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| Toy Kingdom of Monte Carlo
| Where Tragedy, Farce and Melodrama Hold the Boards
edlv tlie funniest thing- In
Europe. like many Euro
pean funny things, it moves
.the alien spectator as near
ly ko tears as to laughter.
It possesses a sort of Iron
ical patfhos underlying its
patent absurdity. Its at
mosphere Is so Intensely
civilized and cloaks such
appalling barbarism! Be
neath its eternal smile—its
courtly, high class, demi
monde smile—it is smoothly cruel.
The unileeling observer cannot but per
ceive 'that Monte Carlo as phenomenon
of latter day "civilization” is the most
ludicrous • of spectacles. He who feels—
well .lie who feels had toeeter disregard
Monte Carlo altogether or he will suffer.
The humors of Monte Carlo are not so
fa.r loisee. MuNaoo seems to have prided
itself on being a jest among the. nations
—atgrim jek;—over since It had a history.
PLAN OF THE BOBBERS.
Its«founder, the first of the Grimaldis,
•bougSit It from the sea. power of Genoa
and. then calmly levied' toll on every pass
ing vessel which came within range of
its swift galleys. When it is realized that
the mnjority of his victims were Genoese
ships file excellence of 'his joke will int-
iredia'tlely be apparent. Grimaldi's strong
hold—a nice, comfortable, little sheltered
little laarbor for his galleys at Its foot—
earned the nickname locally of "Spelu-
gues.”
This wns In the fourteenth century,. The
spot is still the Speluguee. Speitigues
means "The .Plain of the Robbers” and
the site of Grimaldi's pirate retreat is
at tills moment the site of the Monte
Carlo Casino. Passing ships have no in-
teros for Grimakilts successor, the prince
of Monaco, but passing tourists present
him gratis, and for nothing, with a com
fortable salary of 1170.000 per annum, an
impost w'liioh his ancestor would have
thought- unreasonable and excessive.
ROULETTE WHEEL INVENTOR.
Grimaldi, like most of the pirates of his
nge, was exceedingly religious. The very
name of ids territory, Monaco, derives
from the. IjaltJn word monachus, a monk;
and, following up the idea, we And that
I'.e emblazoned two monks upon his coat
of arms. Where they still Idandly pose.
Observe, now, the.consistency of the Gri-
traWian, tendency to jokes. Nine-tenths
ol' the -wealth of the present prince is
extracted from a monkish invention—the
roulette wheel. Pascal devised the gam
bling cylinder exactly as it is now used
in the Salles *le Jen during a sTx months'
"retreat” for meditation and prayer in a
monastery. The roulette wheel has built
for Monaco -the finest cathedral on the
Riviera, lias paid for Innumerable and
lesser chuchas, has founded several! or
phanages and nunneries and pays the sala
ries of a bisleop and Innumerable priests,
lmt before gatmiiling wa» introduced Into
Monaco that benighted state could af
ford only one small church. Within the
prince's palace, it may be added, a naive
inscription in a prominent position on one
of the walls is proudly pointed out by
•he cicerone of every tourist. It runs:
“The man Who .pretends to know God
and does not keep .His: commandments is
a liar.” Precisely what this may be
apropos of is not explained. Plenty of
charming things are not explained—at
Monte Carlo.
MILLIONS IN PROFIT.
One of the many charming things
which sere not explained at .Monte Cario
is the animal balance sheet .of the Casino
Company, or why the said company,
which exists solely for and by gambling,
should <\ill itseLl tin, Societe Anonyme
des Bains do Mer et Cercle des Etrangers
itiie Sea Mathlng and Strangers' Club
Company). The one tiling which nobody
ei or does during the winter season—the
.profitable season—at Monte Carlo is to
bathe in the sea. Nevertheless this Sea
Bathing Company, which provides sea
bathing, mysteriously announces that its
profits for the year 1904-5 amounted to
.£ 1.440.800. It omits to mention why
visitors who liaive never dipped so much
as a toe in the tideless gulf should be
willing to pay so heavily for the .priv
ilege of not doing so, and it also omits,
perhaps discreetly, to give more than the
very sketchiest details of the Items of
the balance sheet. The shareholders are
incurious, perhaps they realize that
silence, like their dividend, is golden.
“WHITE ALWAYS WINS.”
The founder of the Sea Bathing Com
pany was a humorist of ttie first water.
Ilaging been invited to leave Homburg
lie placidly wantiered into Monaco one
morning in the year I860 and cast a
critical eye upon, the puny Casino which
was then rising out of rubbish heaps on
the edge of the (promontory.
Seemingly this M. Blanc—whose .snowy
surname subsequently gave rise to the
proverb “Rouge perd, noire perd; Ida no
gagne toujours"—owned that priceless
virtue of the business instinct, imagina
tion. 1-Ie saw money in the rubbish heaps
and possibilities in the ugly skeleton of
the Casino. He paid a brief call upon
the ownei-s of the concession and b— one
of those strokes of luck which occur only
to Individuals able to' appreciate their
significance, found these gentry in finan
cial difficulties.
He offered them £68,o6o down for the
concession. "I am going to lunch,” he
said, "and when I nave lunched shall
receive your decision.” He lunched (a
rite omitted by no great financier) and
received the decision. That very day,
March 31, I860, lie became sole owner
of the Monte Carlo Casino and a thirty
years’ gaming concession from the
prince. Seventeen years later he died
worth £2,400,000.
ENTERTAINMENTS ARE FREE.
Three times since I860 the Casino has
been enlarged, and there is no reason to
doubt that it will require enlarging again,
seeing that this year's net profits exceed
those of last year by no less than &80.000
and a fresh lease of fifty years' duration
has only recently been .granted, with the
most agreeably stimulating effect on the
Sea Bathing Company’s share quotations.
•Francois Blanc, it would seem, is still
very much alive and his joke is still
active. A inillion-pound-a-year joke is
difficult to kill.
The gist of Mr. Blanc's joke was that
lie should propose to turn a ruobish
heap into a gold mine by "chance."
Roulette, it will 'be observed, is a game
of chance.
It is a pure chance if the players lose
£1.000.000 a >ear. a pure chance that the
bank lias thirty-seven odds In Its favor
to the opponent^ thirty-six, a pure
chance that the Casino company can
provide Its patrons with the finest
orchestra, the finest gardens, the linest
roads and bridges and police force and
fetes and pigeon shooting in Europe for
nothing. <'hance—blindfolded Chance,
but surely with the bandage slightly
hitched off from the eye which beams
In the Blanc direction.
NO TAXES ARE LEVIED.
i What a pleasant tiling it must lie to
live in a realm ruled over by the Iiign
priests of Chance! Land in Monaco was
at tlie time of tho Blanc invasion worth
half a franc per square yard; the val
ue of the same trifling foothold is now
quoted at a figure which soars frequent
ly above a hundred francs. Where
there were two modest hostelries there
are now fifty sumptuous hotels. What
was a 'barren rock sprinkled with a few
meager olive trees and nourishing—with
pains—a semipauper population of 4.000
souls, is now confessed by every traveler
to be the most cultivated, the health
iest, the best drained and the best gov
erned stretch of coast on the Mediter
ranean. and it is the most thickly pop
ulated state on earth, supporting no less
Ilian 600 persons to the square kilome
ter—to be exact, 12,600 in all. Monaco
is only throe miles long by half a mile
broad, remember, but it is so wealthy
that it can afford to dispense with rates
and taxes, although it enjoys the luxury
of a standing army. By a strange irony
of fate. too. it is morally the most pro
gressive nation in Europe, in one re
spect at any rate; it forbids gambling
by its inhabitants on any excuse what
soever.
Yes, Monaco knows too much about
gambling to allow Its sons and daugh
ters to Indulge in that expensive relaxa
tion. No Monegasque is allowed to put
his nose within the Casino doors. . ne
temple of chance is reserved for the
strangers who come hither for—sea
bathing.
It is said—hut perhaps the statement
is an envious libel circulated by the less
prosperous citizens of surrounding na
tions—that there are not merely more
rich people to the square kilometer in
Monaco than elsewhere but more needy
people, too. Certain It is that M. Blanc
In Ills day had to deal with an extra
ordinarily large number of persons who
endeavored to turn Ills game of “chance"
Into a game of "certainties” for their
own tienefit. They did not worry M.
Blanc. If they had anything to teach
him he was willing to pay for his new
wisdom. Usually lie learned nothing
that he did not already know, and paid
nothing, but now and then some fresh
genius discovered a weak point in his
armor and M. Blanc had to defray the
cost of strengthening it.
LIGHTS OUT AND ROBBED.
The firm of swell mobsmen, for in
stance. who playfully inserted a bomb
into the cellar where the Casino gas me
ters were fixed taught him that electric
light was a surer illumtnant for his ta
bles, and the gentleman who succeeded
In switching off the electric light and
during the confusion which followed
grabbing sonje thousands of francs
preached to him a salutary, sermon on
tlie merits of oil. Oil lamps of enormous
dimensions, as a matter of fact, now
hang over eacli green cloth, and elec
tricity, brought, it Is said, fro quite two
separate generating stations, adds to the
pitiless glare of the Salles des .Ten.
Another lession which M. Illnnc paid
dearly for was that hard cash Is a more
satisfactory if more blatant medium of
play than counters. When the present
Casino wa s first organized players were
compelled to purchase counters, priced
at 2 francs apiece, from the administra
tion and stake with these tallies alone
At the close of the day's play the count
ers would -be redeemed at the guichet
at their face value. But In 'practice they
were not always redeemed and by degrees
got into circulation in Monaco outside
the Casino’s doors. So admirable was
M Blanc's credit that iiis counters were
accepted everywhere by shopkeepers and
hotelers in lien of cash.
COUNTERS ARE DUPLICATED.
Two hundred thousand of them In all
were Issued. This satisfactory state of
affairs continued well Into the .70s until
one fine day M. Blanc decided to recall
his counters and issued a mandate an
nouncing that they must be immediately
redeemed on pain of repudiation. The
effect of ills announcement must have
given him considerable food for thought.
Ills 200.000 counters had mysterious! y
grown and multiplied into 400,000. The
shock would have irritated a smaller
mind than M. Blanc's. He shrugged h's
shoulders and paid out the 2 francs apiece
for each of the counters. Bpt from that
day to tills the rule of the tables lias
been: "No credit and money down.” At
the sannf date as the abolishing of the
tally system the minimum stake was
raised from 2 francs a t roulette to the 5
francs at which it now stands and 20
francs 'was fixed a 3 the minimum for
the game of trente et quarante. M.
Hlano had no use for the small specula
tor who played often and lost little, espe
cially when the Bmail speculator was not
even playing with genuine counters.
MECHANIC’S AMAZING SUCCESS.
The polite Belgian who happened h>-
evil lqck to lose a roulette of "gold
coins” which turned out, when its sealed
paper wrapping was removed, to be noth
ing but a brass tube of the correct diam
eter, taught M. Blanc that rouleaux must
never be permlted on the table unopened.
This was a cheaply bought .piece of wis
dom, however, compered with that which
was purchased at the price of £80,000
from Mr. daggers, the Yorkshire mechan
ic. Jaggers. with an infinitude of pa
tience and aided by eight assistants, tab
ulated the roulette results for several
months without playing and, «s he hai
anticipated, discovered that one of ths
wheels had a distinct bias toward a cer
tain set of numbers. Staking with a
knowledge of this bias. Jaggers and his
men netted £120,000 before the officials
guess'd the 03use of their amazing suc
cess. After this the wheels were made
to be movable from table to table, and
were changed nightly. Jaggers, still bet-
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Something’s Going to Happen-Has Happened
SOMETHING STRANGE! UNEXPECTED! STARTLING! WONDERFUL! MYSTERIOUS!
ting, as lie supposed, on the same wheel,
Ret £40,000 in a few days. He wiselv
stopped and quitted Monte Cailo, as we
said, £80,000 to the good.
TAMPERS WITH THE ROULETTE
WHEEL.
He was succeeded by an individual who.
contriving to gain an entrance to the
Salles des Jen during the hours of dark,
bent the metal divisions of the roule'te
wheel with a pair of pincers, making
certain of them 'narrower and certain of
lliem wider than they normally ought to
have been. He was soon found out. a id
nowadays the wheels are not merely
made interchangeable from table to tabla,
but the number divisions are interchange
able also, so that any variation In their
size would instantly be detected. The
mechanism of the wheels is also exam
ined every twenty-four hours, and their
horizontally tested with spirit levels.
The most carping critic of the Casino o:-
fleials’ methods could not accuse them of
any dishonesty either In the players’
favor or in their own ns far as the man.
Hgemont of the roulettes is concerned.
The game of trente et quarante for
somr unknown renson seems to have at-
tiacted the notice of the brainy swindler
less than that of roulette. Nevertheless.
It was at a trente et quarante table that
the most famous drama of Monte Carlo
sharping which has ever taken place oc
curred. The Incident is known ns tha
Ardisson case, so called from the name
of its hero.
BIG CARD SWINDLE.
Ardisson was an adventurer of the most
distinguished type. For years he had lived
by his wits In tlie spas and pleasure re
sorts of Germany and Austria and final
ly he cast covetous eyes on the wealtli of
tlie Monte Carlo bank. Having. In a
modest disguise, made a careful study of
s. 11 tlie aspects of play, he eventually laid
the train for a truly magnificent at"ack
on the trente e't quarante, which, being
played with cards, probably appealed to
him more than the lifeless and maenine-
llke procedure of the roulette.
At the height of the season, then, w®
'behold M. Ardisson, accompanied by a
friend and two charmingly attired ladies,
enter thje casino and repair idly to one of
the trente-et-quarante tables. A series
of games having Just concluded, the
cioupier is shufflng his six packs of cards'
preparatory to dealing them ou 1- . afresh,
and we may suppose that the gamblers
already present are taking the opportu
nity afforded by the momentary lull to
compute their losses and gains or exam
ine their scoring cards.
Immediately on arriving at the fable the
Ardisson quartet arrange themselves two
on each sjde of it, and one of the ladies
contrives to enter into conversation with
tlie chef de partle (umpire or referee of
tlie game) and asks him a number of
innocent questions as 'lo the method*
of play. These lie politely answers, and
meanwhile, on the opposite side of the
table the other fair creature has begged
tlie second umpire to be so good as to
furnish her with gold change for a bank
note.
At tlie very instant when file croupier
has shuffled his cards and is ready to re
commence, the lady who wanted change
for her bank note receives it, and. by an
unfortunate slip, lets the w'hole of it" fall
upon the ground. There (s corvslderable
confusion as the gold pieces roll hither
and thither, and for a fraction of a sec
ond tlie umpire's attention is distracted
from the table. Attendants, hovlVer,
hurry forward, gather together the coins
and hand them back to their charming
owner, who is, of course, covered with
confusion at tlie disturbance she has cre
ated in this unusually serene and hushed
atmosphere. The game begins.
WIN FORTUNE AND DECAMP.
And what a game! The umpires’ face*
blanch as they behold sequence after se
quence turning up in the Ardisson
group's favor. Ardisson and his three
companions do not condescend to stake
anything lower than maximums—and the
maximum at trente et quarante is 12.000
francs. Four times 12.000 francs on tlie
table at each coup and four times 12.000
francs winning at each coup is enough to
turn the hair gray of even the stoniest
croupier. Eight times did the Ardisson
rang stake and eight times they won.
Then they strolled off In a body, taking
with them 300,000 odd francs, a swift
carriage waiting at the casino door
whirled them away across the French
frontier, to he seen no more.
Horrible suspicions entered the bemused
brains of the chefs de parties as they
behold ihcir 300.000 francs vanish, and
they ordered tlie cards to be examined.
There were eighty-four too many of them
in tlie pack. Georges, the croupier, had
accepted a princely bribe from Ardisson
to substitute a previously arranged pack
among his cards and had contrived to do
so at tlie moment when the eyes of every
one—umpires and bystanders included—
were diverted by the fallen coins. The
rest was easy.
WINNERS NOT ALL ROGUES.
Ardisson and Ills accomplices bet upon
what they knew must be the sequences
and inevitably won. As for Georges, lie
spent a couple of months in prison and
issued thence to enjoy his share of the
Ardisson fortune.
The majority of tlie stories of for
tunes made at Monte Carlo, nevertheless,
center round ordinary straightforward
players and not mere rogues such as
Ardisson. Few, however, fall to possess
the element of Jest which seems insepa
rable from everything Monte Carlian.
One of the most popular among the
British and American permanent resi
dents Is an English peer, who having
attended divine worship at the Episcopal
church, repaired (let us hope absent-
mindedly) direct thence to the gambling
rooms. As he paused for a few minutes
beside one of the roulette tables a win
ning number announced by the presiding
croupier struck upon his car as being
strangely familia \ It was the number
36—the number of the last hymn which
had been given out as he was quitting
the sacred edifice.
LUCKY HYMN NUMBER.
Prompted by the curious inward voice
which whispers "an omen” to even the
most mntter of fact and conservative, he
hastily placed a louis on 36 square. Thir
ty-six won again, though the balance of
chances in favor of the recurrence of a
single number is excessively remote, and
our peer wandered forth into the Sab
bath stillness of the gardens 700 francs
richer than he had been when he dodged
the collection plate of the church by
escaping from it while the lucky hymn
was being sung. Of course, the tale
leaked out and of course the church was
crowded on the following Sunday by
gamblers eager to repeat the peer's ex
periment. Never before had the local
chaplain beheld from his pulpit such a
sea of eager faces; never before had the
pews emptied with such astonishment
rapidity on the announcement of the
collection hymn. The congregation in a
body made a bee line for the casino aad
fought for places at the famous roulette
board, whereon to fling piles of notes
and gold backing the hymn's number.
The trifling faci that the n;|nber in
question obstinately declined to appear
did not dissuade them and for several
Sundays tlie church continued to be
crammed with folks intent on hearing the
Some have said, “ I told you so,’* others speechless from astonish
ment, goodness knows whai you will sav.
The woman in tlie case was Rve, she'started the trouble—the in
ventor finished wliat Eve start; d, or was it the inventor’s offspring ?
Readers, gather around, draw close, listen sharp, don’t miss this.
catch every word—boat thing ever happened-hundreds of years coming
but here at las*, full grown, life size —so startling you won t believe at
first — will say it’s impossible — miracles cu>n t happen now days, but
wait, don’t get frightmed, danger’s over.
Ladies, your prayers are answered.
THERE’S NO MORE WASH DAY-SLORY HALLELUJAH!-IT’S DEAD-THE CORPSE LAID AWAY
BURIED DEEP WITHOUT TEARS NO MOURNERS, NO FRIENDS, DIED ALONE,
FORSAKEN, DEAD FOR ALL TIME-DON’T EXIST-WIPED OUT ENTIRELY!
All the world has been waiting for the man who would cut wash day
In two. that man lives -he's taken mere than half—took nearly all, left only
minutes —cut oil so much that wash day don't exist any more—that’s all over,
changed, forgotten—there's a new way of cleaning clothes—different from
anything known lo our readers —new principles, new Ideas, new methods,
new everything.
tt
Wonderful, but true, women can now hate the family washing cleaned
In thirty, forty or fifty minutes—no more wo: k than getting a simple meal
— no rubbing, squeezing, pounding, packing, pressing, no injury to clothes—no
drudgery—that's all wiped out. ...
Good-by to wash boards and so-called washing machines, their day
is passed, throw them away, over the fence out of sight—
FAREWELL TO WASH DAY TROUBLES-THE “EASY WAY" IS HERE TO BLESS OUR DEAR WOMEN.
Women everywhere have prayed for the death
of washday—for the timo of clean clothes with
out rubbing their life away—ruining health and
looks—when they could do a family washing—
r mt house in order—get dinner, call on their
riends or indulge In some pleasant recreation
without fatigue—when a woman thought no
more of washing clothes than of getting a sim
ple meal. Readers, that glorious day has comet
Kvcry woman knows to her sorrow how far
the washboard conies from making an easy
wash day—takes out the dirt, His ti tie—give it
credit for that—just a question of rubbing long
enough, but it’s a shame to risk her health and
looks hvoverexertion, by breathing foul vapors.
A whale swallowed Jonah—the washing macnine
swallowed washboard, tub.and all — the v/omau
barely escaped. Many kinds—different names—
different prices—yet
just the washboard idea
on legs—more costly—
crank or lever power
where it has been hand
[ —you furnish the power
as of old.
Some are
hu;e affairs,
take lots of
room, hard to
k« ep clean.
They all rub,
* squeeze,pull,
JVAl'O'tf] ‘Irnff, pack,
pound, press,
wear and tear
the clothes —
^same injury,
and the same
hardship.
laundries do the best they can. vet there are
bad objections—high prices, and wot se, clothes
rotted by bleaching with lime, and other chem
icals—thrown with clothes of sports and bums,
all washed in one batch, exposed to filth, dis-
ease^germs—may come back clean, but torn—
buttons off. Our readers know this to be true.
Yes, indeed, the world’s full of washboards
and so-called washing machines, yet wash dnv
same now as ever—no easier, no shorter—a day
that all women dread to see or think about —
sorry when it comes, glad when it’s gone. Dif
ferent things have been tried to make washing
easier—in spite of all still the long, dreary day
—no easier, no shorter, no better. Use wash
board or washing machine, or both—it’s drudg
ery, long hours, hard work, sighs, graans, dis
order everywhere—work, work, work, a day no
woman forgets. Washing begins
the day be lore—worry and dread
felt—she knows
what’s coming—
what drudgery,
liow it was
the last time
—no wonder
6h e does
a mental
washing be
fore real
washing be-
f ins. Lucky
o sleep
under the
strain, can’t
an alarm clock—up at five, soaks clothes, starts
fire, then water next — drags out tubs, wash
board or washing machine—washing starts on
its tedious journey. Half hour, first clothes
boiled—taken out—to tub or machine—rubbing
begins, keeps going—boiled over—rubbed more
—then rinsed, wrung out and dried. Boils an
other batch, treats same way — more rubbing,
rinsing, hanging out —many trips back, and
forth—noon comes—tak-s a bite—plods along—
back aches, muscles sore—still clothes to wash
—night coming—can’t stop—risks her health
and looks, breathing foul vapors—overworked,
overheated, clothes soaked—floor wet—hands
drawn, eaten by strong suds, someskiu mingled
vrfth dirt—don’t mind—tub holds it all. House
demoralized, rooms in disorder—no time for
anything but washing. Finally cleans up the
mess — cleans tubs or machine, mops floor-
then exhausted crawls to bed hoping sleep will
make her a woman again.
These facts remind our readers of troubles
best forgotten, things known to be true—now
for something they don’t know—never thought
to see—considered impossible—now for
THE THING THAT KILLED WASHDAY!
Our representative upon calling at the factory
expected to see something large—big as a tub
anyhow, for man or beast to run — was aston
ished to see only a small article—very small—
not quite so little but what it could be seen—a
little too big for a witch charm —so different
in every way from anything used in the past
for cleaning clothes that any description must
sound ridiculous. I
It is not called a machine — power’s inside,
concealed — not human, no legs, no head, no
hands, no ribs. If it had life Tt would have a
stomach. It is claimed a stomach has millions
of small nerve tissues, each with a kind of suc
tion—a crawling moving mass—given food ex
tracts nutriment—no food hunger is felt. Now,
I won’t any this apparatus has a stomach, yet
there’s things inside, things that move and
things that don’t—there’s a peculiar clotb.es
supporting shield—place for cfirt, never seems
to get enough, has an awful appetite for dirt,
appetite increases more it gets^—one garment
or twenty, just the same — goes alter all the
dirt in all the clothes at the same time—little,
but O my! how inightv—silent, butO my ! how
powerful—v.liat an affinity it has for dirt—uses
no spirits, yet works in darkness—writer could
not see into it when in operation, but somehow
you know its working.
OPERATION: Set on stove, a little water in
side— Uicn soap—then clothes—move knoli oc
casional !y if you want to Uurtyor get playful
gently if at all—can now almost hear dirt let
ting go a* hot wider, suds, .raiding steam —
clothing and working pa: ts begin their pecu
liar movements and the little wonder stm ts on
its first meal—after 8 or 10 minutes take clothes
out, rinse suds out, let dry—THAT’S ALL. Next
hatch same way—don't change water—same op
eration—same time for each batch— thirty, forty
or fifty minutes all the family wash clean—ap
paratus now very hungry, apjietite worse than
ever—manufacturers aay show your gratitude
by cleaning dirtiest dollies last. Scarcely any
thing to do except wait between batches — a
child can do it. It’s then set away on shelf—
simply rinse as you would a dish or pan—that's
all—no more attention —all steel and iron con
struction. no wood, sanitary, always readv—
nothing to get out of order—should last a life
time—takes but little room—very light—easy
to handle—kept indoors, or out—no itijurv.
It's a caution the way it goes nfter dirt—
gently, but thoroughly—surprises all who see
—sounds strange, is strange, hard to believe,
but listen, the writer saw it demonstrated—it’s
all true, these are facts, not idle talk—it’s all
the manufacturer's claim—no experiment, it’s
being done, going on every day — our readers
can do it—nothing you can’t do—very simple—
THEY GUARANTEE.hack it up, know their goods,
what they do, prove everything—are responsi
ble, reliable, old house, established for yeais,
cnpital $100,000.00—known world over for square
dealing.
Don't this solve the washday problem—could
anything be nearer perfection — is there any
thing lacking? So entirely different from old
methods that it's just like learning all over
again, only there's ■**»—
nothing to learn.
Washday is dead,
sure enough—wash
boards and washing
machines a nuisance
to be abandoned—
laundries no iouger
needed — and the
wiiterafter making
this investigation fi.x-Vj
saidfarewelltowash 'll.En lilt
saidfarewelltowash _
day. in the words of
Shakespeare: “Ava
unt and quit my sight I *’ Thy u
washboards are useless—thy ff<\
washing machines no better. 4 ;
N*"Tlii* invention is named the
“EASYWAY”—gets name naturally, it’s entitled
to name -people named It—name tells the whole
story. It’s so easy to use—easy on clot he*—tlie
only easy way—easy to keep clean—easy to handle
—easy taken care of—easy on the women—makes
washingan easy ia.sk—-makes llfennd happiness
easy- easy to buy—easy to sell—really ami truly
the EASY WAY.
While at the factory In Cincinnati the writer
was shown many letters from actual users of
this Grand Invention, proving it is no experi
ment, but a positive success and giving splen
did satisfaction — the following extracts may
Interest our readers.
Mrs-G.C.Hedden. Ohio, writes: Where washing:
formerly took six hours, with Easy Way pet bet
ter results in little more than an hour. Fine lacot
and ordinary piece*, allowing 15 minutes each
batch, rome out beautifully white and clean. Am
delighted. Mrs. M.Fritter. Norwood, writes: With
Easy Way I clean a batch of clothes in about ten
minutes or a week’s washing in less than an hour
without rubbing and clean ae a laundry. My four
year old gill works It. Cleans fine laces, lace cur
tains. fine good* without injury. Beats wash-
boa* ds and washing machines, and there’s no
drudgery. Neighbors excited. Nothing equals
Easy Wav in saving time, labor, drudgery,
clothes. W. L. Brown, Ohio, writes: Washing now
does itself. Wash day now wash hour as Easy Wav
does the work, cleamug everything from bea
ding to fine laces with perfect success. Nothing
torn or injured. No rubbing, saves money, work,
worry, annoyance, etc.
Most inventions are for m^n — not much at
tention given to woman’s needs, but their tune
has finally couie. Alter enduring the greatest
- drudgery c!d
AeL waphday comes to
J&Pfi an end — the in-
ventorsettledthat
—his invent ion for
women, their joy,
their satisfaction.
We understand
that the women
throughout the
world who know
the value of this
remarkable ijivrn
tiott arc blessing
the inventor, and
it seems to us that
no man deserves
it more, for
what inven
tion saves 50
much hard
drudgery, so much
time, so much in
clothes and fuel and health. V- ri?v, the "EASY
WAY ” is woman’s best friend and benefactor.
Truly, that invention must be wonderful, res
a God-setid, a blessing for women, which re-
JBIcssing the Inventor.
’M0.5A.i0 A CHILD CWDWSirr
jury in about
one-tenth the
time, without 1
rubbing,
squeezing, packing, Dressing — without lime,
acid or other chemicals to injure fibre in goods.
Among our readers we c!o not believe there is
one of moderate means who could not well af
ford $!00.00 for an invention which saved 62
days drudgery yearly divided washday by ten,
one hour or less for cleaning family wash—to
so change the day that only a fraction of it*
time given to washing, making woman’s hard
est work an easy, if not the easiest of house
hold duties — saves wear and tear on clothes,
labor, fuel, your health and looks, live better,
live cheaper, and be happier.
.'If our readers but understood what it save*
in time, drudgery, fuel, clothes, health and
happiness we believe they would sell their bed
if need be to possess it.
We are glad to say that the price is not 1100.00
—nor $50.00—not even $10.00—It 1$ only $6.00—
that is all the manufacturers a^k, everybody
caiiaffoid that. With their immense facilities
they make.the price so low that anyone can
reach it. Wonderful how they do it, but they
take care of that. Certainly no other invention
saves so much time and labor for so little cost.
Our renders can see where it will save its cost
many times a j'car and in many ways. We don’t
believe their is a man living who will allow his
wife to keen up the old slavery on washday
I when the " EASY WAY 99 costs so little.
UnW Tfl CCT nME-It*Snot sold in stores.
nUff IUulI UliE Write to ihe HARRISON
MANUFACTURING CO. 3! Harrison B’ld’g Cincin
nati, Ohio, the only manufacturers of this great
invention, they will send full description and
convincing evidence, or better still, order one.
They ship promptly to any address and all over
the worla upon receipt of only $5.00, all com
plete, ready for anyone to use, then it’s all over
with washday. You won’t be disappointed,
as the makers fully guarantee and will refund
your money if not as represented. They are re
liable, responsible, backed by cnpital of $100,
000.00, and will do just as they agree—been in
business many years, and their goods sen to all
parts of the world. Don’t fail to send your ad
dress by letter cr card anyhow, and receive full
description of this marvelous invention and
much valuable information.
Certainly none of our readers will fail to in
vestigate at once this invention, whicn means
so much good to them personally, so much to
their family and the glory of cleaning clothes,
without drudgery, remembering always that it
costs nothing to investigate.
EXCITING BUSINESS for AGENTS
The firm offers splendid inducements to men
or women, and we advise tho.-c of our renders
who have spare time, and out of employment,
or not making much money, to write the firm
at once and se cure an agency for the most pop
ular selling article in the land. A wonderful
wave of excitement has swept over the country
and the factory is already rushed with orders,
so that our readers will do well to get iu early
for choice of location.
(Abort firm la thoroughly reliable and do just es they agree. The “ Easy War " te jusi as represented, and after inr
i we consider it the be:
rd of.J—Editor.
number of the last hymn and subsequent
ly backing that number in thi^ casino.
WINS BACK LOSINGS.
The chaiglain put a stop to the seanda 1
anil incidentally reduced tlie size of his
flock to its usual somewhat meager level
by a simple expedient. Tlie final hymn
was from that Cime onward selected
from that portion of the hymn book
wherein numbers ran above thirty-six.
As the numbers on tlie roulette wheel
themselves run no higher than thirty-
six. It was obvious that the hymn coul i
thenceforward give no c'.ew to tlie omen-
seeking gamester.
Another similar adventure which oc
curred to a well-known English plunger
is eque’iy authentic. Having lost every
cent of his ready money, lie wired a
pathetic appeal for help to a friend in
England. Two days iater lie received a
letter addressed in the friend’s hand
writing, which on 'being opened revealed
a £5 note. Without pausing to read tlie
letter our plunger hastened to Giro's,
the famous restaurant in the Gu'.cri
Charles III, and changed his fiver into
French money. From Giro’s he went
straight into the casino, where, experi
encing an extraordinary run of luck, lie
not merely retrieved all li is previous
losses, but gained a substantial increase
Into the bargain.
Weary of play, he retired with a few
cronies to Giro's again to celebrate the
occasion with a hottle of champagne.
The usually genial M. Giro met him at
the door of his establishment with a
flood of reproaches and upbraidings. Tlie
£5 note was bad! He waved it angrily
in the plunger’s face—mais oul. It was
false, this £5 note!
Tlie plunger tok the guilty fiver andN
scrutinized it carefully. It was one of
the sham bank notes issued by the late
Sir Augustus Harris and bearing on fheir
face an advertisement of the Drury Lane
pantomime. Tlie English friend, himsell
as “broke" as the Monte Carlo plunger,
had posted him the flagrantly worthless
fiver as a joke—a joke which, hail tlie
plunger taken the trouble to examine the
fiver or read its covering letter, he would
have seen only too clearly for himself.
It was fortunate that he did not do so.
He merely paid Ciro his £5 and. inviting
the pacified -restaurateur to share in the
champagne, pretended that the whole
affair was an intentional witticism on his
own part.
WAS FORTUNATE MISTAKE.
The conceit of- a croupier, who fondly
imagined that he understood the Eng
lish language, wa s instrumental in pre
senting another and far less experienced
Britisher with the not-to-be-sneered-at
sum of 1.000 francs. Thi% gentleman,
handing a 1.000-franc bill to the croupie: -
in question asked for plaques in exchange
for it ■ Plaques are the large 5-lou'n
gold pieces peculiar \o Monaco. The
croupier, fancying that the player had
said “black” and wa s requesting him- to
■place the note on the "black” compart
ment of tlie cloth, did so unobserved.
Eiack duly turned up and the croupier
politely handed 2.000 francs to the sur
prised Britisher.
Probably once, and once only, lias a
player at Monte Garlo won unwillingly.
The incident alluded to came under tlie
notice of the writer and he can vouch
for its truth. An elderly lady who was
conducting a party of nephews and nieces
along the Riviera was 'persuaded by tlie
young people to take them to the Gas-
ino. Aunt Maria, as we may convenient
ly call her, inwardly resolved to give her
proteges a lesson in the futility of gam
bling.
LESSON THAT FAILED.
Having made a private examination of
the odds against the player in the rou
lette game, she decided, shrewdly and
accurately enough, that to place a coin
on a single number was to court almost
certain loss. When, therefore, she took
her party into the Salles de Jou she ex
horted them to note how impossible it
was to make money by play and to point
her moral placed a 5-franc piece on the
single number 25. Bv rights 25 should
have lost, tlie chances being 37 to I
against it. Blit "the best-laid plans"—
25 won, to Aunt Maria's discomfiture,
and a delighted nephew gathered up from
the cloth her winnings—175 francs—com
plimenting her upon her good fortune and
judgment. Aunt Maria will not rely
again on object lessons to illustrate her
lectures on the futility of gambling.
Lieutenant Colonel Newnham-Davis,
the well knofn journalist of The London
Sporting Times, states that an Ameri
can friend of his once won £20.000 in a
single sitting at Monte Garlo and was
uniquely sensible enough to take, it home
with him intact. But the number of
people who are genuinely fortunate at
Monte Garlo and whose luck continues
till the day of their departure is exceed
ingly small. Decave, whici) in slang
simply means "stone broke,” is a word
whose use is pitifully common at Monte
Garlo.
BIG VIATICUM ITEM.
The vaticum item on tlie Casino bal
ance sheet—that is, the money paid for
railway fares for the ruined players'
return to their homes—amounted in tlie
1896-97 season to no less than £12,000.
and it is significant that Monaco is now
the only state in Europe where usurious
interest is charged by money lenders
with the sanction of the iaw. The
"breaking of the bank” stories which
persistently crop up in the French news
papers during the Monte Carlo season
are traceable not so much to a founda
tion on fact as to a foundation on the
"press subvention” fund of the casino
company—a fund which in 1901 amount
ed to no Jess than £20,000, and to which
may also be ascribed the strange silence
on the suicidt® question in the same
journals. That peculiar weekly, Roug?
et Noip (the Organe de Defense des .
Joueurs de Roulette et Trente-et-
Quarante—probably the only magazine
devoted solely to the interests of gam
blers ever pub'isbed), states that the
number of suicides per annum at Mortte
Carlo averages 400. or one per* week
ter table. This, it may be asserted
safely, is a gross exaggeration of the
truth, but that suicides are sadly fre
quent no one who knows the Riviera
would dare to deny. The curious have
only to climb the stony and almost path
less hillside behind Monaco town to find
proof.
SUICIDES’ CEMETERY.
Here, surrounded by a high wall, is
the suicides' cemetery, a melancholy and
neg'eoted little inclosure thick with rank
grass and betraying its nature solely by
a few wooden stakes bearing numbers
and decorated with bedraggled wreaths
and torn visiting cards. The sun beats
pitilessly upon its nameless graves,
butterflies flit to and fro over its flower
ing weeds and the leaves of its wreaths
stir lazily in the breeze. Outwardly, at
least, it is perhaps the least picturesque
and most uninteresting cemetery in the
length and breadth of France, but to
him who knows its secret it is fu 1 of
meaning. For these uncared-for mounds
represent more than the mere resting
places of madmen or fools who have
pitted themselves against tlie immuta
ble laws of mathematics; they are in
themselves a monument—an everlasting
monument—to the genius of a man who.
with tlie eye of faith, behold a gold mine
in a rubbish heap: a monument to the
creator of Monte Garlo—Francois Blanc.
Some day. when Europe gets the true
prospective of things, it will he said of
Francois Blanc, not that he founded
the Monte Garlo casino, not that he
'brought stability and wealth to the
throne of the princes of Monaco, not
that lie built the Monaco cathedral, but
that he made necessary this suicides’
graveyard. And when that day comes
the grisly jest of Monte Garlo will cease
to exist.—Chambers Journal.',
ONLY DO-NOTHINGS CAN BE EX
CLUSIVE.
E. S. Martin in Harper's .Magazine.
A high degree of exclusiveness is only
possible to nothings, and is only prized
by know nothings. The people who value
it seem to think that the crowd contam
inates and vulgarizes; that such virtue
as they may contain is diluted and weak
ened by large acquaintance with ordi
nary people; that the only people to have
easy relations with are the "nice peo
ple, the people of social position who
have something advantageous to confer
the people who are best to dine with
and out of whom something can be made.
That is a mistaken notion, and the mis
take is one of spiail minds. The people
—the great mass of the pei pie—arc the
fountain of hoonor and the main source
of most advantageous. The wise course
is to get in touch with as many of them
as is reasonably convenient. There are
a thousand relations In life hedises din
ner-giving relations that are worth while;
there are a thousand phases of friend
ship that are wotrit cultivating besides
the kind that flourishes between persons
of equal social condition.