Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1869-08-21


be- false to my State and to the Republi-
can principles which i have always
maintained, il longer retained the
office to which your kind preference has
assigned me. le g8 q
1 am, very respectfully, your obedient
servant, G. GORDON ADAMS.
Seen with woman's Naked Eye.
From Kate Fields letters in N. Y. Tribune.l
Whst do people talk about in Sarato-
ga? First, horses, then betting. then
suppers, dinners, etc, then women. 1t
may be good place for matchmaking,
but doubt it. doubt it for the reason
that there are so few eligible men here,
and those few are so exceedingly averse
to matrimony. What the young women
do am at o loss to imagine. / should
think, however, that they would enter for
the " Consolation stakes" To get up q
wardrobe, array yourself in three dresses
per day, pay large hotel bill, and then
not kill your game, must be the worst pos
sible investment. 1t was only the other
day a mother complained, in scceats not
unlike those of that lone, lone creetur,
Mrs. Gummidge, what a terrible trial
Saratoga was to her. She had brought
her two daughters here for three seasons,
and they were still on her hands. Aye,
madam, and they will remain there. The
men who seek wives at Saratoga are for
tune-hunters. Go home and eet your
daughters to honest work, and then per-
haps they will find honest husbands.
But the butterflies Zap their wings aad
dance and fit in spite of odds against
them. A butterfly in one balance and a
horse in the other The clothes have
seen during the past week are the most
wonderful panorama ever beheld. For
" loudness and startling effects / do not
believe they can be equaled except oy the
wardrobe of Niblo's Garden. Indeed so
many OF the women resemble the super
numeraries Of the Black Crook and
White Fawn that sometimes think i
must be seated in the psrquette of the
thealer. There are the blondes, the
girls Of the period" as they are called
here, with Just such heads as lorgnettes
have been pointed at for 80 long time,
with Just such decolletees dresses. If
the skirts are not as short az the waist, it
is owing to a wretched conventionslity
that still draws a line somewhere. There
are the ladies who enamel, and they have
husbands? What must these men be
made Off And these women dress, and
then dress, and then dress. For what 7
To attract the attention of vulgar men
who study them as they would prize
animals, and use no refined language in
discussing their points. 1t is most horri-
BILE, and do not see how any woman Of
modesiy or sensibility can be willing 10
subject herself TO such coarse sorutiny.
For a woman to dress to CRAFTY those
who know and appreciate her, is not only
a pleasure but duty. To put herself on
exhibition for the benefit of the general
public 10 such a lowering of womanhood
as no one who respects the seq cares
to see. ias rarlH la T1fea
If woman had common sense there
would be comparatively little display. In
the first place no one is of consequance
in great crowds unless she chooses to
make herself conspicuous. ln the second
place ne woman can enjoy any comfort
outside of the hotel Enless she wears
short dress, and at Saratoga any but the
stoutest walking dresses will quickly be
ruined by the dust. Therefore, TO appear
in expensive toilets, women must forego
every form OF exercise but that of driving.
This, too. in s9mper-the season for opt
door life Aud, after ell, What is gained
BY this extravagance Men do not make
such fools Of themselves. Nothing can
be prettier than the present style Of short
dresses, few of which would be all
Sufficient for the ordinary hotel life. A
pretty face is pretty, and an ugly face is
urly, no nattsF vhet the clothes may be
A good fitting goEn, Q tasieh,lly dressed
head, decent boot and glove, are the
important features Of wopap's toilet,
and eny oBs who possessed lhese re-
auisites will be beauty 1t she 10
beauty, and will assuredly be lady II
she is fortunate enough TO have been
born aud bred So To try to be one or
the other ia ths sgeiehed comedy that Is
daily played at Ssratogs, 70 the ssiisfac-
ton of no one and the disgust Of many.
Alsck and slasl
Tknrs is the youug lady who sings in
the public parlor; there 10 tue yosBg
gentleman who plays values on the piano
to sdmiring young ladies'; there is music
by the band; there are hops; there is
Irritation unlimited aud playing With fire,
but it is all play. Nobody is injured but
those who bet heavy amounts and play
with the tiger. Vauxhslrs failure to-day
has spread gloom over the toYu. Said .
shop-keeper: "Vasxhall's dsieat will
make q great difference in trade. ALI
nv customers have lost, and ! shall leave
to.morrow." Such is life here. Every
body is grssping for money. Even the
dipping boys ct the springs look to vis-
itors for their piitsnce, instead Of being
paid regular salary by the hotel-keep-
ers. New York papers cannot be bought
for less than ten cents AZ the hotels, while
at a bookstore on Broadway they are
sold for half that amount. Every
stranger is an orange to be squeezed dry.
Let those who like this heroic treatment
try IT, Like the desperate shop keeper,
shall leave Saratoga in the first train
tomorrow morning.
The end Of it ell is this: IL you are a
man, you despise women; Il yon are Q
woman, you despise men. The lesson,
therefore, is bad. and the sooner you fnd
au sntidote the better.