Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1955-12-25

vacations. And Tor those VINO M
earlier, the Friday Saturday.
Sunday or Saturday Sunday
Monday sequence Of free time at
intervals makes the daily grind
more bearable.
Sometimes the use Of a single
day of leave will produce a string
| of four days. Christmas Of next
year is a case in point. 1t falls
on q Tuesday. BY taking on the
intervening Monday. four free
DAYS are available for trip back
home for a big family Christmas
tree. 1t won't be determined for
months but it is possible the adj
ministration will grant Govern
ment employees the Monday on
without charging it to leave. The
election will be held in the
meantime, you know.
Good Start Boys Down
The New Year starts Of aus
piciously enough. January l.
next Sunday, viii be observed
as a holiday on the following
Monday. But Washington's
birthday, February ~, comes
on a Wednesday. So does Me-
mortal Day. May 80, which
kicks of the summer season.
That's true, too. Of July 4.
Labor Day, of course. is sta
Ibilized on a Monday. occurring
on September 3 next year. Vet
efans Day. November IL, is on
Sunday. Thanksgiving. on the
traditional fourth Thursday, will
be early as Thanksgivings go.
November % Is the date.
Although it plays no part in
vacations except to free college
youth from their studies for a
week or so, Easter Sunday viii
fall on April l.
New Orleans Fiesta
On the Sunday after Easter
will be held the first Of a series
of home and garden tours that
sweep up from the Southland
to the Washington area and be-
yond as spring advances. New
Orleans Spring Fiesta will open
on that date and continue for
IL days.
BY then, If the weather adj
heres to average. color win be
rioting in and around the Cres-
cent City roses, hibiscus,
azaleas and spring bulbs; the
air will be heavy with the per-
fume of the sweet olive, mag
nolia and jasmine. AS to the
weather at that time Of year:
Cool enough. but with the hint
of the tropics In every breeze. "
| It Is during the fiesta that New
Orleans, always interesting,
really turns on the charm-hoop-
skirted hostesses guiding visitors
Through the rich old homes and
gracious gardens, tours Of the
Iwalled-in patios by candlelight
lin the Vieux Care.
Gates Unlocked
/ For so weeks of the year. these
dagstone-terraced retreats in the
Old City can be glimpsed only
Through locked gates. During the
fiesta, the homes themselves are
also open to visitors.
i Fiesta tours are planned To
plantations in st. Tammany
Parish, where much Of Southern
living in the grand manner still
survives. Another feature, intro
duced to the fiesta last year, will
be repeated. An old two-wheeler
river boat viii become a show
boat. and present entertainment
OF that colorful era.
Another highlight Of the fiesta
will be the traditional Might in
Old New Orleans" when the en-
tire Vieux Care turns the clock
back to street-dancing Just of
the sidewalk cafes, to music, and
singing from the balconies and
the calls of the clothes-pole man
land the praline vendor.
Progress Moving in
st. Tammany Parish, where
some Of Louisiana's most beau
tiful plantations have survived
because Of their remoteness, Is
due for great change. 1t can
be reached now from New Or
leans by road only by circling
Lake Pontchartrain, a formidable
and sometimes unruly body OF
water. But a 24-mile- long cause
way is creeping across the lake
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