The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1899-07-08


If you were to ask a resident of Sara
toga what his private opinion was on the
exact location Of the Garden of Eden, he
would c~onfdentially declare chat it was
saratoga. Some folks might be mean
enough to say that it is the only place in
this county where people could have iv-
ed without clothes. Clothes are a burden
at Saratoga, but as there is a popular
prejudice in favor Of them, they are
worn.
The poor men suffer much, it is true,
but for them are two or three good sized
grains Of comfort. One is that they ear
wear cool clothes, another is, they do not
havsto wear corsets, still another is that
they are not obliged to not only seem to
be, but actually be cecil and calm under
the greatest heat, and lastly, they can
find comfort in various kinds of iced
drinks, and then there are the races.
Just what effect a race may have in
the matter is illustrated In this little true
story. a famous ladies' bootmaker here
once made a pair of dainty boots for
Mrs. Frank Leslie. She found them to
be SO tight that she could not wear them
and took them back for him to stretch
them.
Put them on. dear lady; put them on
and go to the races. Yen be 50 diyarted
that yen not know they pinch"
So It is with the men at the races.
! They are so s.divartedv that they will for
get the blazing sun, the hot wind which
seems to come from a monster oven and
the dust and erowding and flies and
"skeets,s for there are mosquitoes in
Saratoga. Not SO very many, but what
there are are exceedingly strong.
The Saratoga girl must look cool and
sweet and daintily fragrant with violet
powder and fresh as q rosebud. Her hair
Is not allowed to fly in the wind like some
forlorn Miranda sitting on the cold rocks
in the spray at Newport. Nor must it
struggle in wet masses down a dripping
bathing costume. No, indeedy! 1t must
be crisply waved or curled or dressed in
whatever way the fair wearer affects,
but there are no frivolous locks to float
about there
To that end there are some very dainty
little fancies in jeweled pins and tiny
combs. Some of the pins represent bugs
and butterflies. Some of them would
give immortal fame to ar entomologist if
he could only find a bug like those in the
land of the living.
The races this year are expected to
draw larger crowds and crowds with
more money thar have visited Saratoga
for several years. Moneyed men draw
the prettiest women. and therefore the
season will undoubtedly be very brilliant.
/ may remark en- PEASANT that while
men may crowd after a pretty face it is,
after all, but a sporadic sort of hocking
together and not at all in it by the side
of the way women congregate where
there are eligible-that is to say, rich
men We all like the good Sunday school
superintendent who says dear little
chil-dur-en', In the abstract. / am afraid
we prefer the Saratoga man, who drinks
iced things, goes to the races, bets and
lets us win End drives fast horses. One
girl, speaking Of an awfully good young
man whom she had just snubbed, told
her bosom friend:
"Oh, Alfred is all right, but he is like
molasses cake without ginger-all sweet
and no snap"
The races give such a chance for a dis
play Of bewitching toilets! The hops are
faiI land, the long delicious afternoons
spc4t in wandering around this nine
teenth century paradise, the sails upon
the beautiful lake, the fishing, the pic
mics, the trips to Mount McGregor of ten
der memory, the tennis lawns, the golf
links and the Congress spring-all these
and more furnish occasion for exquisite
dressing and make the Saratoga girl
more dangerous to masculine peace than
the sirens of old.
White dresses, white hats and flmy
white parasois have the call at. Saratoga,
inst as they always have. White against
the background of fresh green s~hrubbery
or grass makes a most effective picture.
White gowns of sheer stuffs are the pref
test and best suited to that torrid place.
Still-golf-gawf-goff-guff or what
ever it should be called, and tennis make
dresses of pique and linen mesh more de-
sirable than thinner stuffs. OF these two
the Deimel is best, as it Is porous, while
the pique is very close and firm.
White golf and tennis dresses are made
with the inevitable shirt waist, this time
seNed to the belt. supporting the skirt.
One trimmed with three lines Of red rib
bon run under white tape loops around
the skirt was very dainty. Reyers were
trimmed with the same.
To dress effectively for Saratoga one
has but one thing to consider for her day
gowns, and that is the fact that do what
ever she may or go where she likes she
cannot escape from the green background
OF trees, ~shrubbery and grass. So blue
and green are colors quite out of keeping
with the surroundings for day dresses at
least White is first favorite, pale pinis,
lilac and delicate shades Of yellow are all
effective. For evening all eolors are per-
missible, even red, as the variety mingles
e form the rosebud garden of girls.
There is to be another new feature this
War which viii go far to make Sara
tbga popular with women. and that is a
1ew fast train to and from New York
(eity. Men can take their breakfast with
( their families or pretty lady friends and
reach New York Id time for business, and
after business hours can start for Sara