ments of the stores. Well-and please
bear in mind (no pun intended) that
I speak only from hearsay-I am told
that the young women of New York
are actually carrying these toys about
the streets in precisely the same
fashion they carry around those
objectionable French poodles. The
girl who enlightened me regarding
this amazing vogue further informed
me that a friend of her's has come into
possession of one of the absurd toys
through another friend recently re
turned from New York. "And it's a
big white wooly one, and just as cute
as can be!" continued my informant.
I suggested that she and I and the
other girl who was with us should buy
toy balloons and trip down Canal
street with them in order to stars some
original fad in New Orleans. "Pigs
is pigs," says Ellis Parker Butler,
and "Toys is toys" say I, and
grown people ought to know enough
to stop being children when they're
not.
New Orleans was honored Sunday
afternoon and Monday by the presence
within her gates of a thousand visitors
from Illinois, composed of the first
regiment of the Illinois National
Guard, the members of the Illinois
Vicksburg Military Park Commission
and a number of other prominent citi
zens of the same state, many of whom
were accompanied by their wives and
other lady members of their families.
