The Ogden standard. [volume], August 22, 1914, 4 P.M. City Edition, MAGAZINE SECTION, Image 20

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THE STANDARD MAGAZINE SECTION OGDEN, UTAH, AUGUST 1
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I Woian
I After Successiuily
I Standing Off Hotel
Manager for Half a
Year, Keeping Him
From Collecting Debts
LsLsH
Since the days of Becky Sharp
gfesijM tvw persons have trioil to live on
BP&ifB nothing: a year Thi; few have been
SatE unsuccessful, but as Car as can lc
KSreiiJ learned the one who came nearest
jaSiSgS! to success was Mrs. Lllliun Horn
gMffisfli Koenig, who for mans' months kept
Ejwfl Lyman T. Hay, manager of the
BlK&jjjjH hotel where she was staying, from
MyBfl collecting her board and room rent.
LfjSnftfjsB "Now he says I'm craisy.V said the
ifjPftjSrW disgusted Lillian Horn Koenig
8mEX1 Mrs. Koenig Is h widow and rath-
jgSjjljB er good looking Being a widow the
adjective wealthy was attached to
the forepart of her name, as It is
customarj In speakinp: oi widows
lo either class them as poor widows
or wealthy widows. Thuse who
have ever read about h plain widow
without reference to her poverty or
wealth speak up.
It might be good advice to all
widows to get the prefix wealthy at- V
tached to their names as quickly as
possible, for that will aid thorn ma
terially In living on nothing a year.
At least It aided Mrs. Koenig. The
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Rlvs. LILLIAN HORN
A'i KOENIG and Lyman
T. Hay.
facts of the case arc that Mrs.
Koenig was only a little bit wealthy,
die had a lot of propel ty but the
property was tied up and hard to
realize cash upon Therefore, she
was the same as poor. That didn't
niako much difference to Mrs. Koe
nig, however She was sorry she
c ould not cash In on her estate
rleht away, but that was the mis
fortune of the man she had chosen
lo hoard her The man was Lyman
T. Hay. manager of the Hotel Jef
ferson. Unlike Becky Sharp, who had It
figured out that she never did have
to pay any bills, Mrs. KoenlR sim
ply wished to put off payment until
such time as she could afford to
pay up.
She entered the hotel and regis
tered. She looked as though sho
was good for any kind of a bill the
management wished to send to her,
so the clerk sent her to a good
room. She paid her bills for a while
and then quit,
The statements were sent to her
regularly, but she happilv sljmeJ
the bills for her meals In the (lin
ing room and hurned the statements
r II lor them a way in her trunk for
souvenirs. What was the use of
paying when you haven't the mon
ey, was her attitude. Furthermore,
what's the use of paying when yoa
don't have to.
When Oet-Kb h-Qutck Walllng
ford of recent fiction wished to
break Into fame as a rich man so
he could win the confidence of
those he wished to defraud, he wore
diamond rings, paid out fat tips, but
paid nary a cent Tor bills What
was the use.
"If you look as though you were
rich they will be clad to hoard you
for nothing." was Walling ford's at
titude, and it worked line, according
to the fiction.
Mrs Koenig ma not have had
.-my such theories about the matter.
Sho never disclosed them, If she
diii She simply did not pay he--
biiu, while she continued to eat
plenty of loud and laid up Strength
for a rainy' day. Then the rainy
day came. Lyman T Hay ordered
the man under him to tell Mrs.
Koenig she must pay up or get out.
Sin- said she couldn't get out be
cause she had no other place to
which to go.
Furthermore, she wrote to Hay
that she was perfectly satisfied
where she was. The manager
looked the letter over carefully,
reading every word.
M VGEK FAILS To
HI I l 111 THOUGHTS.
Whatever the real thoughts of
the manager were, it is hard to say.
He didn't change his expression, so
the bellboys could notice, and he
didn't een whistle as he read the
letter Neither did he say "Gosh!"
It Is recorded, however, that he
tried to arruc with the woman and
persuade her to leave. He also
sent clerks to argue with her when
he realized she was firm and would
not depart. The clerks asked her to
o in peace. She told them to quit
annoying her. Then they presented
her a bill for more thnn half a thou
sand dollars. She threw the bill
aw ay.
"1 think Mr. Hay is real mean."
she said, "He ought to be glad to
have me board with him for noth
ing. I am worth that much to the
hotel. I will not leave. In fact, ho
oujrht to pay me for remaining
Again I say, I will not go "
The clerks called a patrolman.
The patrolman ejected her. but not
until after she had a real light with
the clerks. After being placed on
the street In front of the hotel she
continued to insist she should he al
lowed to remain in the hotel and
wis taken to police headquarters.
Liter she was taken into police
court to be fined She was freed,
however, on condition she would
keep the peace
"All right." she said. "I'll be
good, but 1 want my clothing." She
went to the hotel and demanded
her clothing, but failed to get It.
The trouble was she wante.i only a
change of clothing and the clerks
wanted her to take all. She insist
ed on getting into the room and
chanse her clothing. That right
was denied.
That was the first Mrs. Koenig
learned of the difficulties of living
on nothing a year. Prloi to that
time all bad been easy. One e0uld
do It ir they only kept up their bluff
at being wealthy enough. She had
failed in one particular point. That
was when she confessed she was
poor.
Mad she only kept up the Im
pression she was rich but did not
m NO MAN CLEVER ENOUGH TO DECEIVE HIS THUMB AMD IT TELLS THE CHARACTER
mEI The thumb confesses tbe man: no
raHwB man is clever crouch to deceive hi
gfluSjl thumb. For all this, it has been dl-
KngH vided into three parts, typifying the
jgjsSpB three qualities that master tho
EBjflBfjB world will logic and love.
BgBflBSB The first or nail phalange slgni-
BBjaWHB ncs will: Die second, logic; thf
BgHaliB1 third, whit, h is the boundary of tho
kSShH Mount of Venus, love. When the
HESehI thumb is unequally developed, and
mmmHS (he first phalange xtreraely long,
B&HaH It is neither love or logic that gOV-
wnHHl srns the Individual, but merely
fi809H sheer will. If the middle phalange
HEShH he much longer than the first, rea-
539eI "on predominates, yet the man mav
HsiHB not have the power to will himself
HMH to do that which his reason dictates
jSHBpfl When the third phal inge is long
SflHEH and the thumb is short, man is re-
H vealcd as the slave of the senses
HHH guided neither by will nor
fflHSH If the thumb be supple-jointed
Hw9 the Individual la easy-going, spend-
flHK thrift, careless Of time, money,
HH energy, opportunity and ell things.
MKjfll, If it be firm-jointed he Is cautious,
mBH Watchful, keen, diplomatic, tireless
RHH in claiming, confident and sure of
success, self-poised and self-con-t
rolling.
Sourvuroff, celebrated for the
strength of his will, Denton, that
magnanimous soul, who took upon
himself the disgrace of a crime to
save his Country; Galileo, Socrates.
Newton, Leibnitz. Bt Simon, Four
ier, Owen those- profound rcason
rs, those bold innovators had In
falllbly very small thumbs. Vol
talre, the man of the world, whose
heart was subject to his brain, had
enormous thumbs.
The Intimate psychic connection
between tho mind and the thumb,
revealed b) science in a thousand
phasen, makes it folly to den that
tho thumb is tho thermometer of
character and the barometer of
ni"iiiiil health.
Specialists In nervo disease, by
an examination of the thumb, can
tell If the patient is affected or
likely to bo affected by paralysis,
is the thumb signals this trouble
long before It Is aallablc In any
other part of the body. If the dan
ger symptoms are evidenced there
an operation is performed on what
Is known as the "thumb center" of
tho brain, and the disorder is often
removed, The success of the opera
tion can be told, too. by the changed
condition of the thumb.
No matter how carefully the In
dividual may attempt t" conceal in
cipient Insanity, the thumb will re
veal It infallibly. It Is the one sore
test. If the patient in his daily
work permits the thumb to stand at
right angle to tho other fingers
or to fall listless into the palm,
taking no part in his writing, his
handling of thlnirs, his multiform
duties, not articulating with tho
others, but Standing isolated and
sulky, it is ::n unanswerable con
fession of mental disease.
Bom Idiots come Into the world
without thumbs, or with them pow
erless and inert, which is natural,
because where the substance Is ab
sent the symbol m:st fall. Until
they arrive at a time when a ray of
intellect comes to their aid they
constantly keep their hands with
the fingers above the thumb, the
mind develops with the body, tho
thumb In Its turn shuts over the
fingers.
Tho epllepti. ?, In their fits, shut
tho thumb before the lingers, which
signifies that that malady, which
is experienced before being felt,
reaches the principle by which we
think before that bj which wo feel.
At the approach . of death the
thumb of the dying, as taken with
some vague fear, takes refuge under
the linger, Which announces the near
end. Man alone, because he has a
thumb that la to sviy. reason
knows death.
"The thumb," says D'Arpcntlngny,
"Individualizes the hand." On the
ball or cushion-like surface of the
two Joints of the thumb, a In
deed on the other lingers, there Is
seen a kind of spiral formed by
fine grooVes in the skin. Theae are
alike in no two individuals. Na
ture never duplicates those mark
ings. Examining even .1 thousand
million thumbs would show them all
to be distinct and different. Individ
ualized by some Infinitesimal var
iation, these markings never
change from birth to death, and (he
right thumb dlfu-ra from tho left.
The Chinese do not take photo
graphs of their criminals. They
merely force them to press their
thumbs on a piece of white paper
covered With -aniline dye, India Ink
or similar substance. The resultant
impressions are stored away, class
ified and brought out years after,
if necessary, to identify i suspected
person with one who has alreadl
received his diploma for crime. In
many parts of the empire thumb
marks are used on passports, for
they cannot be counterfeited or
their passport used by anyone but
the rightful owner
A few years ago. In the course
of transit between New York and
New Orleans an express packet of
paper money had been opened and
?22,500 of the original amount had
been abstracted) Two of the seals
had been bsoken and om- had been
resealed by thumb pressure. The
solution of the mystery baffled tho
most Ingenious work of the best
detectives until, In despair, the mat
It r was referred to an expert in
handwriting ami other methods of
identification. Noting tho faint Im
pression of the thumb on the mid
dle seal, be obtained wax Impree
slons of the thumbs of all the of
ficials of the particular express
company through whose hands ths
Picket was known to have passed
' hese Impressions were photograph
ed and enlarged and one of thorn
loarly agreed with the thumb Im
pression seal of the broke,, enve
OPe. The thumb m.nrk of one of
Hie most trusted officials of the
company thus betrayed him, and ho
was prompt arrested, trlod con
victed and sentenced.
1 Dinner on Approval
"Beg paraon, s,r." id the stew
IS: slr?-may 1 b"nc ynu
sen?,h 1 "'!eiJS qo'" Te th Paa-
h I J!'5, ? h0 a out across
the founding deep , B ,
can bring me one on approval'
stwwi '" '.? Blr'" pPated ti-e
stew. .id. ,Ud you say 'on an
provai,' sir?" p
: yf's" , Proved the pas.senKer
weakly. -You see. r may not want
to keep it.
wlh to pnv tho bill all would have
been well. As it was. everybody
,,, , lded she was insane and she was
ordered locked up temporarily hilo
comeone else was given charge of
tn-r estate to in:mage for her.
"That sounds entirely unlike the
ad of an Insane woman," wid ne U
of the alienists whose advice was
n..i asked in 1 ourt. 'That sounds -more
like the shrewd hem In g of F'
u an of affairs. Shd gently
knows what ho la doine 1 talked
with he.- a short time and have ds- sjj
elded h" ! kCf mentally, only
not Intend to --bow 11 at iho
present time This Is a game of
hers, and It is a shrewd on-
-Mrs. Koenig, in my opinion,
realized sho wa-s short of fundi..
She decided to cover up and do It
quickly 1 She saw she could not
realise money on her Investments
for some time. There was only
one thing to do, and that was to get
, rt rlit until business loosened up a
little She did not wish to sell her
holdings at a loss during time of
semibiisiness Inactivity.
"She then went to one of ihe iest
hotels at hand and began to iie In
the best of circumstances. Sho
couldp t hae worked the game in a
rhe.no hotel. She would have been
branded as n poor widow and v. ould
have been thrown out f the hotel II
iht- first week. By picking 1 : 1
hotel sh was able to keep from
paying for half a year. That was
not finite enough to tide her over
the dull period.
That doesn't round a little bit
like the machinations of a razy
woman "
The Grans Nnt.
Every ngc has Its own name for j
him, bul essential!) he remained tbe ,
.me, nn'll a subversive twentieth 1
century produced nils negative)
dandy, whose dandyism consists in
an affectation of the slovenly, a de
alal of the elegant. His very or
thography lacks precision, for we
knoW not whether bis Intthil be
"K" or "S." Our "nut" has no
etyle at all, only mannerism, which
fs the death Of style
The loose drab clotttllng th.it .nmo
in With speed, speed of earth or air,
may account In some measure for
th nut These brown husks w
know, cbntaln a kernel that is man;
bi t bis godlike shape fl disguised
quite as much as woman's has been
revealed by receni fashion
Nuts are frequent devotees Of vi
carious 'norgl?'.lnj;. and their chronic
roundness of shoulder Is the eternal
sign of a strenuous life and of a
body perpetually arched over the K
tr ilnsr wheel. And hi' lltib- sort
hat; Jammed jealously over his eyes,
tells of continual battling with the
breeze of speed Set low. with
hunched shoulders and neck out
stretched, In his gray torpedo of a
racing car. he has no use for ele
gance. He Is merely concerned that
his flopplness he expensive
Having curtailed space, he forces
his speech to a more than tele
graphic hrevltv. That which to
slower men Is absolutely impossible
he regards as "abso Imposs." The
rlsrlit use of the clipped vocabulary
is a thing not to be easily learned.
Of his sister, the female nut. who
shall dare to write? She Is nn Imi
tation, an exaggeration. lacking the
charm of n spontaneous growth,
(lolf links know her and country
houses. She calls for ' pess" at on
timely hours of the morning, and
has a mouthful of Strange oaths.
To one brand of cigarettes she has
sworn allegiance, and if you offer
her another she varies the ancient
adjuration "my aunt'"' with nn ap
peal lo ' my godmother!" which she
thinks most raklshlj profane. To
the car she Is as much devoted as
her brother, wi'h whom she wran
gles for its n'-.Mielon and she
knows, roughl) how .o drive It
Menaced Skyscrapers.
"Quit huildinsf 'sky scraper-.' iA
Was the advice slr.-n to the const n
1 bn of the National Association of
Building Owners and Managers by
Franklin N. Wentworth of Boston.
Mr Wentworth. Who Is secretary
of the National Fire Protpetion As
sociation, declared that excessively
hih buildincrs are becomlncr a men
ace to the larger cities of the coun
t ty.
"It Is ?nitl th.nt tne up and down
traffic on the elevators of Neil York
I'itv is nlinost as ureat as the horl
zontal traffic," said' he. "New York
I itf h;is been very fortunate. No
disaster more horrifying could be
Imagined than hnt .vhich would
occur If New Vork City should
have an earthouak- j si enough of
8 shock to break water mains and
gas mains and to snap electric lead's.
'Dirt loss of life would be appalling.
"Imagine the panic that would
occur if such a disaster came dur
ing the rush hours when 100. COO
persons would be In the subways or
uh,n panic-stricken occupants or
great buildings were attempting to
make th- ir waj .town to the ground,
The skyscrapers have made tht
subway a necessity. A great confla
gration, such as iii possible in New
Vork. WOUld I riu? Ihe Same dUas- A
trous results as an earthquake and PK
choke the subways. '
New York is beginning to realize
he menace and steps art being tak
n to limit the height of buildings"
""" l Cities not limited In space as
New York should set a nmu on
"' height of buildings. it (-.l)ea
'v ' - t an greater l0 ,
high buildings.''
A Suit From FJ.
The courts have nasae'd ,,,.r .,
Qusstion 01 aamsVS;
01 .ewafiw1 ;,;-r:,;i"
living m 0mantown! pwfadelDW
- heavj damages ?rom l-
1 Uy for hi illness whioh 1 he
"as caused "til m tf" ""
through his var.l -h, 1 . ,low,"
bj -?wagehfroh;dh "
by . typholc fvSkit SH
def. nse relled pro,,, lh , rJW
Pgilltia .had neher C m no!
bathed In the stream, but ai mn
mologlst convinced the jEL f,!!!
If had contr ,d the ..s
ihrough the medium of S'ea ftSS!
had tarried the Infecfion from IS
trearn to the food exuoj .
visits In his house d l th
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