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OTHER COMMITTEES.

The meeting now listened to reports from other committees
on different things about the Clarendon and other Saratoga
hotels.

One committee had investigated
the case of a cross husband at the
Clarendon, whose wife has a fondness
for grave-yard walks with a
handsome young man. The meeting
resolved that any woman who
has a scolding husband, has a right
to walk, talk, and flirt with anybody.

The committee on Congress Hall reported as to the exact
number of rich young fellows, their precise incomes, and the probable
chance of getting them to dance at the Clarendon Germans.

[ILLUSTRATION] [Description: 628EAF. Page 120. In-line Illustration. Image of a man in a top hat. The caption reads, "OLD HUSBAND."] A report was also read as to Congress Hall engagements
pending, and explaining the reason why Clarendon gentlemen
spend all their time at Congress Hall. One old lady said it was
because the ladies there were younger and prettier.

She was expelled.

Now came reports of committees on defunct husbands, old
lovers, on devoted lovers and on cross husbands, on general scandal,
on washing white dresses, on getting beaux away from
Congress Hall, on watching the balcony nights, on grave-yard
flirtations, on cost of ladies' dresses, on married men who come
in late, on religious tenets, on dyed-hair, on letters received at the
post-office, &c., &c.