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Show It's Easy to Lose Things In Pullmans Mixed-Up Suitcases Cause Endless Trouble oh mumtfr Conductor I Ttmeizf Tet ' 1 WilOTMTNlY TEETH j GO MOW " " ! 1 Every day enough false teeth, shces, stockngs, canes, eyeglasses, toupees and slippers are found in Pullman berths to Steele a department depart-ment store. Vacationists lose their cherished possessions by the thousands and there are few travelers who return i homo without leaving some ar:icl2 j on the train. ' The Pullman company has a tre-I mendoua job trying to sort out these valunbleo and aemi-valuables and give them back to the people vho own them. Sometimes the owners cannot even identify their.. A man lost his false teeth in a berth in Salt Lake. A porter won a reward by finding the molars! among the Bheets in the laundry. A woman delegate to the Republican Repub-lican convention lost her diamond j ! ring. A porter found it in the aisle. Two suitcases -are unloaded at aj' dpot and both look alike. A man j picks up ore., only tu find out, too j Inte. lh;it it is full of women's un- ! derwear. i Meanwhile, a woman opens the i i other and finds m its socks, collars j i and shirts. The Pullman company j exchanges them. Men ore always losing shoes. They i put on one of their own and one 1 belonging tn somebody else and i f get off ih'i train. Women do so, 1 too, but as their shoe styles differ so widely, they are not so apt to trade unconsciously. " ' The Pullman people have to trace each shoe, and frequently succeed in restoring both pairs in each case. When they don't buy a new pair for the complaining guest. Thousands , of pajamas, razor strops, nightshirts, hats, umbrellas, spats, kimonos, earrings, golf clubs, kodaks and bill folds are left in Pullman cars every month, lose things when they don't. An absent-minded Seattle man returned from a trip, went home, prepared for bed and unpacked his suitcase to get the pajamas he knew he had taken with him. Then he called up the depot, to report their loss. The pajamas, he said, -were lavender and gieen. Then he stopped. "Why, I've got them on," he said, and hung up. A Ni.'w York publisher is reputed n have made o fortune selling plp-ilar plp-ilar books with illustrations show-j.g show-j.g the principal characters as ccl-ned ccl-ned folk. Montevideo, capital of Uruguay, fi the "Renn" of South America. Divorces can't be had in Argentine. the A routines cross ths River PaiMo to Montevideo to get 'em. |
