Semi-weekly interior journal. [volume] (Stanford, Ky.) 1881-1905, 1888-12-14

tiOus aud ovcrbearing, and the croupiers do
not like Co deal with them. They are nearly
oil young-that is, the majority Of them are
under 30 Occasionally you will meet a de-
lightfully wicked old English duchess at the
tables, with wriukled face and exceedingly
paipable wig-but she is as eager and grasp
ing at play rs n young Frenchwoman sitting
beside Der, who is playing not SO much for
the love of play as for the love Of money, of
which she Is In constant but vain expectation
Of winning a fabulous amount.
You will meet many Americans at Monte
Carlo, and they play constantly but eau
tiously.
They are not the Americans such rs are de-
scribed In the pages OF English novels: that
is, tall, peak faced. vulgar parvenues, with a
goatee, a grotesque and impossible dialect, "a
constant quid OF tobacco in their mouths, and
a general manner of offensive arrogance.
There is no such American as this.
II there ever was the present writer is too
young to remember the species.
On the contrary, the American men at
Monte Carlo rather excel, II anything, the
men OF any other nation u be seen there.
They are indispu,abiy better dressed, arc bet.
ter hammered tlan the Englishmen, and far
more manly than Your bobbing Frenchmcn
They arc beutcr looking, too, and infinitely
more scii possessed.
\ BRILLIANT SEASON AHEAD.
This season at Monte Carlo promises 10 be
the mos. brilliant in is history. The Prince
OK Wales. who has frequently broken the
bank an the past ten years, is 20 spead "A few
weeks thcyc. and boards Of uo0en,en and
shoals OF rich commoners from all parts OF
Europe and America are constantly arriving.
1t is not only no: considered d.sgraceful by the
eiiue 10 spend the winter at Monte Carlo in
= ubhng and doubtful Gmu.merts. but it is
+ itiyt ~ regarded "a "thn pwoluah thing,
~ boy" EycA the most Pnli;9Mcal people
r. = their strmgency ia regard 20 wintering
no Monte Carlo, and your respectable beef
eating, ro-l drinking English father, no mat
ter how fixed and stern most Of his ideas
about morals may be, win take bis daughters
tlc-o with as little thought or conpunc.ion as
Lu would take tLem 70 the IL ceun in London.
Few pcoploeyev enrich themselves ~ Monte
Carlo. or course YOU viii read 10 your paper
occasionally tia, Soand-So broke the bank,
but it is rare, aud the only reason lt is mado
SO much Of is because Il is SO rare. In roulette
the chances aIe in favor oi TIE bank, aud this
is 50 OF all tie games OF Monte Carlo. And
then X is ri0gty well known that there
is cheating ~ Ionso Carlo. Ihe adage.
~ maA IS fool 10 seal for any one
oisc, Is probably uue enough, but a cyoupier
hes uoo ca Ghuogm@liy DEVELOPED sense Of
ri tt cyd wrong, aud world have iit,io com
puncuun IN Stealing IL weil paid iol' It.
Taere are instances, oil course, q successful
players carving their money safely away,
without again playing and losing it ell An
American cGicer, on Through, who had won
almost ,4,Oco again lost ii eli, and deseI-
mined 20 leave; he paid E.j bill at the hotel,
packed up i.s tiiags, aud tocs his ticket He
l.ad ~ hours 20 spare AID q .ew louis in his
packet, 50 he woat bIci, d tho tables He
lef. the room with 4.5Jo, end caaSht his
tlail
The cuts in this article are Te6raws from
eats published 10y Tho Cosmopolitan.