And all this noisy,
foreign band, locoed by the easy money, intoxicated with the
sensual beauty of the ancient, seductive city, enchanted by the
delightful warmth of the southern nights, made drunk by the
insidious fragrance of the white acacias--these hundreds of
thousands of insatiable, dissolute beasts in the image of men,
with all their massed will clamoured: "Give us woman!"
In a single month new amusement enterprises--chic Tivolis,
CHATEAUX DES FLEURES, Olympias, Alcazars, etc., with a chorus and
an operetta; many restaurants and beerhouses, with little summer
gardens, and common little taverns--sprang up by the score in the
city, in the vicinity of the building port. On every crossing new
"violet-wine" houses were opened every day--little booths of
boards, in each of which, under the pretext of selling bread-
cider, old wenches trafficked in themselves by twos and threes,
right alongside behind a partition of deal, and to many mothers
and fathers is this summer painful and memorable through the
degrading diseases of their sons--schoolboys and military cadets.
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