Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-11-15
CREOLE L0YE-MAEiNG.
The Danger of Courting in the Frenc
Portion of New Orleans

Portion of New Orleans.
"Down in the old French portion of
New Orleans it is highly unsafe for young
unmarried men to venture alone" writes
correspondent The blaclt-eyed beauties
are only to glad of the chance to capture
an American, and will resort to all sorts of
devices to entrap the unsuspecting youth.
In order to depict for our Northern
friends this peculiar phase of Creole
character, Will relate the true story of
the experience of my friend, Jack Laii-
ance, who fell a victim to Creole strategy
not long ago"
Jack met the beautiful Melanie at n
soiree dansante on Rue Bon Eaiants. Be-
ing a good dancer and also a first-class
waiter. he was Mile Melanies partner for
many figures, and by judiCiouS use Of
cream and cake, gained the good will of
Melanie's mamma An invitation to call
next Sunday was accepted, and the visitor
then entreated to "call again Jack did
so on the Sunday following, and was so
cordially received that he repeated his
visit a third time, For my friend Jack
was an innocent soul, totally innocent OF
| Creole customs, and he walked right into
the snare. On his third call Melanies
papa tapped him on the shoulder and said:
aM'sieu LaRance, would lax 20 see
YOU one minute" and led him to the dim
ing-r0om. Suspecting nothing, Jack fol-
! lowed him Once there, the old gentleman
produced decanter and said:
| Mon ami, TEX some cognac, You will
fin il YER fine. My fodder buy it from
Cavaroc. All you lax it, eh Tel, cigar;
nevah mine, thass real Havana, shuah.
Now, fren' l.ahance, you lax 70 know fo'
wat | want see you-eh bien? Msieu
Lafance. have notiz yo' attentions at my
daughter -" there the tuckless Jack be-
gan to protest.. ooh, am not displease,
my de- young man! My fam'l, sch, is one
of the hes in the city. Yes, sab, we are
twentv-Grs' coozin with Jean Baptist, st.
Louis De Dorme, whose granfodder slap
that Spanish canaiile, OReilly, on the
chick hondred year ago, as yo' will I'M
wrote down by Gayarre. But my tren',
when those Yankee r-r-rascais TEX on
plentations an ou' nigroes, sab, we was
forced to leave ou' place, sab, an came yeh
an work, yes. An, ami Latlance, | do not
objec to my daughtah choose you fo' hus-
BAN, no" Here the unfortunate Jack
broke in with " But my dear sir, yen are
mistaken. did not make love to your
daughter" The old gentleman bristled
up. MY de- sab, | love my family. Thass
my h'only thing yeh on earth. You hayevisi
Melanie Sunday after Sunday. You have
talk with her, dance with her sing with her.
You have compromise M daughter sah :
There is no otheh cose lef i man ct honah,
sab, than to may her; yes, sab, to may
her.
But, sir" blurted ont Jack, =" am
only poor clerk with $50 month, and
could not support wife even if | wanted
one"
"Ah, mon cher, thass all 'ight-the NOS
male is nothing. You don't catch mot, h,
thass true But fo' that ! don keh me.
You come live yeh, yes. Then, aftch vile
wen yo' patron he get fo' lax you mo-, and
give You r-r-raise to seventy-f dollah, we
will do YER well, yes. So thass all fix, eh?
Come you tex some mo- cognae. All mon
cher Laflance, you don't know wat it is to
be fodder, | suppose2 Then you can't
nevah un'stan' 'ow please feel wen
oung man lal, you hask me fo' my daugh-
ah? Yes, sab, you are the only young
man wat would rattah have my daughtah
! than mos anybody 'watevah, sab
$50 we will come back TO the salon w'eh
/ win tell to Meanie J have granted yo'
| demand. M'sieu Lefance, ah' to tell you
the truth, you I'D not TEX me by sopprise,
no? All, a fodder can see when his daugh-
tah love young man An Melanie, She
love YOU, ah she dream of you all night,
vcs. An sab, W Ell L St. Louis de Lorme
love she neyah LET go, no, but she lax the
peikan, she die frs
'-Thass all light, ann Jack, I viii see Pere
lie Cure, an wewiii mex the announcement
next Sunday. Yort can get On I'LL ring, yes,
an Melanie will he ready for next mont.
know you don't want to wait long.
AlIons, let us tell them wat We have ar
range" And off Jack was hustled to the
parlor before he could say Jack Robinson.
And though, as it happened, Melanie has
proven an excellent wife, there are many
who are not Melanies, and it is to put our
visiting friends next winter upon their
guard against the wiles OF designing Creole
papas that | am constrained to publish tins
true story of Jack Lafance's courtship-
Philadelphia News.