The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-03-23
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Odd Freaks of Fancy and Fashlon-Feni-
nine Fads and French Frills-Dr.
J. H. White Appointed TO
Imnor4ank once

J. III. White Appointed 20
Important Once.
New Orleans, La. Mar. 20. 1907.
staff Correspondence of The Chief.
Aren't you sometimes led 30 wonder
how and why certain songs, styles aud
phrases leap from mild popularity
into sudden and apparently entnr-
ing rage? At present, t'Cheer Up,
Mary, amounts to a positive hysteria
in town; every street organ whines Ii,
every orchestra sobs it, every phono-
, graph bellows it and every piano
walls it. There seems to be no middle
course when it comes to the popularity
of some things: they either achieve an
astounding success or simply and in.
stantly fall hat. But once having
died natural death, is there anything
in the world deader than dead fad?
Behold the "Skiddoo hat upon which
the sun of public favor has eyeriast-
ingly set. It is surprising to note how
passe this erstwhile jaunty pfece OF
headgear can look, and il won't be
long before the jumper suit-now ca.
joying such a remarkable vogue will
''23H along with the @Skiddoo'' hat.
Public taste is easily satfated.
Apropos of fads and fancies and all
that sort of thing, must tell you that
to be strictly in it the woman OF today
who follows the styles must not wear
her back comb straight and decoropsly
under the coil of her hair, as hereto.
fore. Fashion DEGREES that this hand.
some and beiewelled accessory shall
be thrust in carelessly and at dis
tinct angle across the full, mueh-wayed
puff of back hair, and perhaps you
can imagine how unstudied and en.
gaging this looks after one has So-
come accustomed to such q decided
departure. And again apropos Of
things feminine, heard a man say 20
his wife a day or two ago: "Well, !
suppose you'll be going down TO buy
Holmes out tomorrow. I see the win
dow Is full of boai SOFT. - ssFulI OF
whas?n exclaimed his amazed and
horriRed wife. .Hon5 SOFT, . repeaksd
the innocent Man-thing, twhite stuff
full of laces and that sort Of businase. y
'sGreat heavens, Charles, . esssysd
his dunfounded better hall, t'you must
mean Ijngeriet'' s'Oh, we'll, maybe I
do. admitted the Man-thlng, pr,idg.
ingly, 81 never could get the seraight
of those fool French names!',
A telegram from Washington an.
nounees the appointment Of DR.. j. II.
White as supervising quarantine Inc
spector for Louisiana, Mississippi
and al Central American fruit ports.
DR.. White is in charge of the United
States Marine Hospital Seeyica II
New Orleans, and was one OF The iu-
defatig able workers during the yellow
fever campaign Of 1905.
The Louisiana Sunday School AS
sociation convened in twenty frst a..
nual session this week at the prykenIa
Street Presbyterian Church Ds.. wiz
liam McF. Alexander delivering tha
address or welcome.
The cornerstone of the Neu Orleans
Pubic Library Was laid with ep-
propriate ceremonies on Tuesd 81
afternoon. Archbishop RIeuk of.
| tered the opening prayer, and &beno-
dictlon vas pronounced ny Rabbi
| Lsuciat.
The annex to the f. W. Tilson
memorial library at Tulane UuiveR.
sity was formally opened last Sasnr.
l day morning on the occasion oi
Founders Day, which is ANNUALLY
celebra rated IN honor of the founders 81
| Tulane University. Judge Charles e.
Fenner made the presentation address,
u. b.