The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-06-01
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
A Novel Reason for Getting Married.
Fashionable Head.gesr Pictured in
Rhyme-soeiety Meetings, etc.


Rhyme Society Meetings, etc.
New Orleans La. May %. 1907.
staff Correspondence OF The Chief.
There are many and various reasons
that influence women to marry, and
love is not oftenest the paramount
issue, even though such is the popular
belief. / am aware that this state
ment sounds rather cynical. particu-
larly emanating as it does from the
inspired typewriter OF one OF the
unattached, but who is going to deny
that it is the onlooker that sees most
of the game, and that fact is fact
whether or not 1t Is fancifuily colored
BY the optimist, bravely tricked out
by the romantic dreamer, or seen
through the rose-hued glasses of en-
ohanted youth? Money, social posi-
tion, prestige, protection, convenience
all these play prominent parts in
the game OF matrimeny, but for down
right originality of purpose, commend
me to woman met not long ago,
who made the amazing admission that
she had married for the love OF con-
densed milk! Did dear little Cupid
ever before receive such a solar
plexus? The Living Advertisement
for canned milk went on TO explain bhst
from early childhood (she was an
orphan and lived with her grand
motherl she had been possessed OF
consuming passion for condensed
milk, and up to the sixteenth year OF
her uneventful life had never been
allowed to have as much of it as she
wanted. Therefore, when real live
Man loomed upon her horizon with
matrimonial intentions, she welcomed
his advent ioyously and unrestrain-
edly and looked upon him as a sort
OF means to unlimited supplies Of the
canned sweet. Grandmother approved
the match, and SO the Living Adj
vertisement and the Means to an End
were married. The Z. A. contested
that all the way down the aisle of the
church after the wedding ceremony
had been performed she was having
mental visions OF herself installed in
her sweet new home surrounded with
cans of condensed milk and consum-
ing it to her hearts desire and her
digestion's discontinue. She had
been married ten years and was
reasonably happy when she disclosed
this condensed stony of her life, and
when asked if she had ever gotten all
she wanted OF the stuff, she glanced
meaningly around at the several tow
headed offspring that were clamoring
at her knee, and observed drily: "Well,
I've been using it ever sincel"
Here's q thought thai got tangled
up in the rhyming department Of my
typewriter this morning. 1t is the
result of q conversation overheard
q few evenings ago upon the aubiect
of feminine styles, between young
woman and young man. ! have to
lisp In numbers when the numbers
come, so don't blame me too hard for
such lapses as this:
4 thing that resembles an ernelet
With gin-izz effect In the rear.
And sort Of pinnacle on it
Akin TO chocolate eclaire.
And galad-Iike green's ON the side lines
Where a lot of whipped cream seems 10
cling,
With handful of wheat in the middle
Like an ad. for some cereal thing
Well, that's what 8 man calls 3 niKa atmare,
But q woman beholds it to scream
In a transport Of rapt admiration.
My! isn't that bonnet 3 dream9o
The annual reunion of L'Ath&nss
Louisianais was held in the French
Union Hall last Friday night. Consul
Deioux and Prof. Fortier delivered
| addresses, and an excellent musical
program was rendered.
r. Nj. Walmsley was unanimously
elected president OF the board of sade
ministrators of the Tulane educational
fund at q meeting OF that body held
last Thursday.