The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-07-18
NEW YORK LETTER.
How Not to Find Good Old Gumbo IN
Gutham-Summer Shows All TO the
Merry-Funny Men Tell " hats
Funniest About Father

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/ Knickerbocker.
! New York. July l6, 1908.
| Special Correspondence of The Chief.
II one is southerner and has
native yearning for that most dis
Cinctive of all southern delicacies-;
good old gumbo-New York will Civ
! startling evidence of the fact that
few miles of land and water make a.
vast a difference in diet and edibl
commodities as in habits, customs
enuuciation, and every other ole
thing. Here is what's likely to hap
| pen to the languisher after the delec
| table Creole connections:
Dumb Waiter-God of a Flat.
She sings down the dumb waiter
haft-which, en- PEASANT, is one o
the most wonderful cCnveniences il
that greatest of all inventions, {
modern New York apartment house
to the grocer's boy who has just sen
her days purch asses whizzing TO hel
floor:
Have you any okra?'
The boy will most likely repeat in 6
mystifed voice, whats okra?"
"Okra is what you make gumbc
| with" replies his customer, sure thai
such information will sufficiently en-.
tighten him.
"And what's Qumbo?" floats up the
dumb waiter shaft in the weary tones
of the bored grocer's boy.
The Search for the Elusive Shrimp.
Then, being wise, she says "never
mind" to the boy, and starts out on
her own hook ia search Of gumbo in.
gradients. Into the nearest butcher
shop she drifts and accosts the little
roly-poly, pink checked German
butcher in suave accents:
"Have you any shrimp"
"Svimps? Vat iss?"
"Why shrimp are shrimp" she re,
plies lucidly, land your sign outside
says: All kinds OF fish supplied.
Have you any shrimp" she repeats,
this time with emphasis.
A New Illustration of the Crustaeean.
The fat butcher is likely to plunge
toto fercely cultural consultation
with his fatter frau, with the result
that he finally turns to his would be-
customer, an effect like an aurora
borealis spre aiding over his pink and
expansive countena1ce:
spy dem svimps maybe ISIS it you
mean little rosy fsches yoost SO long
as not all OF my hnger,n and he care
fully portions off the proper length of
one pudgy digit by way OF illustra-
tiO3.
Needless to say he has no shrimp,
and it may be remarked in passing
t1at . can IF Campbell's chicken
gumbo-proViding she can corner
even this mild imitation at her gro
ces lis the nearest the southerner
in New York ever gets to delicious,
Incompatible louisiana g4mbo'
'.sk'tn" Df"ps Out TT Sight,
'Skihi," she musical comedy, (bosh
musical sud ''conedy" by cour-
tesy], which opened iis eareer atop
the Madison Square Garden, has
fallen by the wayside, thus achieving
the failure Tor which it was so plainly
faEed from the opening night. "Skihi"
was without doubt the worst show
Manhattan has been asked to accept
for many moons, despite artistic Lot
tie hendal4's work as the prima donna.
1.-The Merry Widow" has recently
changed her residence from the New
Theatre to Aerial Gar
den and is still drawing record houses
and generally proving herself THE
success Of the year.
The Mimic World" Summers Best Show
The J ardin de Paris on the roof of |
he New York Theatre is having the
1ugest success of it's career in "The
Foliies of l908,'' but the one best bet
among the summer attractions is 1.-THE |
Mimic World, /" which is quite the most
original, del ghtsome and refreshing
riVolity that ever saw the light at the |
Herald Square Roof. One Of the most
entertaining effects in the new show
5 the dining car scene, which appears
0 be in motion.
The Funniest hing in New York.
Some of the Wise Men of the East
q other words, newspaper writer's of
Jew York-have been giving their
'pinions as to the most astonishing or
anniest thing they we noticed about
1anhattan this summer. Irwin Cobb
avs among other things: "Twice in one
eek | saw a crowd of West Indian
egroes, in white flannel, playing
ricket at Van Cortlandt Park while
n audience of Italians and Irishmen
loked on, and the French wife of
Ereek lunchstand keeper brewed Eng
sh tea for them. And it was Just as
amy the second time as it was the
rst.'
Says George MeManus: "The most !
stonishing thing I've noticed is the
ay every body in New York's in a
1sh, even when it's hot. wish some )
ne would tell rne what people in New /
ork always run for. / do it myself.
don = know Why. I'm first in th. !
lbway and first out. I even start to !
i Out before I'm halfway there so as +
be first. Why? I don t know Do /,
ous',