The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-06-20
NEW Y0RK LETTER.
Coney Is'and-Its Horde of Takers and At
fractions Dfrectoire Gowns Arrive.
MerrS Widow Hat Going.

/ Special Correspondence of The Chief.
/ You may have heard of Coney, and
| and read of Coney, and had mental
| pictures OF Coney all your life, but
| don't fancy that you have the faintest
| idea OF what this isle of enehantment
is really ike till you have beheld it
with Your own eyes, Gwendoiyn.
Give the average pleasure seeker and
particularly the st-sider) Coney
island or its complement, Luna Park,
On a Sunday afternoon, and the rest
Of the world of pleasure may go hang
! for all he cares; and small wonder
when one considers the great divers
| ity of amusement which the fairy is
land affords.
| Where the Weeks Salary is Left.
It is a Midway Plaisance, Pike,
| Trail and w al oath ali rolled into one
and improved in the rolling, and it is
the mecca of the NAMES and Chin
| mics who drift out there to burn up a
| weeks revenue, it may be, in a single
afternoon ard evening of festive mer
rym aking. There's Dreamland, the
baby incubators, Hell's Gate, Crea-
| lion, the wild man of Borneo, the real
Abyssinian bandits, the deep sea
diver, Turkish theatre, loop. the loop
| chutes, trip through Switzerland in
| suite little boats on real water, scenic
| railway, aud dozens and dozens OF
| countless games going merrily on
upon the side, such as "Hit-the-nig
GER" ringing canes and knives, Jap
anese ball game, rife target practice,
etc, etc.
"Step Right in, Ladies and Gents, am
You walk down a long, narrow
street bounded on either side by the
bizarre homes of the various amuse-
| nents and you are assailed on every
nand by the vendors of ice-cream
| sandwiches, peanuts, pulling candy,
chewing gum, frankfurter sandwiches,
soft shell crabs, cream cones, pop
| corn, chop suey and other delicacies
along gilis line. Flower vendors
thrust their wares under your willing
aose-great clusters of American
Beauty and Jack roses, double vio-
cts, jonquils and earn ations which
sell IRON 10 to 25 celts bunch. You
are eat. ested by every fakir outside
Of every beer garden to "step right in
and see the moving pictures abso-
iutely free of charge" and yielding
to the caiolery of one of these sincere
shouters you finally pass under a flap.
ping awning and seat yourself at
a lig5te able with the rest of the null
1itude and order a glass OF Bud and
a frankfurter sandwich and fare
stump uously while your eyes rivet
upon Inc owing picte"e scrsen. You
needn't shudder delicately at the idea
hat you are SO conspicuously one
with Mr.. Common People, for you're
having d gosh-dinged good time-and
YOU &c peI tOCeiy 6"aEO VI IT,
MIX from Paper Cow.
At many of TIE refreshment booths
the milk for milk-shakes and other
heve res with milk for a foundation
is drawn from the life sized figure of a
papier mache COW, giving a distinct-
lively novel and mature taking" eff
feet. Apropos OF this artificial COW
business, real one is actually
MIXED every evening in scene at
Hammersoein roof garden, ana the
World of New York is concerning it.
self over the fact that the COW, which
is the garden S main attraction, fails to
draw weekly salary while famous
Russian dancer-'saud dancing is no
novelty" walls the World-pulls
down a regular little thousand plunks
per week.
Look Who's Here-the Naughty New
Gown.
The daring directoire gown has
found it's way into New York, even
though it IS as yet being viewed ask
ance by the most bizarre of dressers.
One launcher of fashion, more daring
than her sisters, appeared at dock
landing in one of the new sheath
gowns aud barely escaped being mob
bed. Its almost beyond belief that
really self-respecting women will at
tire themselves in these unmodifed !
creations so shameless in their exhi- |
bition of 'tthe human form divine,
but since Paris has decreed it there |
seems nothing left for the silly slaves |
of fashion to do but follow the bell |
weat err. The new tringed sashes that
are being worn wound once around |
the waist, then brought loosely around
a second time and knotted little be-
low the left hip, are coquettish effect
i've and have a decided Spanish air.
Merry Widow Hat Doomed.
rhe Merry Widow hat is rapidly
being supplanted by the Charlotte
Corday, which is nothing more or less
than the soup bowl shape Of last sea-
sons popularity. This hat of rough
straw with its wida curved br1m and
simple irIuming of a ribbon band and
small fiat bow to one side is really far
preslier aud more effective than the
ok az gertted cart-wneet that launched
5he straw season, and is particularly
above freshand youthful
lace
The SLOT Days are Here.
Real summer weather has set in at