The Rutland daily globe. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1873-1877, 1873-07-19
.,eglN pNeJE Al SARATOGA.
incidents of naotci Life.

Saratoga Letter to New York Tribunc.l
81 wonder why people don't come to
Saratoga in June, when the hotels are less
crowded, and the thermometer and prices
are lowcr!"
We were sitting on the broad piazza, Mr..
Spriggins and |, with our heels comfort
ably elevated above our heads. 1t was |
that spoke.
"Reasons enough why rot" replied Mr..
Spriggns. 'In the first place, nobody
wants to come when there's nobody 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 filling one's-sclf with salt wa
ter is bad enough with the mercury at 30,
but who wants to pickle and repeat with it
down in the sixties? Man isn't Il mackercl
The De Mulligans and Van Murphcys don't
come in June because the 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 Murpheys won't
be here till July. The fact is, no man with
a 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
1 uOIl tlllh silt Is, scll-i WOilldh VI
her age with all those gewgaws on IA red
thingumbob over a yellow what-dye-call-it
and the rear stuck out-made 'buffanty,'
she calls it-with steel spring thingamy.
We've been married nigh on 30 year, and
I'm bald as a cobble-stoue, bald as an as
plalt pavement, for that matter, and you
don't think she's bald or nothing Oh no.
| guess not. Why, she's been fixing for
Saratoga these three months past, and I've
Clipped out enough to set up II grocery
store, and when we started yesterday morn
ing, she 81 id she wasn't half ready yet and
that was always hurrying her, and that
she had nothing to wear that would take
then, and 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 jan
uary, and then. with six months at it, the
chances are shd burst him so he couldn't
come at all" And, biting his cigar vicious
ly, Mr.. Spriggins disappeared in the vicin-
ity of the Hathorn spring, stopping to kick
at a small boy who interrupted him with
I" Saratoga How-to Sec-it,' for so
cents.'
"The idea of seeing Saratoga for so
cents !" heard him mutter, low down in
his beard.
Mr.. Spriggins has had several serious
conversations with me regarding his wite's
avagance-indeed, married men are
very apt TO come to me for advice in that
particular, knowing that I've tanned several
female "Cruisers." | tell him to decline to
pony refuse to ante object to pungle-in
short to put his foot down He says he
ended in his being obliged to put his hand
Cpr;r,r;pc
in stocks, and the spring ''stringency"
troubled him.
The hotels are not very full AS yet,
though the propriotors say they have quite
as many guests as at a corresponding pc
Rod last year. | could scarcely have be :.
lieved this had / not looked over the sta
tistics and found it to be true--not that
doubt the veracity of landlords generally ;
rs a race, they are vcracious, and may be
relied on-though occasionally, at rare in
tervals, You run across one who will lie.
For instance, have known some of the
fraternity to charge only half as much as
they agreed to, and give only twice what
they promised to but, as before remarked,
these instances are rare, and may be con-
sdered as the exceptions, proving the rule
to the contrary. 1t is well, however, to
take the statements of hotel men with some
grains of allowance, for they are the most
hopeful of mortals, always seeing the flu
ture in roseate colors, and the past as it
might have been, rather than AS it was,
never despairing until the last gun is fired
and the last guest gone off, The season,
however, is beginning to promise well.
Guests are ilocking init has perhaps leak
ed out that am here-and it is probable
that, Notwithstanding the Vienna EXPOSE
ton, and the fact that none of the old
springs have dried up and several new ones
have been discovered, the summer of 1873
will be chroncled as success in Saratoga
records.
Saratoga is emphatically the place of
hotels. So near together are they that you
have a half-dozen in one. The streets are
but the halls-there is no such thing as
outdoors, unless you drive out of town.
We live on the piazzas rather than in rooms.
Ladies meander about in all directions with
out hats-you might think they had lost
them, did it not occur to you how much
less likely the dear creatures are to lose
their hats than their heads This freedom
on all sides, the general sans facon, gives
you 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
oiu iuuics arc your auHts you lOTBlNe inc
crusty millionaires who stump around ON
equity toes, grumbling at your cigar smoke,
for not being related to you, and would let
them consider you as one of the family if
they anything to oblige them. Do.
ing the society business becomes less irk-
some to you than it could be under any
other conditions. Here are all your friends
within stones throw but as one doesn't
want to throw stones at ones friends, per-
haps 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-years does not
come off while you're up here--it would be
SO nice, too. to go round drinking Congress
water instead of wine.
"Plcture It, think OF II,
Dlss0lute man."
(The combination of business and pleasure
Swallowed forth in this suggestion must
commend itself to the most dissipated and
disordered intellect.) Much has been said
of the extravagant charges at Saratoga
Have not shown conclusively that nothing
could be more reasonable, all things con-
sidered2 People putting up here forget that
they really stop at half-a-dozen hotels, and