Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1903-05-30
IN QUEER NEW ORLEANS.
Word Picture Of Life in The Clly's Quaint
French Quarter
IL Closely Resembles That OF at Least
A Century Ago-Tbe Creoles
or To-day.
Special Correspondence.

New Orleans, May 25,--The largest
American cities, except perhaps New
YORK, which is conglomerate, have
each distinctive characteristics. only
three, one Of them in Canada, really
remind the European of his own side
OF the world. Two cities have brought
down through the centuries the memo
ries, traditions and modes OF thought
of old France, and they are at the OPP
posite poles Of civilization, quebec on
the north, New Orleans on the south,
the one, II has been said Characters
tieally, "robed in ice, the other bathed
In sun The other city whose at
mosphere seems old world-like Is Bos.
ton which is somewhat English
But for some reason the French i'm
press is stamped more strongly than
the English. New Orleans IL evidence
Of this even after 100 years Of driy-
Ing hustllng Yankee invasion. But
the Yankee life frlnges the banks Of
the Mississippi In the creole city. COW
ers them with acres Of cotton bales
and sugar warehouses. In Louisiana
Itself half the population is black In
the "old city" Of New Orleans the
French quarter, life is lived almost as
II was a century gone by. Through
successive Spanish. French and Ameri-
can ownership the creole quarter has
kept to itself, clinging firmly to its
old customs. For the Louisiana Pur-
chase exposition, founded on the HIS
torlc fact that the said purchase trans
ferred them from French to United
States citizenship, these creoles care
probably less than any other inhabi-
itants OF the Union.
Already many Of the New Orleans
residents Of northern blood are being
driven out by the heat to higher lati-
tudes or cooler resorts near the gulf
coast The creole stays the year
round The dark eyed maiden with
the magnolia complexion IL not baked
out by the heat. The American girl
proper is not credited with an over
amount OF sentiment or romance. but
the exquisite creole girl Is brimful Of
both. one moment her eyes soften
dangerously with the one the next
flash with the emotion Of the other
The soft patOis, which was born orig
inally Of Spaniards trying TO speak
French and French trying to speak
Spanish and which later had the
harsher English tongue lngrafted upon
II, falls from the lips Of the creole girl
like drops OF music.
This magnolia maiden Of the old
French quarter OF New orleans prides
herself on a descent longer than that of
a.
luton Originally from a blending OF
the French and Spanish emigrants to
Louisiana, the creole blood has re-
NAMED unmiXed. Excepting only the
Jews, the denzens OF what Is called In
New orleans the "old city" claim to be
of the purest blood Of any people In
this country, Old families? Here are
the true old families OF Yankeeland.
A hundred years ago the French
market, so-called. was one OF the sights
of New Orleans. II Is the same today.
A century ago visitors to New orleans
went to the market there 10 drink
chocolate and coffee, renowned as the
most delicious in America, Today
they flock thither for the like purpose,
a hundred times more OF them than
there We're in 1903. II almost seems
that the negro nanny who stood in
the French market and sold prallne
candy three generations ago was the
self-same Aunt Sukey whose brilliant
red bandanna turban today CLEANS
from afar and draws the stranger to
the spot where In the eyes Of all the
world she makes her sweets Aunt
Sukey boils cane mOlasses in a big
brass kettle upon weak legged little
stove, talking meanwhile to the liquid
and the visitors. The sweetmeat Is
made by rolling the molasses till II Il
stiff enough to ladle out into cakes or
patties then sprlnkllng the cakes
thickly with pecan kernels Aunt SUI
key white aproned, stands over her
brass kettle with q big wooden spoon.
New Orleans houses are built Of
wood many Of them with a pilared
two-story porch In front These porch
es In the south are universally called
galleries, In the heat Of the day the
houses are closed and silent Let the
sun go down. the silent houses TEEN
with life Families turn themselves
outdoors upon the galleries j. Is then
they enjoy living and they do enjoy
IT, Flowers flowers are everywhere.
In these balmy evenings friends call
Oh friends The pleasant fashion OF
ladies appearing on the streets md
In cars with no head covering other
than their own beautiful luxurant
hair tastefully dressed Is here at It's
best and prettiest No hat can be so
pretty as a woman's head