The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-08-30

mated with the thing that they deny them
selves the necessary rest by playing Tor
hours and hours at night. In business they
would not dare to intrust small sum to
anybody who managed his affairs in such
a way, and yet they Will allow themselves
to risk big sum of money by moments
fatigue--simple observation-disclosures. And
you can bet that the bank doesn't know
any fatigue or Observation-Disclosures. Then
there are the other well-known causes of
failure-gamblers continuing to play after
a period of gain TO further increase their
winnings. or after a series of losses to re-
coup them, instead of stopping when in ILL
luck, or remembering that vein of good
luck could not be expected to contihue
forever.
A PRETTY GRIM JOKE.
Monte Carlo is really a joke. but pretty
grim one The atmosphere of Monaco has a
peculiarly pious flavor, which adds to the
comedy. from the disinterested spectators
point of view. The name itself is from the
Latin 'monachus,' monk, and two monks
loom up large in the states coat of arms.
Within the princes palace one of the first
things that greets the eye of the tourist is
man who pretends to know God and does
not keep His comma ndments is a liar The
game itself from which Monaco draws its
life blood has remote connection with
piety, for the roulette wheel-that triumph
of mathematical ingenuity-was invented
by Pascal during a six months retreat to
the peace of monastery. The Casino COM
pany, which manages and directs the colos-
sal gambling house, always has its purse
open to charities and churches. and many
of the charitable organizations in the prin-
cipalty owe their existence directly 10 the
enormous gains from the roulette wheel.
What do you think of that for irony, any
way?
Monaco has a press censor that adds
to the grim humor Of the whole farce. All
literature or printed matter of any kind
intended for the pu5lic's eyes must be
ps ed upon by this mighty and moral in
a.vidual. Even pictorial postal cards are
inspected before being exhibited in the win
dows of the street Mosques. While L was
at Monte Carlo a cartoonist, with some
original ideas of his own as to what con-
stituted good fun, got himself into trouble
with the censor and consequently black
listed by the all-powerful Casino company.
This humorist published some picture postal
cards showing a view of the Casino with a
man hanging himself from a palm tree ON
one side and another man blowing out his
brains on the other.
DEALS WITH SYSTEMS
There is one publication in Europe, and
only one. that makes a speciality in dealing
with systems and yet this unique journal.
in Monaco by the censor. This curious
weekly paper. which is printed i'm Nice, ex-
lists solely for gamblers. Its eight excel
lently printed pages are devoted altogether
TO articles on mathematical systems.
some of which are wonderfully ingenious.
and list of winning num-
bers at roulette for the preceding week.
One would naturally wonder why such a
journal should be suppressed-a paper that.
at first glance. would seem To be the cham
pion of gambling. But on the last page of
Rouge ct Noir there is small notice in
italics. with a black border around il. stat
ing that for each gaming table in :he
Casino there is correspondingly one suicide
week. and that the average number of
suicides per annum is 400. OF course. that
notice-it Is printed in each issue-is too
much for the press censor to stand for
There was "A man from Chicago at Monte
Carlo while was there who after studying
the roulette table Tor a few nights. con-