Salt Lake Tribune | 1915-10-10 | Page 11 | Horde of Hoydens Compaigning Here

HORDE OF HOYDENS CAMPAIGNING HERE Young Ladies Use Stage "Business" of Byes to Peddle "Movie" Magazine. v A horde of hoydens has descended upon tho business district of the city in the last few days, extracting dollars from every man they can wheedle, coax, cajole or threaten ino signing his name on the dotted line. These youug women talk rapidly of "getting votes for a scholarship' ' and exhibit a subscription Wank to an eastern east-ern "movie" magazine, which the victim vic-tim is expected to sicn. at the same time forking over the dollar. In fact, the young women admit that the last is the most important. Most insistent they arc. Tbey affect, the role of romping ingenues, and bavo a line of chatter, coupled with stage "business" of eyes and so on, that reaps quite a harvest of dollars from impressionable- aud susceptible young men. Other men less susceptible and less impressionable have relinquished dollars to these, pestiferous young persons merely to get rid of them. These men report that the campaigners don't know the meaning of the word "no." The broadest hints and intimations, some of then) as subtle as a ton of bricks, are ignored by them. It it-, told that they oven "jimmied " their way into the president's suite at the hotel when Mnvor W, H. Thompson of Chicago was here, and collected a dollar. fn one Main streel business house, where there is a strict prohibition ngninst solicitors of all kinds, the head of the concern had to start out in search of a policeman before the young women ; would desist in tbe'ir importunities.