The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-07-25
LIFE BY THE WATERS.
Pleasures Of the Season on Mountain,
Sea and Shore.
THE spa, TIE CATARACT, THE SEA.
Mild Flirtations on Saratoga
PiaZZas.
Ii spa, TIE CATARACT, THE SEA.
THE SEASON AT LONG BRANCH.
Contemplative Inertia at
Niagara Falls.
SARATOGA.
SARATOGA, July "a

Saratoga Is such . social. political and medic
lnal necessity that hard times never get the best
OF 1t. It has no snobbery, no nunkyism, no
scandal In its society. There said to be places
where the women talk about each other and get
into corners, sets ana coteres 1t all looks so I'M
probable from this STANDPOINT that think no such
hooks OF covetousness can exist. Whoever begins
conversation on one piazza by some askant per-
Sonalityis
AsKANrED,
that Is, neglected. The rule here is 90 admire
everything and let your husband alone.
"Aonzo," says the average Saratoga wife,
shave Won been to the CLUB house~
Alonzo Affects surprise and is Immediately COM
forted BY the remark go. my dear, that may
tell Mrs. Jones about the carpets and the lambre-
uuins. Please look little carefully around you
Poor Mrs. Jones has lost her husband, and he used
TO take great deal OF interest IN the club. She
told me this morning that IL she mad the dear
man back to buy ner pool ticket, as he used to
no. Saratoga would seem its former SELF Here
Alonzo. the Gimp family and the Ebenezer girls
want you TO pick horse for them. There are SIS
also Tor me. mutual ticker so freshens the
race 2"
The fact about Alonzo had been that he went to
the club house every day. He starts this time
with a stronger gait. AS he walks along ne
says:--"Do dream Is that my wife' What
mas come over herr Is she gambling mol What
\ deuced obliging woman. The best in the
world"
He stays at the club house about ten minutes. 1t
never looked SO threadbare Therc's nothing in IT,
rhat wife's free permission has taken the wicked
ness on the resort. ..By Georgew ne says "pll
spend .he evening with the Gimps the Ebenezers
and Mrs. Alonzo.n Moral:-To keep husband
take the whisper and mystery his surreptitious
life With the daylight the faro table the SPELLS
couragemente
THE PULL-BACK DRESSES.
The horses are all here. race has been run.
t was like a poudolr let down from the soIt sky
celestial parachute-to see the grand stand. The
aides sat there with heir lace hats, many bare
headed, with their garments close to the ngure, q
Iort Of lacey negEt0e over them, their arms COW
cred with parJi-color or some hue so different
from the waist that the arms themselves, close
covered, seemed the flesh itself tinted and
The widest ribbons. hanging long down the
back OF the SKIRT, gave the whole female the OF
stalk, poisoning and stresmed over with richly
dyed parasites. "Tne dresses this year, says
Captain jack "are the most becoming OF all that
have become. ] never felt like marrying before.
The skirts, drawn crose around the-ahem i-ieet.
superacd to the previously iovabe height. All
women this year look as If It required STEP
ladder to climb up aud kiss them; yet Jacobs
Sdder, frail as 1t was, might be ventured on for
Iuch an exaltatioD. And their shoes-tnose opera
,olyhock things, which give the appearance OF q
new moon besashed, fretted and opening its white
rim thr ough blossoms-they are like the feet OF a
Murillo under the body OF a Guido-a fay below,
ABOVE q JUNIOR If Captain Jack did not say
That ne meant to. the modste has lriumphed.
This year the woman is complete. She wears
less clothes than ever and has more covering less
BRAID out there is glory in her nalr no more
height, but she is exalted; more colors but what
like her own? We think we understand tit
currency contraction, the stringent times rein
vigoratlng the species Yet very tall woman by
nature wears this sort OF dress at ner peril.
suppose you know it is called the Neplnchen
skirt. Yesterday a tall female came into the
Grand Union dining room with this dress upon
her. The 1000 people then looked up and beheld
IN the middle aisle an advancing maypole, gor.
Eeous sunnower, a vIsaged beanpole "De Lord
OBJ hgnt," said Alexander, the insinuator, who
walls at the next table, us dat one woman or de
family treet" But the LADIES, scarcely smiling.
observed 10 eacn otner, "Mary, what is my
height ~
A VILLAGE OF PIAzzAs
Saratoga Is now village OF piaZzas, supposed
originally TO have been attached to hapltab bic
structures. Pelago, u great planter, used TO
pa1zas RODE W gu. sne other day IN the county,
zap after olack bass ana game dinner, and sat
out In the road on Dig chair, doing anu mapping
Miss Pelsgo, stirring him up. 'Tt's u showerinR."
"Ay deaf" he said, ''ain's there piazza over
You're SIX mics from the hotel" "Well,n said
be, taking another nod. you don't mean to tell
man AZ stewards Hotel takes a chair and goes out
10 the middle OF the street 10 get the air ne finds
ee Is covered Az night. when the 10 TIER plazzas
pi the United states ana Congress Hall swarm
with promenadlng, nsplng lovers, they be-
come, indeed. the Bridge OF signs. There
ontory piazzas, hundreds OF little balconies and
back area plazzas, where you squeeze the hand
Of the pretty nursery mad aud assuage with your
handkerchief the believing twins who oversnoot
their mix betwixt rage and cole: There are
change their minds ana walk backwards, pIazzIs
looking into stable yards and GOWN ON the valley
OF the old ere X, where carbonic acid and mag
nesia now unoottled Tor tine purgation oil mother
nature. Why tins overnanging canopy, as snake
.peare would say, is almost supernuous ut sara
toga IL Is repeated IN the lOng-armed, nigh
branching Gins OF the street ana In the pines
which KISS their cones III all these Saratoga
old fashioned voice say, "Mariar, Elizar, girls
let US pIomenade on the piazzerp But suc6 pro.
nuncation WOuIu not lie Saratoga. We can't
have everything To please us.
THE GREAT POLITICIANS.
All the great politicians are mere; all the hotels
are iuh. You Can get IN, but require To be good
looking, Tor the hotel clerk Is very sleepy ana mo-
rose now. lie hasn't been In his bed for week,
pnd our cashier Is lean as slate pencil counting
up 80 Inany figures Inc motel Keepers have
stopped making remarks on eacn other. IL Is a
dig season when they do that. Here we have the
Filth Avenue Theatre company, with that phc-
nomcna-cDopped Lewis to play the Bonanza, and
the mysterious hog Ben, who is more learned nc
snort cards tnan the United States Senaie ana
we have mad the Bankers Convention, VINO de-
clared Tor nard money and seemed 10 be hard up
Tor money al any KIND; Tor when 1t was proposed
TO assess them $40 q head they expanded to a
point oil legal tenderness which speedily Moved
cut OF doors. IL was a rough remark that Ruo
Hunt, III New Orleans, made on those nnaiclers,
OF "nom there were above 200. Rufus Is the
Crockiord, the great gamester o New Orleans.
He said -
81 never fet unsafe in Saratoga before. Now
I'M AFRAID 10 leaVc my smart studs on my crossing
table or o walk alone at night. These bankers,
Tor physiognOmY. are little the worst / ever
SAW
rhey appeared to have no patriotism either
when the great Governor Blglcr, VINO ruled Penn
sylVanla' many generations ago, addressed tEcm
by special livltatlon, on the Centennial, after
they had once refused 20 hear MIN; mere nerc