 | THE YOUNG LADIES Saratoga in 1901 |  |
THE YOUNG LADIES
were full of small statistics, but
they did not gossip on so large a
scale. They told me where to buy
six-button gloves, who made the
best caramels, and who wore the
first Cretonne suits in New
York.
“Do you read the papers?” I
asked.
“O, yes; we read all about the weddings, and the parties, the
engagements, and the fashionable news.”
“Do you like `Dame Europa's School?”'
“No, we don't like any school except dancing school.”
“How do you like `Ginx's Baby?' ”
“Oh we think all babies are dreadful. Does Mrs. Ginx bring
her baby to the table? Mother keeps Johnny with the nurse all
the time. We never see him.”
“Did you read All the Year Round?”
“All the year round! Good gracious! Do you think we are
blue stockings?”
“Do you read Once a Week?”
“Well, sometimes not half as often as that, especially in winter,
when there are so many parties. Oh, parties are so lovely—
perfectly divine!”
“I suppose you used to read Every Saturday?”
“O yes, we read the society papers every Saturday. They say
awful nice things—how a certain young lady was `much admired,'
and how `Miss Snow is a great favorite in society.' Dear me,
some of us had our names in twenty-seven times last winter! Oh,
they are jolly nice.”
“What do you think of the Nation?”
“O dear! we don't think of anything outside of our set. We
perfectly dreadful!”
“Do you like the Atlantic?”
“O my! we never went out any further than the Branch and
down to the Fort Hamilton hops. Those officers do dance too
lovely! And such nice flirts—perfectly atrocious!”
And so the aristocratic young ladies went on.
| THE YOUNG LADIES Saratoga in 1901 | |