Nashville union and American. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1868-1875, 1870-09-15
SARATOGA SECRETS.
The Dark Lining OF the silver Cloud
Paint, Powder and PlumPerS.

The Dark Lining OF the silver Cloud
Paint, Powder and PIumPerS.
Correspondence of the New York Evening Mail.
The gay season of Saratoga Is almost
over. Every Cay the various trains whirl
hundreds away TO their far off and scat
tered homes. '- '< &c
The dark-eyed bellies of the sunny
South, the piquant, bewitChing maidens
from the land which CLOVIS beneath the
setting sun, the staid daughters from New
England homes, and the stylish, fashion
age beauties of the North, who have
gathered here, Ike SO many, butterflies in
quest OF roses, who have each striyen to
eclipse an others by their wOndrOus toilets
and Lewldering charms-al these have
furled their defiant little flags. packed
their trunks reluctantly, whispered sad
fsrewells to their respondent admirers,
andflitted away like beautiful dreams to
prepare for the winters campaign.
The beautiful dresses which have rus
tied luXuTiously through the paTlOr and
along the piazza are ANONYMOUSLY en-
tombed in crowded trunks, and the jew
els which have flashed their liquid light
beneath the chandeliers. enhancing the
beauty of their wearers, and dazzling the
ewes of the behOlders, are consigned to
blazing unseen within their dark caskets,
to. emerge glOriously when some fitting
occasion shall offer, but no more to il
lumine the haunts of Saratoga the pow
der boxes, rouge pots, extra puffs, curls
and frizzes-which are scarcely available
while travelling are carefully stored
In =, nV,v6l1v,al in
many wrappiDgs and shrouded in dreadful
mystery
Did you ever meet and converse with q
lady whom al first glance you took TO be
Young and, perhaps, beautiful? and who,
as yCu scanned her closely, seemed TO
grow suddenly older, five years older ev-
cry minute that you talked withhGr, until,
if you were able to continue your CONVEX
satiOn with a grOJOt,lg horror for one
half hour, you felt that you stood before
a woman old enough TO be Methuselah' S
grand-mOtherl Have you noticed that
her strange accent while talking was
caused ny the PLUMBERS which she
wore in her mouth to fill out her sunken
chcCksl - ,. E ~
Did you mark that her eyebrows were
falsel that she could not call one hair of
her elaborate chiqnOn her own that her
face was enameled to the last degrees that
her wrinkled neck and meatre Shoulders
were concealed beneath false throat and
bust of sunny whitencss and false proper
tions, and that The place where this artful
COntrivance was fastened was skillfully
hidden by a diamond necklace? Did YOU
notice thI her elegant dresses, which fit
superby, displaying apparently "a form
PrAxitelcs might worship" were So fash
toned Icy the cunning hand Of the French
DaodiStc as 70 present the sylph-like figure
of sixteen rather than that of an octogc-
naliaul " ...I
If you have seen and noticed all this
YOU will have some true conception OF
the dreddttd secrets which some OF
those Saratoga trunks convey from
place 10 place. Their worn and spectral
owner follows them anxiously, like 8
spectre in search of its substance, and
tremble to think of the frightfHl eonse
ouences which would ensue should thai
baggage be lost