The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-05-09
NEW YORK LETTER.
Metropolis in Throes offspring Bronx Zoo
Interesting-White Women Dine
Negroes-Mother Knicker-
bocker's Fashions.

NegrOes-ATother Kuicker-
bocker's Fashions.
Barring seventeen suicides, fifteen
divorces, half hundred theatrical at
fractions, eight railway wrecks, thirty
marriages, affinity and otherwisel !,
and score or more other casualties,
things have been unusually quiet in
the metropolis this week.
ADVENT OF SPRING.
Perhaps the most startling incident
of the weeks record was the advent of
a genuine spring day, which blew IN
here Sunday last as Unexpectedly as
butterfly in December, and
straightway spread the freshness OF
its young charm over the billy lowell
ness of Central Park, and among the
skyscrapers and busting thorough
fares of the busiest city on the map.
La the park every tree and shrub and
the ground undertook broke into a
symphony of palest green under the
magic of warmth and sunlight, and
the wild cherry trees suddenly trem-
bled into q soft glow of blossoms as
delicate and family flushed as if spun
from cloud at early dawn.
STRANGE SIGHTS AT ZOO.
Up at the Bronx Zoo the biggest al
ligator came out of his comatose state,
which lasts for three months not
tThree Weeks" be it understood;
this particular crocodile is by no
means one OF the wild animals Elinor
Glyn has known-and a spick and
span, brand.new baby tapir made the
day significant for himself by select
ing it for birthday.
ELEPHANT WITH A BANK.
Gnnda, the elephant with bank,
went on strike, and his keeper, after
getting a half-Nelson on the young
giant of the Zoo and feeling his eie-
phantine pulse, declared elassically
that ''the rotten weather" was respon-
sible for the kinks in the disposition
Of his hefty young charge. Gunda's
bank is the real, real thing and re-
poses at the top Of q tall pole in front
of the elephants enclosure, where the
big animal receives pennys and stray
coins from the spectators which he
deity deposits in the bank, at the
same time ringing o bell suspended
above to signify that an addition has
been made to the growing hoard.
Gunda struck for more pay-or rather,
bay, which amounts to the same thing
from an elephants point of view-and
as the weekly proceeds of the bank
are turned over to some one keeper
among the corps at the Zoo to be ex-
pended in an outing for said keeper
and family, it goes without saying
that the willy symbol of the G. O. P.
got all that was coming to him in his
coy little game of graft.
NEGROES AND WHITE WOMEN
DINE TOGETHER.
AT banquet of the Cosmopolitan
Society of Greater New York, twenty
white girls and women dined side by
side at the table with negro men and
women, and In speeches and general
discussion freely advocated social
equality and intermarriage between
the races. The "Black Handn is sure
enough prospecting in the land of the
free and the home of the brave. One
violent Inconsistency occurred, how
ever, which makes it possible to view
the matter in 8 ridiculous light. The
white women-among whom were said
to number appointment social leaders,
and settlement workers-yigorously
protested against the making of q
dashlight picture of the banquet table
seated as they we're, and the lhotog-
rapher was finally forced to desist as
the protests became more active and
determined.
MERRY WIDOW" HATS ALL THE RAGE.
The far-reaching vogue of the
MERRY Widow" hat, the Fluffy
Ruff1es" petticoat, the Dream Waltz"
belt and the "Gibson" ties lead one to
speculate whether the theatres Or the
eolored supplements predominant in
influencing the trend of popular fads.
The Merry Widow hat il more than
mere c.aze-it is violent insanity
but its advent has meant to the car
toonists and joke, makers the biggest
boon thew had in years.
BOLoRs FOR SUMNER WEAR.
The end OF the reign of white for
summer wear Is not yet, but the pre-
diction goes forth from this American
Paree that color will play a large
part in the summer wardrobe, and to
be strictly CONNIE il faut there must be
q distinguishing touch OF color inevery
nodish gown, whether it be in under
slip, belt or bow, or just the addition
of sn artificial flower. Laces of all
kinds are to be used in combination
snd in such profusion, indeed, that
very little OF the baptiste or muslin
foundation of the gown will really be
a evidence at all.
COLLARS AT CHOKING HEIGHT.
The collars of the smartest cos
umes continue to creep higher and
higher, with the exception OF the mid
summer models, many Of which are
.hoWn IN AntiPafy cn1Iar1ass effects /