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Show SAYS CREOLES ARE NOW UP TO DATE ' t Representative Albert Estopinai of Louisiana, himself a Creole, ays that the manners and opinions of these proud people of the old regime have undergone marked change withia the past generation. "Within the last thirty years there has been widespread adoption of what may be called up-to-date American ways of thinking by the Creoles. There are those still left, however, who adhere to the old traditions of the blood, for we are all proud of our French and Spanish ancestry. "Not so very long ago I had occasion oc-casion to go into the new residential district of New Orleans. I took with me In my car a relative who was a native and resident of New Orleans a Creole, like myself. Now, although he was well along in years, he was as much a stranger and exhibited as much novel interest in that quarter of the city as though he had been fresh from a foreign land. He knew New Orleans well; but it was the New Orleans of old, the New Orleans of the Creoles who have lived all their lives there into old age who have never been north of Canal street, the main thoroughfare." |