The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1879-07-22
SAR.4TUG<i BELLES,
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How to Find Spring.

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Nym Crinkles Letter.
L mention all this to show you thai,
Saratoga is unusually bright this sea-
son. brighter by far than it has been
Tor years. A good many Of the South
ern people have come back. You
know how much they added to the
spirit and character Of the place in tho
olden times. There are two ex-Con-
fedcrate Generals here, and l believe
five or six Southern statesmen. And
above all, there are two or thrcc
! Southern bellies.
Don't you wish that I may tell YOU
their names? You be hanged. Look
here, if you come to Saratoga, stand on
the Grand Lookout at 10 a. M. Ifyou
don't know where the Grand Lookout
is, ask Charley Leland Of the Claren-
don. don't ask you to stand there
long, but just long enough to see q
young woman, in the simplest riding
habit in the wo I'D, get upon magnifi-
cent bay. She is a brunette, and not
over twenty five, but she came I'D from
the orange groves, and she brought
with her that indescribablc something
that mixture Of fire and force which
contrasts so delightfully."- with the
sweetness and light of the innumerable
Lady Hamiltons Of the North, who are
languishing here in landaus and phae-
tons. believe we affected to turn up
our Democratic noses at one time ut
the hautcur and inbred imperialness of
some of these hot-blooded women who
were said to have stripped themselves
of their jewels for JEFF Davis treasury,
and were ready at Il moments notice to
become Godivas for the same cause.
But we take back all we said when we
see one Of them on horseback. We
turn down our noses on the Grand
Lookout, and are ready to pay them
all kinds Of homage.
"Your Long Island fox hunters,"
remarked Col. Pike Graham, "ought
to invite few Of those Southern wo-
men up to show you how to manage
your horses"
There are more good-looEing women
at the Clarendon this year than ever
saw before ut the same place. I hope
they will not consider me impcrtinent
If say they. are frcsher, trecr and
fuller. l think the Saratoga girl Of
fifteen years ago has become an i'm
possibility. She was thin-ncckcd-she
couldn't wear q low-necksd dress with
out catching cold. She mingled pru-
derry and Irritation Iii the most abomi-
nable manner. Her sweetness wa
sharp, like her elbows, and she always
Inherited twang from her grandmoth-
cf, who sang psalms. Her father
made money suddenly, and she had
mission to spend it foolishly. That
girl 10 gone. The present one is dep
cr-chested. She doesn't pinch her ribs
together SO remorsely. She can speak
a little French with Milford, sing an
ltalian aria with q count, and knows
from observation that YOU do not 20 up
the Rhine in gondola. She is not
only ready but fit to marry all English
aristocrat.
Leland says this has all come about
by. fifteen years Of persistent water
drinking at Saratoga. Leland be-
lievcs that the springs have a sociologi-
cal virtue. Give him water enough
and he'll elevate public taste and
morals to any given standard. Sara
toga is, in his philosophy, a magnifi-
cent example Of hydrostatic science.
This reminds mo of what a well
known English traveller has said.
CAN American goes about tasting all
the water in his country" remarks this
Briton, "and when he finds some that
isn't pure he crects an enormous pi-
azza nearby and gets up horse races.
Then the people agree to go there and
get WELL" r.0 ......