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Show Sun Dodger's Paradise of South America tl of br. F1t or mix rabrt n umbo um-bo ra ar put on, alnffinc and dancing. On may danco with any of tha fflrla Ittlnaj- Idly at tha varloua tabla, Thay ara of many nattonal.tlea. Thar la tha tall Ena-Uah (lrl who clalma thai ah uacd to alna- at tha Alhambra In jon-idon; jon-idon; aha will aoon a;o up on tha atae; 1 and elnarlng- "Mar ie." In a walllnv ! vole which would not hava crd)tad I tha Iondon footllahta. Thar la an Argentina alrl juat arrived from j burnvi Aire, a dancer from Praaua. ; avral Spanlah atria. and mora I Krench. Hy inWiniajht tha honU la beainnlnr to amply out. It la tlma for opantna fh othar eluba. Th aamblin aalon upstair la dolna null builneial Juat acroaa th Ave ad la from tha , Phoenix la th Aaayrt. uadarnaath tha ; beautiful Municipal thcair. Thla, too, I cloaca early, catering principally to th aftr-thatr parti1 that drop In for, a drink or two and perhapa a danco, hefor grolna; horn. Her w find many of th nam alrla that wa aaw In tha rhoanls: moat of them tnaka th round of tha larger cluba every night. (Continued tomorrow.) l a 1 ByHIWlVAil-A KEMPSTUa. Valtow PrM ntmtt Cmrwrmpmdmmt CHAPTER I. RIO DB JANEIRO (By Mai! to 17. P.). On not Infrequently of late, par tlcuiariy alnc th liquor doe not finw o freely lit th U. a A.. Ions; and lurid article deplctlv of th rtutou night I If of Havana, with It painted lauica. Ha bubbling cbampagn and It Jaxa. Th scribes characterise It a tha wickedest plies In th world, out Panning Pann-ing Pari In Us fevrlsh Qust of pleasure. pleas-ure. Berlin, Vienna and london ar counted out as feeble Imitator. Th i malting pot of th pleasur eekra 1 said to b In th Cuban capital. But th writer chap ar all wrong they bar yet to spend a night out In Rio d Janeiro. When compared with Itlo, Havana after dark la a playground for babes; Pari la put down a th slowest spot la th world In which to pa aa waning: Berlin and Vienna ar back aumoor. who thrill hav been renovated and modernised and transported trans-ported to Klo, where they hav grown to proportion never dramd of In tn European capitals. ... Mont Carlo la a plker't delusion be-ald be-ald th liraslllan capital, for here. In truth. I th jas bound' paradls. th gambler delight, th booser'a dream of havea tod th real bom of th night life. , Her, with th dollar worth almost eight mllreie at th present exchange, the American T. U. M. caa find th thrllis that b baa long sine mourned aa dead. , H, II can eilst on a diet of Jonnle W altera, al-tera, or any other concoction that may suit hla taat. without th necuy of keeping an ey peeled for the prohibition pro-hibition of fU ert, and without fear ot rank imitations. He can wh.i away tha busy hours risking his fortune la any llttl gam that h may like roulette, banker. ret. vinri-t-u-n, poker and- as ay other Including the race track. When our T. b. M. find need of more eerclse. be ha at hi dlspoal Innumerable danc hall of vry clas according to his inclination. The, for th part, ar th cabarets, or so-called so-called clubs. whre on may eat. drink, Catnbl .danc or watch th acts put u y the management. Probably the beat and most frequent ellenis of thee cluba ar tha Americana Ameri-cana Thla I particularly true of th larger and bettr cabaret a, whr most of th hahltuea ar foreigner. . Th Brailllans eem to prefer th mailer club, where th atmophr I mor typically native, and where lh orchestra play only th masli. for th Brasilia prefers tnat to th American dancea. In th larger clubs, however, frequented mor by English and American, th foxtrot and one-tp one-tp ar popular, with an occasional mail and tango for variation. It a great lif down south. o say th Braslllan "almofadlnhaa" (a socles of similar Ilk to th well known "cake-eatera'l. "cake-eatera'l. aa they make th round of th Klo night club seeking relief from th borodom of a humdrum &latenc. They ar very, very blase. the leek patent-leathered creature whom on encounter wherever diver Ion may bo found. Kor them tner nothing new under th un; they hav tneo everything, not one but many times, and ihev will tell you that Us a great life, though rather dull. But we do not all know th ropes so well as thla race of lass hounds mo let us e bow they spend an evening, first, a plac to din. Thl Is not ev Impl S would eem, for. Strang to nay. KU ha very few good restaurant. restau-rant. Besides the big hotels, lh Rotlaserl Americano, and th lem aea-eld aea-eld reetaurant. few places afford a good meal to th visitor. However, let us step Into th The-tro-Cabarl Phoenix, th first of the club to be visited, just off th Avea-Ida Avea-Ida Rio Braaco. Her w may get a fairly good dinner at a mod oral price. At the door- the perter and th hat-boy hat-boy greet us In fluent English and call th head waiter to attend to our need. Inalde. th plac maintain th appeal -anco of th theatre, which It formerly waa 1 th center I a spacious dancing danc-ing floor, aurrounded by many tables U a atag. and In th orchestra pit a la a stag, and I nth orchestra pit a Jasa band ta furiously playing "Bright Eyes' for th dancers "ohaklng a shimmy on the glistening floor. Th plac doea not fill up until after dinner, between t and IS o'clock, when people begin straggling la to spend aa boar or o vex a ginflaa ar a oot- |