The St. Mary banner. (Franklin, Parish of St. Mary, La.) 1889-1931, 1907-03-30


~...,s.I Haen line ;nHr2i lc,;.4ion O!
the t-n; ed alayg..n Victor aa VIZ
!cI+ II Dallas T=E. 1T t...s tine III.
/ y,n7a eraaisef bai.a- WITH q popula-
tioa o ,s.4 ..e- .e. ann .Ac rai.ro2G
zclt llou-. i.a>s., 70 1L+ reunion.
Therefore rL- i.u i,-iiJy NJ Dallas
va 1 Ne.i viii The remarhabla IL
sp.nal-L-i'& Mil aate4Hais.tas nearly three
Zines a7 many people a5 it i4ud popula-
lion BGJ Southern no ritality was
c4o4l ID Jha emergency, and before tile
week was over every visitor was ready
to tho. ~ his hat for Dallas.
The Homecoming week is q new de-
parture il celebrations, and there is
/ good story in connection with its
origin. Miss Louise Lee Hardin, a
i former Kentucky girl living in Den
YER, listened to a band pla, Wing My Old
j Kentucky Home" one night ANA got
the blues. She wrote a Letter the next
morning suggesting that Keutucky's
/ wandering sons ana daughters he in
/ vtted TO return for 3. homecoming
/ week.
The suggestion was adopted, and it
/ cost 50,0o0 eX-kentUckians not less than
SatH,tUp because 4 blue grass girl in far
OF Colorado got homesicil: bat every
hente lli..n thought il wei. worth the
money.
One Of The best established and most
popular annual festivals III the colln-
t!y is the Mardi Gias at New Orleols.
The Southern city does itself proud on
these occasions. Four professions.
Menus. Proreus, Rex and Comus, cost
$4,000 each.
J ball is given in connection with
each oI these professions. the expense
q which amounts to S5U,0y0. Other en-
tertainmeltA illumiGations, decora-
lions, rich ana rare costumes, etc, rrsn
the expense Up TO $4,000 for the
weeks festivities
New Orleans people figure that every
visitor who comes to town during the
carnival spends $50 ana that the big
show is paying proposition for al
parties concerned. Other celebrations
a!most equally as famous rs the Mardi
Gras are the Yelled Prophets at St.
Louis, the Priests Of Palas at Kansas
CITY, Ark Sarben at Omaha and the
fall musical festival at Cincinnati.
New Workers are the most eXtrava-
CANT OF all Americans. and New York
IS the cOstlieSt city on this continent
10 visit. No matter how much the aver
age New Workers. income is he lives up
(,
Manhattan has so many pacemakerS
IN spending that no matter how much |
OF splurge you make there is always |
some fellow ready to go you one bet |
Ter. In speaking of the people OF |
New York some one remarked to the |
late Col. Waring: They devote them
selves to pleasure regardless of ex-
pense." and he replied: "Oh, no, they |
don't. They devote themselves to ex-
pense regardless of pleasure"
New Workers. income may incre ase
from $1,000 to $4,000 year, but ne
spends the one sum as readily as the
other
When tie Westerner first strikes
broadway and comes in contact with |
the say high tariffs that abound there
1t makes the little shivers run right
UP ana down his spine. In London you
can drive in q hansCEe from the Hotel
Cecil to the Victoria Station for a
shilling, baggage and all. In New
York a cab for about the same distance
costs $3.50. O2e may stand about
the carriage entrance OF a Broadway
hotel or at the door of a garage and see
q months salary for United States
senator blown in for automobiles be-
tween noon and dusk any day.
Look at the register at any New
York hotel and you will find the names
If people from every state in the Union,
people living on Broadway for a few
lays at the rate of $780, 600 a year, when
heir expenses at home do not exceed
$4,000. They figure that they don't get
east very often, and SO long as they
ire there they might as well see the
whole show
BY the time they are ready to depart
heir places are taken by other people
rom the west, who are Just on for a
'ew days. you know" And SO New
York grows fat and sleek.-New York
Sun.