Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-08-31
DIAMOND WEARERS.
Women Who Wear Jewels Grand
mothers in Precious Stones.
Saratoga Diamond Mine-Pearls by the
Quart, Diamonds by the Peck and
Great Men by the Dozen.
Hen as Diamond wearers-The wanamakers
at saratoga-EI- Governor Curtin.
Richard Vau1-Henry Clews.
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Special correspondence of the Gazette.

Special correspondence of the Gazette.
GRAND UNION HOTEL. SARATOGA, Aug. &c.
Sartoga was never gayer than it has been durin
the past week. AL the millionaires Of the lsnd
are here and more than 10000 strange palates
are tickled with the salty taste of the Saratoga
waters daily. There are 1900 strangers in the
boarding houses alone, and each of the big
hotels has thousand and more guests. Fhe
Grand Union with its 1000 rooms is filed to
bursting, and there were by actual count more
than 1000 dancing at one time at its last satur-
dav night mop. The millionaires' piazza at
the United States hotel has dozen men who
have to use seven cyphers in the figures which
represent the amount they are worth, and Con-
gress Hall has thousand and more guests
largely made u of sporting men who are here
to bet on the races.
DIAMONDS BY THE PECK.
The dressing OF Saratoga this year surpasses
tine widest dreams of Monte Christie. There
are pearls by the quart and diamonds by the
peck. | have never seen anything like the
ostentstious display Of diamonds. Every one
has them, and taking seat at the end OF the
parlor which leads into the dining room of the
Grand Union to-day / made note Of 500
women who came out OF dinner wearing dia-
monds. These were OF all sizes and settings.
/ counted fifty pairs of solitaire earrings, the
stones of each OF which were as big as the end
of my thumb; nineteen bracelets set with
large diamonds, and thirty diamond stars and
pendants, any one of which would buy farm
in the rich regions about York or Lancaster in
PeQnSyivaQla.
good taste to wear jewels except in full dress,
but here diamonds are worn morning, noon
and night, and l saw 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, a diamond crescent st
her throat, and she wears a diamond scarf pin
at her shoulder. A Mrs. Blood, who, / think
comes from Boston, had q fortune in diamonds
upon her at the last hop, and among her jewels
was q necklace OF great solitaires which clasped
the white m rble of her neck like balls OF fire.
She had a great diamond star on her head, and
her hands fairly blazed with rings set with pre-
cious stones. Another very pretty blonde mil
lionaire's daughter wears two earrings as big
around as silver quarter, formed of Q wide
circular band of diamonds, and saw a brunette
beauty last night dressed in flowing red gown
which came low down over her olive brown
shoulders, who had by actual count eighty-five
stones of different sizes on her person. The
most of these were small. and they were made
up into rings and bracelets; but the soliaires in
her ears were as big as hazel nuts. and she
shook at least $1,000 this way and that every
time she moved her head.
THE DAY OF GRANDMoTHERs GONE BY.
These Jewels are worn In the greatest profusion
by the middle-aged and the gray-haired. The
day of the grandmother has passed away and
you will not see woman here in lace cap.
The older q woman is now the more giddy she
seems to be- She cuts her dresses an inch
lower at the bust for every ten years she adds to
decolIete corssges and plump bare backs of
some of these powdered old danes who have
their grandchildren bothering the guests at
this hotel. I met lady in the elevator an hour
ago as I came to my room. She was as big as
the giantess In the side show Of the circus and
as old as Noah at the time of the flood. Her
wrinkled features were enameled and her
withered cheeks stood out as though she wore
plumpers. She had a jet-black wig Of many
curls, from under which 1 saw 3 lock of gray
hair peeping out, and there was q big daub Of
rouge on each cheek bone. Her dress
was cut far below Plimsolps line. and