Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1872-08-07
SarstOga.

Sarat0ga.
A correspondent of the Pittsburg Ga
zeae has been to Saratoga. a favorise
summer resort for a large portion OF the
three phrases Of Aristocracy in the land
money, blood and brains. He speaks
of their manner Of living as follows:
Well, this is the regular routine We
all ge: up at half-past eight and make q
general stampede for Congress aud ha
thorn Springs. three glasses. Sentimen-
tai young fellows invite their lady friends
a mile away over to the Geyser or down
to the Empire.
At nine we all eat our brook trout and
pig pork
At ten we all sit on the front balcony.
The old ladies gossip. talk ped'grees and
incomes. and do fancy work. AT this
hour old bachelors present bouquets and
retire. while good young fellows go out
and buy Lontons for the young ladies.
or take them to drink iron water or see
the the Injuns The fellows who have
teams drive over to Glen Mitchell or out
to the tn spring woods. while sentimen
tai and apooney fellows traipse the young
ladies' down to the Congress Park. bAc k
over to the village grave yard, or up TO
see the beautiful squaw.
At l2 the balconies are cleared. All
the young ladies are up stairs writing
letters to New York sweethearts. read
ing novels or dressing for dinner Color
ed boys now appear on the balconies
with brooms. sweep off cigar stubs.
broken fans, lost gloves and lost curls
At2 P NJ. the big dining room opens.
Darkies stand ready for so cent bribes
for woodcpck and soft shell crabs.
At 3 everybody comes out on the
balcony. the band plays. the fellows
smoke, and the newsboys shout the New
York morning papers. They cell more
evening papers here than morning. Peo-
pie say the morning papers are so dry
aud stupid, that they are sick of buying
their skim milk political trash.
FROM 3 to 5 we smoke. gossi P. read
the pape.s AMI gather ill groups to abuse
Jones and Harrison, and criticise new
Corners
At $50 we all go out to drive. Those
who don't go. sit by to criticise the turn
outs. and then corner pretty girls over
behind the piano.
The exclusive epicureans drive over to
Meyers Cedar Bluff Cottage. the regu
lars show their nobby clothes. eat fried
potatoes, aud stare at each other over at
! Moon and swell fellows with tands ms
and "tigers' take S4OO Paris dresses
around tie lake or off on new aud pic
] turesque roads. Some of the sentimcn-
tai fellows drop their Tigers" and go it
alone after they get out of town.
At the carriages get back. young Ia
! dies rush to their rooms to make evening
toilets, and the fellows see their horses
put out. punish few mint julips. and
rush into supper beside pretty girls
whoee fathers arc still driving over to
Meyers
| From to Q comes the swell balcony
dress parade. when every young lady is
expected to have a new dress and new
i beau to help her show it off Old bache
lors with dog carts now present bouquets
! and retire for the night
/ AT $50 bernstein strikes up Strauss
waltz in The hop roorn, the children
scramble in first, and we all follow after.
| The bal room now become, a fairy
scene-,he fellows in swallow tails or
-i----ii L. 9----l-.L-y yo-"e L,dia, IN low
necks and court trains. Married men
squeeze young ladies hands in the grand
chain. and wives 4 &c rersa.
! At p NJ the band stops-the ball
room emptirs. Alfred Pease plays the
Eli Perkins Galop' on the piano, sen
timental f,ilnws spoon young Clarendon
ladies' in retired balcony hooks. and gen
erous fellows order champagne punches
in the reception room, where they drop
orang peel and lemon juice over three
hundred dollar gas light green silks
! Mammas scold.
At IL imilnight) the grand parlors are
empty-the young ladies are asleep. and
wicked men start for John Morrissey
to smoke. gamble and eat game sup
| per. Kind old fathers now run across
verdant green sons. Mutual recogni-
tion, and swearing oa the part of young
men.
So ends day at Saratoga-a day full
of wisdom. health. pride, love. folly, dis
sipation aud damaged dresses
The sporting. the gay class. and the
political element patronize the largest
hotel-the Union. The wealth of the
place nesrles itself in the next stylish of
hotels-,he Congress. while the ortho-
doxv and the aristncracv Of the family
element locate themselves at the smallest
the coolest. and cnnfessedly the cleanest
of hotels-the Clarendon
Perhaps the most Characteristic feature
of Saratoga life this season is the racing
and betting mania which seems to have
taken possession alike of the male and
female visitors at Saratoga. Az men
toned in previous letter in the IVorH.
the fair sex evince less interest in
toilet and in terpsichore than has been
their wont hitherto. and have transferred
their worship to the goddess Chance
Ladies here bet gloves, or even money,
at horse races. just as regularly, and
more eagerly than the men; while in the
intervals of horse they devote themselves
to cards. 1t is currently rumored
though we are not able to vouch for it,
that one of the leading hotels here has
an apartment. elegantly fitted up, which
is used exclusively as the ladies club or
card parlor; and one thing il certain,
ladies do play cards here. and play them
for money. and do not hesitate to allude
to the fact. just as openly and. for aught
we know, as innocently as they confess
to reading the daily papers
A woman named Downs was lately
tried and acquitted at Hartford on a