Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1895-08-08

Saratoga Springs, N. y, Aug. 2.-It
can only be said about this place that
ut is at once the hottest and most vul-
gar OF all the Eastern watering places.
For while it is amusing. II is al
ways amusing to study humanity. And
since pope said, 10 long ago, that the
proper study of mankind was man, it
almost goes without saying that the
proper study of womankind Is the eter-
nal feminine. Here she is extreme,
and almost every type is represented
except that one which, being man,
you would admire. The whole social
structure Of the place is artificial.
Everybody knows that everybody else
wears her clothes to be stared at. That
It is continual dress parade, and that
! the various types of women are always
on exhibition, / was tempted to say,
on sale to the highest bidder.
THE BOLD YOUNG WOMAN IS
HERE.
The most common type is the Elk
treme Girl. The puffs of her sleeves
and the roses in her hat are bigger
than anybody else's. Her hair, which
last year was blonde, is now a violent
and aseertive Titan red, rolled in a
knot that is higher than that worn by
ibhJ pthNi WOindu. IltT MdlbI IltdHuTtb
10 inches, and her shoulders and hips
are SO large that padding is suggested.
Her shoes are pointed like swords, and
her frock is wider and flares more
than the average family umbrella. She
is the first on the ballroom floor and
the last to leave it. She knows the
latest dance and she makes up after the
French fashion, putting bit Of rouge
on the lobe of each ear and around her
nostrils, while she accentuates her eye
brows and lashes with some black stuff.
Her voice is loud and shrill, and she
either despises or adores, loves or
loathes. There is no between. She is
ready for midnight drive or an early
morning filtration, and she seems to
have but one object in life, that is, to
surround herself with as many fast men
as possible and to win compliments
from them She is about as bad type
as can be found, and l often wonder
il the men who laugh with her ever
think of the kind Of an old woman she
will be. She will never be called an
old lady, 1t is much more probable
that she will be spoken of as an old
ha5, Dancing all night, flirting all
day, with intervals Just for dressing
and drinking, are not calculated, either
physically or mentally, to make an ele-
giant old gentlewoman.
Another type is the horsey young
woman. She
is TAILOR MADE, BODY AND
SOUL,
and her idea of a becoming hat is stiff
sailor with somebody's racing colors for
the ribbon band. She calls every man
friend by his first name and is ready to
give odds on anything from the num-
her of cocktails she will drink to the
number Of traps that will pass in
half an hour. She can give you
the pedigree of the best known
racing horse. She can tell you the
good points, so called, of the most
hideous dogs, and she trots but never
walks II she is talking to you she
stands with her hands on her hips and
her jacket thrown back, and if she is
thinking of something she will bite
taken out of gold case that has her
monogram on it. Then she will invite
you to have one, as she tells you that
they are pretty good, made especially
for me, old fellow, got my name on
them" She don't care much for
women, though she has her special
chum, who is usually her exact OPP
posite, for she is clever enough to know
that one will bring out the points of
the other The horsey young woman is
usually young and il she marries the
right sort of man, one who will be
her master, she may reform and become
very proper person; but il she unites
herself to dude she will grow harder
and harder and less womanly as she
grows older.
IMPUDENT CHILDREN ABOUND. 4
|. A very common type here, and one that
rs peculiarly American no other nation
would be charitable enough to endure
it, is the Infant Phenomenon. She is
usually about 7 years old, lanky of
build, pert of speech and bad of man
ner. She is frightfully overdressed,
wears pink silk frock trimmed with
white lace, diamond ring, small dia-
mond earrings, and some bracelets. In
the evening she is trotted out to do a
fancy dance, and people sit around and
say how clever she is, while most OF
them, in their hearts, wish that Herod
was mayor of Saratoga. This child can
be heard of at any time during the day.
She makes personal remarks to strang-
ers, which her mother thinks are smart,
but for which she ought to be spanked,
and she hangs around the men, volun-
teers to kiss them and induces them TO
buy her lemonade with little bit of
claret in it. Take her for all in all, it
may be said that she permeates the
whole place, and is general nuisance.
At ii O'Clock at night she is carried to
bed screaming and kicking, while her
mother oassively remarks that "Flossie
is SO nervous. - What Flossie and her
tribe want is toninp down Thav
want to wear cotton frocks; they want
to be kept out of the way of older peo-
pie, and they want to be taught good
manners. like children. especially
like girl children. But the Infant
Phenomenon and her tribe are not chill
dren, are not even human beings, and
they ought to be wiped off the face of
the earth for they never would be
missed
HE is ALL CLOTHES.
BY the hundreds there may be counted
the Clean Young Man. He is pink Of
shirt and white of eye. He is bland
in manner and his face shines with in
nocence and soap. HI is intensely
correct in his dress. He knows lust
what stick suits certain trousers, and
just what hat goes with certain hour
of the day. The sun never shines
on his mistakes ia dress. He is a
trife languid, but then he has SO
much to think about. He is quite a
distance from the haberdashers, and
for all he knows he may be "a hours
late in getting certain kind of tie.
And that would be sad. He doesn't
talk much but when he does he is very
long on silly gossip and very short on
penae He likes Won In lSnow that he