Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-08-16
PERKINS IN SARATOGA.
DIARY OF A DAY AT THE GREAT
SUMMER RESORT.

SARATOGA. Aug. l3.-Ihls is the picture
of Saratoga to-day:
s A. -Hair-dressers in the hall.
Young ladies all asleep Mothers with
hair in curl papers mending torn lace
sleeves, wing back dress trains and adj
justing bustles Husbands at springs
drinking water and laughing and talking
about last nights roulette at Reeds
M.-Dsughters at springs dressed
in transparent null, with lace sleeves,
drinking and flirting with beaux in swell
English plaid suite.
lOA. M.-A]l 40 breakfast. RED rasp-
berries. Spanish mackerel and spring
chickens. Mothers and fathers eating,
but daughters bowling and smiling to
beaux. Boys yelling outside New YORK
papers"
II A.M.-Music. Mothers sitting around
IN iques listening to music and talking
scandal. Daughters in parlOrs flirting.
Fathers reading, smoking and talking
horse.
l. M.-Fathers Ia barroom drinking
sherry cobhlers and talking stocks.
Daughters wandering of to the graveyard
or over % the ''Ieu Spring. woods with
young men con string" Mothers
upstairs In dressing sacks, mending
gloves and sorting out dresses.
] p. M.--Eyery body sleeping.
p. M.-Dmner. Beautiful young ladies
moulded into tight dresses with transpar-
ent sleeves, move down the ajsies ahead Of
fat mothers in overlooking corsets. Cham
payne, woOdcoek, and soit-shell crabs for
entrees.
p. NAH asleep again.
2. NJ. - Mothers sc0lding flirting
daughters up stairs, and diving into
trunks for INV orn dresses. Daughters
reading novels.
3 p. M.-Ride around the lake. Coach
man and iootman. GorCeously dressed
daughter on front seat. BeAuX out with
trOtting horses and twO-wheeIed dog carts.
7P. M.-Supper.
M-Arrayed for the BALL Gentle
men in swallow tails holding crushed hats
and bouquets. Daughters with white
arms covered with kids. Hair pompadour
holding pearl fans. Mothers acting as
wall flowers. holding chairs for daughters.
Door fun OF eye class dudes with banged
hair sucking canes. Husbands at the cluo
house playing roulette. Chiidren in white
dr. sses dancing the polka ana waltz.
10 P. M.--Daughters promenaliDg be-
tween the dances On dark balcony outside.
SIghs OF love. Beautiful white hands held
~ others, grim and sunburnt.
She-"Oh, George, nobody loves me-"
He-"1es, sweet, God loves you and
your mother loves YOU"
She-"Mr. Mason, let's go imp
II p. m.-Parl0rs deserted. Ladies
Rossiping in their rooms. Men rush to
club house. Brandy aud soda for two"
Now for reRte a gudrdnt. "Hhe black
loses and the red wins. More brandy.
'.My God, Pm ruined@'
II p. Midnight.
''Who's thatY'
"M-M (hic) mew
NWho's me!'
sly lhio) Your-H-H (hic) your
nus (hicl band"
TRUNDLEBED sARAToGANs.
At all the Saratoga hops the children
are allowed to use the hop-r0om from to
9. There can be no more beautiful pic
ture than to see a hundred little white
angels flying around the ballroom to the
music OF the waltz. Most Of these chill.
dren have taken dancing lessons, and are
as graceful as sylphs
Last night Mrs. AstOr's little girl Ethel
danced with little Freddy Livingston, VINO,
IN the excess OF his innocent love and Joy,
put his arms around her neck and kissed
her. This made every one in the States
ballroom laugh.
''Oh. Ethel, Pm ashamed to think you
should let a little boy kiss youv' said her
mother.
Ethel.
"You couldn't help itp' exclaimed her
mother.
'No mamma. You see Freddy and
were dancing the polka. Freddy had TO
stand up close to me, and all at orce his
lip slipped and the kiss happened"
VANDERBILT AND THE WEST SHORE.
Speaking OF the West Shore railroad to-
day VIM. II. Vanderbilt said:
n nj larfa aF
West Shore. l did buy hfty-six shares
and held it one week. / didn't think it
was right and sold 1t again."
But we see pictures representing you
as trying to protect the roadw | said.
"Ihe picture would be truer if the West
Shore were represented as trying to crawl
into my pocket az any price, said Mr.. V.
81 have not entangled the West Shore
either. Any one on earth is as free TO buy
II as l am"
"Can the Grand Trunk buy it?"
"Certainly it can If it wants it,"
vANDERBILT's HEALTH.
There Ia no denying the fact that Mr..
Nanderblts health is very delicate. His
Immediate friends are very sOlicitous
about him. IL is known that the great
railroad king has had one stroke of parRly-
sis. Another may take him away. One
eye has dropped little like Sam Tilden's,
and one side of the face shows the effect of
the paralytic stroke. His voice has be-
come very unsteady. IL Is almost i'm
possible to understand what he says when
he talks. His physical vigor is gone.
sometimes he will SLOUGH down into 4
chair on the states balcony, and look with
hali-closed eyes straight at a window sill
for hours. He often sits in one chair from
breakfast till dinner. Henry Bergh sat
watching Mr.. Vanderbilt yesterday. When
] asked Mr.. b. what he thought about him
be said:
"Mr. Vanderbilt looks very feeble. He
looks to me as if be might die any time. /
do not think be can live five years.
Physicians here when asked about the
railroad kings health shake their heads
Dminously.
WICKED SARATOGA.
Elder MunsOn, OF Balston, is a very
cOnsclentiOus clergyman. He is not, like
Iamage, worldly-minded Christian,
but he is always privately az well as
publicly engaged in his Masters service.
He never makes a call without bringing
up the subject Of religion. The otherday
he made bis usual monthly call on old
DR.. Lincoln, Of BallstOn. Or. Lincoln Is
not scOtier. although he is very pro.
fame man. He Is a terrible swearer, but.
like Gen. Jim Nye, be likes 20 sing hymns
between his hymns and oaths.
After Elder MunsOn bad talked some
time with the doctor, he finally hroaehed
H.. "a 4 A.