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The Creole Women

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Parent Issue
Day
15
Month
July
Year
1887
Copyright
Public Domain
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The yoting girl is cdurated in a convent and lcads a see!uded existence until she is launched in society, and then in the joyous life that bursts upon her she is always surrounded by the same watchful care t hat guarded her rhildliood. Young gifls are not allowed to ro into society without hïing accu m pan led by tht-ir mothers or some other niairied lady, as chaperone - onoof themany Creo'ecustoni which has been generally adopted by the Americ an residente oí New ürleans. These yotm girls ara of ten wonderfully beautiful. Good features, liandsome eyes andgraceful figures combine to inake them very attractive, their beauty beinnot infreqviently Oriental in type, though th vivaeity et their mannera markt t )ieni as esstntially French in character. Many Creóle romen are very nccomplished. Tliey have a skill in innsic and paintin tliat is often arlistic. In the literary clubs which society women iiave inaugnrated oí iite yeara in New Orleans, the Anirican ladies have been astonished to fit.d the Creóle ladies onite as well posted aa theniselves in tn.'lish literature, whilo possessing a much (reater knowledge of the literature of other countries. But an acconiplishment still more attractive to the imperunious young man Peekin inatriinony is the exqnísite taste with which these maident fair will fashion their own jiowms aiul bonnets when rircumstancea irquire theni to niake these tilinga at home. The Creóle pro men baveinherlted the French taste in dress, and in a reater decreet han otlier Americans, they rejzard the fiat of Paris as the stiprenie authonty in all matters concerning the toilet. Al8o, the Creóle voitien of all ace and of all classes are devont. Neither eorial pnuasements, nor weather, nor other ob8tacles are allo.ved lointerfere with the dischariie oí their religieus duties. Are they not Foniewhat pupeisritious? ijnme of them a litt'e so. perhnp.-, in remembrance of voodoo Ntori-8 told them in their infancy by old nearo nnrses. - Xew Ürleaus LvtUsT iu Omdha Ktfuubiitcn. Pr.R'on h 's a tailorappropriat Iy nam:d Bodkm. Col. R. S. Withms, I air Liwn Strck Farm y. nnl . oseih ( nirne impon, r.-q , 'e rotary Phul.c Coast iíloo i tfnrse Assoiiaiion romme.il St. . b ob 'Ml fOr all hor e conip.amti. So.d by Drug'ist, and Leaers. Iermtine i; tli" new -nbitanre for ths of boots and ihoei. It is said to b; imiiervious to water aud weurs betteitiian leatl.e -. fir Toger Tchl orne rt Kng'and wis cured of i lur ma ism by the use if st. ■ i.cobs ( il anl recommpnds it hiehly tOiUbyLraggl tsand dealer everywhere. Achmed I en Amor, the A gerinn lion 'laycr. has ki.l.d over 20J of the kine of 1,1' IS IS.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Democrat