The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1875-08-02
Life at the Seaside, the Noun
tains and the Springs.
SOCIETY AT SARATOGA.
The Season and Fashions Dew
otees at Newport.
The joys and Pleasures Of
Cottage Life.
SARATOGA.

BALL RooALs-THR HOTELS AS THEY ARE
HERALD HINTS TO TEE HOTEL PRoPRIEToRs
SARATOGA, July 81, 1875.
Saratoga presents many remarkable features as
place OF summer resort. You cannot compare
IL with other places In the country, because it is
unlike them in almost every aspect. And this
year 1t seems to be as lar In advance or previous
seasons as the present gorgeous hotels are IN i'd
vance OF the poor snanties OF live ago. Since
the first week in June there has been con-
slant stream OF visitors. First came the throng
OF college students to watch the progress or
the practice by the college crews, then foi-
lowed the rush OF friends 10 witness the great
aquatic contest. The heated term set IN, and the
now OF health and pleasure seekers became almost
Overwhelming. Then came the long lis. OF pollLi-
clans and their friends TO talk poitica and sip
from the springs Now there are additions from
the ranks OF those who delight IN horse racing.
There Is always something new ana attractive.
Scenes or gayety and excitement abound on every
hand.
SCENES AT THE SPRINGS.
Watch the weak and eInaciated they mock to
The springs at early morn and drink glass after
glass OF the medicinal waters, and you see the
struggle for life by many who have apparently de-
the greater portion OF their lives to destroy
the precious vitality which they seeking TO
restore at the hands OF nature, reminding you OF
the old but trite saying that people devote the
first hall OF their existence In violating the natu-
raj laws and the second half in contrrion and
pain. Here you tho effects Of the rapid
ind clustering methods Of living, the desire
70 live two lives in one. IL is true you may see
similar evidences at Ems and Baden, but the
cases are not so numerous You mapsee the
pale faces and sickly frames at Brighton, the re-
suit OF long nights OF fashionable pleasures, long
hours and irregular feeding or London season.
You may also watch the Sedan chairs laden with
young invalids, and the lounging, salow
featured damsels OF BiarritZ who have literally 10
be carried out OF Paris at the end OF tue season But
In proportion the instances are fewer than with
as here. Thus the slipping OF the waters here
twice day. at morning and evening, presents
the reflective pnilosophic side or the picture.
90 not mean 10 INFER that only inyahds haunt
the springs. Far fromit 1t is quite q spectacle
10 watch the young ladies-and old ladies' too
emerge from the hotels In early morning attire
and soemnly file down to the Congress, the law
shorne and other springs. Around these they
eongregate, sometimes SIX deep, and chat ana sip
the strange tasting Ingredients mat the dipper''
brings up AS soon as the water Is swallowed a
Short walk Is in order until breakfast time. Strong
men also hnd the waters palatabe evidently, for !
many stand round until they have taken three or
four large tumOers OF 1t, which Is to say the
least. good deal for empty stomach. But
then they generally moderate its influences alter
81 the hotel bars.
EXCESSIVE DANCING.
Turn now to the amusements or the evening and
you have another view. Large and brilliantly
lighted rooms filed with gay throngs Of wei
fed and aShionably dressed persons, averaging in
age from fourteen TO forty. A band is engaged
the music begins ana IN a few seconds hundreds
nre whirlIng round and round IN the dance. The
Easngnt in time heats the room, the dust is sent
whrlng through the air ana into the lungs OF
the dancers. Alter dancing ensues pers pIration,
and the overheated couples repair TO open win
dows or walk out into the chilly atmosphere for
relief, or, what is often worse, rush for ice
cream What is the result Sore threats follow,
chlhs and fever come on, and the doctor, OF
course has TO be told that the patient has been
Jeepng with the window open. or course,
Iven dancing may become beneficial but the
excess TO which it is carried during the warm /
weather must be deleterious 10 health. Visitors 4
IrOm Cuba, Mexico and the West India islands 4
may be able to stand IT, because 1t is second ma
ture TO them, but the average young lady who Z.
has been reared in New York and other large /
American cities cannot. 1t is extremely pleasant
no dOubt-tnere Is even a little delicate flirting I
that can be carried on in this way-but excessive /
dancing in the not season is not and cannot be
considered nealthful. Why not SIT and ENJOY
good concert in she same manner as In the after
noon? 1t would be better IN the end, aud would
changing OF attlre-tne unfair ordeal OF q
winter season posed in the dead OF summer.
'But what are we to 40 when the weather Is rainy?
Are we 10 sit in and count the raindrops as they
spatter the streets 2" many Will ask, ut has
become The fashion to dance In summer, and We
must do it, 50 argue the rrepressibles, like Miss
I-avinIa Il. w. in "Our Mutual Tiend," and our
mdulQent pdter 6Inilfds, Ike the cherubic II. w,
must submit or undergo the terrors OF being per-
petuanY bored. Mamma sometimes INDUCES a
nope for her daughter rom the fact that young
out-of-town is paying her much marked attention;
besides he dances perfectly. Mamma often OBJ
)ects 10 hints that Outof-town may be already
bound at the hymenal altar. And so the young
people trip OF to the music, piano on one side and
forte on the other. 1t old story OF the wish
being father to the thought; because 1t is custom
airy everybody should do It, AS the French poet
says
u est 81 nature d'esimer ce quon aimc
Qu'on voudrait que partout on res;m4t meme.
The time Will probably come when dancing in
the summer will be as unpopular as theatre-gonR
during the same season now IL. Good concerts
are far safer; they are certainly as instructive,
and should be encouraged, especially at such vass
establishments as there are here. The misses
would have 10 nlrt little more cautiously, tHa.'s
all. There Is no special need OF concert halls, be-
cause tho spacious veraadas and extensive par
Tors are adequate TO meet all requirements In
any case, the time OF dancing should ne greatly
reduced, from three hours 70 one hour AS az pres
ens IT IS rulnous, ana many Of the happy couples
lose more In point OF health IN one night than
they can regain oY weeks rest. Besloes, there
are hundred other amusements that viii tend to
''pass the tmeN as pleasantly, but without evil re-
suits.
FASHIONS DEMANDS.
Fashion appears TO demand a strict adherence
60 a long programme Rise seven O'Clock in
the morning. co 10 the springs ana drink water.
Walk In the park, ana Chat tll nali-past nine.
90 10 the hotel anu dress lor breakfast At ten.
After breakfast DO the shopping ana visiting until
ha-past one. Dress Tor dinner TWO. After
dinner attend the regular concerts the pazZas I
until halfpast four Then drive to the Lake.
Glen Mitchell, or 10 MaSregOr until seven. Another
draught RON the springs ana then supper. After
supper dress for tAe evening hop az the Congress-,
where most OF she dancing is done. Dance TN
hu-past ten or eleven, thea 20 % Dcu. Every
bOoy feels constrained, apparently, 90 lattniuliy
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