The Lake County star. [volume] (Chase, Mich.) 1873-current, 1877-09-13

And madame, blushing and smiling,
looked down at the cardinal flowers
and said '.Yes.". = -. =
BEAUTY's DAY I'm SARA
tts eiss. TOGA. ~
A PEEP AT TuE,DIARY OF. A FASHION.
ABLE NEW YORK BELLE.
UNITED STATES HOTEL, SARATOGA,
Aug. 2O.-The first pretty miss / met
this morning as touched the balcony
of the States was that lovely Nellie
Mason. who liv in ere OF those big
,ar browns one houses In Madi-
Sd g venue. Sire was waiting for a !
bert MI lson, ole o. the handsome.
beaus here, 10 take her to C0ngre s
Spring. This :. Miss MasOn's first
visit to Sara, )ga, and her aunt, WI o =
chapero ing her, told me vesterd5 y
thai her lieice was OILY just 10.
"a mere child, you know, and tab es
everything as real, }" she observed.
Miss Nellie was sweetly dressed.
She wore cream whites chip hat; Z
covered with lilies of thevalley, thro u
Jack piquantly from the loveliest so
IN hair. Her dress was white mt 4
with old yellow lace inserted all rOlt ),
lie neck, aud with transparent sleeves,
hrolgh which you cOuldsee theswee' :
st arInsin all, Saratoga oh, how j
have heard the fellows rave about those
arms! Her dress hung close To. her
hips, with long train, showing her
plump form perfectly, and on her feet
were the daintiest French shoes, with
high heels right in the middle of the
foot, and opened in 'front.' to show the
neatest of cream colOred stockings, en-
broidered with pink. BY Heavens!
IL y)u had seen Nellie Mason tbs
IN hing swinging her cream ] ee
pe sol, on which was delicate ligh
pink bow To match her sash ribbon
and the pink embroidery on her stock
iDgs-I sav If any of you dusty, old.
cross New York fellows had seen her
waiting for Albert MunsOn to take her
to Congress Spring, you'd missed the
train TO stare at her.
Take my diary and fan, Uncle Eli"
said Nellie; "all / want is my -parasol
in the park" and then she took Albert
Munson's arm and walked down the
street past the big hotels, toward
Congress Spring.
IA young lady's diary ~ 1 said, as
/ looked at the little Russian Rather
book; "I wonder what Is i'm Ii pr
Then carefully opened the little book
what Nellie Mason saw yesterday lin
Saratoga:
SARATOGA, Thursday, Aug. o.
Such a morning! Felt too sleepy after
dancing last night to put up my hair
in crimps. Crimped It this morning
with the iron. Burnt IL. Wore white
and blue-awful light blue last night.
Not that horrid dark blue that the
Brown girls wear, but that sweet light
blue that GOES with pink. Blue bow
OH paraso,, blue flowers in hair, blue
stockings. Wore white silk mitts for
Tie firsttime. The Spanish Minister'S
" ife and are the only ones who wear
| Il. EN-. Awful stylish-clear above the
O. DOW. Bound to be the rage-these
" hite mitts are. Put just little pink
~ nv cheeks and pencilled my eye.
brows. Auntie don't know i do this,
~ Just little artificial led rose .leal
se bed on my cheeks won't hurt any.
tslb w. The Dodge girls always do It,
| lie Miller vets the rose leaf. The
girls call this the red rose dodge, but
call it downright painting!
"At s Albert came to take me to the
spring. Such. a lovely place Band
playing and all the people drinking
and prOmenading under the vine-cOv.
cred arbOr, just as they do in the
morning ut Wiesbaden. Walked III
tie hill. Albert's scamp; he tried
to take my hand. / scolded him and
he apOlogized. Inn awful sorry
,fraid he won't never try to take my
hand again. I'm always overriding IL
| mine o'clock, break fast. / do be-
lieve Albert loves me. He gave me Q
bunch Of lilies. Nellie Dodge told mi
about her three new lovers. Ones ole
Hamilton, the widower, rich as Cree
sus. She treats him well SOS to ride
In his dog-cart. Another's beautiful
sweet DE Whey. Pa says he's q
| French advei turerrzbut such eyes
lDeViney,s an awful fiirt--perfecily
atrOciOus! Always wants to corner
Eyou on the balcony and talk love rigli
Lin your ear. He's sweet d, Tier
There's Walter Langdon, A. NJ, stiff
tand learned. or learn I'd, as ,Walie
says. Good Lord, deliver us from on
of these stiff, proper young men!
love O fiirt. The girl never lived VILE
got mad because fellow kissed, her
fine was the right fellow. wis
Albert knew this, but the good fellow
are all foOls,g and II fellow know
how to make love he's sure to be pyor
or, "a pa says, an adventurer. 9 ~.
"ren o'clock, music on the bale "A y
Ladies' all dressed in muslins,, " q
their sleeves to show their arms. De
lViney says my arm Is too lovely 20
anything. i love that fraud "
dashing widows came down with aw
full short dresses and such stockings
And didn't everybody See 'enl, 100
wish was O widOw--a rich widow
It'd outstocking the whole crowd
Sweet stockings and bare arms do TAX
the fellows!
"Such gossiping as i heard to-day
Mrs. Jones says she heard the Flo,
girls washing their own pocket hand
kerchiefsl Did you ever? Mrs. Davi
saws the rich Mrs. johnson refused b
lpay her washerwoman extra for wash
ling fiuted dIcsses, and they say tn
Smiths have lost all their money, ant
have got to wait till q rich uncle die
before they can come to Saratogl
again. It's all money, money, none,
ere, no brains required. i know
II ho0l teacher here who used to boart
1t DIR. Strong's. She CHANGED to mar
ry q rich husband, and now even SIN
chases after Belmont and Vanderbilt
We all sat under our parasols durinI
the music. Such place to fiirt ! Civ
me q newspaper, o parnsol, q wicke'
fellow like De Whey, and the ban,
playing the French waltzes, and I'm
In heaven. tN Ffi,
1.-TWO o'clock, dinner. No wine thi
year; hard times. A thousand knive
and forks Gathering ut once. Sucl
| confuslonl EvefybOdy wears buntinl
-red, yellow, bfues White ana PINK,
wore pinis sf1k, trimmed with whit
point, and such q train--a full yard
Took dinner with my long miB on
That's the thing now; Saw two pair