Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1899-07-08
Ellen OSb0rns Latest Letter
THE WOMEN OF SARATOGA ARE LIE AIDING THE OTHER SUMMER RE-
SORTS IN SHARPNESS.

Saratoga, July 7.-'"This is the first
American place I have seen in America
The speaker looked up and down the
broad piazza of one of ~Saratoga's huge
wooden hotels.
How SOP asked his companion.
Well said the Englishman, II got
here too late for dinner. don't you know,
and when l went to the dining-roOm they
gave me-what do you think?-beef-
steak. potato chips and ice water; the
first really American meal l have eaten.
And now this-sO Americana
The Briton again looked up and down
the long porch, thickly set with rocking
chairs, where white forms swayed to and
fro in the moonlight that f1ickered
through the LEAKAGE of ~shadowing trees.
a waltz; in the broad street in front BIZ
cycles carrying slender white figures
glided noiselessly past. and groups of
girls, white-clad, bareheaded, strOlled up
and down.
Il suppose" he said tentatively. glanc-
ing at the rocking figures. from whose
hair or corsage an occasional CLEAN Of
Light woke the answering spark of dia-
monds, that these ladies out here are
chaperons whose daughters are dancing
inside?"
Every possibly returned his compan-
ion.
The Briton gazed silently a few min
ulSS al Vic SIueWd AIMS, WHCIc yOuiIS 6lIlS,
their arms twined about one another.
continued to pass, bare-armed, heads I'M
covered, lifting with their unoccupied
hands the skirts of costly evening gowns.
With an air Of satisfaction he presently
repeated, $50 Americana
And almost the Briton was right. Sara
toga. with its huge, wooden caravan
series, many-windowed, containing hun
dreds of rooms. where people swarm like
bees in a hive, eating together, dancing
together in the hotel pariors in the even
ing, lounging together on the hotel piaz-
zaS a and evening, walking to and from
the springs together. is far more Ameri-
can, in its ~unequalled ostentation Of
wealth and dress, and it's u%nequalled
and good humor and jovial
democracy in display. than in Newport
that and brilliant European
garden, beautiful and stately. but so
walled and fenced that the townpeople
are barricaded even from access to a
beach which from the days of the first
settlement has been their own.
There is no privacy at Saratoga. There
is no partition through which one cannot
hear. Ten minutes ago there appeared
on my threshold a couple of children, boy
and girl. nine and eleven years old, pos
sibly, of the progress of whose toilet as
performed in the next room my ears had
for some minutes kept me informed. Boil
were spotless in white pique, but where
the boy glanced at me with a certain
timidity. the girl advanced boldly, her
little round neck lying in creases of fat,
her round brown eyes surveying me with
audaciOus 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. a rather young, handsome
woman with audacious eyes like the
child's, who paused at the door on her
way down to the piazza.
"A white taffeta dress was this lady's
porch toilet, with an elaborate effect OF
lace in the makeup, and an accordion
plated sash Of pale blue chiffon. A dainty
fichu, also of blue chiffon, carried down
with much frilling of lace to a point at
the waist, gave a decided slope to her
shoulders. AS she lifted her skirt. 1 saw
that she wore small white shoes with blue
bows and Louis XIV heels. In her ears
were diamonds, and the hands that held
some brilliant tri1e of fancy work in
vivid cherry color We're covered with
rings. 1t was like no place but Saratoga
that. smiling to see that the children had
found amusement, this stranger eX-
pressed no surprise at their taking pos
session of my apartment.
White was the color Of the porch COL
Ony; white lawn drsses, white piques.