The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-03-26

the regulars.
Probably it wasn't a new form either
| They must have had the same expert
ence before and have learned that dis
erection in similar cases is the better
part of valor. AT any rate they sighed
YEARLY, shrugged their shoulders, sal
back in their chairs and quietly let the
deals follow one another without theil
risking a louis on the iosue The fat
man lost the first deal. He is man
who perspires profusely every time hi
plays and who always tucks an i'm
mense handkerchief into his collar as
soon as he stakes his money, The roll
ing beads of persplration are his sole
sign of agitation, but it fascinates the
players and the oroppiers can scarcely
pay the bets they are SO deeply interest
ed in watching the dew of honest toll
gather on his chin. After losing once
the fat man won a few thousand.
! I'm going to leave it there till ii
wins three times" he announced to all
his friends within earshot. Then he
los..
| 1t doesn't make much difference how
the thing came out; except to the
American crowd which watched with
glee the tournament between the two
men. The land of the free and the
home< of the brave buffer at poker
does not insist on a man making a deaf
mute of himself when he CANDLES. So
the Americans had beautiful time.
They talked and they laughed and oc-
casionally they swore in what was an
undertone for them, but was three keys
above the ordinary tones Of the casino
And the regular players grew more
and more i rritated, shrugged and
twitched at frightful rate. and
breathed low maledictions on the inva-
ders. The fat man drove out the first
American who went away mad, and
finally the fat man himself pocketed his
wad of bills and went off, probably to
hunt up his jrate friend and spend some
of his gains in the work of reconcilia-
ton. The other Americans drifted
away, too, and with great sigh of re-
lief the regulars sat up and tried to
piece together the shattered systems of
play, the dealers voice resumed the ia
miliar phrases and all was uiet again.
These men were betting in hundreds
and THOUSANDS of francs, but two
American women with eight dollars
apiece had made just as much of dis
turbance at roulette table during the
day. They sat at the end of the table,
with a croupier-poor man!-between
them. No matter what happened they
leaned in front of the croupier and told
each other all about it. If they won
they told each other all the mental pro-
cesses which had led them to stake their
big, round dollar where they did. If
they didn't bet they exclaimed aloud
that it was too bad because they would
have won if they had yielded to the Sc
cret impulse And so on When they
had lost their sixteen dollars, they sat
there and told each other how they
would bet if they had any money left.
But all Americans are not of these
types. Most of the green ones know
that they are green and try to slip
their money on to the table without at
the attention even of the Group
Ter. The old hands here, who are hav-
Ing hard luck, do not scruple to pick up
elsa's money occasionally, on
the chance that the other person will be
too green to know that he has been
robbed. The American newcomer is
often the victim, because. even if he
knows he has been robbed he will let it
go rather than make himself conspicu-
ous or get into an alteration in which
he would be at a disadvantage because \
of his ignorance of the language.
Keep your eye on the BALI is better
rule for golf than for roulette keep |
your eye on your money" is good advice |
for Monte Carlo.
Of course, every American girl that /
passes this way has to try her luck. !
Her favorite method is to borrow five |
francs or louis from a male relative or |
friend. Everybody knows that luck |
comes to borrowed money. If she is !
travelling with other women, she decides
with much inward agitation to risk five /
francs of her own. Then you see her
going around for an hour or two, wan
lering from table to table in search of |
lust the right place, carrying the big
liver piece in her feverish hand When
he finally puts it down it is so hot it al
most scorches the cloth-which does not, I
however. prevent the croupier from
it into his pile with a sudden
less which makes the girl gasp.
There are, then, five kinds of Ameri-
ans at Monte Carlo. There is the man
o whom it is an old story, who gam
lies in a desultory way according as
he spirit moves him. There are the
ich novices. who make as mfch dis
in the casino as a bull would
n china shop. There are the garl1l-
Gus women, who are ridiculous, and the
mildly determined girls, who are anus
ng, since their agitation is matter of
My a dollar or two. And there are the
men and women who risk a few louis
quietly, for the sake chiefly of the ex-
,erience. Take them all together they
orm very small proportion Of the
rowd; but they attract more attention
n proportion to their numbers than any
Their nationality to be found at Monte
.arlo,-Monte Carlo Letter to the New
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