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Show ABOUT THIS, f THAT AND T'OTHER By D. J. G. 4 , . ALEXANDER, the audevillian. fill-1 ed an engagement of four days at the Orpheum theater last week. During those four days he answered, say, "00 Questions a day asked by that many persons. During his engagement engage-ment there were 1,200 persons, then who asked him for advice and information. infor-mation. Some asked for business advice. ad-vice. Some wanted to know If the would be successful In certain undertakings, under-takings, cithers wanted to know If they would he successful in love. A surprisingly large number wanted to know if they would have a home of their own A great muny wanted to know whether they .should remove to O.iliforniii Now it Is reasonable to nuppose that B great many of those who wrote out questions to tie answered did .so merely mere-ly from n sense of curlositj. They wanted to see if the performer realb could tell what they had written and give a reasonable answer. But It Is reasonable, also, to sup-I pose that a great many of the cjues-1 Uoners were in earnest, that they actually ac-tually souRht the :.rlvice of this Alex ander tif the marvelous brain. I am Interested In whether this latter lat-ter grouD la large or small. I should like to know how many of the 1,200 asked Alexander questions on love, matrimony or buslneai In all seriousness. serious-ness. I should like to know how mans person! would sell their home here and go to some other state because a stag-necromancer stag-necromancer Informed them that It would no doubt be profitable for them ' to do so, or who would remain here und not go away as planned Just be-cause be-cause of the advice from the nnstlc. i NO doubt the number of citizen"--1 who believe in fortune tellers and frdlow their advice would be nston-,' lhlng if we h'i the statistics. Fortune For-tune tellers are advertised by their i correct guesses and not by their mis-takes. mis-takes. If, for instance, ten personal visit a soothsayer and some predlr-1 tion Is made to one person whlrh afterwards af-terwards comes true, that one person i tolls all hlM friends of the wonderful thing that has come to pa;?. Everybody Every-body learns that some man or woman actually has pierced the futuro. Wo never hear, however, of tho failure to guess right In the case of the other nine. AX Ogden woman had an especially , hard da of shopping to do She looked forward to a rather hard day.' To her surprise and pleasure, how- ! over, "Che fitund a clerk In one store' who seemed to meet all the require--. Iments of an Ideal clerk. The woman' found him intelligent, experienced, obliging and eapable of giing most i aee.-ptable ads-Ice as to material, etc. ' I'h. woman found her day's shopping 'n pleasure Instead of a burden. The 'woman wrote a note to the management, manage-ment, telling the store owners what a splendid employe they had In this cor- j lain department. This note caused quite some commotion. It seems that shoppers seldom ne-gicct ne-gicct to report Instances of ineivint" joi poor service on the part of employes, em-ployes, but that they very, verj seldom sel-dom take the trouble to say a good! word to the bosses about those ssh" serve them svcll STEPHEN II LOVE, traffic expert, who add reesed the ogden Kiwan is club Thursduy on the subject t freight rotes, told a story on II W iPrickett to show how a mun cm b come a "nut" on such a abstract i question as freight rates. 'Prlckeit. McCarthy and I were li Washington n 19 18 to argue i freight Irate case before the commission ." b'1 !.-ald "It was the day congress OTM I debating the resolution to declare war I rrgalnst Germany. Bob LaFollette was lit the midst of his long speech against the resolution. He had spoken 18 'hours when I went to the senate gal- lery. LaPollette said he would speak all night, but about 11 O'Cloch he sur-jOcnly sur-jOcnly sat down and the vote on the resolution was taken. "To be present svhen such an Important Im-portant step was IkHen thrilled me. Ms spine ssa- Vibrant as 1 hurried to th( -tailor, to catch the train home. Then to cap the climax there was Hashed on each flag at the top of each public building a searchlight. Old Glory stood out like a brilliant spec-tre spec-tre m the night "What a thrilling occasion it was. I thought. I turned to Prloketl to share mv enthusiasm. LJut Pricketlj calmly said to ii i - 'I don t see how the commission, can gel away from our argument ' " CONSIDERABLE space Is being de-j voted In the periodicals to dls-j cussing the "sucker," that Individual, who makpr a fat living for those persons per-sons of adaptable consciences. Bucket Buck-et shop failures la New Vork disclosed that this BUppOsedl) sophisticated city is filled with "suckers " Saturday's newspapei told of a manufacturer who lost $50,000 to S clever gang. The : r.'ancr until a racehorse lure which has I ei-n exposed for years In newspapers and magazines. If publicity can't save jthe suckers" from their desires to gel rich quickly, svhat can? Even ilhal Spanish prisoner soln me finds its Victims. I belles c there must be something some-thing In the theory that persons enjoy being 'suckers." Detective "Bob" llurk can tell you of mans instances In which the police were cursed rather than thanked when they have taken a prospective victim from the clutches of swindlers. |