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

TWENTY-FIVE of our dollars. The host ordered small
ruckload brought him. and set the example by starting
them the floor footballs, kicking them here
and there until tables overturned china smashed,
whole of champagne imported from France spilled
and the evening rendered merry. In these the
proprietor always gives free rein and smiles with salts
fed air; for the Russian pays after his fun and
he would fight if interfered with. The bill in this in
stance ran to nearly thirty thousand rubles | don't
know the proprietor; but old Tom, the head waiter
who by the way, American negro who has directed
that place for about twenty years. says that there
probably average of fifty bills month, paid for
evenings entertainment, that will average thou
sand FIVE hundred rrbes each. There swagger
resorts in Moscow that said to be really owned by
Princes and conducted in other mems
There is hotel in Moscow where Prince-one Of
the common varieties that exist in Russia, where you
couldn't throw brick without hitting onelet his bill
1t for but town. and yet it said
that when he paid it. it to nearly forty thousand
dollars. And mark you, he had not rioted, but had
merely INDUCED in such uxuries wine at hundred
rubles the bottle cucumbers from Turkey when they
dollar each, strawberries at dollar berry, and
rare fruits specially imported.
the best vaudeville show in Europe 1t often brings
celebrated artists from London to play short engage
ment; then sends them back. 1t costs money to do
this The patrons must pay. When they no longer
willing, it will close. And 1t is worth while to pass
evening there study that strange, extravagant life
which is known in ST. Petersburg more than any other
place in the world, making Paris look like crossroads
village out in the quiet farming districts.
A in with party and takes one of the
boxes arranged round the entire second balcony tier
With it he takes the loungng room behind the box. A
corridor separates them The box is not like Amer
box where they strive to arrange the chairs that
every available foot of space utilized 1t has room for
a couch, table, and promenade 1t has curtains IN
front The custom is for someone to look out and see
the number is attractive. If it open the
tans If is not, they remain closed In the room back
of the box the theater supper being served Someone
IT the party plays the grand piano, others walk and
lounge about looking the pictures and treadng the
deep rugs special staff of walters stand by and have
To 10 h1tSp
They highly drilled and high priced. If you
WISH you may have small orchestra brought in to play
while you dine, hidden behind potted palms. Then you
GO out and few more numbers of the program.
Then you go quietly out after paying your bill
That go quietly unless you are great American
spendthrift, in which you kick, beef, yowl, and
offer to lick the proprietor or clean out the place.
Firmly they show you the list of expense And you will
pay do doubt it! Because, if you do not they drag
you the station where the proprietor hands up his
regular bill of prices and the Judge probably spending
at least night week there, calmly you that
these the regular and that your evening has
been most modest He is polite to Mr. American
Spendthrft because he knows that Mr. A. S. is simply
unsophisticated.
So in the end, Mr. A. S. pays his fifty to five hundred
dollars for his evening at the show, and thinks he has
gone the limit But what he doesn't know IS that per-
haps there have been twenty thirty other bills that
evening, paid without protest. each outnumberng his.
TN Moscow as well as St. Petersburg, the good
spendthrift does not to ride slowly. A troika
outfit IS becoming expensive nowadays, inasnuch as 1t
Is no longer SO HoVeiIy
money. You wonder why, until you learn that the
troting horse the center of the threehoTse ouht IS
horse that once famous American trotter capa-
BILE of doing his mile in his old age, in somewhere
about minutes and forty seconds that the
the sides halfbred Russian and English bangtais
and that the three horses alone represent outlay to
the driver of perhaps thousand fifteen hundred dol
lars. The ride has you from twenty to fifty dollars
You want cab at night 1t is drawn by horse that
but yesterday raced in that country where trott1ng
the best, and most prolonged and most pat
ronized in the world
You pay for that speed You pay for everything
You cannot create ripple the life of Moscow St.
Petersburg by spending a thousand dollars day.
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