The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1850-1873, 1870-06-03
A PERUVIAN SARATOGA.
How the Ladies' Dress and Behave
The Brunette style OF Beauty.

Chorrillos, the great watering place
of Peru, whose summer season is now
drawing to q close, Is seven miles out
side of Lima. A lady correspondent of
the ~ Y Mda discloses some of her i'm
pressiOns received at this fashionable
resort. .34-
Chorrillos, we are told, has no hotel,
although there is very humble res
taurant and saloon dignified by that
name, but accommodating only very
few families. All the wealthy Peruvi-
ans either buy or build residences in
Chorrillos, removing thence their en-
tire families, servants and all, as soon
as the summer season begins; unlike
our wealthy families in New York,
who shut up their houses on going to
the seaside, only to find that burglars
have been occupying and desOlating
them on their return home. The hous-
es are well locked and secured in Lima
and Callao, and left without q sevant,
and always found unmOlested at the
end of three or four months sOjUllrn.
Nearly every one lives from FOndas,
or eating houses, having their meals
sent to him by the Fonda servants all
ready cooked at SO much month.
During the day the long linen curtains
are down, and the fair creatures who
occupy the houses are never seen, being
always en- dishabille, if not really in
bed and asleep all day, except at six or
eleven A. NJ, when they emerge, in
white wrappers and covered by the in
evitable black mantle, for the sea bath.
-.. HOW THEY BATHE.
The hair is braided in two long
switches and hangs down the back
stays, hoops, rings and earrings are laid
aside. The black manta entirely COW
ers the head and face. and all but the
eyes, and the fair damsel goes in coach
or on foot to her bath, with one servant
and without any adornment. But the
tiny little feet, as they peep out in the
embroidered slipper, and the pretty
little ungloved hand holding the manta
up to the face and under the chin, and
the very sweep of the long skirt, which
must on no account be raised to expose
the feet, ali promise that the Limanian
has not been unjustly noted for grace
and beauty and for q fine figure (al-
though always short, stout and inclined
to enbonpoint) and as We see these
beautiful women i'm the early morning,
and without establishment, they are,
to my thinking, far handsOmer than
when the four o'clock toilette has sent
them out ribbons and satins, laces and
diamonds, walking dresses, paint and
powder, and all the paraphernalia of
art complete. The fashionable life of
a belle at Chorrillos, although she may
possess millions, is as simple as possible.
In Newport she must be up all night
dancing, and early at morn TO bathe in
the most elaborate morning toilette.
Then she rides or drives, and dresses as
often, averaging six dresses per day.
No wonder she is jaded and worn. But
our Lima beauty is not visible before 4
p. NJ, and then only to go to her bath
in the most simple and neglige OF wrap
pers, her hair unbound, her dress q
plain loose white pique, and no orna-
ment whatever. Then she returns to
her siesta, to lie in bed and smoke her
cigarette and sleep, and no one dreams
of intruding upon the privacy of fam
ily i'm Chorrillos until after p. NJ.
At p. NJ. dinner is announced, and
eyery one appears in full dress and
adornment. As soon as the dinner is
removed the balcony is cleared and the
curtain rolled up to the ceiling. Now
begins the gossip, the shopping, visit
ing and life
Asthe Limaniaus are all dark (albeit
they use SO much powder) and have, all
of them, such magnificent black hair
and lustrous black eyes, they are very
fond of all high colOrs-wear a great
deal of scarlet, orange, corr color, pink
and green. and not often too many
colors at once. But they look better
, i'm white. with some bright color in
their hair, although they are very
snowy women. Any person VINO mas
fair skin, light hair and blue eyes, IL
with any pretentions to good looks, Is
considered beautiful, and blondes are
i'm great demand. The Peruyians are
very fond of powdering their black
hair and wearing the very whltest OF
wigs, thus adding startling effect 10
their cleaning black eyes.
The life of a Chorrillos belle, ike
that of any other fashionable votary, Is
one long round of dress and dissipation,
vet having the long unbroken siestas
i'm the day they can NOR easily endure
the night festivities, and it Is certain
that they return to Lima after season
of bathing with clearer olive complex
ion, and fresher, ruddier bloom on the
dark cheek.
There is hope for short men, for a
German professor has shown by expe-
riment that the bones of the legs can
be heightened by local irritation. BY
inserting ivory pegs in one OF the leg
bones of dog eight weeks old, ne pro-
duced in four months an elongation OF
four-tenths of an inch.