The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1884-12-13

traordinaryiperson who especially desire to
I make themselves conspicuous, but this is
like any other disease and has to be borne
with equanimity.
The prevailing styles of goods are mar
veis of beauty, and in the general makeup
of them there is most exquisite taste
worthy of all commendation. When we
remember the Haunting denominations OF
four or five years ago we feel that we have
reason to thank Providence to have reached
our present vantage ground. Taste has
vastly improved; the dresses that cost some
four or five dollars yard no longer do the
work appointed for the city scayengers.
The craze for blonde heads has gone out
of fashion and our angels are coming back
to their natural colors, though confess it
| looks odd to see one-half of woman's
hair bright golden yellow and the portion
next her head of a very respectable chest
nut, but as it tells of returning commen
sense we feeel like forgiving one of the
most objectionable follies of which our
sisters have been guilty-since Eve went
apple hunting.
was talking with gentleman largely
engaged in business man who had
travelled extensively and knew the world,
and he remarked, if a man wants anything
! thet is to be found on the face of the earth
he can ectait in this city. This may seem
bold assertion, bL... we have grown won-
| derfully. AS you plss along the s~'fee's ia
the stores you see the richest OF oriental
hangings, tapestries, laees and all sorts OF
beautiful and costly goods, bronzes, eie-
CANT nic-nacs, articles of vertu and orna-
mont, such as few years ago could only
be found In Paris, London, Or Vienna. 1t
was a rare thing for foreign artist OF
reputation to send picture across the
water, and now they come by thousands,
many indifferent eanvasses finding ready
purchasers among tho over eredalous Yam
KEGS.
A number of colossal fortunes have been
piled up among us within the past twenty
yeara. It goes for saying that not single
one of our newly fedged millionaires knew
the difference between Raphael or q
tubens, or John Smith, or Tom Brown.
The late Mr.. Stewart gave $685. 900 for Rosa
Bonheur's Horse Fair, and he knew as
much about It's artistic merits as one of the
horses in the picture. A capital Judge of
linens and calicoes, we'll versed in silks and
cloths, besides being something of a CLASH
cal scholar, he knew no more about pictures
than hod carrier. Yet he built fine
gallery, which nobody is allowed to enter,
and he imprisoned within its brick walls
| three hundred thousand dollars worth of
fine pictures which might just as we'll be in
the catacombs of Egypt as in his white
marble palace on the Fifth Avenue.
| A very different man was Marshall A.
| Roberts. He was very rich man and one
| who knew the value of dollar as we'll as
any man in the city, but he was broad
gauge man of liberal principles and exquis
ite, taste and he was blessed with a wife
just as good as himself, and he was willing
that the millions of the poor should share
| the blessings of his abundance. First he
threw his magnificent picture gallery open
to aid some charitable institution, and fl
nally he admitted the public on stated days,
and this was kept up almost to the day of
his death. 1t was an inestimable boon to
| the lovers of art and one that will not soon
be forgotten. Mr.. Vanderbilt did some
| thing of the kind last winter, and the pub
lie are in hopes that he will not be weary
of well-doing, but with the return of frost
will give them another peep at those IA
nous pictures which only millionaire
like himself could ever have brought to
this side of the Atlantic. Jay Gould has
some pictures, but no one ever sees them.
What year this has been for fittings. l
have before me a list of twenty brides and
grooms who we're deserted in the last year
at the affairs foot. Four faithless brides
and sixteen recreant grooms. Only the
other night our fashionable colored society
desertion of one of the most enchanting
sable bellies in the city. Like many other
romantic young maidens she had fixed her
affections on coachman. (What IN Jeru-
salem is there about these coachmen?)
Well this particular Jehu walked off with
this young .ady's affections as if he had
been driving his own horses. The wedding
day was fixed, the friends we're invited, the
feast was prepared, the minister was on
hand, the bride stood decked in orange
blossoms, but the groom came not. When
he should have been promising to love-
honor and cherish, this faithless groom
} was grooming his horses at stable on
Clinton Avenue. After waiting long
time the bride went off into Mysteries, the
minister went without his fee, the bridal
party went without their supper, and the
/ doughnuts, wedding cake and charlotte
J russo remain unconsumed to this day
], This coachman business ought to be played
| out, though from present appearances Mrs
I Hulskamp Morrisini may turn her escapadt
| with her coachman into golden ducats. i
is not near so romantic to say that she i
married to a ticket taker as a coachman
but before she finishes her concert tour sh'
will find that the fellow who looks out fol
the ticket box is much more importan
person than the fellow who sits on tht
y coach box.
1 have often remarked that whenever
: want point I have to go to Brooklyn 70
: it. The latest is the robbery of the King
County penitentiary. Some thieves brok
y
in and carried off the cash. If you hav,
any prisons out your way keep an eye OF
: them or some daring burglar may rul