Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-07-06

Reclame that has three separate managers One man
runs daily mat.nee The sweepers rush in; and by
eight O'Clock in the evening Manager Number Two
gives a dramatic performance Again an thrush OF
sweepers, and eleventh. a vaudeville manager
has the house, and his show until four in the
ing. Another theater there the Bal Tabarin has two
big orchestras to alternate and the initiated can
not pass evening there viewing regular vaudeville
performance, without spending at least eight ten
dollars person. The real spendthrift without even
making ripple of excitement, make 1t fifty, and
frequently does. 1t is not at all uncommon for Aus
TRAN to take two three guests and depee his purse
for thousand 1.-TWO hundred dolars) in
ing. Indeed, in certain set of Vennese society," this
would be about the regular evening and there are thou
sands of them there who accomplish this feat many
times a month
But Vienna is not much of place for spendthrfts.
Budapest is better In Budapest however, the spend
thrift usually drops his patr1mony by gambling. There
is prevalent idea that Monaco is the greatest gambling
spot in the world In ways it Isl for it is what is
known to the profession as a "pker resort BY that
they it has small gamblers There are no
statistics for spendthrfts Budapest. They take
matter of course that if man has money it is to be
spent There is scarcely cafe obscure that it does
not have its gambling In the last winter the only man
who attracted much attention a young nobeman
who did fairly well by losing about million and quar-
ter dollars of our money in one evenings sitting The
late lamented "Bet-y a-mion' couldn't beat that.
Yet it is thing for the real, good Hungarian
spendthrift to get away with from fifty to hundred
thousanddolars in night over the table and otherwise
TT may be objected by the qubbler, however, that
gambling is not spending, nasmuch as man gam
crack Drained investment, hoping to profit thereby So
Budapest scarcely be called spendthrft center
from any other viewpoint; although as gambling
Mecca for its section OF the country 1t probably wins
and loses more money every nights than any other
place in the world, Monte Carlo included changes in
week
Bucharest the capital of Rumania does well for little
town of two hundred and seventyve thousand inhabi
tants. It's conditions peculiar. The Rumanlan I'M
like the Hungarian rarely breaks into the family nherl
tance but his system is admirable 1t consists in cut
ting his expenses to meet his profits Say for instance,
he owns hundred thousand acres of good farming
land and there has been a good year His profit Is
somewhere in the neighbOrhood of hundred thousand
dollars-for the sake of illustration, although probably
five times that in prosperous season
"Now," says he II do not gamble; but | will have
nice time for the next two three months" and he
does according to his lights One Prince over there
and there several thousand of quietly disposed
of four hundred thousand dollars in three months last
season. according to the statement of his banker and
the didn't drink gamble or buy Jewelry tor HIM
self. He just had nice, quiet time! Rumanan of
any importance at all thinks himself in tough luck when
he has less than ten twenty thousand month for
his summer holidays 1t is the rule The man is not
regarded spendthr1tt.
There are little shop windows in that town where
they display diamonds, unless set in clusters, OF
less than five karas stone and running up to twenty
and more A night at the Bucharest opera hurts the
purchased by Prince CantacuZene in his lifetime 50 they
say. Some of them didn't go to members of the family
But the diamonds are there. and when young Ru-
manian wants to make present to his lady love it
affords him fine chance to unload his pockets.
PUT St. Petersburg and Moscow are places where
y even our widest American spendthrifts should go
and take faithful in How to Get Rid of Money
1t can't be taught in correspondence school; it in
wolves the fatigue of the trip 1t is rather difficult to
tell what Russian well-to-do gentleman spends, be-
cause his extravagances quietly conducted; but
there is another class of Russian spendthrifts who
would make Coal Oil Johnny look like garden variety
of chump The celebrated Bradley Martin ball sinks
into insignifcance beside dinner given by private
gentleman in ST. Petersburg, where the viands alone
cost nearly four hundred thousand dollars, and
where the forced flowers displayed, with the mercury
frozen outside the house, cost nearly hundred thou