The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1866-08-19
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We don't know whether it we're kind or not:
whether since we poor mortals go cherishing
decisions through feverish life; it were best
to destroy any Of these SO harmless as the
ideals ofwatering places Into how many lives,
and for how long have fancies of Saratoga
come with their mirage of social aspirations
and heartslongings eliminating and crowned
there with the actual of a social good of life
experience that it we're q life radiance to
sometimes enjoy, and life>weariness to al
ways be deprived Of. But . correspondent of
the New York Tribune devotes several col.
umns to description of Saratoga as it is. 1t
lifts the veil with which distance and sbsence
covers it and he brings it out With its hardness
and discomforts, and shabbiness; and brilliant
raggedness, and the sum total of it is that
once there, tone finds it to be drops of Com
gress water and the bubble reputation. One
day Of it is amusing, two are tedious. three
are saddening, and the fourth bids fair to
make one cynical for life So be calls. does
our correspondent, an audience unto himself
thus: 80, comely matrons who sit at home
and sigh to think of far>away glories you can
not share by reason of too lights purse-O.
| pretty young maidens who dream that vour
delicate beauty would unfold to brighter
bloom in the tropical atmosphere of these
great ball rooms, and weep because papa will
| not bring you when all the Smith girls are
here-ye who listen with credulity to the
whispers of fancy and pursue with cage mes.
the phantoms Of hope, who expect that ex.
perience win perform the promises of exnec.
tstion, and that the deficiencies of home will
be supplied BY the hotels, to these he de-.
scribes Saratoga-"dreariest of watering pl.,
ces"
He paints the ideal Saratoga and then tho
real one thus:
This is the actual Saratoga, the Saratoo.
OF to-day, and Of the hotels. Huge dining
halls with long walls Of staring white, with
much luster of silver services, and too heavy
spoons; ball rooms with the same shadowless
surfaces, with binding glare of gas, and
sitting atmosphere OF odors; u, Opera Honss
gaudy with light and tawdry with paint.
"From O'Clock till IL there streams into
the dining room q constant procession of
over>dressed women, of fippant and loud.
tongued men. Indeed, there is no time when
| the men are not loud Of tongue and the wo-
men over>dressed. The breakfast in robes
fitted, BY right Of value, to the ball rocm, -
By right Of tastefulnsss 70 The rse be-. Thesr
heads look like the modsis Of the London
Hairdresssss' Convention. Thsy sweep down
70 the Spring in robes whose delicate borders
bring back fringe Of mud or dust. They
lounge In the pariors, or on the piszxas in
costly saa sntsdy arry. TAsy disnepeasa
little while, and come down TO dinner Ia ri.
nent which dazslss, and, for lie bsisf hosfs
cfdancans Il ~ evening NO tongue shall AZ.
scribe their ruilss and aounces and furbe>
lows. Dress i pat : eapfta o6ense certainly
end good dressing i cordial virtne. ~;
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s.ve any young yDsnp for nos knowing that
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