The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-01
JOHN PAUL At SARATOGA.
Isaratoga letter to New York Tribune.I


[saratoga letter to New York Trfbune.I
..-.e r. - SARATOGA, July, %.
81 wonder why people don't come to
Saratoga in June, when the hotels are
less crowded, and the thermometer and
prices are lOwer?" -- a#s
We were sitting on the broad piazza,
Mr.. Spriggins and I, with our heels
comfortably elevated above our heads.
It was I that spoke. ...-- ..-- -.
Reasons enough why not" replied
Mr.. Spriggins. g In the first place, no.
body wants to come when there's no
body here /; everybody comes for the
sake of seeing everybody. They don't
come to drink the waters, and if they
did they wouldn't come in June this
filing one's-self with salt water is bad
enough with the mercury at 90, but
who wants to pickle and repeat with it
down in the sixties Man isn't a mack
ere1. The De Mulligans and, Van
Murphys don't come in June because
La Rourkes and Van O'Tooles are not
coming till July, and the La Rourkes
and Van O'Tooles don't come in June
because it is understood that the De
Mulligans and Van Murphys won't be
here till july The fact is, no man
with family could get here earlier if
he wished to- There's. Mrs. Spriggins,
for instance she's been getting. ready
ever since lent, and says she isn't fit to
/ be seen, now. And / don't think she
| is, myself; woman of her age with ali
those gewgaws on "a red thingumbob
over a yellow what-d'ye-call-it and the
rear struck out, made bufanty,' she
calls it, with steel spring thin~-amy.
! We've been married nigh on 30y6ar,
and I'm bald as a cobble-stone, bald as
an asphalt pavement, for that matter,
and you don't think she's bald or moth
ing o no, I guess not. Why, she's
been fixing for Saratoga these three
months past, and I've Clipped out
enough to set up grocery store, and
when we started, yesterday morning,
she said she wasn't half ready yet, and
that was always hurrying her, and that
she had nothing to wear thatwould take
people down. I told her Just to wear
it, then, and 1 guessed they'd be took
down considerably. Come here in June
A man with a wife at his back couldn't
get here in June, unless he started
to get ready in January, and then, with
six months at it, the chances are she'd
burst him so he couldn't come at all. y
And, biting his cigar viciously, Mr..
Spriggins disappeared in the vicinity OF
the Hathorn spring, stopping to kick at
small boy who intercepted him with
g ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS for 80
cents"
"The idea of seeing Saratoga for sc
cents p heard him mutter, low down
in his beard. r-..-..--
Mr.. Spriggins has had several serious
conversations with me regarding lis
wife's extravaganza indeed, married
men are very apt to come to me for al
vice in that particular, knowing that
I've tanned several female % cruisers. ,
tell him to decline to pony, refuse IL
ante, object to pungle in short, to put
: his foot down. He says he has on sev
eTal occasions, but it has only end d il
his being obliged to put his hand dow
deeper. You see SpEiggins dabbles IL
stocks, and the spring "stringency
troubled him. -
The hotels are not very full as yet
? though the proprietors say they hav,
quite as many guests as at a CORES
/ pOnding period, last year. I could
scarcely have believed this badI no
9 looked over the statistics and found i
to be true not that I doubt the veraci
ty of landlords generally as a race
they are veraciOus, and may be reIiet
s on, though occasionally, at rare inter
j walls, you run across one who will lie
3 For instance, I have known some of th,
r fraternity to charge only half as mucl
/, as they agreed to, and give. only twicr
what they promised to but. as befOr,
a remarked, these instances are rare. an,
t may be considered as the exceptions
e proving the rule to the contrary. Tt i
well, however, to take the statements o
i hotel men with some grains of allow
e ance, for they are the most hopeful o
; nortals, always seeing the future i
4 roseate cOlors, and the past as it NIGH
i have been, rather than as it-was, neve
a desPaiIing until the last gun is fire,
and the last guest gone Off The sea
; son, however, is beginning to promis
$ well. Guests are foeking in it has pen
: haps leaked ont that am here, aud
is probable that, notwith standing en-
Vienna exposition, and the fact tina
a none of the old springs have d1ed n
d and several new ones have been discoy
cred, the summer of 1873 will be chror