Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-08

a CRY rang out as His Most Serene
m Highness, Prince Louis II, stepped
~ from the train. 'Down with Prince
Louis Down with the monarchy!
Down with the Casino! Long live the
Republic of Monaco!"
"Son AltesSe SereniSsime" smiled indulgentIy
IS several score of his army subjects sfaep-
herded behind a thin blue rank constituting
the Monegasque army. shook their fists at him
and shouted insults.
battery of ancient brass cannon at the
palace ON the huge rock above r0ared out q
greeting to the homecoming sovereign. To
have q little peace he must leave his petty
principally and spend most of the time ut a
gloomy castle in Northern France. The agi-
tators kept up their tumult.
Down with the tyrantI Drive out the rob-
berS! Chase away the blood-suckers of the
people! Viye the day of freedOml"
It was a strange fashion. even in 1891, to
treat the scion Of dynasty that has ruled this
ancient place for 1000 yearE-a dynasty that
Outranked In age even the RomanOffs, the
HapSburgs, the HohenzOllerns and the Osmans
STRANGER stin, when one remembers they
are people founded In the lap Of the cod
dess Of chance. Why should they cOmplain2
a little Garden Of Eden, nesting like a Jewel
On the shores OF the sunny, blue Mediterranean
but freed from all the cares and anxieties and
economic problems and alarms of war of other
u3JAoLS. NO IA&SB, no CIVIC DurQe0s, no MILF
try service delightful, invigoratipg climate
cheap food and house rents, and gas and
electricity, at one-eighteenth of what il costs
just across the street in France. Utterly moth
ing for the natives to worry about except to ind
q polite, effective method for separating $50 900
tourists annually from their money, provided
they have any left after the Casino has fin
ished with them. And still they growl throw
stones at the CASTLE talk bloodthirstiy of revou-
ton and insult his most serene highness every
ffvxaa uffe he
fresh airI
"Ah, if all my 1,574 subjects, men. women
children and babies could only oe croupiers!"
Prince Louis smiled resignedly to his A. D. c.
after the last homecoming episode. Flow
happy this principally would be. and T. too"
In these words he summed up the itch that
bites all the authentic Monegasques from the
minute they are born to the final second before
they shlIffie on the ultimate of all the
acute crises that shake the little country every
Winter; the true objective of the politicians
who pretend they want TO set up a republic;
the forbidden fruit that is constantly dazzling
like cascade Of gold before the eyes
But how to provide all of the 1,574 subjects,
and particularly the $50 electors among them,
with one of these sweet places, especially as
there are only SIS jobs, Of which three -fourths
ere allotted TO foreigners?
It Is the supreme tragedy of Monaco the
haunting fear. that keeps Prince Louis awake
ct night; only 15l armchairs for 750 loyal
patTiots!
really fancy jOb-that Of being a creupier,
with all the greed, excitement, drama, suspense
color, big remuneration, hazard and resting
periods in between that any mortal could crave
a tdn stuffed with banknotes in front Of him.
beautiful women hanging over both Shoulders
all eyes in alteration, he is the master of the
capricious roulette wheel. The picture is all
ways brilliant. vibrating, fascinating.
gorgeous salon decorated with cupids or
angels. fRstIionably dressed tflrongs crowded
around every table, undercurrent of intense
emotion stacks Of money. Nothing more goes"
he cries. and starts the spin that will swiftly
spell fortune or disaster for some one When
the little ivory ball that has been bounding
around in the reverse direction drops into one
OF the 36 numbers there are many sharp ex-
clamaticns of disappointment or distress But
there is always q winner, that is TO say a tenn
porary winner, and the latter almost invariably
gives the master of the wheel a good tip
clever crouper can easily earn SIS coo with his
pay and tips during the three or four winter
months. Besides there are the rings and
scarfpins that lucky women shower on him
when fortune is smiling. not to mention motor
cars and such trif1es. After the season finishes
in MARCH, he can loaf gracefully until November
without care in the world
Is 1t necessary 10 add that every Monegasque
mother lus her baby to sleep with I'm Raising
MY Boy TO BE CrouIaier," and that every citi-
nGn is flaming with this ambition from the time
he can walkq