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Show VANITY BREEDS SUCKERS. ! Some time ago a score or more of Washington's social aspirants were induced to pay $100 each in order to be included in a "blue book" to contain con-tain the names of the capital's elite. For $200 additional the photograph of the subscriber was also to be inserted in-serted in the magic volume. The promoter of this scheme for glorifying the socially ambitious was the 65-year-old Joseph Rheinstrom, who lived in style at a leading hotel and called on his prospective cus- tomers m a luxurious limousine alter al-ter making appointments by t.lephone. Police) .investigated his activities, found that he had no connection with any social register, and put him in jail, charged with fraud. His dupes are naturally much embarassed and are trying to keep their part of the affair quiet. This is another illustration of the ease with which swindlers trap their victims through appeals to that vanity van-ity described by Urowning as "an itch for the praise of fools." |