CREOLES.

Waikato Times, 22 February 1873, Page 3

CREOLES .

Creole seems to hovo originated from criollo, or criaddlo tho diminutive of criado n signifying "born," "bred." Of course, the early term was not applied to the Indians, it being always-understood that tho red man was "native here," even while with very peculiar " manner born;" but to tho whiles and -negroes, whose colour aud language might bo taken prima facie to prove them foreigners, when in reality children of the soil — " born boro." This significance is further proved by the application of the term to plants and inanimate productions of tho soil, as " preole butter," i. c., home-made ; "creole eggs," <fee. In New OrJeaii3 and m all Lower Louisiana the word was gradually appropriated by the whites, who were too proud of the title to share it with the negroes Thero the Creole is the child or the lineal descendant of em'gA Fiench or Spanish parents— almost invariably the former. The children of mixed marriages — French and American or American and Spanish — are not Creoles, n:>r nre they so looked upon in Louisiana. The lineal descent is distinctly pronounced in appearnnce, habits, and characteristics ; ond even now the " blue blood" is, as easily recognise!, and ag tenaciously claimed, as that of the children of the Pilgrim Fathers. Most generally of the pure brunette type, bat with lithe, active, and sinewy frame, the Creole combine? the perseverance and endurance of his American nativity with the dash and incisive movement of his French blood. Usually intelligent, curiom, and often industrious, he has an invariable suavity and innate courtesy that mark his smallest action toward man, no loss than woman- Ralicato and ,fastidnous in hh tastes, the true Creole is often a. gourmet, never a glutton, nnd very rarely a drinker to excess. Not only natural taste and long habit of life, but the necessities of a tr\ing climate also, lead to tins. Even in winter, the soft;, enervating atmosphere prevents very great physical exertion, aud consequently little craving is born for heavy dishes and inflaming drinks. An inveterate smoker he almost invariably is, but his bibulous tendencies generally begin and end in claret and 'white wines with the occasional chasse cafe. Of lato that curse of France, absinthe, has growuJnto more general use- in the Gulf cities, but I find it as common among American aj French residents, while generally more recklessly used ' by the former. Duelling, gambling, and Sabbathbreaking—those three dis-Graces that so shock prurient Puritanism — *re no more pre\alent than in tho Northern cities, as I thall show in detail hereafter. Tho first is one of those customs of the ancien regime to which all that Ui^-cnoh will ever cling in theory, even though littifl, sorted to in practice ; but never, even in its greatest excesses, were there displayed the degrading and disgusting features of the "Western bowie-kuife fight* nor, tho more mathematical murder of "rifles and forty jards " When Creoles fight it- \% with iho weapon that centuries havo placed in tho hand of the gentlemen ; and, as in the case of tho absinthe, I have known the frequent and unnecessary duols of tho section to be brought on by (hose with no drop of French blood "in their hot heads. Gambling, in the Gulf States, is the result of climate and -habit combined, the one acting on naturally impressionable temperaments, already prepared for lenient judgement on its results b" tradition and example. But of this, as well as of the pecuimr observßnce of tbe Sajbbath, I cannot speak in detail in the brief limits of this paper. A more pleasing subjeet*ft>n a. few words awaits vi in the Creole woman of Louisiana. The ordinary ideal of her, that assimilates to an odalisque in a French toilette, is as absurd as it is.unjust. On the promenade, the drive, and at the opera, tho younger ladies of French blood are the cynosure of stranger eyes in New Orleans, while within its society they nro unanimously voted it« elriefcst ornament. &en»r|tfly highly accomplished, they are almost invariably good linguists and fair musicians, while they arc sufficiently repressed, by that sensible prejudice of French training, to become a contrast to tho free-and-easy intercourse of your "patent" Westerner, otonrc piquant and refreshing That la belle Creole dresses well need no b.o repeated 'by me. — Lissincott's Magazine.

ExtiTlt Poultices — The value of enrth as a disinfectant and deodorizor is well known ; and the treatment of ulcerated sore 3 and gangrenous wound* with it is becoming vcrr general. A new application of tins system has lately been described, namely, the use of clay as a dressing; for the face in two cases of confident small-pox — dusting it, in fino powder, oror the faces of the patients as soon as the pestules bcoomo fairly developed. Thi«, it is stated, formed a clean, ciry, wholesome scab, absorbing the infectious material, sailing off, during convalescence, and leaving the underlying tkju in its natural and normal state. The painful and persistent itching, which is well known as one of the worst characteristics of the disease, was by this simple means entirely abated. The eavth used was fine pipe-clay. A woman who was recently brought before a London Police Court for assaulting her husband, urged in self-defence that on coming home from a conrnal party, the night of the assault, she found that her husband had'retircd and had wrapped all tho bed-clothes around him, and lav, looking liko a huge cocoon, in tho middle of the bed. Sh;p tried to sccuro her lawful share of the clothes, when ho, irritated at tho disturbance, struck her, and she took up a bar of iron and heavily bolabored' him. Ti*o Judge bound Ler over not to do so any more. Tho whole of the nomination papers handed in for tho municipal election! at Cork haw been declared by tho Irish Solicitor-General to bo invalid. Tho old forms were used, no notuo having been takon of tho provisions of the Ballot Aef. Colonel Ilogg, MP - , headed a deputation of the Metropolitan Board of Works on Snfcurdar, the objeek of which itus to i«k Government to aid in freeinff nil the London bridges from toll. Mr Gladstone promised that the representations made bliouUl be woll considered. Sergeant Bates writes to Iho Birininqham Post (hat the tour of the American flag was not intended na a test of English feeling, about which ho vas Hatislied before ho hegnn hi* journey, but to afford proolbf what ho haJ said to Amoricain a3 to the friendship of Englishmen for them qncl. their (.mint i r

Koland, the charter on whidi the cailof Cciuig.inlul the chu^i' of the Light l>n o adc— " Koblc Six Humbert " has ju-t <!iol ,-i tho nyo of 3 I, four vcus alter his m.ister Tup iuiifiul oi tiu liito Mr J i A Maguire. MP. for Cork, j v.h >\ p ib ,c one (in 1 wa3 altciultvlby many thousands of ' in) ibibmts ol th^l citr A meotmg was subsequently held to make annngements forTnising a fund to be applied to .the benefit of Mr Maguire'A widow and children. The wmding clia n of a c k.\ .n'ne at, l>Mrl«y brpko while in ufo and eit»Wt men who were being lowered were precipitated to the bottom of thi % miTlu uud killed. The JRus^ian gorcrnincnt ia lepui-f^d to bo about making a contract with nn Amenean Una for rupplj ing ( Slmrpa's, latest model of carbine in large numbers, with wliich to veann tlie Co3Back cavalry and the dragoon*.

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