Woman's enterprise., 1921-09-16
TIE CITY OF Der DREAMS
(Sarah Turnbull Sterling.)


"Come Lelie" called her lover, 1--WE
will 60 see Madame D'Orville. She
hear one good time law was in Legis-
lature, an is so happy an young
again with hope. My father say her
husband was put in the State Peni-
tertiary the day l was five year old,
for twenty-five years. Twenty year
hav' passed in hope he come again so
soon.''
So these young Creole lovers took
hands in the cleaning and ran down
the levee to sympathize with this poor
wife who had waited so long for her
lovers return.
Madame D'Orville met them at the
door "a woman whose years only
numbered forty-three, but the patti
ence Of waiting had laid its hand on
her, and she was old.
"Oh! Mamselle Lelie," she exclaim-
ed, "my Jim might come home pretty
soon now, Ell? Dey will maxi one
good time law in Legislature, den my
Jim come back. I sit some time all
day an look down de river at Baton
Rouge. My Jim, he dere, an look at
de towers Of de Capitol an pray LIE
Bon Dieu may max good law. an my
Jim cc,ne back some more"
Pretty Creole Lille, pale as the mag
nolia blossom above her, slipped down
on the step and took the gnarled hand
in her own.
"Tell it to me,," she said, "that
dreadful day he went away"
"Ah. why should I tell you Cherie? ?
de long days! May you never know,
dey brek' not de heart, but dey never
pass, dey are dere, one day like de
oder day, an my jim not here"
"But l want you to tell" said Lille,
cuddling closer, and patting Madame
D'Orville's hands. 81 want you to be-
gin way back when you danced down
the middle at the bal. Monsieur
Jacques Patton goes to the Brusle to
dance with the beautiful girl"
"Madame," said Jacque, "help me to
tell here there is no harm, and if I do
its when the most beautiful stays at
home"
"Tut, tut, liz ones," said Madame,
"do not seek trouble, when you have
not it, it may even now be on the
way
"Me, I don care if he Co." said Lille
with a crimson check. II want hear
how you married an all"
$50 long ago! you want to hear?
If my Jim come back we have a sill
yer wedding-an' ah! l will STAN by
his side again in de long march to de
church do. Ole Alcide will pull out
all de sweet notes on his 'cordeen' an
lie fiji De St. Roman will play march
on his fiddle as we 60. LIE Bon Dieu
done TEX Pere Roman dis long time.
"When l fus' see dat Jim D'Orville
he ride to uor do and he say, Mon
sieur Babin, here some win de can I
promise you for long time. Wat you
tink, l not bring it?' An den he talk,
talk. Toreckly, he say, you better
hitch up quick IN de morning an come
out to de river, de Lee and de Natchez
pass in one gram race. Everybody
be at de sugar house an out on de
levee to see. Also de girls dance
while dey wait. Mamselle Marie
Rose! if she would quadrille wild me,
l would do myself too proud Den he
bow to his saddle an he look at me,
an I tink he like wat I look.
"Papa say he spec he would if de
girls lik' to 60, an Mama. He lik' MIS-
self to hear de bets an see de gret'
boats go by. So Jim D'Orville he pass
by me to de gate and say, put red
camelia in your hair sill vouss plait,
Marie Rose
can after he gos, we fry chicken
and ham. Mama max cake and we
parch pinder and pick out pecan for
lie cutie. We TAX bucket too to dip
wild. Il did press my white Sunday
dress, den Nathalie, my sister, say it
might be cool, why not your red mo-
reno?' So me l fix dem both. Me
know not how col' de morning bring.
When sun rise come we get ready
an 60 in de big cane wagon, down de
straight road by de ditch, what jim
had gone de night befo'. When look
back like dat, it just seem to me he
call an l come. When we COM again