The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-08-16
A LOOK AT SARATOGA.
Much OF IT'S OLD TINE GLORY
HAS DEPARTED.

My DEAR LOUISE: While ION the wingn l
made short stay at Saratoga. Though
cannot truthfully say that Ichabod is yet
written over the lonely spot, still its ancient
glories are dimmed IL we are to believe ira
dition, oral and written. These tell us that
time was when the gayeties of Saratoga
surpassed those OF Newport in brilliancy. The
elect of fashion as a rule now turn to Saratoga
a cold shoulder. The events of the present
season are confined almost exclusively to en-
tertainments gotten up for ''sweet charity's
sake" The pet project this year is to raise
funds to build hospital. For this humane
project Mrs. Walter Hanlon and Mrs. Man
ming got up series Of exquisitely beautiful and
artistic tableaux, the many pretty girls at
Saratoga furnishing the material for these
lovely living pictures Miss Manning fairly
set all the men wild with admiration of her
beautiful face and form. AS she appeared in
the first tableau, "The Minuet," with Miss
Southgate, another awfully-fetching girl, the
audience settled down to see the thing
through, hoping there would be ''more Of
it''-or rather, of them. While there is con-
siderable cottage life at Saratoga, the big
hotels are far from being even well filled.
Among the familiar faces was that of Miss
Helen Oil, of Philadelphia, who spends her
winters in this city, where she has large
circle of friends. Miss Ohl is the owner of
a cottage at the summer capital, Cape May
Point, but she has a fondness for Saratoga,
where she spends a part of each summer.
One thing very noticeable at Saratoga is the
fine array of dowagers. elegantly and expen-
sively gotten up, who seem to belong to
nobody aud nobody belongs to them. On
festive occasions they form a fine dado
against the wall, lending solidity as we'll as
brilliancy to an entertainment. They wear
jewels galore, and from their placid counte-
nances one would say their pathways
lay among the roses. As for ages
that is conundrum. Possibly they were
vented the track of the incipient wrinkles
and care lines by utterly refusing to dwell or
even think of the troubles of life. For take
it for granted you have heard Of the latest
preventative of times traces-that is, to avoid
all conversation, or even thought, if possible,
about ones individual woes. It is said that
cats grow old with unwrinkled brow-proba-
bly, because they are denied the gift of speech,
and so cannot dwell with their kind in
friendly converse on the particular evils that
beset them-particularly those of physical
nature. Did you ever notice how prone hu-
manity is to give full and most minute ac-
count of just when the pain left or the fever
came on? Steele says: "It is wonderful
thing that so many, and they not reckoned ab-
surd, should entertain those with whom they
converse, by giving them the history of their
pains and aches, and imagine such variations
their quota Of the conversation"
The new gospel of beauty must have been in
vented by some martyr to his friends recitals.
May 1t spread far and wide and find many be-
| ievers! health resort is the place Of all
| Others where one must hear Of ''the ills that
| flesh is heir to-" and could write a chapter
| on diseases from what I learned at Saratoga.
| Mrs. Hicks-Lord and her fascinating niece,
Miss Schenck, were about to say farewell to
the springs when l arrived. Miss schenck,
who Is charming in face and manner, was un-
doubtedly the belle of the place, and went off
with any number of scalps dangling from her
| belt.
Mrs. Hicks-Lord took her lovely charge to
Lake George. Mrs General G. II. T. Coils,
authoress of "A Woman's Trip to Alaska" is
| one of the notabilities established at the
| Grand Union; her bosom friend, the Russian
| Princess Engalitcheff, is another celebrity
| passing the season at Saratoga. The Cor
| mans are, of course. people of great interest.
| Mrs. John Kelly and her sister, Miss Mullan,
both formerly Of Washington, with their
niece, Miss Cleary, of Washington, are pass
| ing the summer at Saratoga. The President
| will be there this coming week, and all are
| looking forward to his advent as the event OF
| the season.
May is at Bar Harbor, and she writes me
that Mrs. Wilmerding and Mrs. Phil Sheridan
have re-entered the gay world, having ap-
| peared at one or two balls. l am told it is
not unlikely that Mrs. Sheridan may soon
change her name for that of a distinguished
Pennsylvanian. While on the subject of en-
| gagements l must tell you that Miss Rachel
Sherman's engagement to DIR. Paul Thorpdyke
Of Boston, has just been announced. Miss Lizzi,
| Will soon be the only unmarried one of the latt
| generals daughters. The most exciting social
topic in Washington during these "dog days.
is the Miller-Mosby affair, which is being yer,
thoroughly discussed. Ever yours, ALICE.
Beechnut and Chestnut Flour.
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