The herald., 1895-08-25

conservative women folks study Ro-
man antiquities In the House Of the
aldile Pansa, and go to hear lectures
on dry. improving topics by Bishop
Newman and the Rev. Wilbur f..
Crafts.
A great many people like women to
be conservative.
The old-fashioned American, who
likes to drive a trotting horse, is here
with his Uncle Sam face and chin
beard, giving no visible sign of his de-
light as he spins along the road.
A lot of extremely fat women are
here, lolling back in their carriages,
and hoping by drinking nasty tasting
spring water to get thinner without
exercise.
Pretty girls are here by dozens. by
day in pink waist and blue skirt, by
night in fluffy gowns of white.
There are other girls, but not nearly
so many, in swell white duck by day
and evening gowns by night with pref
ty pink cheeks, and pretty, White arms
and pretty slender figures.
There is an unusually large proper
ton of dowdy, addressed women. who
waddle when they walk. wear laveudar
gowns and discuss their ailments. The
springs and the good air bring them.
There are tennis players and bicy-
clers very few; golfers not at all; oars
pears in golfing plaids to ten in Bar
Harbor. The girls wear tan leggins
and short skirts, while bicycling; never
bloomers.
There are two camps of gypsies who
amuse by telling fortunes, and one
camp of Indians. who amuse by selling
tginkets.
There are excursions, walks, lectures,
theatres.
And there is the horse.
SARATOA A HORSE HAVEN.
Opposite the dropping race track Is
shady grove, sacred to hospitality.
1t is called 1.-The horse haven" This
might be the name for all Saratoga.
1t is horse haven, and a girl haven.
Everybody notices here the absence
of athletics. The horse is the reason.
Everybody drives.
At one end of the village is Wood
lawn" the princely estate of Judge
Hilton and his partner. ]. M. Hughes.
Their acres are counted by the nun
dreds, their private drives, to which the
public is freely admitted, by the doz-
ems of miles. Judge Hilton himself
drives, sturdy figure in late middle
life. with an iron gray moustache.
Mrs. Hilton seldom uses carriage, but
for the convenience of guests a dozen
rigs" and twice dozen horses are
kept.
At the other end of the village is a
similar estate belonging to Spencer
Trask, the banker. beautiful with
bosky dells, musical with tinkling
waterfalls, cool with waited spray.
Here again the drives are open to the
public, and here too the guests of the
house need never walk away from the
deep porte cochere of the great gray
stone mansion overlooking the lake and
fair prospect to the southeast. for want
of horses and a phaeton. or a pony
and cart.
Midway of the village is the Lester
cottage, occupied by Senator Edward
Murphy. Hither came fortnight ago,
the couple in whose fortunes Saratoga
takes the deepest interest-ex-Mayor
Hugh ]. Grant, of New York. and his
bride, Senator Murphy's daughter.
Hugh Grant is rich, handsome. neither
young nor old. and was batchelor for
so many years that he drove the New
York girls to despair. Now he and his
bride are the most noted couple on the
street He is as skillful in the saddle
as he is handling the long reins. but
the saddle horse is little used to Sara
toga.
Before the big hotels just before the
driving hour" which is Saratoga s
great afternoon sight, as the throng at
the springs is of the morning, the pri-
vate carts stand four deep in front of
the great hotels. They belong to tran
sient guests, and horses and men jour
neyed here together, the former in
their box cars as comfortable as their
masters.
So here's to Saratoga, its horses and
its girls! And may reform be to them
blessing. not blight!
ELIZA PUTNAM HEATON.