1914 Beverages de luxe

tlie most fashionable block of this shopping boulevard is located the well-known confectionery establishment of Harry Schaum- burg. Here the gentlemen of leisure will saunter in to refresh themselves with a "Rofignac High Ball," which is exhilarating and delicious in taste and flavor. Its inventor was once the Mayor of New Orleans, during the Ancien regime, and tradition lells us that Monsieur le Maire was the most popular official the Crescent City ever had; for on afternoons the Mayor's office was always thronged with visitors desirous of both paying their respects to the Knightly Roflgnac and also enjoying one or two of his delicious "Rofignacs." The day's work is over in New Orleans 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 unconsciously follow the crowd. Having walked some three blocks, you will soon notice on the corner of Conti and Bourbon, only one block from the old French Opera House (where every winter for years dating back to ante-bellum days the old walls have re-echoed with the music of (irand Opera), 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 with its low ceiling, playing fountains, and antique Spanish furniture, with openings on an old Spanish courtyard, where the flowers fill the air with intoxicating aromas. This is the great rendezvous for both sexes who have come here to partake of that refreshing and exhilarating "Suis-sesse" for which the Old Absinthe House has been famous for over a hundred years. This establishment has been in the hands of one family for a century. The present owner and proprietor of the "Old Ab- sinth House," Don Felix Ferrer, is the grandson of the Knightly Spaniard of the same name who landed in the Colonies, having come to the shores of the New World to e.scape the political persecutions of the Old. After indulging in one or two of these delicious "Suissesses" ditt'used by the courteous Senor Felix Ferrer, your appetite has been sharpened like a two-edged sword, and you will find your- self winding 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 can." "Vivimus dum Vivamus."