Show city of new orleans likes its fireworks in christmas season christmas without firecrackers just christmas down in new orleans if anybody not got no firework fire wok he mighty po say the creoles cheoles gayly the more the fireworks the better the christmas on the lower side of canal street while other people are shooting off fireworks on july 4 new orleans is sweltering under intense heat beat outside activities tivi ties are out of the question with nois noisy july 4 festivities out of the question it was wai easy to begin celebrating christmas Chri stines instead with the firing of skyrockets sky rockets roman candles and firecrackers once started there was no stopping it it shooting starts several weeks before christmas and every night the tumult increases parents consistently caution their children to save the firecrackers until the twenty fifth because they wont get any more the boys and girls refuse to believe this prophecy but feel that providence will not allow them to go crac kerless ja even the almost hg penniless have firecrackers but the more wealthy win the envy of others with their rockets enghu enthusiasm s easm is not limited to the young boys but it is shared by the entire family boys and girls parade up and down the streets at night making a racket with tin trumpets and instruments they picked up on oa the way they ring doorbells door bells then run away with joyful laughter the sky is lighted up with rockets and firecrackers beat a constant staccato the tun am begins again the next morning with greater enthusiasm than ever although a boy may hae bae ha ba e bankrupted himself the day before firecrackers have taken a great drop in price he must have a new supply because they are cheap now the juveniles grow reckless whole packages of firecrackers go off at one fell blow those who were firecracker er boys yesterday are skyrocket abols A boys today As night comes on the streets seem ablaze with explosives plo and colored rockets the second morning after christmas christinas the streets are strewn thick with burned pieces of fireworks but the air is clear the acrid odor of fireworks is again replaced by the perfume of christmas roses |