The Evening standard. [volume] (Ogden City, Utah) 1910-1913, 1910-09-03

BY GARNET WARREN.
CcTrsat 1910 n tho Sew ncoa
- ONE with me children aud drcnm uwhilc
You'n know about the creole dinner after
ward But want you to dream Grst want
You TO get the atmosphere So come now 1t
is louguorous here aud very still The sky is
vivid and there is a swoonIng anguor in the air We
are in New Orleans and presently we are going 10
cross Cnnul street aud go into the old French quar-
ter and I'm going to ask you dmuer-in imegina-
ton.
But do dream FIRST You see that old negro mammy
over thcrc-procecding with that majestic, quiverlug
waddlc? She Of the suubonnct, mean and the glow
ing shining face Think Of her as younger. She "a
eighteen say She Is living two hundred years ago
She has bright colors upon her. She has the gay
soualor Venice She is slave, and she is browsing
IN the sun: and all the dogs about her are browsing
too-drowsiug aud Gnppng their IN the golden
ouiycrng sunlight There many like her in their
JOYOUS rags-plnyng with the dogs and rolling over
with them on the ground, and basklng with them in
the shadows OF stately red brick houses, aud sleeping
And often sleeping.
Have you picture OF Old New Orleans now, say
two hundred years ago? Bright and shabby and
.pIcndid and ndoIent Ycs2 Then you're beginning
10 get little atmosphere and I'll bring YOU back 10
The present again.
Now you're back TO to-day remember Look at
aI the mules In the streets-mules and mules and
mules And all the black folks-back and black and
black Look at that fellow driving that grain wagon
Hes black as coal and he has old blue caps aud
he's got an old guuuysack for an apron He's
asleep too but his grain wagon. with the three
mules moves along slowly. All things moving
mules and white men and black brothers-move
slowly The numbness OF dreaming dalliancc seems
TO be IN every bone Along the cob5le stoned roads
they 20 and the men and women linger olong-lnger
with a softly graceful ease and languorous content
Here is young slim fellow with black soc eyes and
sleek black hair on his small head Have YOU seen
John Batrymorc's roya-slcek head: Like that lie
asks light Tor his cigarette He mukcs the languln
gesture Of n prince and drifts on rulnng bis mis-
sion as n creole lie has lighted his cigarette from
5our cigar
FOLD YOU that wc were going 70 Canal street
Nell we've crossed It We In the creole
quarter The streets are very narrow There are
covered ver,udas coming the very edges of the side
walks in the old French style Cor IS IT Sponish0 The
streets are narrow and cobbcd Tor ten years
igo
There are opcn cutters and the wafer rIckles along
II rlistenlng deadly now Here, too. the people
walk slowly llngeringy. with vouptuous case of
aowncss You see more mammles with sunbonnets
,n. You see 'cm with coorcd handEerchlefs piled up
nigh IN coil, upon their heads. You catch gllmpses
Of cm on the second and third and fourth balconies
which all the houses seem to have. There sleek
young fellows dawdllng along with the air Of lisuess
princes and women with creamy oval faces aud such
dark eyes! All they send you back to youth again'
Dear dear. How one does lapse into romance when
one CHATS about dark eyes,
The House at Last.
And now at last Eve come TO some Of the houses
which youu be Interested in You're going to eat in
one or them. you know, at my invitation. They ruO
along In an irregular row-bg mansions with shaved
gardens. and then a little shack with tiny pcka-
nInnies crawllng among dirt and CLINT of sunshine
The big mansions nrc rcd brcked With Tho rosy air
81 age which crowns age with honor. Some Of them
have passageways through their and you get
to thclr front doors with spiral steps.
Round ond round you go and pause awhile at The
top to the yard all about the house-In the
front OF IL and at the side OF It and behind It, with
maguollas Ia IT, and old fashioned flowers and
siimpses OF velvet soft lawn aud grnvcllcd paths
auiyng round about That and n glance OF ong
French windows and Venetian blinds. and creepors
on some Of the balconies you go inside The door