Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1879-09-03
SOCIETY AT SARATOGA.
The Three Great Cliques Into
Which il is Divided-The Arts
tOcratic, Worldly and Jolly
Sets

Which il is Diyided-The Arts
tocratic, Worldly and Jolly
Sets.
A Saratoga letter in the New York
,Nar has the following: joined one OF
the aristOcratic cliques the other day Just
TO see how il would seem. We sat by
ourselves all day-Our clique did.
Several people whom we used TO know
quite well IN New York came up to
speak 10 us, but we cut them dead.
They didn't have money enough to get
into our set. When young man pass
ed. who had recently inherited large
fortune, we sent out one OF our clique
TO bring him up for an introduction,a and
then we held on TO him like grim death.
During the day our clique OF six occu-
pied II chairs on the balcony oil the
aristocratic States. We filled these
chairs with India shawls, lnlald lans
and point lace parasOls. When any oil
the poor and vulgar people came near
us We all looked naughty, and talked
loud enough To be heard all over the
balcony about those dreadful common
people in the hotel who were so vulgar
as to enjoy themselves. When no0@Iy
was looking we all yawned, iumDeu
French novels (which we could not
ready. and snecrcd with elevated noses.
awe didn't come to Saratoga 10 ehJOy
ourselves we said; "we came here toDe
aristOcratic.' -.
| stood their aristOcratiC business Just
one dav, then broke. | could not
stand studitv any longer, even II 1t were
aristocratic. | sighed for a little intel
lectual fun. and when ! saw group oil
happy Young ladies telling anecdotes,
satirZing. humbugging and laughing IN
a natural way, | went straight away anu
Joined them.
Inst opposite us sat party of young
ladies' who came here to amuse them
selves and stun people. The principal
beau among them had just returned
from abroad. lie was very EngliShy.
He could hardly speak our poor Ameri-
can language at all.
"Chawmin' ev'nin, Miss Aston" he
said. or rather mumbled, initiating the
English Cockney dialect.
ayes, awful charming. Dance to-
night, Mr.. Livingstone"
Jaw, kneuw, | don't dOnce. think
it'sbcastlv tOdOnCe-perfectly atwOciOus
-hawable But isn't it beastly 'ot?'
ooh, no, Mr.. Livingstone, it's perfect
lv lovely. The weather is just too
sweet for ANYTHING. Just the time for
flirting on the balconies. They say,you
are great flirt, Mr.. Livingstone
dreadful
"Aw. kneuw Miss AstOr. | don't
frt. think it's hawid practice. |
could not think of spooning with a
young lady who wasn't 'eiress to a $780,
600 revenue, you kneuw! Couldn't, pom
honnay."
"Of course not, Mr.. Livingstone.
Why, pas got four brown stone fronts,
and mas cot four camel'S hair shawls,
and diamonds on diamonds, and"
"Aw, Won don't say SO, Miss Aston.
DO take my arm and well have little
stroll all To ourselves, and
And then they promenaded out into a
dark corner OF the balcony.
The Young lady who came to Saratoga
10 notwithstanding that "she came
To look at the idiots and not to amuse
them.
81 came clear from Madison Avenue"
she said. "and only brought four dresses
with me, and here l can sit and see
100000 worth of dresses 20 by in per-
petual procession every day. The idiots
who wear them have to 90 to all the
trouble and expense, while sit by and
enjoy them
"Now, there's a lady she said, point
ing to rich and ugly female, "who has
been dressing ior three hours just To
show her toilet to me. Why, she had Il
hair dresser at T.. NJ. She has Crimped
her hair, burned her forehead with the
crimping iron, opened five trunks to get
hats, paraSols, fans and slippers to
match her dress. tinted her cheeks with
dampcnrd artificial rose leaves, hunted
up her diamands hidden away under
the commOdc, and pulled on bottonleSS
kids clear up To the shoulder, and all
for me. Now ! could put on that toilet,
but it doesn't pay me. | am q phllos-
ophcr. She is my servant. She gives
me free dress rehearsal every evening.
Ii costs $3.50 20 see those tllmSy, sham
dresses at the theatcr in the wlshy-
washy society plays, and here can see
five hundred perfect toilets in a day Tor
nothing
But did you really only bring four
toilets to Saratoga ! asked the young
lady.
'iNo, four are cnough-not counting
Il black silk.
GLOW do YOU manage II?
"Wcn. liseu, and | will show you
how can wear nine distinct toilets and
really have but three. First, have one
cream white paraSol and fan. These,
by changing the bow on the parasol and
the ribbon an the fan, 20 with any toilet.
Secondly, have three light dresses-a
white pique, a pink French bunting
and Il blue lawn. Then | have three
sets al ribbOnS-that is a whole set,
consisting of parasoi bow, sash ribbon,
fan ribbon, slipper bow and hair bow.
| Then have pink set OF ribbons and
/ blue set. My pink and blue are light,
| So can wear my three dresses with rib
| bons To match, or | can cross them;
/ that is. can put light pink sash on a
/ hght-blue dress, ~ a light-blue sash on
| light-pink dress. Thus YOU see that
/ with three dresses and three sets OF rib
/ hons can make nine distinct toilets.
/ NV rich and ugly friend brings 80 dis
tinct toilets 10 Saratoga She brings
trunk full of paraSo'S and hat iOreverv
dress. Thirty trunks till her room and
/ line the hall, while / live in two trunks.
Her toilets for the season cost $1,000,
while mine cost 500
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