Show cake walk genesis according to a foreign journal the cakewalk Is ot of rench krench origin like football it says which Is an old french game the cakewalk was in vented in france at first it was known by another name and the story goes that in the seventeenth century it was imported to louisiana by per sons bons whom the chief of police had sent to the new colony thinking it well to rid paris of them captivated by the boisterous dance the negroes quickly learned an and appropriated a e it and now after two centuries they give it back to us with all its cru detles removed and various new charms added to it |