Waterbury evening Democrat., 1889-06-14
SCENES IT MONTE CIRLO.
the Notnries of the ROHIetle GR s.a.

Charming for weeks or a fortnight's visit, Monte Carlo is insupportable be- yond that time. If you are tired of the cOnccrts-and one cannot be listening to the music every evening-if you do net gamble, if you know by heart the sales de jeu and the people who throng them, if you have read the newspapers in tho rcading-roOm - what can you do with yourself for the rest of the evening? Your only resource is to smoke a cigar in the atrium, which is somewhat akin to 'bchlnd the scenes" of a theater. You see In the atrium something of every thing, and types which you had not noticed in the gambling rooms. Here arc the women not respectable enough, in the opinion of the administration, to be favored with a carte dentree.
 You ask yourself what these unfortu- nate outsiders can possibly have done, when you sec the people who are ad- mitted to the rooms and who promenade them like queens Besides these, you see in the atrium the persons who are waiting for the gamblers of both sexes who have promised to bring them their winnings, in order not to risk losing them again. The people who are owed money and who are waiting to be paid also form a numerous contingent.
 The mOney-lenders of both sexes swarm in tho atrium tonight, for they have learned that a young Marquis, concern ing whose means they are perfectly we'll informed, has lost in less than half an hour, fOrty-tive thousand francs, and all before dinner too! Poor Marquis! he is obliged to ask one of the crew a horri- ble rutfian-to dine at the public table l! The affair will be talked about during dessert. Not over proud, the Marquis ]. Upon this divan, near the door leading out of the salle de jeu, sits the mamma who is looking out of an establishment for her daughter.
 It is a good position, this. No one can go out without being seen. Sometimes, also, you are Q witness of terrible scenes. You hear fragments of angry dialogue between husband and wife: You have completely ruined me, miserable v II will ask them not to let you enter the rooms again!' You have taken my ear rings you thief!'
 Another revolting sight is the number of children whom their parents leave in the atrium, while they go to gamble. One Shudders at the thought of what these poor children are exposed to, at the idea of what they may see and hear. Two divans seem to be reserved for them, and every now and then their parents como to see what they arc doing. The little | boys arc dressed in English fashion, and the little girls in Kate Greenaway style,
 
 under the Directoire. They make friends of one another, and talk about their par ents. Mamma lost 5000 francs," says one. My papa lost 10, ,O0O!' says another.
 We haven't enough money to take us | back to Paris-or to London!" adds a third ''papa has telegraphed to grand papa to send us some money"
 But the children have something to do besides gossip. Sometimes you see them, book in hand, learning their lessons. At | other times, towards 10 o'clock at night, | overcome by fatigue, you will find them | stretched on the divans fast asleep. asked an English boy of twelve who was spinning a top in his hand why. he and | his little sister did not go to bed. They were living at hotel, had no servants, and (said the childD their parents did not | like to leave them alone! So every night these poor children waited in the atrium i until the gambling was over or their parents "cleaned out.''