Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1884-01-30
FEMININE FANCIES.

SOMETHING new In dinner cards is
tiny writing desk, on the lid Of VIII CHI is
written the name of the guest.
LONG walking coats give some young
ladies such good figure that they dis
like very much to take them off even at
home.
PLUSH as O material has been used for
all it is worth in the way of ornaments,
and people are already beginning to cast
it out.
LONG plush cloaks and dolmans may
look like sealskin at night or in the dis
lance, but after all that is very poor con-
ISOLATION.
AN entertainment of magic by pro-
fessional performer Is now the proper
way to supplement dinner party under
your own roof.
You must not hang up your ebony
cabinet between the front parlor win
dows. Lady Thingabob has been up
there in London.
Mrs. PARvENU says she don't care to
see Matthew Arnold or hear his talk
about the copying ink that she has al
ways used in her family.
The latest designs in leather wall
paper are very beautiful, and of itself it
may be said to furnish room. Another
thing-it isn't " common.
In "lumtum or fashionable station
cry the correct thing is to have merely
initials in cipher in the upper left hand
corner of the note sheet and on the fly
of the envelope. Only this and moth
ing more"
BEAUTIFUL little olive wood boxes now
come for postage stamps, with all the
compartments for the different denom-
nations from one to ten. They are or
namental as well as useful, and nobody's
writing desk should be without one.
New pen-wipers tell the story of Lit
tie 30 Peep and her sheep, each sheep
lying on mat made of bright cloth, on
which you have the privilege Of wiping
your pen. These are the kind of things
that sell like wildfre at the country
church fair.
ONE cannot even purchase an ecclesi-
astical calendar nowadays without find
ing very little calendar and a great many
advertisements, from the shoemaker to
the silversmith. The man who hesitates
to buy a calendar of this kind is not
necessarily lost.
The ponderous fur wraps which some
wealthy ladies wear are Russian, and
can only be purchased in the czar's
domain, not being profitable enough to
import, so the furriers say. They are
only suitable for cold day, and are toe
expensive even to get left anywhere.
81 ALWAYS take an hour to eat my
breakfast at the club, you know" said
the languid swell at the charity ball tc
the lady to whom he was trying to talk.
Zone whole hour" Indeed" she
made answer, 'why, how funny When
I was girl it didn't take me five min
utes to eat all my pap"
BLUE seems to be coming back again
as fashionable color, and at several OF
the large social gatherings of the sea
son a number of blue costumes have
been seen. Blue is said to be a gener
ally becoming color, especially in con
nection with gaslight, and this may be
one reason why blue comes back to US
MANY of the pretty and antique things
from the auction sale of bankrupt
Belgian count in Brussels last month
have reached this country, and will err
long be exposed for sale. Among them
is the &C everlasting calendar" in brass
said to have been made by monk in tn
sixteenth century, and for which fabu
lous prices have been paid in forme
years.