The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1895-03-02
MARDI GRAs.
Lafayette Puts on Holiday Attire
and Celebrates.
Did you see the parade :?


Orleans may think she has a cinch
on this sort OF thing, but she hasn't.
Lafayette bites off a slice of Mardi
Gras herself and knows it is good.
The day was fair and just such a
day as Rex might have ordered had
he de'gned to stop, but his bold
knights knew how to enjoy it and
perhaps did enjoy it more than if
his Royal Highness had lent the
weight Of his august presence to the
occasion.
Early in the day his Majesty's
subjects were out in holiday attire
making merry and otherwise doing
honor to the day set apart for jollity
and good humor.
A bold company of knights on
their way to the Grand Carnival,
but who were delayed by the snow,
were expected to favor our royal
little city with their presence. IT,
| ings of their approach was awaited
with great anxiety Just before
noon, a dispatch signed by His Eek
cellency, the Chief High Monk,
was received notifying Rex's leige
subjects that His Exceliency and
the gallant knights OF his suite would
enter Lafayette at 3 o'clock sharp.
Promptly at the appointed hour,
His ExccllenCy, accompanied by his
lovely wife and the Lafayette Brass
Band, made his appearance. The
band discoursed sweet music on
variety of musical instruments,
fame. Only the cultivated ear, Gull
tivated in the realms OF Rex, could
,ea|ly enjoy such operate music.
Following were hands ONE youth
vety carpet Of grass, dressed in
stylisi, Lafayette tailor-made suits,
while their fine Milwaukee carriage
bore the inscription, ''Going to
church before the stock law
81 had plenty Of milk to sell be-
fore the stock Jaw" was the sad
plant Of the next bold knight whose
round and jolly stomach told that
there was something Sin it''-thc
milk business, Of course.
The following knight seemed in
hard luck. "No grass, no COW, no
milk,' painted On his d>:Iapidatcd
cart told the story of his little can,
| lis white hair, and His detected
! Maud S.
Two fair ladies walking in grass
high showed the difficulties Of
| ssGoing to church after the stocl:
law" as their banner told.
Following came the noble ai,!
handsome firemcn Of "l.u!ay cite
Fire Co. No. {, organized Feb. 20,
1865" Eight brave knights and 4
fireman Of commanding presence,
provided with buckets, brooms,
squirt guns, step ladders, and
| trumpet babe defiance to the fire
fiend and brought comfort to his
Majesty's subjects.
Closing the procession came one
Of Lafayette's manly farmers hun
ting for the Lafayette Sugar Refinery
with pair Of spectacles and load
Of cane. Though his little boy did
the driving and the farmer sprained
his neck looking, at last accounts
the refinery was still just ahead
in the air. This ended, this mag
nificent parade which afforded much
| amusement to the people along it's
route.
At four o'clock gay company
of charming ladies and handsome
knights bearing various legends on
their royal vehicles, knocked at the
gates of the city. They were hearth
| ly welcomed and hidden enter and
the streets Of the city made free to
| them. They were a gallant set of
knights and had grand e1uipage:,
decorated in many colOrs like the
rainbow. In a gorgeous coach
drawn by pair Of beautiful
| horses, and tastefully decorated with
ribbons and draperies, sat a bevy
Of lovely maidens thought to have
| been the ia maids Of honor to Her
| Majesty, the Queen, sent to I.afa
| To uroricrS fNl-eo Of