The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1882-08-26
Our Saratoga Letter.
From OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.

Our Saratoga Letter.
From OUR REGULAR CORRESPONDENT.
SARATOGA SPRINGS, n. Y, Aug. 19, 's2.
While you of the can't-gst-away club
have had to accept with resignation the
torrid weather Of the past week, we in
Saratoga, while admitting that the wealth
er was perhaps triHe too hot, have en-
joyed the delicious elasticity of the at
mosphere and the cooling breezes from
the Adirondacks. And what wonder
full place Saratoga is, to be sure, 1t is
the great exponent of our genuine and
only American way of passing a watering
place summer. Although but village
it is also city of hotels, and such hotels
az only our extravaga1t ideas of life on
this side of the Atlantic could maintain.
The frequent trains come putting into the
station and discharge their crowds of liv-
ing freight to be Immediately swallowed
up and incorporated somehow with the
Kaleidoscope ever changing previous ar
rivals, facetiously called guests" by the
solemn and overworked administrators of
these great institutions If one may
judge by one of the largest of these, al
most historical in its name and connec-
tion with the earlier days of Saratoga,
they are admirably managed, and upon
the American plan. too. The provision
ing is excellent az well as the cooking.
II evidentally proved very attractive to
an individual from the rural districts,
who was heard to say; "Well, do enjoy
it; but it's nip and tuck with me whether
get the worth of my five dollars day
or bustw
OF course one of the principal objects
Of sojourning here is TO ''take the waters, II
and at the various springs in the bright
summer mornings one might imagine
ones self by the waters of Babylon.
There is no pleasanter occupation than
t) sit down in one of these saline temples
aud while qunffing ones own dose tc
watch the string of visitors in quest oi
the health bearing draught. From the
rosy-cheeked maiden TO the foot-in-the
grtve old man or woman, all consume
their allotted tumblerfulls; but ii is really
probably engaged, Young couple saunteI
to the spring and gaze fondly IN eacl
others eyes while absorbing the fluid
Truly tender act to be enshrined OF
memory's bappiest page. The use o
these mineral waters seems to be badl'
abused by people who are ignorant o
their lasting effects. Hathorne water, 70
instance, which is extremely powerful
should properly be only taken unde
medical advice Yet slender girls vii
quietly walk away With three tumblers o
so under their jGckets without wiukire
buS often not without disastrous after ei
fects on their health.
Oscar Wilde arrived yesterday morr
inB hhu III uNe HllbuJS Walk lEhin III
depot along the piHzzns of the Unite
States Hotel to the Broadway front {
that house, he formeu and expressed hi
opinion of S.ratoga, which being favo
able, of course, assures the success of IL
remainder of the season here. / beliCN
there has been good sale of tickets to
first-class audience for his lecture tn
evening and the fireworks in the pal
will not draw off many from his pyr
technic oratory. breakfast at Mt. NJ
Gregor was given in his honor this NOR
ing 1t was announced in advance tn
daisies and pond lilies would be in ord
: and suniowers eschewed, BY singul
coincidence the gorgeous sunhowe
- which appear in Congress Park eve
. summer did not begin blooming wi
10 their usual luxuriance this year un
>. within the last three days, as if they hi
u waited to greet their poet.
" One of the greatest charms of Sarat
II ga is its variety in dress and its cont
'e dictions. 1t is dangerous to make
a, assertion here, for you may receive oc
VI lar proof to the contrary the next mi
~ ute, A calico sack walks contentedly
u the side Of plush or velvet, and a I
u, cent lawn figures in connection vi
=" diamonds as big as plover's eggs 1T
u beauty of Saratoga air is that you c
p wear anything in it, some one observ
60 and just then comes along a lady il
p dress of old gold plush, looking MS
g wrapped in her own window cnrta
n But if plush in winter is bad, as it is
3h cept in upholstery it is worse in su
ST. mer, aud there is no fashion about it,
Dc neither plush nor velvet are seen,
'e- oepting occasionally, and then they l.
nj heavy and out of place. Even in a &C
ed clear atmosphere like that of SaratC
lie during the past week, velvet feels q
eo looks burdensome, and is soon cove
ID with dust, while the light lawns,
Oh walking silks and summer Yeilings scal
0" ly show soil and are wings instead OF
'a' obstacle and burden. AUGUST
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