The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1907-12-14
NEW ORLEANS LETTER.
Reopening of the Winter Garden-A Week
of shakespeare-stunn Costumes
la NTode-Dun Business-A
Creole Mammy's English,
Staff Correspondence of The Chief.

l
leans at the formal opening Of the
| Winter Garden last Saturday evening,
| Miss Ada Meade is the star of the com.
pany and possesses not only most
pleasing voice, but charm and pres
ence that are equally worthy of honor
able mention. With the French Opera,
which spends Christmas week, the Tu.
lane, Crescent, Shubert, Orpheum,
Dauphine, Blaney's Lyric, and the
Winter Garden, mot to mention the
unmentionable GreenwalD, New Orle-
ans will certainly have enough places
of amusement to keep it going for a
while.
Lovers of the classic are enjoying
a profound treat this week in the ap-
pearance of Robert Mantell at the
Tulane in Shakespearean roles. Next
week Ethel Barrymore, the daintiest
and sweetest star that ever shone be-
hind footlight, will be the attr action
at the Tulane in Clyde Fitch's clever
comedy, "Her Sister.
I At the eoming-out party of charm
ing downtown girl Friday evening
of last week, noticed a gown worn
by member Of the receiving group
that thought especially beautiful.
It was black chiffon voile of very
sheer and lovely quality, made over
chiffon and pale blue taffeta and
richly embellished with black lace.
The skirt was modelled after the new
tunie effect, and the entire pattern of
the square white lace yoke was deli
eately picked out with tiny gold beads.
From the broad kimono sleeves Ian
gled a brilliant regiment of small gold
tassels which combined exquisitely
with the blue and black of the stunning
costume.
The chat of the modish tailor suit
reaches we'll below the hips aud, if
properly cut, fits the form to perfection.
1t is single breasted and collarIess,
while the skirt is distinguished BY long
straight lines and is less trimmed and
pleated than formerly. Hats are rather
contrasting than N matching, and aplum
colored butter-bowl shape, trimmed
with wings and ribbons and worn with
a gray-blue tailor suit family striped,
made a particularly smart combination
on stylish looking girl / saw at the
matinee last Saturday. Wells with
dots easily as big as ten-cent pieces
are quite the rage, and gauntlet gloves
are the proper eaper with tailor suits,
The merch ants declare that the
Christmas purchases this year will fall
many thousands of dollars below the
usual holiday expenditures. I heard
some one make the statement the other
day that Tiff any OF New York estimates
that his sales this year will most prob
ably be ten million dollars less than
those of last season.
An old colored nanny in the en-
ploy of a down.toWn family has fre-
quently heard masculine member OF
the household make use of the word
"hades," and, divining it's meaning,
made use of it herself the other morn.
ing with ludierous effect. "Ah de-
clar', F" she fumed, irate at some mis-
demeanor of one of her offspring,
''dat onery niger is dat trifin' he
sho am gwine rat straight tub hayseed
wen he die" At heart nanny is
really romantic, and comforting the
littlest girl of the family who was dis
consolate over the fact that unlike big
sister she couldn't have beau and
do as she pleased, nanny remarked:
aNevah yo' min, honey, some o.
desc bright days yo'll gwine grow up,
an meet your fake. E. b.
DoubIee Tracking the Valley.
The Yazoo and Mississippi Valley
Railroad has large force of men at
work repairing its tracks along Front
street in Baton Rouge, preparatory to
the double-trackipg of the road be-
tween that city and New Orleans in
order to aceommod ate the extra travel
caused by The traekage agreements of
the Frisco's Colorado Southern, New
Orleans and Pacific Railway, the
Southern Pacifc's Port Allen-Lafay-
cite branch, and the Illinois Centra1's
Baton Rouge, Hammond and Eastern
Railway, all of which will bring in-
creased traffic to the Valley at Baton
Rouge. The road is already double
| tracked for considerable portion OF
the distance between the two cities, and
the connecting upof these many side.
tracks is now in order, since the above
mentioned roads will begin operation
during the early part of the coming
year.
With what pride are the words,
s'My own, my own,'' breathed by the
young mother as she gazes upon her
first born child. This reminds Us
that the proverbial stork recently left
a sweet little cherub at the home Of
Mr.. and Mrs. Claude Himel. The
mother and baby are doing nicely and
Grandpa H. A. Himel's smiles are a.
broad as Papa Claude Himel's. Thc
Interim congratulates the happy youns
parents and the grandparents 81.
James Interim.
| Why don't you get busy and pa!
that poll tax?