The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-08-25
Our Saratoga Letter
[OUR REGULAR LETTER ]

SAHATOGA NPRLNGS, n. L aug. 10 looo'
Toe baggage porter at the Union, VIII
has been connected with the Saratoga
hotrls-most Of the time with that ore
for fifty years, says that ladies general
ly are not hr.ngirg as may trunks aN
usual with the m this year. They average
now at most four apiece where lev
years ago they often brought eight. The
prevailing fashion for wearing shorl
dresses partia ly accounts tor the less, n
ing Of tie amuuut of baggage. Tht
above mentioned baggage porter remrn-
uers when only one trunk-and that noi
barge one sntficed to contain Lady Is
Saratoga Gu fit.
There is one New York lady at th,
United States hotel, however. who has
ths reputation of bringing three hundred
dres.e hire with her aud SIX maids I,
take care OF them. Sne wears three dill
ierent dresses per day, ami never Will
here is seen to wear tie sanle one twice.
Her diamonds are numerous and gorge.
Gus, and she keeps II lady who is in IT.
due d circumstances constantly employ
ed em5r lderlug h"r clothIn. irciuding
stockings as well as dresses and parasols.
Philadeiphiau who seems to be very
Il informed ou suci matters t,lls me
that ladies wear garters embroidered to
match their stockingS; that he sees them
aS they get into or out Of their carriages.
Also, lie firms that il is fashion with
some ladies TO wear stockings of con-
tras ing colnrs, one pair being blue and
the other yellow. or one red and rh- otL-
er black. Opportunities for such obser.
vations are no wanting. {, saw II young
woman on tue fr ut balcony OF one OF he
largest hotels at midday, when the
porch. aS we'll ns the street below, vas
crowded with people, sitting with her
rhair tilted back against the wall and
her feet on the upper rounds of the chair
in front of her.
The crowds at the monv hotels for
which Saratoga Springs is noted. increase
daily. The race course is thrnnged. balls
and logs are of nightly cc'urre' ce, the
usual display in drrss aud diamonds is
ryeryW here observable. and betting.
gambling. aud Indeed every n ase and
variety of fast living is the leading fla
time Of the FlAce. As for society peopl",
If und,r that head are to be classpd tn,
rtfued, the educated and the gentle
hammered, they may or mny rot ae here
II they are, they are c"mplet, ly lost H.
the vortex ol fast and fnrinus living, and
fail to ,xert ANY irh leLce upon the place
nr people aho fill it. Even the y'unl
children at Saratoga nre drawn iutc
| the whirlpool of dlS.i! WIOp, aud da' ce,
aui dress, and fl TT TO M extent tha
promis, btoly for their own future aud
.or that of their parents aud country
Chlldren's hops, chl.reu's germans
childr' ns fancy balls, aud garden partle'
are n regular feature of tue SEASON toll
at Saratoga aud Long Branch, nno New
port Is now the only watering place iron
I when details Of children's gaye;i"s alt
dissipation do no; cnme. The f"l'y an,
W ckedness Oi th's- unnatural disy lay
Is Hbuudautly vlient in the whole nfte
career AID dev,l rmeut OF these uuf,r
tuunte li,;le ones At ten YEARS of ag
the little girl OF tie day is mn Iucipi, n
quette. at fourteen she il finishe,
woman Of the world, aud, as some on
has aptly remarked. "knoWs a. much n
her mother. aud ei ys the knowledge
great deal more" AMI this false AM
, hurtful training does not belong to New
, port or New Y rk or to any other cit
, or section Of our country, but is mos
largely to be noticed at cosmopolitan as
semblages like Saratoga, where East
West, North and South are all repTe'
euted.
What the result will eventually be Is
A grave and serious question. At preseu
Il might draw tears frpm the harde'
worldling to SGT the wholesale des,rnotio
/ Of nature's most beautiful work. which
going on
N-vpor' is still It'll behind band
: IA ,Ii'a # ii ner, "ut luueh-ons ev- =
r day iu the week, casins hops, rolo yIchI
/ lrg paiIys. aud great Il al of mornln
b writing. Wh,ch lat ey, rybody declares I
! he a nvr but y-ryhoiy is careful nni /
! neglect IT, lest they all should be nrgltei
! sd wnen eATds Tor dinnsTs aud dance