Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-08-31
Beauty at Saratoga Goes About
Loaded With Sparklers
FAT GRANDMAMAs WHO GLITTER.
A Dixie Belle on Whose Dark Hair q
Golden Butterfly Fits.
LATEST CUT Is FASHIONABLE HORSES

ates are .tickled with the salty taste of tn
Saratoga waters daily. There are 17.00l
strangers In the boarding houses alone, ant
each of the big hotels has thousand 'ant
more guests. There we're by actual coun
more than 8, coo dancing at one time last Sat
urday at a hop at one of the hotels. Th'
millionaires' piazza at another hotel has {
dozen men who have to use seven ciphers ir
the figures which represent the amount they
are worth, and still another has a thousand
and more guests, largely made up OF sporting
men, who are here to bet on the races.
The dressing OF Saratoga this year sur
passes the widest dreams oil Monte Christie
There are pearls by the quart and diamonds
BY the peck. have never seen anything
like the ostentitious display of diamonds.
Everyone has them, and taking a seat at the
end OF the hotel parlor to-day made note
OF 800 women who came out from dinner
wearing diamonds. counted 30 pairs oil
solitaire earrings, the stones OF each ol
which were as big as the end OF my thumb;
19 bracelets set with large diamonds, and 30
diamond stars and pendants, any one
OF which would buy arm in the rich re-
gions about York or Lancaster in Pennsyl-
vania.
ACROSS THE SEA.
In Europe it is not considered good taste
to wear Jewels except In full dress, but here
diamonds are worn morning, noon and night,
and I saw q woman in chintz gown to-
day with fortune in the diamond brooch
at her neck. One New York woman here
has ten diamond rings on her two hands, and
the third joints of several of her fingers are
so covered with jewels that she makes a
streak OF fire when she moves her hand. She
has also two diamond bracelets, diamond
crescent at her throat, and she wears dia-
mond scarf pin at her shoulder.
A Mrs Blood, who, I think. comes from
Boston, had fortune in diamonds upon her
at the last hop, and among her jewels was u
necklace of great solitsires which clasped
the white marble of her neck like balls OF
fire. She had great diamond star on her
head, and / saw brunette beauty last
night dressed in flowing red gown which
came low down over her olive-brown shoul-
ders, who had by actual connt S5 stones Of
different sizes on her person. She shook at
least $1,000 this way, and that every time
she moved her head.
AGE DOESN'T COUNT.
These jewels are worn in the greatest pro-
haired, and you will not see woman here
in lace cap. The older a womnn is now
the more giddy she seems to be. She cuts
her dresses an inch lower at the bust for
every 10 years she adds to her age, and
blush for the sex when / see the decollete
corsages and plump bare backs OF some OF
these powdered old danes whothave their
grandchildren bothering the guests at this
hotel.
ST met lady in the elevator an hour ago
as I came to nv ROOM She was as big as
the giantess in the side show of the circus
and as old as was Noah at the time of the
food. Her wrinkled features were enameled
and her withered cheeks stood out as though
she wore plumpers. She had jet-black
wig of many curls, from under which saw
a lock of gray hair peeping out, and there
was big dauh of rouge on each cheek
bone. Her dress was cut low, and the
brown mole upon her spine showed out
eight inches below the nape of her neck, as
though it were button made to hold the V
of her dress together. And diamonds She
had them and she wore them regardless OF
expense, age, or appearance. Her fat,
pudgy hands blazed with them. The lobes
OF her old ears were drawn down by them,
and on the top OF her black wig there was
an ornament Mt to take place in the crown
of queen.
A RoLY-PoLY BEAUTY.
Another old woman who is conspicuously
ugly in her extravagaut jewels is as short
as this old giantess is tall. She stops at the
United States Hotel. measured her with
my eye to-day. She is, believe, iour feet
across the shoulders, and she can't be more
than FIVE feet high. Her arms are as big
around as the thighs OF her dude-like son of
20 who calls her NANNY" aud when she
walks she rolls. She wears black satin
dress trimmed with very costly old lace and
cut very low. The dress fts SO tigntly that
it shines like patent leather and you fear 1t
will crack as you look at it.
Her diamonds are supposed to be worth
500, 900, and she wears S50, 900 worth of
night. She always has a crowd about her,
and she seems to be as popular as she is lat.
She makes her pretty daughters stand in
the background. and see the tendency to
keeping our girls back as the English girls
are kept steadily Increasing. The girls here
are outdressed and outshone by their
mothers, and the mothers and the grand
mothers have the most expensive wardrobes.
The biggest 0f the diamonds are Oh married
women, and many OF these show that they
started lie poor and are now making up uut
o. the fortunes that their husbands have
they were young.
MONEY NO OBJECT.
You can have little idea of the immense
sums OF money which are spent in watering
places without going to see them. There
are thousands of men here with their FAM
lilies who are spending hundreds OF dollars a
day. The Grand Union Hotel was you
know, given up by Judge Hilton to the
Stewart estate not long ago. He said at
the time to friend of mine that he was
glad to get rid of it, and was then asked if
it did not pay. 81 can take it and make
S150, 900 year." was the reply, and when
you think that this profit must all be made
in about six or eight weeks you see what an
immense income Saratoga hotel must have.
Hundreds of rich men here have their
and their blooded horses, aud you
will see as fine turnouts here every alter
noon as anywhere 10 the world. / took a
drive out to the lake this ternoon and |
found myself passed by steeds fine enough |
to grace the Arabian stables o. the Sultan.
The fashionable turnout has changed. The |
banging OF the tails OF the horses has ex- |
tended to the banging of the names, and the
average swell horse of Saratoga is a spirited |
three minute trotter whose name and tail |
are trim med close, and who is driver with |
out a check-rein. did not see check-rein |
on single fine turnout, and it is now I'M |
perative that good horse should hold up |
his head Tor himself.
MEN WHO WEAR DIAMONDS.
I notice that a hundred men wear dia- |
monds now to the one who wore them year |
ago. Every other man you meet here has |
one or more diamonds on him. I saw tall,
lean, horid-iaced man from Texas flirting |
his hands about as be drank his Hsthorn |
water at the spring this morning, aud there |
were three diamond rings on the hand that |
held the glass. His necktie Of white satin |