The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1873-08-01


icled as success in Saratoga records.
p Saratoga is emphaticalIy the place of
hotels. So near together are they that
you have a ghalf-dozens in one. The
streets are but the balls there is no
such thing as outdoors, unless you
drive out of town. Vel on the pi-
azzas rather than in rooms. : Ladies
meander about in all directions with
out hats you may think they had lost
them, did 1T not occur to you how much
less likely the dear creatures are to lose
their hats than their heads. This free
dom on all sides, the general sans facon,
gives you a delightful home feeling !;
you feel that you are among friends, the
pretty girls seem your sisters, the ugly
ones, cousins-how far removed You
don't care. The rich old ladies are
your aunts you forgive the crusty. mil
lionaries who stump around on -gouty
toes, grumbling at your cigar smoke,
for not being related to you, and would
let them consider you as one of the fam
lily if they choose, anything to oblige
them. Doing the society business be-
comes less irksome to you than it could
be under any other conditions. Here
are all your friends within a stones
throw but as one doesn't want to
throw stones at ones friends, perhaps I
had better say that your enemies are
within that distance if you want to shy
rocks at them. Making calls is no
trouble at all, and you regret that
New-year's does not come off while
you're up here it would beso nice, too,
to go round drinking congress water in
stead of wine af s ~
'Picture it, think of it, Ir
l. wE l.s DissolUte man. ? 80 a-f laE..
The combination of business and
! pleasure shadowed forth in this sugges-
tiOn must commend itself to the most
dissipated and disordered intellect.
Much has been said of the extraVagant
charges at Saratoga. Have Inot shown
conclusively that nothing could be more
reasonable, all things considered ?
People putting up here forget that they
really stop. at half-a-dozen hotels, and
are not expected to pay any more than
| if they stopped at only two or three.
But, seriously, there is something to be
said counter to the charge of extrava-
giant charges. The Proprietors of the
! Grand Union, for instance, pay a rental
of $40, 900, and even at that rate the
1,a1o
interest on its value The house is only
open four months of the year, and of
these four months, two are a sort of
dead open-and-shut on the proprietors,
SO far as profit is concerned. July and
August are really all that the Iessees
have to get their money in. They make
/ long reaches for it in those eight weeks,
and do pretty well, taking the difficult
! ties of the case into account but l
don't believe any one could get me to
take a hand at the game, notwithstand-
ing that Tn not averse to turning an
honest penny. I'd rather be a boarder
Very much the same may be said of the
other hotels, I fancy, though I have
made no deep. scrutiny into the ex-
penses they are under the fact is, 1
have given up all idea of going into
the summer-hotel business. And so
far I have not circulated around much.
finding it pleasanter to sit in room
and write from imagination than to be
out in the rain without an umbrella
J gathering facts.
| In Congress hall, however, I remark
no changes; the furniture is about as it
was. / thought, indeed, that / detec-
ted a new spittoon or two, and boot
jack that was not there last year. But
one never can be certain about spit
toons sometimes you think it new
one, and It's only the old one washed
and the boot-iack I have since learned
belongs to a guest, and was left lying
around Inadvertently It may be that
he set out to catch pair of boots that
he had lost, for a good deal of leather
gets adrift over there. Five years ago,
the first year the house was opened, ]
/ rashly set out pair Of shoes in the hall
to- be cleaned. HIn,the morning they
were gone. Next night I set out pail
of boots, and in the morning the shoes
were there and the boots were gone
7 As I had rater lose the shoes than the
1 boots, I next night set out the shoes
and, as delicate intimation of my read
mess for trade, also set out a pair O.
old slippers Next morning, both slip
i pers and shoes were gone. I had moth
ing left for bait. and the proprietor
said he was only responsible for things
deposited in the safe at the office.
always put on my oldest feathers nov
when I go across the way, apprehensiv,
that the same boot-and-shoe fend MAJ
be about. .f-....s .---
j The Clarendon has new parlor suite
4 notice, in exquisite taste. There is 4
quiet elegance about this house, whicl
J. eommends it to those who wish to b,
in the world and yet not of the world
The guests are of the serene kind .the7
don'tread newspapers, or. bother them
7 selves about what is going on ten rod
. from them. No noise is ever heard a
the clarendon; attaches and visitor
alike glide gently and GRACEFUL,
around, the floors are carpeted 81:
inches deep, the children as well as tn
chairs are set on rollers, the door
swing ON well-oiled hinges; if tn
joints of even a guest creak he is a
once informed that his room is wantet
but his rheumatism IS not everything
is in the minor key, except. the proPri
etor, who Is a major of militia
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