Casper Daily Tribune Newspaper, May 11, 1924, Page 4

the axe do de th fa B in oO ce] at ™m ir a J v powuod ao Ee Pick Up After the Traveling Public N spite of the many memory I courses sold each year, people are as forgetful as ever. If you don’t believe it, ask those in charge ; of the Tost and found department of hotels or railroads. For the Amer- ican public when it travels leaves a stream of forgotten possessions be- hind it. People who go off and leave their most cherished posses- sions in some out-of-the-way place are a joke to most of us, but to a conductor of a passenger train or a hotel clerk they are the thorn in the side of an otherwise happy and con- tented existence, Would you believe there are men so careless as to leave their trousers behind when they leave the railroad coach in which they are riding? Impossible, you say. Perhaps, but if it were not a fact, how does it happen that a number of these well- nigh indispensible pieces of clothing are continually coming into the lost and found departments of the rail- roads? Of course, we wouldn't like to say that the losers went from the train into the wide, wide world in their B. V. D.'s. That would be asking the reader to believe a good deal more than he would be prepared for. More likely the men in question left their trousers in the sleepers and fared forth dolled up in another suit, A conductor of a big through train often looks like the husband of a Christmas shopper when he leaves his train at the end of arun. He ts likely to be weighted down with al- most every kind of article that people carry with them and with a good many that one would imagine never saw the interior of anything short of a freight train. Commuters Great Forgotters, When it comes to being expert for- getters, conductors say tho derby brown and tan suburban commuters— fellows who live whore the fields are green and are continually trying to make them greener, On their trips between country and city they lug all kinds of stuff along with them. It is nothing for one of these fellows to run for his train with his commutation ticket in one hand and a bag of fertilizer, a rake or hoe or small cultivator or some such article clasped in the other, gloves of merit must go to the those Students are another class of the train-riding population who have a tendency to be forgetful. Maybe one shouldn't say forgetful—Just preoccu- pied. These serious young people read from their books and, becoming so engaged in thinking of what they read, walk off and leave their stuff behind them. In other words, their remissness is related to the proverb- fal forgetfulness of the professor. If everyone upon leaving a train would make it a babit to inspect the seat upon which they had been sitting the lost and found department of a ratl- road would either pass out of exist- ence or become the sleepfest place In the world. There are mighty few people who follow this simple rule, however. If you don't believe it, keep your eyes open the next time you ride in a pas- senger coach. The passengers are usually so occupied with the tre- mendous task of getting off at the right station that they _ think of nothing else, Hotel Clerk’s Trials. Hotel guests also seem to have a special propensity for forgetting things. Give them a little leeway and they'll leave half of their pos- sessions behind them. You know what-a. frequent experience it is to pack up a trunk or suitcase and then, with everything in place, to find some vital thing under the bed or on the dresser, Well, that’s how it comes about that so much stuff is left be- hind in hotel rooms. The hooks lining the walls of the “linen room,” where the forgotten stuff is stored, are hanging with dresses and coats and wearing ap- parel of every description, all bear- ing descriptive tags. There are combs and brushes by the gross; safety razors and strops by the dozen; baskets of shoes, sometimes in broken pairs; toothbrushes by the hundred, hats by the score, pictures, piles of typewritten notes, books, cans, in a word, stuff of a hundred different shapes, es and descrip- tions. As the da: nd the weeks roll by and it seems likely that the owner is not going to claim his prop- erty, the articles of apparel are taken down from the hooks under the pressure of the incoming stuff and piled up upon the floor, where the stuff towers ceilingward in piles five and six feet high. No second-hand clothing or curiosity shop ever pre- sented a more bizarre appearance, e maids are instructed to re- port the finding of the smallest ar- ticle,” explained the housekeeper of one large hotel. “The stuff is taken to the lost nd found + department, where it is tagged and an account of the time and place of its finding writ- ten in a book kept for the purpose. If at the end of three months the stuff is unclaimed it goes to the per- son who originally picked it up. “Of course, the most valuable stuff found in the rooms fs jewelry, This ranges everywhere from expensive diamond rings to watches and jew- eled stickpins and cuff links, “On one occasion a woman came rushing into the hotel all excited, saying that when she had checked out she had forgotten her jewels, In order to insure their safety during the night she had knotted them yp in a corner of the sheet. Well, we had changed the linen without taking no- tice of the valuables, and the bed- clothing was already stuffed in bags ready to go to the laundry. We did sgme tall hunting, but we finally’ lo- cated the jewels—a diamond ring or two, a platinum brooch, some pins and a set of jeweled earrings, They must have been worth a pile of mon- Examples of the forgetfulness of hotel guests are not always furnished by stuff left behind in the room, as the following story—which well might be called the comedy of the Jost pajamas—illustrates: “Were inthe name of Jehosaphat are my pajamas?” came the voice of a perturbed male over the teiephone. There was an unintelligible noise— xyz, ratixs—in the instrument, as when the radio develops too much static or something. It was 1 o'clock in the morning and the man had rea- son for losing his temper. The voice~of the hotel clork did not lose its urbanity, its measured Politeness. He was not excited like aman facing an unforseen happen- ing. The loss of a pair of pajamas, while not exactly a usual thing, had happened a number of times before. Consequently ,he replied: “I do not know, sir; but if you had a pair of pajamas in your room and they are not there now I will have the housekeeper locate them for you. When the housekeeper was located SHE Con buUCTOR AFTER THE DAYS TRI ys (Courresy Puurapecrmta Recoang she immediately got upon the job, knowing that there are only two ways in which pajamas go astray. Either they had been rolled up and carried away when the lnen had been changed or they had been placed in the scrapbasket and re- moved with the trash, Investigation of the records of the day’s activities showed that the first possibility was the wrong count, but a rummage through the waste paper bag, con- taining the day’s quota from the floor Lost & FouND DEPARTMENT 33 37 HERE PP in question, disclosed the pajamas. Imagine the delight of the guest when the bellboy, delivered the many- hued garment into hishands. He had simply gathered them up with some WELL! MINE WAS A Suack UMBRELLA! SSSA +s hoss oF HIS GLASSES~ other stu‘f and in a fit of absentmind- edness had cast them into the waste paper basket, and, unperceived by the maid, they had gone their way. Yes, we are a forgetful peopte. F the father of the girl you hope I to marry suddenly draws a knife from his pocket and saws a gash in your arm do not be alarmed. There is no cause for fear. He is after your blood, it is true, but from no murderous intent. Having heard the latest scientific decree that in- compatible blood corpuscles shall not mate, he is merely doing his fatherly duty in finding out just what kind you have, And if you, therefore, happen to be type one, while your beloved Angela is type four, you may as well resign yourself to your fate. It’s all off! Marriage between you will only re- sult in unhappiness, constant dis- cord and bickering, and divorce in the end—according to the new theory, You may, of course, fly in the face of Providence and all warn- ings and marry anyway, but b~ so do- ing you will only bring disaster upon yourself and the lady of your choice. There is much in this to catch and hold the popular fancy. Even the most casual student of physiology recognizes the important part which the blood stream plays in our lives, and how much it influences our health and so our entire nervous system. It seems perfectly natural to infer that sluilar blood éonditions should result in similar natu‘es, and therefore compatible ones, This, briefly summarized, gives you the theory, But at the same time it is not to be supposed that impetuous and impulsive youth will take kindly to anything of the sort, or that the thought of separation will bring any- thing but woe, even though the rea- sons be highly scientific. Determining the Types, But how are we going to know to what type we belong? somebody rises to inquire. The formula is simple; even Craig Kennedy under- stands it, The transfusion experts have found there are fcur distinct types of individuals—or shall we say of bloods, To classify an unknown type, a deop of the unknown blogd is placed on a microscopte slide, To this is added a serum from tyDg two and to another unknown dro,, a se- rum from type three. If reaction, which process is known as agglutina- tion, follows the addition of type two, the unknown is placed ag typ> three. If reaction follows the s#ddition of type three, the unknowu is type two. If agglutination follows the adding of both, it is type one, ana if there is no reaction from either it is type four. it would be to find that right one as’ A mere process of adding two and two; if you get the idea. How nicely everything could be worked out if there were some rule as simple as this. Provided, of course, that human emotions could be subjected to scientific formulas, and that young folks in love could be made to see the desirability of mat- ing with the right one; how perfect Say oft of the years as they This, this is life with its wi f I shall have it once, but it co easily as this! But just when every- thing fs going so nicely and we had made up’ our minds that divorce would soon be in the discard along with red shdes, the snuff habit and other evils of the past, along comes the medical world and shoots the whole thing full of holes. Nothing in the Theory, ~ They declare vigorously and at length, one and all, that blood has nothing to do with temperament, and is purely a psysiological matter, They say that one type four may be phlegmatic, uninteresting and dull, while another may be as brilliant When the miscroscope shows that the woman knows what she wants, while the man has a shrinking dispo- sition the marriage might be happy. and as temperamental as Mary Gar- den; one type two may be a deacon in the Methodist church and a trustee in the Sunday school, and another of this same type be a blood-thirsty Apache with three daggers in his belt and seven wives, There is simply no depending on types jn rel-tion to disposition or character, both pshys!- clans and blood type authorities are united in firmly asserting. And furthermore, they say, the learned physician was joking who made the remark regarding blood tests for type as a cure for divorce; and furthermore and more, the one who spoke of compatibility of blood between husband and wife had no such idea in mind, This, we are told, is to be desired for medical reasons only, and has nothing whrtever to do with anything as silly as tempera- ment, VERDICT I8 “INCOMPATIBLE!” The Girl—And to think of all that powder and lipstici® wasted! The Man—And all those taxi rides and theater tickets gone £ pass from sight— den store; mes no more, —Sarah Knowles Bolton for nothing!” The term “blood relation” would seem to be a misnomer, since two ut- ter strangers may be closer in blood, according to type, than members of the same family, The difference is a less discernible one than that. And since it is as elusive as personality { itself, there will be many who will still feel that beneath the plausible theory of blood compatibility there may be something after all. But ’ When the blood drops show a pas- sion for bridge on one hand and & fondness for home brew on the other matrimonial union should probably be avoided. . what's the use? If Jim loves Mary Ellen and, she loves him, they're go- ing straight ahead, in spfte of all the scientists and blood tests and types in the world, The United States Coast Guard Serv- ice wan founded by Alexander Ham- iton during his incumbency as first Secretary of the Treasury, Cras Renan Brooklyn is said to be the pioneer municipal body to organizé its boys and girls into an army of protection for the trees in its streets and parka. Pia Samerisleirhens (1 Dlawts were sold within the limits of the United States in a single year, and 100,000,000 cut roses were used for various purposes.