The Arkansaw traveler., 1889-04-13
Monte Carlos Beauties, London Standard.

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 philosophic spectators and of con. scientious opponents of gaming tC inveterate gamblers and cursory pun. ste-s who risk a few louis now and again "just for the fun of the thing : the fact remains that Monte Carlo haI become an earthly paradise, that tho gardens, with their sub- tropical veQe- tation, are enchantingly beautiful
 that the views from the terrace arc more than Neapolitan in their soft loveliness, and that the drive from Nice along the Cornice road and through Villefranche, Beaulieu
 Rochebrune and Monaco is almost un. equaled in its bright picturesqueness
 The hotels of Monte Carlo, to thost who know how to chose their domi. cile, are not more expensive than thoss of Nice; the resident doctors are skill. ful and moderate in their terms, and if the population be not about the happiest to be found on the continent
 the blame assuredly does not lie al the door either of the paternal Grim. aldi or the more than paternal Banqut de Monaco. The Monsgasques pay nc taxes, are subject to no conscription
 enjoy the advantages of excellent paving, lighting, drainage and genera
 sanitation, and run no risk of being injured in pocket through the vicinity of the Casino, seeing that a paterna
 government does not allow the natives of the principality to play at tn, tables. Health seekers, again, ar, arriving at the conclusion that tn, climate of Monte Carlo is in winter warmer and more staple than that ol Nice; that the cut-throat "mistral' rarely careers over the bay of La Con. damine, and that the little town Ii altogether more sheltered than tho great blazing, windy, dusty. Mediter. ranean watering place. Theu, again
 for persons in really delicate health the amenity of Mentone is easily accessible ]; and beyond the Riviera, il the Italian section, opens up & whole chain of delightful winter resorts between Ventimiglia and Savona
 which twenty years ago were never heard of in England. San Reno
 Bordighera, Alassio and a score more pretty and genial seaside hamlets have now their regular complement oi wealthy patrons from England and the States, and every season spacious
 elegant, and clean hotels and pension, continue to spring up, superseding the artistic and pretty little OsterTt and iocGnde of the past. Have the roulette and trente- et- quarante tables of Monte Cristo been exclusively, or principally, instrumental in bringing to these smiling shores SO many thou sands of Anglo-Saxon pilgrims, or is it that the prime cause of the amazing popularity of the Riviera is its &C., feasibility from Europe? Only thirty hours travelling, including the steam boat journey from Dover to Calais, will now enable the valetudinarian or the pleasure seeker to exchange the smoke, the fog, the sleet, the raw damp or the piercing cold of London winter for the palms, the cactus and prickly pear, the oranges and olives and almond blossoms, the blue sky and bright sun of the Riviera. Is it to be wondered at, then, that princes, peers, politicians, people in society and people out of society, that all sorts and condition of men and women who can put money in their purses
 are fiocking to the Riviera, notwith- standing the potential wickedness of Monte Carlo and its gambling -rooms3