Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1883-03-14
TEA-TABLE TALK.

market money after the wedding.-Cour-
scr J0urn0I
SOCIETY does not demand culture or
refinement. Ignorance and vulgarity
slip IN when creased by wealth.-NeaO
orleans PjcGyaoae.
AT a recent swell wedding in New Or
leans the clergYman's fee was 500, and
the lace on the brides dress cost 5000.
The whole wedding cost S., 600.
MISS ANNA KEITT, whom Senator
Hampton presented at the last presi-
idential reception, is the belle of South
Carolina. She is q blonde. tall and
slender.
The bright spring weather will soon
Danish the sealskin sacque to its moth
proof chest of cedar. What heart aches
this would cause, but for the consola-
ton of the new spring bonnet.
A FASHION critic, arguing against ex-
cessive tightness in dress, says that
seven beautiful arms, when very
tightly enclosed, look not little like
sausages.
Two hundred and four New York
youths under twenty years of age have
married within year. 1t is sad to see
little children torn from their homes,
but New York young women keep reach
ing for husbands. Journal.
JONES declares that his wife is the
most thrifty woman he ever knew.
s'Why, sir, he recently exclaimed, ''she
has made ten patchwork quilts during
the last two years-made them herself,
sir, out of the samples she collected In
her shopping tours during that time. y
A CERTAIN professional beauty-a lady
also celebrated for her artistic taste In
dress-has been photographed in hun
bred different costumes and III as many
different attitudes. 1t has been said
of this fact that the only person who
can excel her for variety of attitude is
boy commanded to sit still on a chair.
NINE. CHRISTINE NILSSON thinks that
American women are beautiful. The
men in this country she thinks are not
as polished, formal, and do not exhibit
as much outward politeness as the
European gentlemen, but they are more
chivalrous. and exhibit their devotion 90
the women from the bottom of their
hearts.
A WOMAN recently applied for state
aid, and the blank was produced and
the usual questions asked. She an
swered them freely until 1t came to ''Your
age?" s'Have [ got to tell that?' she
asked ''Ihe blank requires it, ma'am,"
was the reply. 'sWelI, then" she said,
'I don't want any state aid" And she
hounced out OF she Office in high dud-
geon.-Bostoa Transcript
''No, aunt, +" said young Folkestope,
Il don't get on well at all with Clara.
And, by the way, there's one thing I
don't like. I'm afraid she puts chalk on
her face" "Oh, that's nothing" re-
piled Aunt Goodwin, laughing. ga nice
soldier you would make, now, wouldn't
you? II you can't face powder, George,
how can you expect ever to get into an
engagement" Boston transcript.
A RECENT novel has heroine becom-
ingly dressed thus: A violet robe of
some fImy French goods fell In graceful
folds of Rembrandtesque shadow about
the elegance and symmetry of her form,
q polonaise of solid "point d Angle
terre" dropped its silver from her throat,
tastefalIy decorated with sprays Of scar
let geranium, and fashionable Paris
ian hat concealed her azure brow and
temples. She was drifting over the vast
expanse of the gulf in ''a light pietur-
esque felucca.
HE late Robert Asa Packer, when on
a visit to Connecticut In his younger
DAYS, discovered that the excellent bread
on his hosts table was made by one
Of his daughters. He sought her out
and married her, but they only lived to-
gether few months, not being able to
get along at all. He afterward married
a daughter of Victor E. Piolett, with
whom he lived as happily as he could
wish, and entertained his friends IN regal
style.
THROUGH the good agencies of a friend
who knew them both well, Mr.. John W.
Mayo, prosperous young business man
of Washington, n. c., and Miss Jennie
Pentz, of Baltimore, have been in
friendly correspondence for some months
past. They met for the first time in
Baltimore recently on certain Tuesday
and we're formally introduced. On Mon
day afternoon they were married, and 1T
is to be hoped will live happily together
ever after.
AT the close of a dinner party in Phil
adelphia not long ago, Sig. Salvini re-
marked to friend that certain lady
among the guests was one of the most
intelligent women he had met In Amer
lea. 'FShe is intelligent" was the reply,
Esand she is q good wife and mother,
too ''Has she children" exclaimed
the tragedian, in surprise. eyes, six"
cit Is very strange said he, after
moments thought; Every strange. How
a young and handsome woman has time
to be Intelligent, with six children to look
after, I cannot understand.
A SEVERE lesson was taught at a New
York party TO society men who carry the
crush hat In rouLd dances in place of
gloves on a handkerchief. The young
man who had his monogram embroidered
in the lining of his hat in large blue
letters danced with young lady who
wore light-colored satin dress. After