Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-02-06
FEMININE FANCIES.


SAYS an experienced bachelor: "The
best thing to take when you go to kiss
pretty girl-take time. The more you
take the better she likes it."
HEARD on the lake: "Can that girl
skate ?" "I think not" "Then you'd
better escort somebody else." ''But
what shall do with her ?" sob, just
let here slide"
A COUNTRY girl wrote to her lover:
Now, George, don't fale to be at the
singing school tonight" George wrote
back that i'll the bright lexicon of youth
there's no such word as "fale.''
SAN FRANCISCO Chronicle: I am free
to confess that seaIskin does not go
with everything, but everything goes
with D sealskin. The taste may not al
ways be of the best; there may be shah
biness beneath, butsealskin is like char
ity-i5 covers a multitude of sins.
6" You gave my wife the wrong medi-
cine" exclaimed man, entering drug
store. 81 hope no harm has resulted"
replied the druggist, TREMENDOUSLY. sob,
no, she's all right" "How do you
know it was the wrong medicine ?"
"W'y, because it helped her immedi-
ateIy."
A wBLI-KNoWN and highly respected
society woman has been accused of being
a kleptomaniac And, what is still
worse, the charges against her have been
| proven. 1t seems that she has been 60
ing around taking valuable books, brio
a-brac, etc., from houses of her friends,
all of whom are very prominent. In one
or two instances, where the articles have
| been of particular value, the loss has
been made public and the servants in the
respective houses arrested for the theft.
AT fancy ball at Sidney, New South
Wales, Mrs. J. NJ. Sweet, the wife of
the editor of the Morning Herald, ap-
peared as the 60 Press" in several pages
of the paper named, printed in colors on
q beautiful white satin. Every column
was In different color, and each was
brought out as distinctly as though
printed on paper In the ordinary issue.
The body was represented with flags of
the various colonies-aH in their proper
color. The head dress was that of Mi
nerva, with the word "The Press in
bold relief, printed in thirteen different
colors. The costume was much adj
mired.
New YORK Tribune: In one of the
double seats Of Sixth Avenue elevated
car yesterday evening an elegantly
dressed young man sat sidewise with his
face to the window and his back consid-
erably beyond the middle of the seat.
Squeezed between him and the arm was
a young woman. An old gentleman
came in and sat down opposite. He re-
viewed the situation, and then leaning
over to the young lady touched her arm.
As she looked up ne nodded to the man
at her side and queried, (" Husband?"
The young man looked up and blushed.
The younglady replied scornfully, "No,
sir" "Eh? No? Well, I surely
would have thought so" Then the
young man Strengthened up and gave
the lady full half of the seat fer the
remainder of the trip.
SOCIETY note: tn e spacious mansion
was radiant with gas-lights, which
flashed through iridescent globes, and
displayed the varied tints of cathedral
glass windows in beautiful contrast to
| the snoW-clad lawns. The expansive
hall was surrounded with elegant apart
ments adorned with paintings, sculpture
and upholstery representing the latest
results of art and industry, while the
elegant costumes of the ladies, sparkling
in gems of purest ray, the all-pervading
perfume of flowers, the inspiring music
| of the band, which occupied recess near
the grand stairway, and the muniicent
viands from Pinard's cuisine, altogether
combined to form fairy like scene in
which every sense felt the enchanting
| influence. There were several hundred
/
ments.