Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1882-08-13
LIFE IN SARATOGA. ,
What People Do and what They
Find to Talk About at the
Springs.

Springs.
Some Of the Dresses Worn. /
SARATOGA, August 10.-The great
heat of last week started crowds OF peo-
pie travelling, though the act Of going
from place to place Is scarcely q refrig-
Grating process. Coming by the fast
express train from New York last week,
I was delighted to find that some
method of obviating two OF the most
serious annoyances of travei-clnders
and dust-llad been found, for although
I sat by an open windoR / suffered from
neither, and there was, OF course, good
All all the way, caused by the rapid
motion, which enabled the travellers 70
Senjoy the more the fine scenery OF the
Hudson river. The weather here has
been cool, it is claimed, even through
the hot wave that assailed the cities,
and il has certainly been very COM
Portable this week, being warm enough
for summer clothing, which always adds
much to the picturesque effects OF
summer resort and not too warm TO
walk at any hour of the day. Saratoga
ia certainly most fortunate in its climate,
which is so much dryer, than at the
seashore or In the mountains. The fact
that il is not very easy to injure pretty
clothes by wearing them here goes far
towards making the place as "dressy"
as it has long had the reputation OF be-
ing. As the finest and thinnest lawns
can be worn here several weeks with
out losing their freshness and silks and
satins are never spotted by dampness
and feathers and bangs keep their curl
for some time, Saratoga is not so ex-
trayagant q place as those where good
clothes must be worn and areinvariably
rendered almost useless for wear else
where.
The usual amusements and more are
at high tide here and the place never
appeared more beautiful. There have
been many improvements made since
last wear at several of the hotels. The
Grand Union and Clarendon have un-
dergone beneficial changes, the former
having been entirely reprinted outside
in dark and well contrasted colors, re-
placing the old ugly yellow which 1t
had worn SO long, and the Clarendon
having had additions built, plazzas ex-
tended and been reprinted outside and
inside, until no hotel Eere presents a
more tasteful appearance. Congress
Park has been very thoroughly drained
since last season and more flowers add
ed to its cho ce collection.
WHAT THEY DO.
The lovers ofCongress water assemble
in the pavilion in greatest number
every morning between eight and nine
o'clock. The concert by Doring's Mill
tary Band begins at half-past seven
and continues until nine. There are
also concerts each evening at eight
o'clock, and this evening there will be,
weather permitting, display of fire.
works. The morning admittance price
continues as heretofore to be ten cents,
includine the Congress water drank land
for the evening concerts 1t Is twenty
five cents. At Hathorne Spring, where
there is no music, the admittance is five
cents. There are about equal numbers
who prefer the water of each of these
fprings, and it is as great an offense to
decry the water of ones favorite spring
as to underrate ones family physician.
saw child at Congress Spring this
week, about six years old, who was
crying piteously because refused by its
nurse third glass of the water after
drinking two.
The Clarendon Hotel had grand
full dress hop on last Friday evening.
and proposes having similar entertain
ments on the same eveningevery week.
The Grand Union Hotel has full dress
hops on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Sat
urdays from nine to eleven p. NJ, the
United States has them on Saturday
evenings at the same hours, and Con.
gress Hall has one in its ball room
every Monday and Friday evening" also
between nine and eleven p. NJ. On the
evenings when there are no hops at the
hotels named the bands play on the
balconies. The hops at the Union and
United States Hotels were specially
well attended and gay last Saturday
evening.
It is the preference of most of those
living in the hotels to have the concerts
in the open air instead of sitting In the
ball rooms to watch some children and
o very few adults dance. The love of
dancing does not seem to be known to
the majority of the frequenters of Sara
toga. Those who dance do it in half
hearted sort of way, as if bored to death
and doing it only because they can
think ofnothing else to do to pass away
the evening. notice this the more
from having so recently witnessed the
delight the Southern girls and their
beaux take in their dances every even
ing at the Greenbrier White Sulphur
Springs. They dance with vim, as If
every nerve and muscle delighted in the
music and motion. When they dance
they don't care whether they spoil their
clothes or not; in fact, they forget all
else save the moments pleasure. Their
sleeves are nearly pulled from their
waists often as they dance the "hands
all around"in the Centennial lancers,"
but they don't mind that while having
so much fun. They would be indignant
iii were proposed to have hops less
frequently than six nights per week,
They dress specially for the ball room,
too, but here very few ladies seem to
think it as much worth their while to
make special toilets fol, the ball room as
1t is for the mornings when they go TO
the spring or sit in the full glare Of day
to listen to the concert on the piazza
between half-past ten and half-past
eleven.
HOW THEY DRESS.
! should say that by far the finest dis
play of dress WAS to be seen here at
these concerts-after which numerous
ladies drive to the races, where again
there is good opportunity to show fine
dretsing. 1t used to be the case, and l |
think is still, that Northern women re- |
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