Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-01-24
TEA TABLE TALK.

THE most buses are taken on the
road to matrimOny.-BOstO1s Conn. BkG-
tetin.
A MARRIAGE notice in the Blmira Ad-
vertiser tops offin this way: "No cards,
no cake, no flowers, no presents and no.
body's business.
AN old bachelor says: "It is all nom
sense to pretend thot love is blind. I
never knew man in love that did not
see ten times as much in his sweetheart
as / could"
A vooATIoN-First small girl: CT
know what I'm going to be when grow
upw Second ditto: "What are you
going to be when you grow app" First
small girl: GA widder p
SPEAKING of lady who was forever
telling of her aches and pains, said
Fogg, " always enjoy her conversation.
1t is complete course of lectures ON
physiology, and nothing to pay"
The flower mania took an acute form
with Philadelphia belle, who appeared
at ball with eight bouquets. She car
ried two, and the rest were held by a
maid, who stoodin an alcove and changed
posies from time to time with her mis-
tress.
The finest looking ladies at the Presi-
dents recent reception were the older
ones-the gray haired matrons and hand
some DANES past 50-who were present
In unusual force. Wellpreserved ladies
of about that age are generally the best
and best looking of their sex.
A MONTANA paper reports that girl
Travelled all the way from Massachusetts
to Bozeman, in that territory, to marry
man whom she had never seen, but
who, by correspondence, had promised
to we'd her. The gay letter writer, how
ever, was not to be found when she az
rived.
LADY WILDE says: "The chatter ng.
pert, fppant woman, with sharp ~ an
ner, silly laugh, and ready, mock ing
retort, is insufferable to man of cul-
ture, but a coquette, slough vain and
versatile, may still be charming, for she
has the wish to please, which is the
Grundbegriff of woman's fascination >"
A BRIGHT little fellow was inspecting
the picture of friend of his MANN a g,
Mrs. t, of Washington, who was r ep-
resented in a low-necked and sh ort-
sleeved party dress. The little fellow
studied the face and was finally asked
who it was. 81 fink" said the little
fellow, gravely, "it's my mamma when
she takes baff" (bath.) J.
BEADED wells that only come 70 the
| tip Of the nose are more or less worn,
and, as supposed, to enhance young
ladies' appearance on promenade. But
! If the truth were known, they are chief
ly worn to hide a good deal of paint and
powder, which eight out of every ten
fashionable women use nowadays In great
profusiop. N Y. Mail and Egpe88.
A Boston man was much Mortified
when fat aHd greasy wench appeared
in his office and told him that she had
| prepared her trosseau and was ready for
the ceremony. He expressed astonish-
ment, She coolly told him that he had
promised to marry her. He showed her
to the door. She brought suit for
S., 600. He won the suit She was
crazy.
A "PINK luncheon party" was given
IN New York the other day. There
were pink lights and several ingenious
decorations IN this charming color. A
counterpiece of ferns and cyprepediums
contrasted with the sixteen corsage bou-
quets, which were made of deep Bon
Silene buds, Hinsdale pinks and aidan-
tumns. There were four corner circles
OF glass filed with pinks and ferns.
HAIR-PINs have "eyoluted out of the
old-fashzoned straight wire into various
shapes, sizes and designs. Most of them
are enameled. They are OF varying
length, from the gossamer forks with
corrugated limbs used to hold IN place
putfs and curls to the long pins required
to keep On the big hats whose broad
brirns present great temptations to the
wind They are made by machinery,
and are SO cheap that the poorest women
may enjoy the greatest variety. What
becomes of the hair-pins ?" They drop
on floors: they get swept up and lost;
they become bent and useless; they dis
appear and are replaced, and great fac
tories are employed III making them.
In recent divorce case In New York,
the wife put III her complaint an allega-
ton that she found q strange hair-pin On
her husbands pillow.-Neag York Saas.