Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1890-12-10
CHAT FOR THE LADIES.

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gathers In the back.
CHERRY-PITs are very fragrant in
CRATE fire. This sort of perfume can be
had at the rate Of So quart.
Musk sachet powder sells at 81 an
ounce, and sandal wood at $3.50. Both
are exquisite to the senses, and revived
for the holiday trade.
You can pay S22 for a hair brush if
you haven't any other use for YOUR
money. But the back will be a study in
design and of solid silver, an heirloom
in fact that will endure for generations.
A MOST delicious perfume. fragrant
with the scent of sandal-wood. has
been introduced, and is likely to do vio-
lence to the popularity of the old IA
vorites, like violet and white blossom
extracts.
IMPORTED tooth brushes from English
and French houses are quoted at prices
| ranging from % cents to S. each. They
vary from the stiff to the very soft
bristle, and are mounted in bone, ivory,
ebony, plated silver and sterling.
ALL the bonbon cakes are strongly
favored with liquor These sweets,
which are the very acme of the con-
fectioner's art, retail at the rate of 81 a
pound. They are the size OF walnut,
contain about two mOuthfuls, and six
teen make a pound.
Now there are amber and custard
cupids in the air suspended by amber
and custard ribbons from the chandelier
and archway. The pudding-iaced stud
les in plaster, bisque, porcelain and
marble are anything but beautiful, and
yet their sale is enormous.
HAVE lots of fun, laugh all you can
and keep the sunshine in your heart if
you want to be well, young and popular.
The world hates woman with a grew
ance. 1t pays to be honestly happy.
There is absolutely no profit in being
blue and very little sympathy attending
it.
The pretty little crystal lamps with
their parasolette shades, the outcome Of
the fairy lamps, retail at So each. This
is the minimum price. If the lamp is g.
fine cut-glass affair and the shade is
milliner's triumph in fine satin, French
flowers and thread lace, the bill may be
$40 or $50.
You can get the material for Fife
plaid or Scotch cheviot dress for 5000.
To have it Piccadilly or even Madison
Square in style a band Of fur must be
put about the hem of the skirt, and the
neck and wrists of the basque This
means $50 worth of beaver and $40 worth
of sable. The making and Innings will
come to $50 if a tailor has a hand in it,
and that's the way the money goes.
ONE hears and reads more about the
hoyden than the well-bred woman.
This sweetly austere and gently repell-
ant lady does not wear paint on her lips
or lamp-black on her eyebrows. She
does not make up gaudy toilet for the
street, there are no diamonds in her
ears, no feathers in her bonnet, no
stick-pins in her jacket nor jewelled
pins in her hair. Her umbrella is not
silver-triInmed, neither is her purse.
She doesn't stare you out Of counte-
nance; her remarks are not cutting, and
her voice is never audible to third
person. She is gracious creature;
her influence is divine, her acquaint-
ance boon and her friendship bless
ing. Best of all, her name is legion.
THERE is nothing so impressive or ex-
pressve in the newly-appointed homes
Of culture as the wall quotation, simply
and clearly inscribed in black or brown
letters on frieze OF solid color. Every
woman can make her own selections,
which in a .measure become the motto
not only of her own lie but those about
her as we'll. A lady in Filth Avenue
has this couplet above her dressing
table:
I'll be as patient as gentle stream,
And make pastime of each weary step.
Above her dressing case is this ex-
tract:
Show your wisdom, daughter,
| And in your close patience
Have faith and endure.
The library wall bears this sentence
| quantity spaced on pale blue ground:
| Out of this silence yet picked welcome.
| THERE is nothing newer or more
artistic in the ftments of fireplace
than teakWood. Though very costly
and only to be encouraged in house
built on a strong family as we'll as fnan-
| cial foundation, the scheme is one which
can be made admirably harmonious in
| design and color, giving sense of
warmth, beauty and security entirely
appropriate to hearthstone. The fire
! is built in a cradle of blackened iron
and the hearth paved with dull red
tiles. Instead of a mirror the chimney
breast is panelled with the beautiful
| teakwood, the treatment of which may
| he bold or graceful In the side panels
fording the only place for decorative
art.
AS rybody knows, this is the tall
woman's season. Go to tailor. fur
rier or modiste, and no matter what
you select, the agent will Say: "But
madam has not the proper height"
Hat, cape, body, boa, dolman, top-coat,
pullback or fur bands-all call for a
Mary Anderson, Langtry. a Bern
hardt, Dorothy Stanley or a Duchess
of Marlborough to set them off. Beau
tifers and special artists are deluded
with letters asking for lotion or
treatment of some sort that will elongate
or alternate the unhappy but would-be
fashionable ''sawed-off." One letter
received by a Fifth Avenue manufac-
turer of toilet articles ran as follows:
DEAR MADAME: 1 am rich, but miser-
ably short. | want two inches added to
my height, and am willing to pay any
price for them
The same discomfort is known to ex-
list on the other side. and London firm
in Argyle Square is making a fortune
from the sale of an invisible elevator,
samples of which are sent free. The ell
evator consists of a pair of spring soles
which are made to tit boots and slip
peers. Aside from raising the altitude,
the elevators have a tendency to reduce