Show PRODIGAL WITH HIS WEALTH russian spendthrift who squanders mil llona every year has found a successor in st petersburg he is max II 11 his age is 22 his pocket money 2000 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 supper it is a banquet of extremes says the fall stall gazette a gathering of the fine flower of ahe demimonde demi monde and ahe most ragged and ravenous beggars who can be picked up in the streets of st pe kersburg he lately paid 1000 rubles to a well known gambling establishment forthe exclusive ube 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 the banda of comus and a jury of 12 fair frailties who were to decide what reveler had been the wildest and wittiest in the evening s revel the men decants received gold and the ladies diamonds and the christmas tree was plundered of its pearl and ruby blossoms the beggars and nymphs hailed max II 11 as one of the wonders of the world applauded with both hand and strewed palms on his returning path meanwhile the family of this notable boyar are inking alarm end 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 |