Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-06-11
AT MERRY MONACO.
A Glimpse OF the Feverish Life Around the
Monte Carlo Gaming Tables.

Glimpse of the Feverish Life Around the
Monte Carlo Gaming Tables.
From the London World
The first visitors are moetly habitues, the in
fstuated semi-professionals who make gam bling
the serious business q their lives or that brief
portion which elternstes between feverish ATM
ence and utter collapse. II is q curious crowd
which gathers round the still closed doors-of
both sexes, Of ali creeds andcountries, as varied
In dress and outward appearances Is in inner
characteristics. Look ct that gsunt hollow
eyed widow, in her rusty robes and trailing
Grape; that stout old woman, almost in RAYS.
who carries her own rake and q plethoric
courier bag evidently crammed full Of notes
and CON; those queerly dressed men, in suits
tina: might have been cut by carpenter out Of
hard wood, who utilized the moments Of wait
ing in running over obtuse calculations-lone
entries Of the previous days fuctua tons ct
roulette. We recognize this tall buriy man
with the very open shirt collar and the brawny
throat. He is Sig Tomaso, the famous bari
tone, who comes regularly to Monte Carlo.
but not to sing. Nor IL there any mis-
taking Capt. Dasher, q recent recruit 10 the
game. who looks spick and span in his
neat dfttoes, white silk tie and snowy spats
Dasher has had good time lately and thinks he
has found the philosophers stone. His tailor
would rejoice, were it not that he has already
mortgnged his gains, present and to come. to
little Blanche Falaise Of the Gymnase-that
plump little partridge Of q woman with the viz
ginal costume Of white SERGE who has worked
many friends gold mine Tor the benefit of the
administration. Another friend Of hers for
the moment in the background, although here
waiting TO enter with the rest, is NJ. lie Due de
Ia Tripotiere, who has bartered his title against
pork packers heiress; she is satisfied to leave
HIM to go his own way an allowance, while
she leads society in New York and Newport, r.
l. infeyestiDo 50 hat
served, gentlemanly man, who halls from North
Britain, and who has spent a dozen and odd
winters in Monte Carlo, PLAYING without ceas-
ing, but only at the best hours and on o care
fully elaborated system by which, rumor says,
he has constantly got the better of the tables
When the race is over (there is quite a derby
rush through the rooms, the women gathering
up their skirts and running for their lives)
and all are comfortably seated esch
table seems little family party; play
ers and croupiers know each other, inter
change greetings and pleasant badinage as the
ball rattles round and coup succeeds coup with
pleasant rapidity in these early hours when
business is not too brisk. This is the time when
decorous English folk who would not gamble
for worlds) are tempted Just TO walk through
the rooms, . fret weakness-ce nest que le
premier pas qui coute, and within q week or
two many Of them are added to the constant
patrons Of the game. The fever il quickly
caught; the disease il endemic: few can escape
Wn0u once uhoer lts lnnueuce, snake on
its Intoxicating effects See the throng as il
surges and chickens around the tables in the
early afternoon and after dinner when the
rooms are most crowded and note ct this the
height OF the season, how many familiar faces,
how many more or less notable people are
eagerly pursuing the sport.
All women are gamblers at heart and Monte
Carlo soon shows what 10 in them. Now the
rumor has spread that there il . run ut the
second trente ct quarsnte table, and half Lon
don seems to be grouped around There il Her
Grace OF l., who seems to have the gift OF
perennial youth, picking up the ''piaques" and
rose-colored billets de banque in Dozens; oppo-
site IL the beautiful Lady Le Street, who has
chaperoned . couple Of young friends, and the |
three are having the most phenomenal good
up 10 this table and would gladly play, but she |
wandsD Oh again; is IL that she fears to come |
into competition with the more brilliant fresh- |
nees Of younger rival? Down there, on the |
right Of the croupier, steadily backing the red, |
ct quarants In public Is much more probable |
- H. u undoubtedly less compromising |
thaa bsccarst In private life. Next her |
Il 9 maiden Of ample proportions, whose |
good luck has been proverbial this win
Of the chef De psrsse, is the wife q . great
Ansncier, dressed TO perfection, the quiet chic |
Of her black and gray costume in delightful
contrast TO the garish and snowy Mime. do |
Brcda, who nsunts her diamonds and her |
raddled fAcs close by. LAis and Aspasia are /
very much in evidencs everywhere, aud il |
makes even hardsned dinners ssd to zee bright
eyed, honest-faoed Engiish girls rubbing elbows |
with them, breathing the same reehing atmos-
pierre, mAdly following the same demoralixing |
game "Que diable allaisnt-sIles fairs dams
este s.lere?" The increasing practice Of al
lowing ingenues 10 enter the rooms, almost as /
VII, cannot b too strongly deprecated and
rsPrehended.
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