New Iberia enterprise and independent observer., 1911-07-08
JULY 4th AT SOLITUDE
PLANTATION.

Mr. Editor! You have read OF
the production OF the Passion
Play at Oberammergau and OF
a week of Wagner festival al
Baireuth and their introduction
into the United States as moving
picture attractions. But you have
never witnessed a Belshaazaar I
feast, with living pictures as ac-
tive actors, on the American stage.
There was one such perform
ance, July 4th. at Solitude, under
the solicitudes and auspices OF the
convivial Religieux. the host, Leon
Lozes. whose looks of bon hommie
and broad sympathy are enough
to tame the fiercest looking savage
and charm the deadlfest serpent.
The same bunch of Epicures that
recently graced a gala perform
ance at the Baron colonial abode,
celebrated the natal birth day OF
the Declaration of Independence
in this spiritual fashion; mixing
with the spirit of the day the stir
ring strains of the songs OF the
American revolution.
The chief executive Of the town
was the chief and most consplc-
uous Chaperon. carrying a pack
age of specific instructions from
| the Board of Health and a letter
of protection from the Sheriff and
State militia. Before allowing
the busy company to plunge into
1.-The whirl Of excitement. the
Mayor, with stentorian voice, II
the name Of his board. ordered
the artist, under a Martin s gale
to take the sketch Of the land
scape and everything on it. as later
the paint pot of the official photo
grapher, might get mixed with
other stronger chemicals and turn
an idyllic retraat into a hospital
bivouac.
The POSTMASTER had a new crop
|of smiles and oratorical elegances
with him, as he never uses an artl-
cle twice for the same purpose.
'Suave in argument, convincing in
logic, he never fails to control with
despotism. a threatened coming
boisterousness Of a tractable, un-
trained company.
The twin orator, so fine of con-
stitution and form, that on a dear,
sunny day, produces more shadows
than motions in his walk, with 4
Coquelinage duly Irish. reeled off
peals of laughter from his stock Of
self-made comedies and fiendish
contOrtions imaginable.
Our Americanized Girondiu, full
of fight and frenzy and righteous
indignation against tyranny and
oppression. was in his glory and
congenial surroundings. The gold
in his voice: the silver on his
tongue handling the martial stan
zas Of the Marsellaise and other
appeals to the populace,
nnoculated everybody and every
hing with the virus Of revolutions.
A natural born revolutiopist. al
ways in the thick Of the fray of
agitation and turbulence, his in
lividual projections and immunity
rom attack depends mainly on
he impenetrable pail Of peaceful
less surrounding our population
nd their unfamiliarity with the
nisfortunes of Continental peo-
les.
Heinrich and Adolph in one, |
everything in stein, |
7hile imagining he is sitting on !
he banks of the Rhine, offering
Dast to his Fraulien is so broad in :
and so intensely warm
kindness and friendship as to
smporarily displace the allegori-
al figure of Gambrinus. astraddle :
the traditional fame of foam
nd brew. 4
The French collector was as
umb as an oyster; he is reserv-
g his fine and fuss for the four Is
enth Of France, because in $
rench and in France some things /.
i'd or sung are not the same =
'erywhere, translated without
'uquet and native aroma. His
'stures are good and his sugges- J
ms in French better. It is the a
Imor in the play of words that {,
ouses the storm in the camp Of
ought. William Tell was miss 0
g. drowning his chagrin and dis Is, $
pointment in the town canal. In q
ese days of mnterialism every 0
ing is measured by the yard l |
ok of success, and as this repast +
rpassed the length Of that meas. ,
e, you can well seal the report,
masterpiece of reality and ac- c.
racy. st
those at the festive = r
ard on the Fourth were Messrs. :, r
j. Burke, Mayor Power, Judge
mes Simon, E. Richter. Octave
rby, Pierre Jubin. J. M. Cour- q; q;
e. l. A. Martin. Templar SAKE, q
J. Maumus. P. R. Burke. Ulysse
1dry, DR.. Ed. Landry, Alex
garry and Felias Romero.
SCHULTZ.
m Heidenrreichstein. Germany pm