New Orleans Women

The New Orleruis woinan proper is a GiUlic Americau, or rather ui Araerican Gaul. She perhaps moy never have been out of the country, or even mit, of the Sute: uut tor all that, she is an alien to the Republie in the sense Uuit she has Hule knovrtedge oi-it and less care lor it and ita . " Creóle, or Creólo descent or affliuty, she reads Freiich newspapers, has Prench habits and ophuons, anü siie is essentiaHf Kvenuli in inwd and mannor. tiba tulks English, tHougU she tlnnks in Frenoh ; sho is au mliaOitant of the United States uut a ciUzen of Louisiana, especially of lts metropolis, most of her grand otifangs to adjacent parislies. Onou in a whiTe she may go to 8t. Louis, or Mobile, or CharlcsLon, or NeW ork, uut if slie does, it is a memorable event, and she re-anls it as a Chicagoan, Bostonian or New Yorker woiiRt the Circümuavigatiou of the globe, a ]ourney to Af ■ hauisuu or lo che lieart ot Au-ica. Should the New Orleans wonmn be young espeeiatif should sho be unniatriod, abe nmy ue very graeeful, thongii nu-oiy Blender vi ngurc, fór plumpu688 and ruuudntss coine vory èariy vvith her. Sbe is naually a brunette. Her mannen are, as a rule, superior to hor penon. lt is marvelous wliat she eau aelueva With a bit of lace, hall a yard of ribbon or a lew üovvers. The JSer Orleans vvoman is not very subsiantially eduoated, but guch eüncation as Bhe lias siio caa put to tlie best advantage.