Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1868-07-22
Saratoga Springs i'm New YorIk-The
Reign Of ShOddy--A Picture OF

Reign Of shoddy--A Picture OF
Fashion"
The following description Of Fashion" at
that fashionable watering place, Saratoga
Springs, is given in the "Saratoga correspon-
dence" of the Boston Post
This world-renowned Baden-Baden OF Amer,
lea, is rapidly filling up with the stereotyped
Saratoga summer society, which Of course en-
braces old doWagers, Congress wateriowIs,
pretty girls, heavy sWells, bogus Indians, trans
parent sholdyites, itinerant preachers, lmagln-
airy and real invalids, keno players, greasy men,
French miliners, Flora McFlimseys and count
less well-bred, genteel, common sense and re-
fined specimens of humanity. The regular
old school, Congress waterfowl IS GENIAL,
Jolly jocose old barnacle, whose nasal organ Is
as roseate as boiled lobster, and one would
suppose, to view it with the naked eye, that Its
proprietor had once INDUCED in some potatlon
other than Congress water which seldom pro-
duces the same effect that old rye u ways does.
The present is like other preceding fashionable
seasons Everybody and everything is so char
those darling Emma james, are clad in smiles,
crimps are elongated trails, which they drag
about after them as if they enjoyed the drag
ging process. Shoddy disports itself in dla-
monds, full dress, and vulgarl.y at be break
fast table, loud swells wilt shoddyitcs through
eye-g glasses, Flora McE'limsey is in admirable
confusion with her forty-eleVen tul-groWn oa-
ratoga trunks, and the genteel portion or So
cety is Enthusiastically genteel and retiring
Congress Hall is the great nucleus OF shoddy'
and within its massive walls may be found that
most remarkable aSsemblage, currently known
hereabouts, as the shoddy mutual admiration
society. We breakfastcd there this morning
and were quite amused with the Shoddy utl,
uuette, the gorgeous breakfast toilets, and the
astounding teats performed by the army OF
knife swaowcrs, who absolutely and entirely
ignore the fork and frequently impcrll their
precious lives in their ambitious attempts to
eclipse each other in their daring knife leafs -
When we see my Lord and Lady DAzz' e radl,
ating in diamonds at the breakfast tab G, and
she engineering large sections Of an omeiette
from plate to mouth with her knlle, We are
forcibly reminded Of shoddy. When Dazzle
Junior (call him twenty or thcrcabouts,) re-
CARELESS of the butter-knifc, plunges his own
into the butter, We shudder, wonder " nat next
Lady Dazzle expresses her royal opinion that
the corn bread is COMPOUNDED hot, and Lord
Dazzle very audibly responds, that's so my
Dazzle is study so is my Lady Dazzle,
and it is amusing to see the Dazzlcs dine, rs
we did to-day at Congress Hall. The DaZzles
are perfectly az fat with their knlics, and she
smiles the sweetest when it is inserted between
her false teeth, which she cut when Dazzle OBJ
tanned his first sh0ddy contract. The .DazZies
at the dinner table arc hungry and busy
community. They remind one OF Mrs. Samp-
son Savage, who said ''Whcn | CATS cats,
and when | talks, talks. They give their
whole minds to their dinners; they know no
body but their waiter; they see nothing but
their bill OF fare and their plates, and seldom
open their lips, only to eat and drink, tunc-
tons which they seem to perform with great
address, Look at DazzIe's nose. IL is a pug,
a most decided pug, and seems to take infinite
delight in making old Dazzle appear ridiculous.
At times it will turn up; at other times
diminish and refuse support TO his very
pcrccptable eye glass, which we arc half lncn-
ed to believe he wears for effect because he
always looks over them. At dinner, tod1y,
this same little nose pokcd fun at pGor Dazzle
most shameluly, when Lady Dazzle, who had
been iutpntly studying dish Of macaronI, APP
piled to Dazzle, by L series OF unecllng nudges,
to throw hight on the subject, and tell her what
said dish might be. He closely Inspected tie
dish, until his glass eyes Snu Scntv Gown HIS
dear and diminutive petking nose, into the
macaron, and lying there, seemed to look up
and laugh at the discOmitted Dazzle, who,
after exricaling and polishing them with his
napkin, rcmouutcd them On his mlschlcvous
little pug aud commenced sounding the dish
with his knife, but not until he had tasted it
could he determine what it was, and having
tasted, pronounced it ''checSc," which piece OF
information seemed to satisfy Mrs. Dazzle, as
much as it tickIed the cOlorcd African, stand
ing behind her chair. Charles Dickens, in
"reminiscences Of his school days, said when
ever we see any one intenty occupied with his
nose, to tic exclusion of all other subjects,
our mind revcrts with flash to Jimmy Nix, .
and it would seem that numerous shoddyltcs,
partaking Of Jimmy Mix's peculiarities, are
now sojourning at Congress Hall in short, all
the would-be shoddies, as we'll as many who
are by no means shoddy, domlciIe there, be-
cause the hotel prices are SO dellclousy cxpcn-
sive, viz five dollars per day, ana the arrange
mens of the house so eXqulsiteIy perfect and
attractive. H.. * ... 49,"
A New York clerk, who came up to do
Saratoga at moderate tariff, and return the
same day. was appalled, at the sight Of his bill
at the Congress, and obliged to negotiate a loan
before he could pay his car fare home. ~... !