Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1889-05-23
MONTE CARLO.
A Picture of the Notorious European
Gambling Resort.


Charming for a weeks or a fort
nights visit, Monte Carlo is insupport-
able beyond that time. Ii you are tired
of the concerts-and one cannot be
listening to the music every evening
if you do not gamble, if YOU know by
heart the salles dc jeu and the people who
throng them, if you have read the news
papers 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 Gtrium, which is some
what akin to ''behind the scenes" Of
theatre. You see in the dtrium some
thing of everything, and types which
you had not noticed in the gambling
rooms. Here are the women not respect
able enough, in the opinion of the adj
ministration, to DO favored with a cdrte
deatrce. You ask yourself what these
unfortunate outsiders can possibly have
done, when you see the people who are
admitted to the rooms and who prone
made them like queens Besides these,
you see in the dtrium the persons who
are waiting for the gamblers of both
sexes who have promised to bring them
their winnings, in order not to risk los
ing them again. The people who are
owed money and who are waiting to be
paid also form "A numerous contingent.
This gentleman walking SO fast, without
hat, has come to smoke cigar to see
if that will "change the luck" The
money-lenders of both sexes swarm in
the etrium tonight, for they have learn
ed that a young Marquis, concerning
whose means they are perfectly well in
formed, has lost, in less than half an
hour, forty-fve thousand francs, and all
before dinner, too. Poor Marquis he
is obliged to.ask one Of the crew-a hor-
rible ruffian-to dine with him at the
Hotel de Paris, and at the public table
The affair will be talked about during
desert. Not over proud, the Marquis
Upon this divan, near the door leading
out of the sale dc .jeu, sits the mamma
who is looking out for an establishment
for her daughter. II is a good position,
this. No one can 60 out without being
seen. Sometimes, also, you are wit
ness of terrible scenes. You hear frag-
ments of angry dialogue between hus-
band and wife: You have completely
ruined me, miserable I" 81 will ask them
not to let you enter the rooms again !"
''You have taken my earrings, you
thief" This handsome young man, 4
with decoration in his coat, threatens
an elderly woman because she will not
give him her bracelet to pawn for
another turn ut the tables
Another revolving sight is the number
of children whom their parents leave in
the dtrium, 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 diyans 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 5000
frnncs, says one. "My papa lost TO-
600 p says another. eve haven 'tenough |
money to take us back TO Paris-or to !
London I" adds third; papa has tele-
graphed to grandpapa to send us some
money! But they have something to
do besides gossip. Sometimes you see
them, book in hand, learning their les
sons. At other times toward ten o'clock /
at night, overcome by fatigue, you will /
find them stretched on the divans fast
asleep. Iasked an English boy of twelve,
who was spinning top in his hands,
why he and his little sister did not go to I
bed. They were living at hotel, had |
no servants, and (said the child their (
did not like to leave them alone
So every night these poor children wait
ed in the atrium until the gambling was
over or their parents cleaned out. There
are children who occasionally have to do
work. / have seen some lit
tie Russians going TO buy something
for breakfast. The parents did not
dare to go to the eharcutier's them
selves and were ashamed TO let their
servants go.-[San Francisco Arganaut.