The Newberry herald and news. (Newberry, S.C.) 1884-1903, 1889-10-31

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MORGAN CITY, st. Mary's, La, Oct. y y.
Creole coffee is just the finest ever
tasted. 1t is not necessary to drink
half pint of water to get Il spoonful of
coffee. You just get your spoonful of
coffee in liquid state.
The coffee cups are regular little Gu
riosities in themselves. They resemble
top cups more than anything else.
An after dinner coffee cup holds about
as much as a half egg-shell. We do
not drink the coffee, just sip it, one
drop at a time. No milk or cream is
used-only sugar, and as much of the
later as will dissolve, which is an as
tonishingly large amount; really, all
the better, if more is used than will
dissolve, for then a little sugar on the
tip of the spoon and drop of coffee
make delicious sip.
Coffee is served early in the morn
ing, when a fellow is snoozing away
dreaming of his best girl. In the mid
die of the most interesting-them most
embracing part-a succession OF taps
changes the whole dream. For in the
dram, the TAGS are interpreted as the
vi ainous assault Of some "houdoo"
upon your personal rights. But the
continuous application of the knuckle to
the doo--panel arouses you. 1T is aa
effort, but you respond. When the
knocker realizes that you are awake he
comes in and announces that he has
brought you coffee, and if you were
not better posted in Creole customs
than / was, you would be pretty apt
to ask why he brought the coffee, and at
the same time inform him that you
breakfast were not already served, be
down to it presently. Then he, with
eyes filled with astonishment, would
stare at you and inquire if you didn't
want any coffee, and Immediately in
form you that it would be two or three
hours before breakfast; that you We're
expected to take coffee and sleep on
till informed that it was time to pre-
pare for breakfast. It's an unpardon-
able sin not to show this favor to
guests. I am catching on 10 the Gus
toms now, so that when ! 60 to new
place, I always tell my. hostess, if I
think of it, that under no circumstan-
ces do take coffee before getting up,
and that it is the luxury of my life 70
he allowed to sleep undisturbed till
breakfast. In so far as this custom
goes I have not yet become CreoliZed.
There is the habit of after dinner coffee
drinking that I very much admire, i. e.,
I like the coffee. When dinner and
dessert have have been served, then |
comes the coffee; it is sip, sip, SIP.
The coffee pot that will hold quart |
is very large one. They are usually
about half that size. They are all two |
stories high. The upper story has
sieve bottom, very fine; the dry coffee
is placed in the upper story and hot |
water applied. The water filters
through, and is termed "dripped cof-
fee." Boiled coffee does not approach |
this make.
All Creoles drink coffee. 1t is more to
be expected that they would go without |
food, or even clothing, than without |
this necessity. It is their delight to
take it in the morning before getting
up, after dinner, and again in the eve.
ming. Nothing surpasses good coffee
for putting the young swain in proper |
trlm Tor an evenings entertainments |
there is none of the unnatural sparkle
which intoxicants induce, but just the |
fuliness of nature. And to the fair |
maiden it adds the enhancing dreami-
ness Of eyes. You know these girls are
renowned for their fascinating dreami-
ness of eyes any way, and coffee but
forces nature to her best. 1t has been |
said that this article Of food makes the !
complexion dark, and I have known |
girls who refused to drink it on this ac-
count. That is all bosh.
/ know that Creole coffee is stronger
than any other have ever seen, and
that louisiana suns are warmer than
those of Tennessee, or any Of the hill
country, and Venus never kissed
fairer cheeks in any land, save one,
than Louisiana.
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