 | GUESTS PRESENT—VERY PERSONAL. Saratoga in 1901 |  |
GUESTS PRESENT—VERY PERSONAL.
Miss Mable Tucker, a charming brunette, wore a beautiful
variegated robe de coton, trimmed with gas-light green alpaca,
demi-train cut Pompadour. Her chapeau de paille was surmounted
by a waving ostrich plume, her shoes fine cuir de bæuf, strings
same material.
“She was much admired.”
Miss Nancy Perkins was accompanied by her fiancé, Mr.
Orrin Kershaw. Mr. K. wore un vieil habit, with boutons de
cuivre. His head was surmounted by a chapeau de brigand, and
on his neck he wore un col de papier. His face was decorated
with une moustache colorée. He had an aristocratic air, and sneezed
like one of the old families at the Clarendon.
“She was much admired.”
Miss Abigail Kittle, a lovely blonde, and daughter of the
aristocratic blacksmith, whose grandfather shoed General Burgoyne's
horses, wore two strips of cotton velvet around her neck,
and black linen shoe strings. Her hair, cheveux roux, was dressed
à la Pompadour, and her jewelry was of the richest bijoux de
cuivre. She wore petits short-fingered flynets on her hands. Her
shoulders humped gracefully over, and her arms dangled like
some of the fashionable young ladies at Congress Hall.
“She was much admired.”
Mrs. Ephrams Shaw née Smuggles, wife of the eminent carpenter
of Glen Mitchell, wore green figured alpaca, with yellow
bombazine overskirt, trimmed with Westchester County lace,
and looped up with wreathes of myrtle, black stokings cut décolletés,
and farmer's satin shoes, cut Pompadour, and court train.
Shoe strings of cuir de bæuf. Her dress resembled the new
Cretonne suits worn at Congress Hall.
She was much admired.
Mrs. Scrubson née Perkins, and the daughter of the aristocratic
Perkinses, who own a baronial estate and supply cucumbers to
William and Warren Leland, wore yellow nainsook, trimmed
with Scotch plaid poplin and real Saratoga County lace. Her
dress front was ornamented with a white apron, cut Pompadour,
and with court train. She carried a beautiful colored baby in
her arms. “She was much admired.” Her smile was one of sad
melancholy, like the old maids at the Clarendon while the
Congress hop is going on.
Miss Abigail Snicknor “was much admired.”
Miss Sarah Calkings “was a great favorite.”
Miss Nancy Scrum née Calkings, is a beautiful sneezer. She
does it in a sweet, natural manner. Her friends gather in crowds
to hear her sneeze. She wore red morocco shoes with blue
strings, cut Pompadour décolletée, and court train.
John Perkins, fiancé of Miss Snicknor,
wore a paper collar (un col de papier)
and waxed his mustache, like William
Leland. He was very much interested
in the monkeys and kangaroos.
He excused himself from the ladies
to look at them. He said he
liked to see the little kusses
jump up and squeal. The
Perkinses are a great family
in Saratoga County. John
Perkins is one of a family of
eleven—but not the only one.
He follows the glorious pursuit
of agriculture—he raises string beans for the Clarendon.
At the old Perkins manor house “he is monarch of all he surveys.”
He says he is, but alas! his eyes are “cut on a bias” and
he don't survey much.
There is a legend here that the Perkinses came here eleven
it—that they discovered Congress Spring and the old United
States Hotel, and then returned for old Chris., and followed him
up with the Mayflower. Benjamin Butler did not discover Saratoga,
though he did discover Great Bethel, in Virginia. Facts
and statistics are my forte, and I know what I write. I saw the
man who told me. Broadway, Saratoga, was then a “howling
wilderness.” Perkins heard it howl. It is generally quiet here
now. Howling has pretty much ceased.
“He was much admired.”
Miss Perkins is one of the most charming young ladies of
Saratoga.
Miss Kershaw is a beautiful dancer and “is much admired.”
| GUESTS PRESENT—VERY PERSONAL. Saratoga in 1901 | |