Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1921-current, 1922-06-09
WINIFRED BLACKS
W SPECIAL ARTICLE
LITTLE MISS LOUISIANA"
Copyright 1872. by Newspaper Feature Service

LITTLE MISS LOUISIANA"
Well, well, well-who do you think
walked up to my doorstep this very
morning and rang the bell? Little Miss
Louisiana from the Bayou Tech.
Yes. indeed, she certainly deed
Pretty as a peach she was, too. as
she stood there on the porch with her
blue eyes shining and a look half shy,
half daring, on her dear little, roguish
face.
I'm here on a visit" she said. land
/ promised Mother and Daddy Id come
to see you, and / brought you some
homemade pinoche and a whole lot
of moss from the Bayou and so many
messages and
In she came and what a visit we did
have.
She's here to select her trosseau-
oh, yes. she's going back to the Bayou
to live. she wouldn't feel quite at home
anywhere else. | suppose she looks
like her mother. I've never seen the
mother-though she did send me so
many loving messages and l know she
speaks like her father.
What a day we did have of 1.-THE
day We met the man from the Bayou
iTech-years ago.
We were in New Orleans at Mardi
Gras time. two of US. and we were
doing all the sights and. of course. we
had to go to breakfast on Sunday morn
ing at Begue's.
A Wisp of Ribbon
Funny little place, Begue's-up q
pair of winding stairs over a market
just a garnet, really, festooned with
cObwebs at that, but such cookery, such
food. such gayety, such a long table
crowded with laughing people and Papa
Begue at the head of it. such stories.
such songs. such laughter, Everybody
spoke to everybody at Begue's and
when you had finished, you must write
a little verse or epigram in the great
a fine place. Begue's-and well worth
the visit in those days.
The two of us were a bit late and
We had to sit in the corner at a little
table and crowded in with us was a
tall young fellow, a little shy. a little
uncomfortable in such unaccustomed
surroundings.
He was from the Bayou Tech. he
said. and after a while. he told us about
1.-THE dark Bayou fringed with gray,
ghost-like trees. hung with gray, fog
like moss, and the flowers that grew
along the edge of it, and he had always
lived there. he said. and always should.
His little wife was born there. too.
And he and she had planned to come
to New Orleans on their wedding trip.
but there was an illness in the family
and their wedding trip was cut short
and now he had come down TO see about
well. a-that is. a-he had a little
shopping to do and some people to see
and he had promised Sally-Lou that he
would breakfast Mt Begue's and come
home and tell her every bite he had to
eat, and who sat at the table with
him and what they said and what they
wrote in the great book.
And he copied the simple little verses
the two of us wrote and we sat for
two or three hours and talked like
|disembodied spirits sitting on a cloud.
We should never see him again, or
he. us. And so we spoke our hearts
and be spoke his. Such a handsome
fellow he was. so tall and straight and
so much a mamie showed us a picture
of his little wife and when he took the
picture out a little wisp Of baby blue
ribbon came with IL and he blushed
crimson--the man from the Bayou
Tech-and said. "Er-a-now-a, I'm
to match this"
And we spent the day together in
quaint old New Orleans, wandering in
and out of shops, and when We got
back to the hotel and left the a from