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[Ill.u.s.tration: The interior is the oldest looking thing in the United States--Goose Creek Church]
[Ill.u.s.tration: A reminder of the Chicago River--Atlanta]
[Ill.u.s.tration: With the whole Metropolitan Orchestra playing dance music all night long]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The office buildings are city office buildings, and are sufficiently numerous to look very much at home]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The negro roof-garden, Odd Fellows' Building, Atlanta]
[Ill.u.s.tration: I was never so conscious, as at the time of our visit to the Burge plantation, of the superlative soft sweetness of the spring]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The planters cease their work]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Birmingham--The thin veil of smoke from far-off iron furnaces softens the city's serrated outlines]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Birmingham practices unremittingly the pestilential habit of "cutting in" at dances]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Gigantic movements and mutations, Niagara-like noises, great bursts of flame like fallen fragments from the sun]
[Ill.u.s.tration: A s.h.a.ggy, unshaven, rawboned man, gray-haired and collarless, sat near the window and uttered convincing imitations of the sounds made by chickens, roosters, pigs, goats and crows]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Gaze upon the character called Daniel Voorhees Pike!
Observe the manliness with which he thrusts his pink little hands deep in the pockets of his--or somebody's--pantaloons!]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The houses were full of the suggestion of an easy-going home life and an informal hospitality. (Back yard of the former home of General Stephen D. Lee.)]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Her hands looked very white and small against his dark coat. He was gazing down at them, his features distorted by a shockingly sentimental smile]
[Ill.u.s.tration: As water flows down the hills of Vicksburg to the river, so the visitor's thoughts flow down to the great spectacular, mischievous, dominating stream]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Over the tenement roofs one catches sight of sundry other buildings of a more self-respecting character, and, far off, the cupola of Vicksburg's old stone court house]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Vicksburg negroes. Whether drowsing in the sun, doing a little stroke of work, or sitting gabbling on the curbstone, they were upon the whole as cheerful and comical a lot of people as I ever saw]
[Ill.u.s.tration: In some of the boats negro fish-markets are conducted, advertised by large catfish dangling from posts and railing]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The old Klein house, standing amid lawns and old-fas.h.i.+oned gardens on the bluff overlooking the river]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Citizens go at midday to the square where they buy popcorn for the squirrels and pigeons--Memphis]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Hanging in the air above the middle of the stream]
[Ill.u.s.tration: These small parks give Savannah a quality which differentiates it from all other American cities]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The Thomas House in Franklin Square in which Lafayette was entertained]
[Ill.u.s.tration: You will see them having tea, and dancing under the palm fronds of the cocoanut grove, when the electric lights begin to glow in the luminous semi-tropical twilight]
[Ill.u.s.tration: c.o.c.ktail hour at The Breakers]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Nowhere is the sand more like a deep warm dust of yellow gold; nowhere is there a margin of the earth so splashed with spots of brilliant color; nowhere is water less like water, more like a flowing waste of liquid emeralds and sapphires edged with a thousand gleaming flouncing strings of pearls]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The couples on the platform were "ragging," their shoulders working like the walking-beams of side-wheelers]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Harness held together by that especial Providence which watches over negro mendings]
[Ill.u.s.tration: It was a very jolly fair, with the usual lot of barkers and the usual gaping crowd]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The mysterious old Absinthe House, founded 1799]
[Ill.u.s.tration: St. Anthony's Garden, where duels originating at the quadroon b.a.l.l.s were fought]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Courtyard of the old Orleans Hotel]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The little lady who sits behind the desk is more than ninety-five years old, and came to New Orleans as the bride of Antoine]
[Ill.u.s.tration: The lights are always lowered at Antoine's when the spectacular Cafe Boulot Diabolique is served]
[Ill.u.s.tration: Pa.s.sing between the brilliantly illuminated buildings, under festoons of electric lights the Mardi Gras parades, with their floats, their bands, their torch-bearers, their masked figures, are glorious sights for children from eight to eighty years of age]
