The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1853-08-23

\ THE CLOSE OF THE FASHIONABLE SEASON-AS-
ToNIsHlNG DISPLAY OF COMMON SENSE AT THE
WATERING PIACEs.-In the HERALD Of this date
we give several letters from our correspondents
at the fashionable summer resorts, and On the
principle that BLESSINGS brighten when they
take their fight" these tavors will be found
unusually piquant 1t is very sad fact for
the fast young men and women that the
season is nearly over. 1t closes with this week.
By the Goth Saratoga will be deserted and
Newport return to its usual winter state of
blasf stupidity. Fathers and husbands will
growl at hotel bills-small firtations between
young gentlemen who trade on the capital Of
brief mustache, tight trousers, bizarre shirt
studs petite walking canes, tremendous coats,
and young ladies whose attractions are made
up ofringlets, bad French and exquisite lingerie
will be abruptly broken off; while in other
quarters the most desperate endeavors will be
made to secure the great object Of the life Of
belle-a rich and good natured husband. The
scriptural injunction that zone shall be taken
and the other shall be left" will apply to these
conguests, though we are not aware that the
banks of the Jordan were ornamented with
fashionable hotels, or that the pool of Sloan
was the Congress Spring for the Fifth Ave
nucitcs Of Jerusalem. Will Layard ascer-
tain for us? He Eas found great many
wonderful things at Nineveh and he might
pick up piece Of bathing house at Acre or
billet d'dmour from the belle of Bethlehem.
The experiment would be worth trying.
The signs of the times display q very pleas
ing and astonishing fact in watering place an
mails. The close Of the season is no more TO be
celebrated with the bal costume, which Is very
amusing in Europe, but is a great bore here's
the characters ere never well sustained. or we'll
dressed. Your fat man always dresses for
Robert Macaire, or q deJardeur, while your
thin, lantern.iawed fellow essays bluff Harry
the Eighth, or Napoleon; your Charles the
Second thinks waltzng immoral because he
on bad champagne, fiirts with eli the women,
and is carried to bed by four servants. The
women are equally'gaucha, the blondes always
select characters which should be sustained by
bruncttes, and yice reysG. For these and many
other reasons we are ghd that the fashion ia
changed. The Saratoga season is to be closed
with regular old-fasbioDed Sir Roger dc
Coverley, chorus jig Virginia reel Hulls Vic
tory dance, where every ono con participate.
and where fat old stockholders can astonsh
the weak nerves of their afIectionatas heirs by
the display Of degree Of vigor which makes
the demise SO soon expected appear uncomforta-
bly, faT of in the perspective. That's the sort
Of thing. \ polka mazurke waltz, or roloBa,
is wen enough but we prefer Rory O'Moren
to al the quadnlles Of Strauss Lanner, Labitz-
Ky, or julien, for Terpischoresn purposes. u
is oil a matter Of taste, os was remarked ga
O certain occasion.
IN Northern New York, al some OF tie labe
houses, the wind up with grand deer hunt.
and IN Old Virginia. at the White SULPHUR
Springs tournament In the ordrc a. jour-
At Newport they might have pleasing H.
rertissemeat, by executing the Maine Liquor
law on ell tho hotel proprietors who have
charged too high for wines through the season.
Let US have no more Of the fancy balls bust.
ness The hing is old; lot the thing rest we
have had too much OF Tho thing. Ii 10 bore
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