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Show Famous Resorts of Riveria Thronged by New Race of Pleasure Seekers By a Staff Correspondent of the International In-ternational News Service and the London Daily Express. NICE, Ivay 10. A new race of visitor visi-tor hitherto unknown has come to the Riviera this season. It is a strange and interesting feature of the pleasure life along tho Medterranean. As if by order of command, all the new rich of northern neutral countries, Denmark, Den-mark, Sweden, Norway and Holland, seem to have given, a simultaneous order for new trunks, new gowns, new watch chains and Panama hats, and, having adapted themselves the whole army corps of them swept down on the liiviers add settled at Nice in particular. French and the nature NIcols are supposed to he the ruling languages, but Scandinavian and Dutch have ousted them. When all is said and done, these new searchers for pleasure, pleas-ure, nearly all bearing signs of former for-mer toll and devotion to work, are a welcome relief to the previous burden bur-den of the annual Hun, who, like a I locust, swept over certain parts of the Riviera. In pre-war times tho German visitor and his frau preferred Bordig-hera, Bordig-hera, with accosional visits to Monte Carlo, where fat fingers and protruding protrud-ing stomachs were predominant features fea-tures at tho gambling tables. The war has swept them away. The English still retain undisputed possession of Cannes. They divide Mentone and Cap Martin, with the French, and in a sense predominate at Monto Carlo. But Nice, which has hitherto been almost entirely French, has become swamped by the fair-haired fair-haired northerner, large, angular, slow of movement, heavy-footed and enor-mouse enor-mouse of appetite. You see them at the great expensive hotels, arriving from the railway station In companies of twelve and fifteen; giant fathers, 30ns of Anak; large, timid mothers, weighted with much clothing and heavy ornaments, and blue-oyed daughters, each and every one in a Panama hat with the front turned up, with kodaks in every hand. With measured step they walk up and down the Promenade des Anglais, turning as if by order when the hour for meals has struck, and in the dining-rooms arc devoured lunches and diners which must be the envy of every dyspeptic who beholds them. They ooze health and contentment. They have all made money so much money that you can see in their faces tho expression of surprise, first, at its acquistion, and, second, that it keeps on lasting. The difference between these new pleasure seekers and Germans is the difference between black and white. The Germans were noisy, ostentatious, domineering and gTeedy. TheNorse-man TheNorse-man or tho new profiteer from Holland Hol-land eschews these characteristics. There is nothing flash about him. He has made money out of the war; he knows that the great thing to do in tho cold season is for all rich peoplo to go to tho Rlviers very carefully, methodically, and without a gleam ot enthusiasm. But he does himself as well as any rich man is expected to do. |