The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1870-06-03
A PERUVIAN SARATOGA.
How the Ladies' Dress and Behave
The Brunette style OF Beauty.


The Brunette style OF Beauty.
Chorrillos, the great watering place
of Peru, whose summer season is now
drawing to a close, Is seven miles out
side of Lima. A lady correspondent OF
the NJ Y Mail disclOses some other i'm
pressiOns received at this fashionable
resort.
Chorrillos, we are told, has no hotel,
although there is q very humble res
taurant and saloon dignified by that
name, but accommodating only a very
few families. All the wealthy Peruvi-
ans either buy or build residences in
ChOTrillOs, 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 CalIaO, and left without q ss2HRpt,
and always found unmoleste
end of three or four months sd
Nearly every one lives from
or eating houses, having then 8
sent to him by the Fonda servants all
ready cooked at so much a 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
sbS and asleep all day, except at six or
eleven y. NJ, when they emerge, in
white wrappers and covered by the in
evitabIe black mantle, for the sea bath.
g HOW THEY BATTLE.
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, all promise that the Lima9iRr1
has not been unjuStly noted for
and beauty and for fine figure an
though always short, stout and inclined
to enbOnpOint) and as we see these
beautiful women in 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 ma
possess millions, is as simple as possible.
In Newport she must be up all night
dancing, and early at morn 70 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 ore 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 a
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
y in ChOrrillOs until after4 p. NJ.
At p. NJ. dinner is announced, and
very one appears in full dress and
adOrnment. As soon as the dinner is
curtain rolled up to the ceiling Now
begins the gossip, the shoppip visit
ing and life.
Asthe LimanianS are aIS lark (aIbeit
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, corn color, pink
and green, and not often too many
colors at once. But they look better
in white, with some bright color III
their hair, although they are very
snowy women. Any person who has
fair skin, light hair and blue eyes, if
with any pretentiOns to good looks, is
considered beautiful, and blondes are
in great demand. The Peruvians are
very fond of pOwdering their black
hair and wearing the very whitest of
wigs, thus adding startling effect to
their cleaning black eyes.
The life of a ChorTilIos belle, like
that of any other fashionable vOtary, is
one long round of dress and dissipation,
yet having the long unbrOken siestas
in the day they can morL easily endure
the night festivities, and it is certain
that they return to Lima after a season
lOf bathing with clearer olive complex
IN, and fresheT, ruddier bloom on the
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