The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-05-17
TEFAMKp MONTE GAELIC.
Paradise ard Furgatory With the
III Glamor Of loyalty.
IRON. tae Pittssalg Dlsbatct.

! 49, "AC-S heaven anu Us auLlpOOeS may De
said to meet 1t has enjoyed this distinc-
tion since the year 1916. having only mad
monopoly OF .'chsrm without danger" up
70 that time. A new Dante is needed to
paint Is now delirious excitements, and its
soIt, tranquillzing, and indefinable charms
Maftin Luther is said to I'VE objected to
the possession in which his satanic majesty
neld all the good tunes,n and one might
with propriety say that the king Of the
| Internal regions should not have laid claim
70 TINS health breathing an otherwise vir-
tuc US spot, where every prospect pleases
| and only man is vile. Monte Carlo, from
It's sheltered situation, i beauty, the entire
saluorlty of all its conditions, its remarka-
| Die cheapress, is marked out as the natural
refuge for invalids, half-pay officers, wild
ows, the clergy. and tie angels, if indeed
THESE last are not already comprehended in
the other classifcatlons There are, how
ever, carping critics who would here OBJ
serve that if Monte Carlo were given over
TO the good only, that it would not be as
amusing as it now is.
MORALITY OF GAMBLING.
Gambling is a VICE which it is hard to
| classify. 1t is not forbidden in the deca-
| fgue. No man commits mortal sin by
pay ing or Letting, unless the command
ment Thou shalt not steal" may compre-
| bend it. And yet not one, but all the wees
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thing; Decentralization, degradation, despair;
! IL brings all in its train. Its victims are
more naggard and more moribund than the
| victims OF absinthe. No vice brings so GER
tam DOOM The respectable and thought
fui man, the elderly and careful woman,
are as sure to be ruined as is the young
| speidthrift, who has youth and its impul-
slVe heart-throb to excuse him. Indeed. it
may be called the vice OF middle age-as
| Byron spoke of avarice, "a good old gentle
| manly vice"
| VINO can explain therefore, the deliberate
tamperlng with this Minetour who devours
| his victims, in utter oblivion of age or sex
daily and hourly at Monte Carlos Who?
Inc philosopher has not been found. There
| are several CLASSES of gamblers. There ere
| those who come regularly to it as business
| and who make money. There are those who
| put aside a portion of their income to play
with, just as a man decides that he viii
| spend $1,000 year on pictures. There are
| lnvalids who seek at the tables distraction
from the inevitable pain, and ennui of
| mortal disease.
THE LAW SANCTIONS IT.
Every one has a right to be there. 1t is
law. aud no one can say that it is not Cos
| pei. 1t IS by the common consent of man.
kind pronounced hideons, senseless, danger
| Gus, and yet among its votaries are the
most sagacious bankers, the coolest politi-
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| families. 1t would be hard to condemn a
woman in Europe for being a gambler; it
would come very near home, in the houses
| OF the aristocracy, the clergy and amid the
| respectable bourgeoisie. famous old
| gambler at Baden Baden used to boast that
he h d educated family of sons, who had
| filed high places in Europe, by his win
nings at the gaming table,
But the tables are not put there for any
OF these classes. They are arranged for the
fools, as Carlyle said of England, ''l39 ZOO, =
| 200, mostly fools" So Que is tempted in
the gambling rooms at Monte Carlo to thus
classify the human race. 1t is the fool who
plays and loses all he las who cannot come
| away when he has won, who goes on fol-
lowing the siren, knowing very well that
she leads TO the edge of gulf, who feeds
| with his half-crownS that ever voracious
appetite of the bank. Yet if the respect
able gambler commits sin, it is that "
ms presence he encourages and keeps alive
| this Industry. Who that has seen the pale
face, the kiGted brow. the shocking express
sion about the mouth of female gambler
| new to the trade, who has not wished that
some great law should be passed against
this indefinite crime.
GASES OF SUICIDE
Ono thing only arrests the game, that is
| when some desperate mau blows out his
brains. He had better have done it before
he began to play, but he does it afterward.
| Ii at the table he Is removed so quickly that
scarcely his next neighbor knows it. The
croupier does not turn pale. A woman
screams, perhaps, and breaks the luck of
the gambler next to her, who declares moth
ing else can make his pulse quicker or
moro even in its beat. They may then 90
out and drown themselves, but no one can
find out who or where. The papers along
the Riviera are all subsidized to this item.
Nd reporter makes his bread by ''writing
up' suicide.
Many women, the deserted friends of
gamblers, kill themselves; but they have
the decency TO 60 away and poison them
selves out of sight A woman cannot shoot
| herself or cut her throat, we'll; she there
fore uses the little bottle of aconte or
laudanum or prussic acid. One of the sad
deSt sides OF the gambling st ry is this OF
the ruined favorite, who is IN such a heyday
of prosperity, brilliant in diamonds one
day, but WHO'S SO deeply miserable the next
| week.
A few years ago a few philanthropic
English ladies, dressed as Sisters of Charity.
walked the streets of Monte Carlo at night
| to try and rescue and save some of the vic
Tins Of despair. Their success was very
great and some day this story will be to d.
These Sisters of Charity often hear stories
which make all the novels of Ouida seem
poor and col rless, and indeed sometimes a
tragedy which Dante or Milton could alone
write out-a "Commedia Inferno,'' or a
"Commedia Divina,n which Monte Carlo is.
in every hour of its existence.
A LITERARY VORTEX.
Gambling hels are said to encourage
every kind of industry. particularly novel
writing. From this spot, therefore, have all
the fertile English novel writers drawn
their easily cultivated inspirations. There
is nothing left to be said about the blue sky,
the moonlight nights. the facile climate.
fresh, yet warm, tine eternal glare. the dis
solute Russian princess, the actor, the
singer, the prince. Ali the Clements of the
three volume novel are here in perfection
from early dawn to late eve
Perhaps the least emphasized feature of
the Riviera life O. its best side is the cheap
villa, the home of the literary man or ar
tist where for 81 900 year man and his
family can live most conf rtably, under
conditions of health, ease and natural seem
cry, amusement and quiet unsurpassed in
the world. 1t is only wonder that large
sanitariums do not flourish ali along this
famed coast for those who do not care to
play. The deligh ful concerts at Monte
Carlo must be united in as one of the best
results of gambling. In where else can one
hear such music for nothings classical
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