In their bosoms little fir
trees, which, by a carefully adjusted sys-
tenn of starvation, have been reduced to
the size of button-hole flowers. These
remain fresh and evergreen in their
dwarf state for a number of years, and
are regarded as symbols of the perpetu-
lty OF love, to express which they are
used by ladies of the highest rank.
A PHILADELPHIA girl says: 81 am
not blighted being, but the more ]
see and know the less care for married
life. IF there were any of the right
kind of young men-young men with
noble principles and superior intelIi-
gence as well as personal graces-it
might be different; but the race seems
dying out. With my present tastes and
views, I am not likely to marry any one;
SO l just dance because | get more en-
joyment out of that than anything else.
There is no difficulty in getting partners,
and that is all | think society young men
are good for-to dance with. :"
The Philadelphia Progress says the
bellies of that city have adopted the eco
quettish custom of wearing any num-
Der of gentlemen s scarf pins, which will
indicate the quantity of admirers rather
than good taste. The pins must not be
new ones, as they are presumed to be
the secondhand gifts of gentlemen
friends. One little belle, says Progress,
who shall be nameless has already col
lected from her adorers about dozen
jewelled searf-pins; these she proposes
to wear in lace coverings, the corsage OF
the costume to be worn either indoors or
out, as the spirit may move her.