The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1889-06-29
SCENES AT MONTE CARLO.
A Picture of the Casino and Votaries OF
the Roulette Table.

the Roulette Table.
Charming for weeks or a fort
nights visit, Monte Carlo is insupport-
able beyond that time. If you are tir-
ed OF the concerts one can not be
listening to the music every evening"
if you do not gamble, if you know by
heart the sales de jew and the people
who throng them, if you have read the
newspapers in the reading room-what
can you do with yourself for the rest of
the evening? Your only resource is to
smoke cigar in the at7iW21a, which is
somewhat akin to ''behind the scenes
of theater. You see in the atriuxa
something of every thing, and types
which you had not noticed in the gam
bling rooms. Here are the women not
respectable enough, in the opinion of
the administration, to be favored with a
carte @entree. You ask yourself what
these unfortunate outsiders can possibly
have done, when you see the people
who are admitted to the rooms and
who promenade them like queens! Be-
sides these, you see in the atriuna the
persons who are waiting for the gam
blers 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
numerous contingent. This gentle
man walking so fast, without hat, has
come to smoke a cigar, to see if that
will "change the luck" The money
lenders of both sexes swarm in the
atriun' tonight, for they have learned
that a young Marquis. concerning
whose means they are perfectly we'll in
formed, 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
horrible ruffian-to dine with him at
the Hotel de Paris, and at the public
table! The affair will be talked about
during dessert. Not over proud, the
Marquis! Upon this divan, near the
door leading out of the sale de ,jeu, sits
the mamma who is looking out for an
establishment for her daughter. It is
good position, this. No one can go
out without being seen. Sometimes,
also, you are witness of terrible
scenes. You hear fragments of angry
dialogue between husband and wife:
"You have completely ruined me, mis-
cradle" II will ask them not to let
you enter the hall again!'' ''You have
taken my earrings, you thief!' This
handsome young man, with decora-
ton in his coat, threatens an elderly
woman because she will not give him
her bracelet to pawn for another turn at
the tables!
Another revolving sight is the num-
Der of children whom their parents
leave in the atriuna, while they go to
gamble. One shudders at the thought
of what these poor children are ex-
posed 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 come to see what
they are doing. The little boys are
dressed in English fashion, and the
little girls in the Kate Greenaway style,
with large bonnets such as were worn
under the Directoire. They make
friends of one another, and talk about
their parents. Mamma lost six thou
sand francs says one. 'My papa lost
ten thousand!'' said another 1--WE
haven't enough money to take US back
to Paris-or to London!' added third:
.'papa has telegraphed to grandpapa to
send us some money! But they have
something to do besides gossip. Some
times you see them, book in hand,
learning their lessons. At other times,
toward ten o'clock at night, overcome
by fatigue, you will find them stretched
on the divan fast asleep. I asked an
English boy of twelve who was spin
ming a top in his hand why he and his
sister did not 60 to bed. They were
living at hotel, had no servant, and
(said the chilly their parents did not
like to leave them alone! So every
night these poor children waited in the
atriuns until the gambling was over or
their parents cleaned out. +" There
are children who occasionally have to
do servants work. I have seen some
little Russians going to buy something
for breakfast The parents did not
dare to 60 to the charcutier's them
selves and were ashamed to let their
servants go.-Cor. San Francisco Ar
gonaut. ~