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Life At Saratoga

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Parent Issue
Day
14
Month
August
Year
1863
Copyright
Public Domain
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" Burlcigh," the clerical correspondent of the Boston Journal, writcs to thar paper under date of August 1 : It wants ten ftfll days of '' High Sara;oga ; " but not within the mcmory of lian has the place been so crowded as at this hour. All the leading hotels % 'uil, and " lodging out " bas begao. - There are sonie noticeable peculiaritiea this year. The almo.st total absence of officers of the army is one. Indeed shouldcr straps end unifortns do not appenr. But few young men are here. - ïhe damsels are niany and never seeincd more fascinating. The dress is toned' down greatly the present year. But few gorgeous ladies appear; and in cases whero display could be well afforded, the' dress is modest and subdued. So many vulgar peoplo, owing to sudden wealtb, demand the most costly dresses and exponsivo jewelry, that the ton seem to' have come to the determination. so mysteriously fonned, to be remarlted and distinguisheJ by the plainncss of the attire. But few jewolry are wort, and wlion a party appears with a profusión of dia-' monds thev are at once voted snob?. Crinoline is doomed - not positively drivon out as yet. But any one who will observe the sigr.s of the times can see' what is coming - very much smaller than ever before worn. Tlie hoop skirt is contraeting, while uow and tlien a dashii)!i eirl flirts aloní and flaunts alon;? with a diess clmging to her, suggesting that slie has either dresscd in hnste and forgottcn her hoops, or lias taken by accident a dress belongiug to her rramlmother, but evidently in glee at the sonsation' she produces, and t okled tliat slie vvaa aniong the first to lead the coming fashion at Saratoga. The fashion oí' wearing the hair is attraetive - Arrecian in front, tied in a knot behind- all looking we!l when done up by a hair dresser, and not at all well when tied up by a wliirlwind. Theparlors present few attraciions of drcss or person. I5ut the spring in the moniing if high change of soason. The ladies have a style of marning dresa that is beooming and bewitehing. Tlio newjaunty' jockey, almost universal - of all forms, ! slyles and quality, with gaudy triimniniis, peacock feathers, wholc birds of paradise, jewuls and beautiful ornainonts - are vcry The plain, but rieh and clegantly fitting morning drcs.ses, present a gay appearaneo. For thenoxt two or tbree weeks, Saratoga proraiscs to be attraotive beyond all precedent. A Sabbath conveutiou, a teinperance conveution, a Sunday school convention, are full of prooi e. 13 ut, tho great thing of tliu hour is the great horse race, to come off on the -tth, 5th and Gth of August, in which the leading race boruca of the land are to take part. John Morrisscj', the prize fighter, bas thu thiug in charge, and' 3 a man of mark just now. A procession of the horses to run in the races neut by the principal hotels this morning. Arnnng the foremost to louk on wcro all tho ladics in the plaee, ar; d all the clergymen, the latter of whom had to go to the edge of the curb stono to see the sight.

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Michigan Argus