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Female Gamblers at the German
Spas.

Baden, IIomberg, Wicsbadcp and I'm.
have each their feminine noblcssc from IN,
leading nations of Europe. They compose
hiueed, some OF the best known habittees
can be met while they are alive in the Iich
tenthal avenue, the Wilhelmstrasse. or ON tb,
Mahlberg-Kopf with rs much certainty as tbC
tallieur with his impcrturbable face. fricidl,
polite manners, and perpetual " Faites yotre
leu, meSSieurS.'
One of the most noted PLAYERS of rank is
the famous Countess Kissclci, whom all fire.
quenters OF Ilomberg must remember as q
very large gray haired woman hobblnu about
win crutch, and often carried by her ser
wants III an invalid-chair to the gambling IA
BILE, which she seldom quits. She mus no
seventy-fivc now, and has been reported dead
again and again. Her portlv and crippleJ
figure was conspicuous in the Cursaai last
season, and will be again this, | am sure.
She could hardly f0regO the pleasure of occu-
pylng her accustomed seat during the last
gambling year, when she has for nearly a
quarter of a century breathed the genial sum
mer air OF the TannuS Mountains. She is. or
rather was, the wife of the former Russian
MINISTER to Rome, and all kinds of stories arc
told about her. she IL sai'l tp have separated
nom hcr husband because he insisted that
shS should give him up or Give IN canine
tractiyC of the two. The gossips declare
that up to her tnrticth year she was Il bcauti.
iul baslllsN Of fascination, and her figure
tWho ever saw Il very fat old woman thai had
not once been model of lissnmc grace ~ so
slight and symmetrical that st. PETERSBURG
and Moscow followed it with adorins ewes
CIR this be So, il is only another colrobora-
ton Of my aesthetic theory concerning the
tendency of rank to awkwaT;lness and avoir-
dupois.) The hour Of beginning the game is
almost invariably anticipated by the countess.
She Is at the table before the croupiers, and
day and night, week DAYS and SUNDAYS. find
her glued to her familiar chair. Roulette IS
her life, and her last words, as the ball of
death goes swinging round the circle of her
being, will be, no doubt, lie iu est fait;
rien he va plus"
Her losses at llcmbery are stated TO have
been enormousnot less during the last
twelve or thirteen years than eight millions
of florins. She has done much to improve the
little town, has built many of its best houses,
and opened street, which is named in her
honor. But all her property has been mort
gagged, and it is questionable if she now has
left, out of II colossal fortune, more than a
modest independence. She no longer bets
with her former. aurIacity, stalking roulcaux of
napoieons upon Il simple chance, but limits
her miss to a few Ilorins, in consequence of
her comparatively straitcncd circumstances.
TO her more than to any other lone person
the Direction is indebted for the large diyi-
Vldends, averaging about twenty per centum
per annlim, which it pays to its stockholders
after deducting its liberal expenses. All the
tables at the springs are owned in this man
ncr, though, as may be presumed, the COM
panles are supremacy close corporations, and
the shares are no more purchasable than the
..nr n,,l, - Il.
dend paying stocks they probably have no
rivals in all Europe.
a lionne at Baden is the Princess Suyar-
row, Russian lady of distinction, who de-
votes herself almost as zealolislv to rouge ct
NOR i'll the C0nVcrsationShauS rs the Coun-
tess klsselef does to roulette in the Cursaal
She must have been exceedingly pretty; in
deed, she is very good looking now, although
full five and forty, if it be allowable to con-
lecture woman's age, and she still has n
fine presence and cngagin. manners. Al
ways dressed richly-ycllOw silk, trimmed
with black lace, is her tavorite costume, set
ting off her brunette beauty to her advantage
and having Il really grand air, she draws
the fire of many glances. According to gen.
eral report, she has played as sad havoc with
the funds of the Baden bank as she has with
the hearts of men all the way from Paris to
st. Petersburg, from COnstantinople to Ant
werp. She is said to have won as much as
her notorious countrywoman has lost, and she
bears the credit of having again and again ex-
hausted the treasury of the taillcur. Her rcpu-
tation as lucky player is diilused throughout
the grand duchy, and she is often implored
to make bets for others, as persons believed
fortunate are apt to be. Full of bonhomie,
she generally yields to persuasion, albeit she
AYERS she has little leisure to look after other
stakes than ia Ipnn,al ha
best authority on systems in the entire valley |
of Del bach, and appears to have studied |
them to some purpose. Ihave been informed |
that she has thousands of the little pricked |
cards (havlnS noted the course of the game
for many years) carefully arranged in her ar
chevcs according to date, and that she gives |
the late hours OF the night to their diligent |
investigation. She must be feminine Ana |
stasia, if all the dts concerning her are to !
be trusted. She has been everything and |
done everything; speaks all languages has |
travelled all over the worlds, in Il word, |
Il paragon of imprudence and enchantment, |
of folly and generosity, of wickedncss and
charity, of tenderness and temptation. She |
is Il Greek, n Russian, an Italian, 4 Spaniard, |
a French woman; the much flthered daugh- |
ter of a Grand NiZier, of the Pope of Rome, |
of the Emperor William, of Russian admit !
rail- of Spanish grandcc, and of French
general. Everybody ut Baden knows some
thing about her nobody else knows and
what each knows is altogether different from
the general knowledge ofthis singular woman,
who seems pleased with the mystery sur
roundn. her, and nowise averse to deepen
ing it by n continuation of eccentric courses
and ineXplicablc vagarics. --,Jlnius Henri
Browne, in HnpG's Magazine for June.
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