Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1899-12-12
IN GAY NEW YORK.
FOR THE CENSOR


FOR THE CENSOR.
First date your news back twenty days;
Talk big of Boer loss.
insert some facts diScreetly stale
And slightly grown with moss
Then air your dearest theories,
What Buffers going to do.
PerhapS-I thiQk-Im not quite sure
The. censorll let it through.
New York Herald.
Mrs. Frederick Dent Grant is at West
Point, where she has gone to be near
her son, Ulysses S. Grant, who is a ca
Diet there.
The report that the Princess Cantu
cuZene was to spend the winter at Nice
and Cairo was false, as Mrs. L. S.
Grant relates the contents of a letter
from her granddaughter, which describes
entertainingly the arrival of the prince
and princess in Odessa. After they
crossed the Russion border they were
driven to the estate Of fhe prince, where
the peasants all along the road collect
ed to welcome them with the quaint
custom of the land, offering them bread
and salt.
Gossip from London says Mrs. Langtry
is going to sell all her racing stud. This
she does at the desire of her husband,
who does not believe it raises a woman's
position to keep race horses. Since her
marriage Mrs. Langtry's position has
changed a great deal, and she is gradual
~ falling back into society again, among
her good friends being Lily Duchess of
Marlborough. She is said to be looking
so we'll since her marriage that everyone
who sees her remarks upon it. Mrs. De
Battle is very busy just now getting
ready many dresses of wondrOus beauty
for her trip to the United States.
Owing to mourning in several of the
prominent families of the fashionable set
many familiar faces will be missing from
the opening of grand opera on Monday,
December IS. Others will fill their
places however, sure to prove interesting
through the double power of beauty and
wealth. Among these will be the George
Crockers, with the Misses Rutherford
and Miss Laura Patterson Swan, who is
soon to make her debut under the aus
pieces of her mother. Mrs. Elisha Dyer,
Jr. Mrs. William Astor will be present
as usual in all the glitter of her famous
jewels. The list of boxholders was made
public today and embraces names ia
miliar in previous seasons.
The latest bit of news from Paris is
that Yyette Guilbert has had kidney
removed. Her description of the opera
ton is prose poem. 1T is as simple as
anything" she said to a Figaro CORE
spondent. They cut buttOnhOle i'll your
back just big enough to let out the kid
ney, of which the doctors relieve you as
easily as though it were a useless piece of
furniture. Then they sew up the button
hole again, and there you are. l shall
have only one kidney when | reappear at
the Folies- Bergeres in February. 1t will
be an additional attraction" 1t seems
that Mile. Guilbert has been suffering
f,.Nr, D1y~.%,
symptoms declared themselves shortly
after her initial season in New York,
four years ago. She attributes her illness
to overwork and tight lacing.
News came from the northeastern cor
ner Of the country last week that a would
be public benefactOr known as the PIE
King of New England had invented
sanitary pie, 1t is pie, the dispatches
say, that is made under perfect hygeinic
conditions, and IS warranted to be per
fectly digestible." Senator Chauncey NJ
Depew, who, it was supposed, on account
of his recent public declaration against
give the invention a boom. could not say
enough IN favor of the good, Od-fash-
Toned New England pastry ''All artificial
things are bad, the senator said. ITO
attempt to produce the results of New
England pie by the substitution of a hy-
gienic article would be failure One
might as well try to get a blood stirring
gallop on a hobby horse in the nursery.''
Sir Thomas Iipton's offer of the Erin
as hospital ship has been declined by
the British government with thanks. 4
cargo boat such as the Maine is more
suitable and more easily turned into a
hospltaf ship. Sir Thomas, since his re-
turn to London from America, talks CON
stantly of the hospitality with which he
was received on the other side of the wa
ter. 1t made a deep and lasting impress
sion on him. He relates with gusto how
when he left Admiral Dewey's ship the
sailor 5 lined up, each holding in one hand
a packet of the tea with which Sir Thorn
as had presented them when they reached
Ceylon. He gave five pounds to each
man and twenty pounds to each officer.
lie Il relates how one day 800 butcher boys
IN the costume Of their calling, with
KNIVES and Steels complete, assembled
and shook hands with him; also how i'm
the theaters people used to cry out
w hats the matter with Tommy? He's
all rightl'
Curiosity among the residents at Lake
wood has been piqued to the utmost by
the report that Mrs. George Gould will
once more appear upon the stage during
the Christmas holidays. Before her mar
rage to the head of the Gould family
Mrs Gould was Miss Edith Kingdom of
Augustin Days company. She left the
stage before her marriage. and has never
since then taken part in tneatricals De-
tails IN regard to her return to the stage
are being carefully guarded in order that
the surprise in store for her guests may
be the more complete. but it IS said that
the Duke Of Manchester will appear as
leading man in the play that is to be pre-
sented. 1t is understood that the play
will be presented on an elaborate scale.
and that none of the theatrical accesso-
rles will be lacking. 1t is said that after
the holidays Mrs. Gould, with Lady
Mary Sackville. who is to be her guest.
will visit the Countess of Mimic in the