New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-07-26
Summer i'm New Orleans.

There are people who voluntarily, nay ca
gerly, make temporary change from bett or
to worse just for the sake Of change; who re-
ally enjoy disagreeable weather and ugly
garments and coarse fare when the usu al
course of their lives bestows upon the m
the reverse of these. Some such feeling it
is which prompts our citizens to aband on
New Orleans during the months of July
and August, for certainly if summer mu st
be endured once year she can not be N ct
under more delightful aspect than that
which she presents here. 1t is not SO N uch
that the thermometer indicates a less de
gree of heat than in the higher lattitudes :.
for that misleading instrument, like the
witches in Macbeth, often deceives by to H.
ing the truth, but it is that morn ing,
noon, and night the heat is tempered by an
ever flowing breeze from the sweet SO nth,
Stealing and giving odor." This bre eze,
streaming from the gulf, bears health and
pleasure on it's wing; and those who WOO it
in a sunrise stroll or moonlight saunter are
amply compensated for the Inconvenience 8
of the intervening period. In fact our
nights just now are of paradisaical bea uty; !;
suggestive of everything most entran cing'
and given up to the joint dominion of moon.
light perfume, love, song. On vine clad,
moonlit, Jasmine scented balconies are gath
cred happy family groups; papa in slippers
and shirt sleeves indulging in q sooth-
ing smoke, mamma in her ample
rocking-chair revelling in delicious semi
somnolence, Carissa toying with the
keys of her piano in the dimly lighted par
lor, while off in the shady portion of the
gallery, side By side and hand in hand, sat
the betrothed ones whispering those sweet
nothings so precious to their own ears, go
fat to all others. Nor are those who desire
enjoyment of more active kind left unpro-
vided for; as the gay parties who frequent
the various fete champetres, given so fire.
quently IN the semi-suburban spots can
freely testify. This being general article
on the pleasures of summer in New Orle ans,
and not a special puff of any one amuse-
ment, we shall carefully avoid any men tion
Of Captain Dan Hickok and his ch arming
gardens, and the comfortable seats he has
placed upon the levee. Here strollers
may sit and see, evening after evening,
pictures of unsurpassed beauty, ever chang
ing, ever new, lighting up the ives tern sky
with hues of gold and azure, canary and
violet, softly shading in opaline tints such
as no painter, no matter how gifted, could
hope to initiate. But this is likew ise a
quiet pleasure, and we we're about to men
tion active ones. Well, besides the fetes
above alluded to where enthusiastic young
persons can dance until linen grows timber
and bright cheeks blush through watery
veil, there are rides to the lake end to enjoy
fish breakfasts or dinners, and for hose
inclined for excitement there are-political
club meetings.
As for that most appropriate summer
pleasure, the indulgence in an abunda nee of
fruit, it must be admitted that to per sons
of moderate incomes, that is to the ma jority
of people, this luxury is just now rat her a
Barmicedean One, the fruit dealers pre-
ferring high prices and few sales. There is
fruit enough, however, and vari ETY. enough:
peaches, apples, pears, figs, grapes, melons,
cantelopes; and all to be had for the-buy-
ing.
Lest our Northern friends should think
too material it is we'll to add that camp
meeting Is holding in our vicinity where
spiritual fare is to be had on the usual
terms; and from which is to be expec ted the
usual results