Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1881 — May and December at Saratoga. [ARTICLE]

May and December at Saratoga.

f —r : a Cor. Cincinnati Knqairer. , A youthful wife is one of the wonders of Saratoga at present; not so much because she is only 17' as that her husband is 00. The difference in their ages is fully apparent,for he looks all of his years, while her face man- > nersand area* are extremely girlish. More than that, she has a baby—a dot of a thing only & months old; it seems like a doll in its girl-mother’s arms, and she is mighty fond of displaying it. When the nurse hrings it to her in the midst of a party of young fellows, and she demurely'walks off toheFroom to give it nourishment, theyVget mad with envy at the veteran nusband. That makes the young women of her, and altogether she is a highly aggravating little creature. Tbe most affecting thing she has done yet was at a big hotel nop. She wore a dress quite low in the back, and was ravishingly pretty. While she danced her venerable spouse jsat on the veranda smoking and chatting with a circle of men—old and young. Suddenly she ran out to him, put her hands on his knees,"bent her need into his lap, and said, in the tone of a child to a parent: . “Please scratch, mv back.” Ti-a old fellow thrust his hand down the back of her dross a little, clawing her soft skin with his brown, wrinkled fingers. “A little to the other side,” she murmured ; “there —that’s the spot. Thank you.”/ And she ran bpck to her waltz part l ner, totally unconscious of the tingling she had caused among the male spectators