Louisiana capitolian. (Baton Rouge, La.) 1879-1881, 1880-10-21
From tho Now Orleans Times.
SOCIAL MELANGE.
CATHERINE COLES INTERCEPTED
LETTER.
New ORLEANS, October Is, 1880.


My Dcm Sa)u--Last Saturday, just "s
was addressing my letter to you, Toms
Office boy camo ny to tho house with
hasty little note from my gentleman, i"
which, no declared that he was going to
the Press Convention mt Baton Rouge,
and that IL | wantud some fun ! might
como along. Come along! should say !
would | don't think ! was over 80 do
lighted in all my life, at least never
since tho day Tom proposed t" mo $50
many years ago. for privately, my DEAR
perfectly adore newspaper men, aud 80
/ t"mbed some things int" a satch'l,
got into good dress, and after giving
George, tho present divinity that rules
ovor our digcstious, u Thousand and ono
directions, took tho car for town.
OF course, it. was all hours before | got
down and We went straight to that cle-
CANT steamer, John w. Cannon. After
snpp,r Tom went forward to "hunt up
the follows" no said, and got out u Iato
issue of tho Standard Series, behind
which Intended to study my fellow pas
scnyors, mentally dop|oring the fact that
men can always scrapo up acquaintance
! ~ H., a al
and that womou 80 rarely do. wonder
why il il that we women oternally think
that We must never speak TO each other
until we IRE introduced ? We had u good
many French people aboarh,and u French
bride who wore that Inevitable lavender
dress. say inevitable, because if you
will Just run over in your mind tho list
of brides you bavo mot in tho course OF
Your life you will find that the majority
of thpm have been dressed in lavender.
4 Presently, by means Of tho children, |
broke down tho social barriers and was
soon chatting away with Mrs. Iillder-
brand, editor Of tho Grctna Courier, Nv
Comfortably as if | had not batsro only
known her through tho Medium of the
little paper which she has 40 ably con
Quoted ovor sivSe tho death Of her h"s-
band.
J BY aud by Tom brought the editors
,, down Into tho Cabiu. Now, lot INC
sec if can think of thcm all. First, there
was Major Burke, one of the handsomest
! and most courteous of his craft; thcn
/ there was Mr.. Woodcock, Of tho Morgan
!, City Review, married--tho gentleman
mean; Mr.. Bailey of tho Lafayette Ad
i vertiser, and Mr.. Benefited, of tho Pom
o chatoula Gazette. Tom whispered to mo
. "Old lady, when Mr.. Benefited says hi;
; prayers he begins, oh, tho" inevitable
= law of circumstance and do you know
7 Safa, it was fully a minute before | IN
. derstood what ho meant. But, ID,
! wasn't surprised, for declare it seem
Q as if every nine men out of ten that ont
meets nowadays arc free thinkers and
@ it is 10 down here what must it DO II
Il your way-whero the more rigid form
of worship have been wont to prevail
n Well these editors all talked polite
that night and discussed and discnsse
the Indiana and Ohio elections. ! don
know much about politics, | confess, bl
can't help wondering, now that "
know the results of the elections, VIII
the editors who seemed to know just G!
actly how things were going to turn OF
ia those States, had all insisted in the
various papers that the Democrats wei
safe to gain the battles fought last Tue
day.
1t was three o'clock Sunday aftornoc
before the turreted, gothic outlines
the grand old statehOuso came into vie,
ily and the Cannon, like white MARI
monster, pulled and grosued her way
the wharf.
}. With the whole State to choose from
more beautiful and appropriate p'a
"A for q statehOuse than this quaint old'
time and yet modern city of Baton Ron
could never have been selected. Goi'
- up the river the first view Of the tov
is an imposing one, and takes in t
long green fields of cane, the roll''
hills, tho great white University bull
ings, and then the medi'cval looki
Ire walls of the desolate capitol, crowni
the summit of beautifully wooded a
ties terraced hill, and which walls are
ana beautiful that it almost seems a sac
- leee to restore them. Somebody 81
that Senator Hagan wanted pull do,
these walls and erect an entire bra
new building. l don't know Sena
e Hagan, but if he ever wanted to do a
W such thing as that he ought to be gu
tered. Beyond doubt, Safa, the ca
tol has been grand building, and wi