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s A NEW ORLEANS CHRISTMAS.It In a Veritable Fourth of July C'clc-bratloit in That C ity of the South.“The days preceding Christmas aro punctuated at intervals with the sharp tones of firecrackers, merely to keep tha world from forgetting that Christmas is almost at har.U,'’ writes Julia Truitt Hishop of Where Christmas is Liko Fourth of July,” descriptive of Christmas scenes and customs in New Orleans, in the Ladies’ Home Journal. One firecracker at a time is set off, for it is sinfub to waste a whole bunch at once until Christmas eve. Every night the tumult increases, a kind of jubilant applause in mild explosives, a mere intimation of what is coming later. Every; business house which can under anyr pretense ’handle’ fireworks, handles them by t he ton. Even the windows of the grocery stores are filled with them,; for the grocer has recognized that thero are people in New Orleans who may; dispense with roast turkey stuffed with# truffles, but nobody can do without, fireworks. There are hundreds of children who never hang up a stocking, but everyone of them would think the world was coming to an end if there were no fireworks for him on the one night of all th* year.”
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Emporium Cameron County Press
Emporium, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Dec 17, 1903
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