The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1881-09-10
VIVIAN'S VAGARIES.
A Lively Trip to Dona1dsonvi1le and
Sleepy One I5ack-The Terpsichorean

A Lively Trip to Dona1dsonviIle and
| Sleepy One Back-The Terpsichorean
| Soiree.
BATON RoUGE, La, Sept. 8, 1881.
DEAR Hope:
After babe you farewell last Wednes-
| day, at the depot in Donaldsonville, l
tried to settle myself comfortably in the
cars by resigning myself to the newt
| able, but | was not successful, il being
very near miserable is considered resig-
nation. Pray don't draw the exclusive
conclusion that it was entirely on your
account; no, not exactly, but in general
paintings are so sad. As the train moved
on and l had caught the last glimpse of
the many friendly faces left behind, l
COLLAPSED exclaiming,
knew, knew it could not last,
Twas bright, twas heavenly, but It's past.
Those lines, followed by deep sigh,
were echoed by all the other girls. True,
pleasant hours are winged and glide too
swiftly away. While they are passing
we scarcely heed them, but when they
have flown we realize the full extent of
our past delight, mingled with our pres
ent regret that perhaps we might never
spend another such evening as at the
soiree dansante, given by the Terpsicho-
rean Social Club of Donaldsonville, at
Phoenix Hall, September 6. How can l
express the pleasures All, no, in despair
l exclaim with Mark Antony, 81 have
neither wit, nor words, nor worth, &C
tions nor ntterance, nor powers of
Speech" to describe our glorious visit to
your town. Such hospitality I never
before met with. The hearty welcomes
and enthusiastic greetings shall be for
ever remembered with deepest feelings
of gratitude and love. One and all of
rs pronounce the people of Donaldson
vile the most hospitable in the world.
The girls that did not go down with us
won't even smile now, and those that
did can't talk about anything else.
More ridiculous mistakes were made
by sleepy maidens On our way home than
you would believe possible. But, You
see, we only slept three hours out of the
twenty-four of our stay, SO do you Won
der at our stupidity can't blame the
younger people when our elders were
! ;lor ri off v,-1,;lo Donald
sonville singular case of absent-mind-
edneA acquired. A certain Baton Rouge
gentleman drove up to the st. Charles
Hotel and got out of his buggy; then,
thinking of stabling his horse for the
night, intended driving down to the
livery stable, land. uazhed down accord
ingly. Reaching his destination he re-
quested the keeper to feed and stable
this horse for the mighty when to his
establishment he discovered that he had
left the horse some distance up town.
The astonished keeper sent for it and
smiled, looking relieved, while the alb
sent-minded gentleman walked away.
thinking about the narrow escape he had
from spending night in the horses
stall.
But have not told yon about our trip
down Tuesday. It was very enjoyable,
owing to the representatives of the Louis
lana Press being on board. How could
it be otherwise, while,listening to the
witty repartees ofthe EDITOR u1Er
and gallant remarks of tf6(0 Ian
scribe and others. They were orr their
way to the Crescent City to partake of
an elegant supper, by invitation of Major
E. A. Burke Of the N. 0. Democrat. Pm
sure they had as delightful time as
they anticipated, saa regretted that it
was not any other svening than that of
the soiree, SO that might have been one
of that gay party. On Wednesday l
heard a short but glowing account of
their visit, and also of the magnificent
new press of the Democrat, and Pm pos
tive that all our country editors will be
deyoured by the green-eyed monster,
Jealousy, and be wild with envy for
some time to come. There was an inter
esting little episode on our down trip.
The local editor of the Adrocate came
ycry.near missing the train, in fact, did
miss it, and running to overtake it. be-
came exhausted, and just as he jumped
into the car, tainted. Such excitement
three or four editors rushed to his assist
ance. we ladies sent fan and would
have offered our services, but no more
attention was necessary than was shown
The young representative of one of the
Felicianas was using the fan vigorously
while Major Burke called for ice, and in
! the excitement rubbed the fainting mans
head with bottle of wine which he
happened to have in his hand at the
time, oblivious of the fact, or with full
knowledge of the exhilarating, revi,ing
: effect of wine, until a rosy editor that
does not live a thousand miles away from
the Highland City called out, Lookout
Major, don't strike that bottle against
Sambola's cheek or it will break" Bur
ing all this commotion, the editos. e.. =
Capito7an, instead ofaEisss.1f Tue
his brother ssssse4 vish The lunch
eoo. .1nsaesssasab sshfrn, and with another
ePss ss si1an was calculating how they
could divide twenty-four birds among
thirty-six persons, giving one to each
and reserving goodly share for them
selves. When the sufferer slightly re-
covered his first exclamation was for
"some of that lnnch," and secretly re-
ioiced, hailing this as an omen of the re.
} turn to life aud hope. Later on, the
pious members of the press were shocked
by the appearance Of a pack of cards, in
their afflicted younger brothers hands
,pl 1Yncla Harry SAT- with a look of niOlls