The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1891-11-08

the oroupisf opposite The customers all all
tha chairs at the table. and the rest Of
the crowd are msssed At their backs
and leaning over them 10 deposit
chips or gold coins. Constantly money and
chips arc flung upon the table, and the game
seems 30 consist In the croupisr's reaching for
those things with flexible soulllng oar. and
rAkfng Thorn homo Il appeared 10 be . 70.
tional enough game for him. and II I could
have borrowed his oar would have stayed.
but didn't sec whore che entertainment Of
the others came In. This was becauseI saw
without perceiving and observed without I'm.
derstAndine. For the widow and the orphas
and the others do win money there. Once AZ
old gray mother In Israel or elsewhere pulled
out and heard her say TO her daughter
or her granddaughter as they passed me,
There, I've won SIX louis and I'm going
70 quit while I'm ahead" Also there was
this statistic A friend pointed to young man
with the dead stub Of cigar In his mouth.
which he kept munchina nervously all the
time and pitching hundred-dollsr chips on the
boArti while two sweet young girls reached
down ovsr his shoulders to deposit modest lit
tie gold pieces. and said. Hes only funning.
now: wasting few hundred 10 pass the time
waiting for the gold room 10 open. you
know. which won't be till we'll after midnight
then you'll see him beti He won Il 1900 there
last night They don't bet anything there but
big money"
The thing chiefly missed was the hsesard
people with the intense eye. tho hunted look.
the desperate mien. candidates for suicide and
the paupers grave. They are IN the descrip-
lions, a. rule. but they were on duty that
night. All the gamblers. male and female.
old and young. looked sbnormslly cheerful
and prosperous.
However, all the nations were there. olothe
richly. and speaking all the languages. Some
Of the women were painted. and were evi.
IDENTIFY shaky as 10 character These ftems
Tailed with the descriptions well enough.
The etiquette Of the place was dimcult 10
master. In the brilliant and populous halls
and corridors you don't smoke. and you wear
your hat no matter how many ladies are In the
thick throng Of drifting humanity; but the mo-
ment you GROSS the sacred threshold and enter
the gambling hell on the hat must come. and
everybody lights his cigar and goes to suffocs.
ting tho ladieA
But what came hero for. nve weeks s4o.was
the baths. Ny right arm Was disabled with
rheumatism. To sit at home In America and
guess out the European bath best fitted for .
particular ailmsnt or combination OF ailments.
IL 10 not possible. and II would not be good
how. There are . great many curs-
tive baths on tho Continent and some
ere good for ono disease but bad for another
30 Il 10 necessary to let physician name your
bath for you. A rule. Americans 60 to
London to get this advice. and South Ameri-
csns 70 10 Paris for II Now and then an
economist chooses his bath himself and docs
Q thousand miles Of railroading TO get to 1t.
and then the local physicians toll him he has
come to the wrong place. He sees that he has
lost time and money and strength. and almost
the minute that he realizes this he loses his
temper. I had the rheumatism. and was sd.
Vtsed 70 60 to Aix. not 80 much because had
that disease as because had the promise Of
certain others. What they were was not ex-
planned TO me. but they are either In the fol-
lowing menu or hsvs been sent 10 the wrong
place. d.. Wskeneld's book says:
x We know that the class OF nlaladisS bone
ited By the wsser and baths at Ak arc those
due to defect Of nutrition. debility Of the ner-
vous system. or to . equity. rheumatic. her.
petite. or scrofulous diathesis-sll diseases
extremely debilitatins. and requiring tonic.
and not depressing action Of the remedy.
This II seems to ind here. as recorded ex-
perlence and daily action can. testify. .
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