Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-09-19
FEMININE CHIT-CHAT,
.SOmerUiLLe Journal
WoMAN's sphere: A ball of yarn.

0hOO OuV VI d WILLOW anu killed. mule
WoMAN's love for ribbon is pardona-
BILE, since she owes her existence to a
rib bone.
FASHIONABLE ladies like to get s'new
wrinkle" but they don't want to show it
on the forehead.
KATE CLAYTON will play this winter
in the ''Sea of Ice." There is no dan
ger of that catching fire.
BosToN girls never giggle. They
merel y express their delight by dreamy,
far-aWay, north-pole smile.
The Vassar girls talk of getting up
rowing club. The Vassarty eight would
prove an attractive feature of a college
boat race.
JENKINS says that when he asked the
| girl who is now his wife to marry him,
| she said: 81 don't mind" and she
never has minded.
eyes" said Miss Squigglehorn, spa
was professional man, as you have
heard; he used to draw very large
houses" n. B. "Pa" was building
mover.
The Boston high school girl condemns
the phrase ''tumble to the racket " as
vile slang. She says "precipitate in
the direction of the clamor" is a more
| elegant expression.
THE poet who wrote "the child is ia
Their to the man " was somewhat discon-
certed when a practical friend asked him
how the case would be in the event of
the child beng a girl.
THERE is young lady in New York
City who makes, it is said, about $50
calls nearly every day of her life. Oh,
you need not look disconnected, Miss,
she works in telephone Office.
A YOUNG man urged, as one of the
reasons why a girl should marry him,
| that he had collection of over 400 diff
ferent kinds of wood She said if it was
| kindling wood she'd think of it.
A YOUNG miss of Is asks what is the
proper thing for her to do when she is
serenaded by party of gentlemen at a
late hour. We are glad to be able to
answer this question. Steal softly down
stairs and unite the dog.
IN reply to the czar's query of one of
the maids of honor as to how she en-
jOyed the coronation, her reply was:
"Oh, ever SO much, your majesty. I
hope We shall soon have another The
maid is summering In Siberia.
WHAT Is that you are wearing 90
| asked Farmer John of his fair city
boarder. ooh, that is my red Jersey /"
t'All right" was the reply; Z" but don't
go near my brown jersey over in that
field, unless you are good at climbing
trees"
A LADY speaker was thus introduced
To or76io11oo 1yo
siding officer: 81 have the pleasure of
presenting to you Mrs. =, who will
give you an account Of the "reminiscences
of her past lite, which I am sure will
interest you all. ;"
"CHAwbEs she Hsped to her new
beau from Boston, shave you seen
Rogers new group ?" emo" he re-
piled, '' but I knew Billy Rogers old
gang, who backed John L. Sullivan"
They are estranged. Boston "culchah I"
was too much for her.
SIX lovely school-ma'ms were out
rowing on the placid Monongahela. A
bold, wicked man on shore, who was a
bad boy a few years ago, instead of
taking of his hat as the boat went bv.
simply remarked, " Behold the whaling
feet :"
A YOUNG LADY who recently started out
as fashion writer has determined to
quit journalism. She mentioned in an
article on ladies fashions that skirts
are worn very much shorter this year
than usual" The young lady is certain
~ justified in being angry with the care
less compositor who changed the SIX !"
IN skirts to an ssh.
A TRAVELLING man, noticing a pretty
girl alone in the car, went over in her
direction and smilingly asked: S. Is this
seat engaged ?" ''No, sir; but [ am,
and he's going to get on at the next sta
ton. = Oh-ah-indeed- thanks-beg
pardon" and he picked up his feet
after stumbling over them, and went into
the smoking car to be alone awhile.
An American lady who had reached an
old inn III Normandy, could not make
the clerk understand her French, nor
could she understand the clerks. At
last, in desperation she said with great
distlnctness: speak-Eng-
lish?" He frightened at once, and said:
Land sakes I guess l do; I was
brought up ten miles from Bangor.
Maine!"
IT was at Nantasket. The mother of
young lady who was much addicted to
bathing stood on the piazza of the hotel,
gazing toward the beach. Presently
she exclaimed with most distressed
air: ''Oh, my child, my child! What
shall I do with her % An elderly
woman, rather hard OF hearing. observ-
ing her anxiety, asked: ''What ails
you, madam ?" " Nothing ais me-"
she said, but Lizzie's so tanned I'm
positively ashamed of her." ''Tanned?
tanned? Sakes alive !' returned the
female, exhibiting no little
agitation. ''Another human being
tanned And, dare say, that wicked
Butler has got the skin.