Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-21
TEA-TABLE TALK,

"DUDIE is what the girls now call
their cane-hampered young meR.
ga DUDU, says New York authority,
Is young man who wears one eye
glass, little stick, fashionable clothes,
but no brains."
THE " lum-tum thing in Washington
is said to be to breakfast or sup with
the Chinese minister and drink his tea,
that cost $34 pound in China.
HAVE no wealth, she said; So can
give you only my hand and heart" And
then he thought that if her heart was as
big as her hand, she was indeed
wealthy.
A FASHION paper says "sleeves have
almost disappeared from evening dress
es." No reference is probably intended
to coat sleeves In the dizzy waltz.-.Bos-
tom Transcript.
"LET me see, )" said Mr. Struggles,
"Mary isn't engaged yet. Well, I'll
have to get another mortgage on this
house, and give her two more parties
right after this annoying Lent p'
THE independent damsels of Atlanta,
Ca, formed "spinsters' club" which
no men were allowed to attend. Then
bachelors club was organized in self
defense, and at last accounts they were
holding joint sessions.
The minuet is to be revived at fash
ionable dancing parties in New Orleans,
and the Picayune says it will then be
proper for the young lady who always
must be dragged away to say: so ma,
please let me stay one minuet longer?"
| MIR. AUGUSTUS SALA relates how
housemaid who went away in a hurry
left behind her in her flight an anfin-
ished letter which began" Mis-
tress hear is Tartar, an it's nothin'
but lore, jore, jore from mornin' till
mite"
SAYS New York Custom House Of
fcer: 81 prefer a mans declaration to q
woman's. AS a rule, you can't depend
much on women. They have no sense
of responsibility, aud with most of them
the desire to smuggle something amounts
to a MANIA"
SOME genius has invented machine
to play pianos. This will fill long-felt
want. When two young people of
opposite sex are in the parlor in the
evening the old lady don't begin to saun-
ter in until the piano stops.-PhsLGdeE
pIaiG Neao8.
BECAUSE young lady in New York
painted some sash ribbon for the guests
at her birthday party some one ex-
claimed: "Heaven bless the society
! girl who can do something besides
dance" That's so! Now what help
to poor man this girl would be. By
hockey, just think of It'll
Miss WRECK1Es to old Scruple, who
Is looking at plaque of her painting
| ''Now, that's mamma; such a bother as
she was; we have no oven and had to have
her fred out of the house." And Scruple,
who Is not versed In the technicalities of
china painting, goes off In doubt
whether it is worse to be unflial or to
talk slang.
THE costumes that will be worn at
Mr.. Vanderbilt's mask ball will cost
New York society many thousands. Mr..
Wallacks private wardrobe is said to
have been levied upon by host of fash
ionable young men. Mr.. George
Gould's suit will cost $500. If Mr..
Gould arrives at the ball at IL and
leaves at 2, he will be paying 5000 al
hour for his pleasure.
A YOUNG man of Bangor, Me-. said to
be handsome and of good social posi-
ton, has sued a young woman of equal
social position In the same town for
S., 900 damages for alleged breach of
promise of marriage. The lady is said
to have considerable property, In her
own name, and to be smart as well as
young and charming. The suit will be
tried at the October term of court, if not
settled before that time.
Mrs. LILLE DEvEREUx BLAKE asks:
eff twenty boys were brought up In the
same way as girls-laced, kept indoors.
taught sewing, embroidery AID playing
the piano-what sort Of young men
would they be at twenty-one % We re-
ally do not know, Lille, but we think
they would bear very close resemblance
to a majority of the young men nightly
seen smoking cigarettes in theater lob
bies. says the Philadelphia News.
The latest fling IN the way of fash
ionable amusements is to hire a profess
slonal elOcutionist and have readings at
home to invited guests. Last summer,
at Newport, it was practiced, and the
ridiculous part of it was that in some IN
stances the elocutionists could not bring
themselves down to the prose of making
bargain, but vase was left outside
the door, with big footman to watch it,
into which the guests dropped their con-
tributions.
A sTYLIsHLY dressed woman entered a
restaurant. The waiter handed her q
bill of fare, and said, 'PIease mark off
the dishes you wish to order" Gould a
woman in o sealskin confess that she
could not read? Taking pencil she
made few dashes, and her order read:
''Dinner so cents" ''Feb. 20, 49,"
vegetables, F" "please pay at the DESK
''celery." The waiter brought her beef
steak and onions and prune sauce. and
she did not dare raise word in protest.
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