The Houston daily post. [volume] (Houston, Tex.) 1886-1903, 1899-07-09

Saratoga, July e. lhte 10 $50 "
American place / have seen In America,
The speaker looked up and down the broad
p,azza of one OF Saratogas huge. wooden
hotels
How so?" asked his companion.
"Well." said the Englishman, II got
here too late for dinner, don't you Know
and when went to the dining room, they
gave me-what do you thnk?-oeefsteak,
potato chips and ice water; the FIRST reaiiy
American meal l have eaten. And now
this--so American"
The Briton again looked up and down
the long porch, thickly set win rocking
chairs where white forms ewayed to ana
fro in the moonlight that fiGlered through
the LEAKAGE OF shadowing trees. From the
ball room ffoated the strains OF waltz;
In the broad street In front bicycles carry
Ing slender white figures glided noiseless-
ly past. and groups of girls, Whitehead
bareheaded, strolled up and down.
II ouppose," he said tentatively, glanc-
ing at the rocking figures, from whose
hair and corsage an occasional CLEAN OF
light woke the answering spark OF dia-
monds "that these ladies out here are
chaperones whose daughters are dancing
inside?"
VERY possibly" returned his compan-
lon.
The Briton gazed silently few minutes
at the sidewalk, where young girls. their
arms twined about one another, continued
TO pass, bare armed, heads uncovered
lifting with their unoccupied hands the
skirts OF costly evening gowns. With an
air OF satisfaction he presently repeated,
so Amerlcan!'
And almost the Brlton was right Sara
toga, with its huge wooden, caravan Sc
ries, many Widowed, containing hundreds
of rooms, where people swarm like bees
In hive, eating together. dancing to-
gether in the hotel parlors in the evening,
lounging together on the hotel pia2zas
day and evening, walking to and from the
springs together, Is tar more American,
| initS unequaled ostentation of wealth
and dress, and Its unequalled frankness
and good humor and jovial democracy IN
display, than is Newport-that enormous
and brilliant European garden, beauti-
full and stately. but so walled and fenced
| that the townspeople are harricaded even
| from access to a beach which from the
/ days of the first settlement was their own.
There is no privacy at Saratoga. There
/ is no partition through which one can not
hear. Ten minutes ago there appeared on
my threshold couple of children, boy
and girl, nine and eleven years old, pos
slbly, of the progress of whose toilet as
performed in the next room al ears had
I for some minutes kept me informed. Both
were spotless in white plque, but where
| the boy glanced at me with certain tim :
idity, the girl advanced boldly, her little
/ round neck lying in creases OF fat her
round brown eyes surveying me with au-
daCious curiosity.
When did you come and how long are
you going to stay?" she asked; then turn
ed to examine the room before joining
her mother rather young AID hanlsome
woman with audacious eyes like the
child's, who paused at the door on her way
down the piazza.
white taffeta dress was this lady IS
porch toilet. with an elaborate effect of
lace in the makeup, and an accordion
plated sash of pale blue chiffon. A dainty
fchu, also of blue chiffon, carried down
with much frilling OF lace to point at tho
waist, gave a decided slope to her shoul-
ders. AS she lifted her skirt I saw that
she wore small white shoes with blue
bows and Louis XIV heels In her ears
We're diamonds and the hands that held
some brilliant triile of fancy work in vivid
cherry color were covered with rings. 1t
was like no place but Saratoga that, smil-
ing to see that the children had found
amusement, this stranger expressed no
surprise at their taking possession of my
apartment.
White was the color of the porch colony,
white lawn dresses; white piques white
ducks, white cloth gowns white veilings,
white dotted Swiss froclls, white point
d'esprits. white book muslins made a
snowy coyey. Jogging to and fro-no-
where but at Saratoga do rocking chairs
get such steady eXercise-scores and flfttes
OF white ladies chatted and embroidered,
embroidered and chatted, while l observed
the largest and most brilliant marquise
ring the most beautifully set big tur-
quolse, the richest ruby and the most
dazzling cluster Of diamonds-all these on
the fingers of my immediate neighbors--
that had ever seen congregated
Next to white dresses and jewelry. the
impressive features OF Saratoga are Its
large women-stout women, | mean, OF
whom 1t has more than any other resort
VINO promenade the parks and gardens Of
me springs, and whose effect in their
white robes Is that OF snow-clad noun
tains
woman of this order, tall enough AL
most to carry her superfluous flesh, was
wearing TINS morning a dress Tat a. first
slght would hardly impress one as a morn
ing gown. or white musliBAdotted with
oiack' IL was trimmed all over with bow
hnots OF lace insertion falling upon an
oversklrt finished with three narrow. black
edged ruiiles. The full bodice. also COW
ered with bow knots. had a belt and sleeve
ssrapplnes OF black velvet The hat was n
Dig cloud of black null What about This
woman distinguished her from the crowd
OF Slippers OF mineral waters could not
len until i noticed that her genius had
whispered TO her to keep close 10 a pillar
tMIneu win a elematis vine, whose large
purple howers lent just the touch TO her
CHIC costume that made it unsurpassable.
Az saratoga II is not as at Newport Inn
'oufs driving, but there is a great den, ~
itahd later in July when the racing sci
Aafe possession there Will be more. The
course is up and down Broadway and than
IN the afternoon the lake drive is coyoroa
a large While woman ism ever mora i'm.
posing than when perched high on n, smart
uap, and many women at Saratoga dr,,,.
thelr own spirited teams. This dnes ~,
sno", according TO some, that they Az
ssMpeit WHIPS, but that the horses thav
usNe nave been put through such oo,,rs,
VI tanning that the linas ec,,ta i, 49, "o