1911 Beverages de luxe

the well-known confectionery establishment of Harry Sckauni- burg. Here the gentlemen of leisure will saunter in to refresîi themselves with a "Kofignac High Bail," which is exhilarating and delicious in taste and flavor. Its inventor was once the Mayor of New Orléans, during the Ancien régime, and tradition tells us that Monsieur le Maire was the most popular officiai the Crescent City ever had ; for on afternoons the Mayor's office was always thronged with visitors désirons of both paying their respects to the Knightly Kofignac and also enjoying one or two of his delicious "Kofignac s.'' The day's work is over in New Orléans for the average business man by five o'clock in the evening, and if you will cross Canal Street and enter by way of Bourbon Street the Old Latin Quarter you will vmconsciously i'oilow the crowd. Having walk- ed some three blocks, } T ou will soon notice on the corner of Conti and Bourbon, only one block from the old French Opéra House (where every winter for years dating back to ante-bellum days the old walls have re-echoed with the music of Grand Opéra), r an old rusty-looking building of Spanish architecture. Most of the crowd seems to stop here — in fact they do, and, entering an old Spanish Courtyard, soon reach the large room Avith its low ceiling, playiug fountains, and antique Spanish furniture, with openings on an old Spanish courtyard, wliere the fiowers fill the air with intoxicating aromas. This is the great rendezvous for both sexes who have corne here to partake of that refreshing and exhilarating "Suissesse" for which the Old Absinthe House lias been famous for over a hunclred years. This establishment has been in the hands of one family for a century. The présent owner and proprietor of the "Old Absinth House," Don Félix Ferrer, is the grandson of the Knightly Spaniard of the same name who landed in the Colonies, having corne to the shores of the New World to escape the political persécutions of the Old. After indulging in one or two of thèse delicious "Suisses- ses" diffused by the courteous Senor Félix Ferrer, your appe- tite has been sharpened like a two-edged sword, and you will find yourself wiuding your way to the restaurant of "Madame Antoine" to enjoy a "Pompano au Gratin." Whilst waiting for the waiter to serve it you will call for a "Peychaud Cocktail," another of the delicious drinks of that Capital of Epicures whose motto is "Life is what we make it. Let us live whilst we eau." "Vivimus dum Vivamus."