The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1877-08-30

HleY an awful perfectly afro
ciousl Always wants to corner you on
the balcony and talk love right in your
ear. He's sweet Then there's Walter
LangdOn, 4. NJ, stiff and learned, or
learned, as Walter says. Good
Lord, deliver us from one of these
stiff, proper young men! l love a firt.
The girl never lived who got mad be-
cause fellow kissed her-if he was
the right fellow. l wish Albert knew
this, but the good fellows are all fools
and if a fellow knows how to make
love he's sure to be poor, or, as pa says,
an ADVENTURE.
''Ten o'clock, music on the balcony
Ladies all dressed in muslins, with
their sleeves to show their arms. De
Whey says my arm is too lovely for
anything. | love that fraud Two
dashing widows came down with aw-
full short dresses and such stockings!
and didn't everybody see 'em, too l
wish ] was a widOw-a rich widow;
I'd outstOcking the whole crowd
Sweet stockings and bare arms do take
the fellows!
'Such gOssiping as l heard to-day !!
Mrs. Jones says she heard the Fox
girls washing their own pocket hand
kerchiefs Did you ever? Mrs Davis
says the rich Mrs. johnson refused to
pay her washerwoman extra for wash
ing fiuted dresses, and they say the
Smiths have lost all their money
and have got to wait till a rich uncle
dies before they can come to Saratoga
again. It's all money, money, money
here: no brains required. l know a
school teacher here who used to board
at DIR. Strong's. She CHANGED to marry
rich husbands, and now even she chases
after Belmont and Vanderbilt. We
all sat under our parasols during the
music. Such n place to flirt! Give
me newspaper, a parasol, a wicked
fellow like De Whey, and the band
playing the French waltzes, and I'm
In heaven.
''Two o'clock, dinner. No wine this
year; hard times, A thousand knives
and forks Gathering at once. Such
confusion! Everybody wears bunting
red, yellow, blue, white, and pink.
wore pink silk, trimmed with white
point, and such a train-a full yard
Took dinner with my long mitts on
That's the thing now. Saw two pairs
atdinner. John Lucas, the head wal
ter, is the handsomest man in Saratoga.
The ladies all say so. Paris girls fall
in love with and marry colored men.
Why can't we do it here?
"Four o'clock - dressed again.
That's three times to-day, and full
dress for theEball will make the fourth.
The King girls have been here twelve
days and worn twenty-four new dresses
Never repeated once They left for
the Branch to-day to grind 'em through
again at the West End Mrs. Baker
has worn the same dress three times -
disgraceful!
"WOre my new coaching suit to-day.
1t was too lovely! Everybody said |
looked like an old Gainsborough pic
ture. They didn't know I copied one
-Gainsborough hat, dress, and all.
Dress mad: oflight olive green (tiIIeuD.
l call it peacock greeu cut la p,ri1,-
eesse. Gainsborough hat, with green
and white feathers, cream gloves -
eight buttons to my elbow. Sleeves
tight to arm and short. Dress perfectly
plain in front, falling in a long train
behind. Fan of peacock feathers and
green stockings embroidered with
olive. Won't this suit startle Jerome
Park aud the Coaching Club this fall !?
Its awful hard to show your stockings
Just right. If l thought no one saw
my sweet stockings to-day I'd die!
cat the lake had woodcock on toast
and champagne. De Whey ordered
it and uncle paid for it. Twelve dol
lars for lunch for three, and the
woodcock young turkeys THAT! Well
everybody gets caught the same way.
We don't eat what we want, but eat
to suit the people who look at us.
'Fraid l shall have to give up Albert
he's too slow.
eight o'clock.-Pm dressed for the
ball / do look too sweet to live Pure
white gros grain, with real point; and
Il yard and half train. Cost $500 or
500 for the lace. Low shoes and
lace inserted in my stockings. No
such stockingsin Saratoga. OF course
I'll sit SOS to show them! Wore pearls
diamonds are vulgar. One old Buff
falo lady wears diamonds for break
fast. Bah we all cut her. But l
must have a big solitaire ring-I must
or die Well, I've concluded to give
up Albert and marry old Simmons,
who made his money packing oysters.
| must have clothes With clothes |
can rule Saratoga. An authors wife
Talk about poor college graduate to
me! Oh, horrible! 1t shall be Mrs.
Simmons, the wife of the millionaire
private cottage, dresses, diamonds
beauX.
Twelve o'clock. Oh, how my
head achesi Old Hamilton stepped on
fny skirt and tore it dreadfully. Dear
me Z! how l slit the sleeve of my dress.
Gracious, how De Whey held me in
bis arms-the wretch | don't care, /
had more beaux than the Jones girls,
any way. Mr.. johnson, who danced
the third galop. Is a good-looking fell
low-awful stylish. Fiddle if thought
the Jones girls would find out that he
was tailor. OF course I'll cut him
III New York but l must have bcauX
here. Last week the Season said was
the loveliest blonde at the hop, Won
der what it will say tomorrow? Oh
dear! cant wait Oh, I'm so sleepy
Good night"
And this, my friends, is a fashion
able bellies dairy of a day at the
springs. ELI PERKINS
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