Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — PRODIGAL WITH HIS WEALTH. [ARTICLE]

PRODIGAL WITH HIS WEALTH.

Russian Spendthrift Who Squanders Millions Every Tear. Le Petit Sucrier has found a successor in St. Petersburg, He is Max H., his age is 22, his pocket money 2,000,000 rubles, and the source of his revenue is ancestral trade. The special form of extravagance which he has made popular among the golden youth who so speedily molt their golden plumage is the beggars’ cupper. It is a banquet Of extremes, says 'the Pall Mall Gazette, a gathering of the fine flower of ihe demi-monde and the most ragged and ravenous beggars who can be picked up in the streets of St. Petersburg. He lately paid 1,000 rubles to a well-known gambling establishment for the exclusive use of their salons on one particular night. He then sallied out into the streets and returned with his beggars’ opera. Then came tradesmen, bringing the richest dishes; musicians, waiters, singers, the bands of Comus and a jurf of 12 fair frailties, who were to decide what reveler had been the wildest and wittiest in the evenings revel. The mendicants received gold and the ladies diamonds, and the Christmas tree was plundered of its pearl and ruby blossoms. The beggars and nymphs hailed Max 11. as one of the wonders of the world, applauded with both hands and strewed palms on hi* returning path. Meanwhile, the family of this notable boyar are taking alarm and casting about vainly for a remedy. A gold cure has been found for the disease of drink, but who will give a cure for the disease of gold?