Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-12-29

Special Correspondence,
ONDON, Dec. f9--"Let me have
men about me that are fat"
Shakespeare makes Caesar say to
Mark Anthony when confidng 70
him his mlstrust Of the lean and hun
cry" Cassius. But according to
Partisan writer Il Is the fat people
Nho should be regarded with most sus-
piciOn. He has just written book TO
prove that an abundance OF adipose It's
sue, In man or woman, far from indicat-
ing a frank, honest, generous DISPOSE
ton often serves as mask FOR rascall-
~ and cunning. He cites numerous ex~
amples from Contemporaneous French
| criminal annals TO support his conten-
| ton that the most successful swindlers
| are generally fat people and that their
victims among the lean are legion.
| Nine. Guerln Cesbron. the heroine OF
| the fraudulent matrimonial agency
| which has furnished the latest Partisan
| sensation, is as rOtund as beer barrel.
| Nine Therese Humbert whose phan-
| tom millions long enabled her to reVel
| In the most costly luSurles, Is another
OF his examples OF embonpolnt combined
| with dishonesty. BOulaine, the banker
who was gifted with such rare talents
fot transferring money from otner
peoples pockets into his own, was a
man OF aldermanic proportions.
According to the French author, not
only are fat folk more likely TO be DIS
honest than thin ones, but their obesity
renders II easier for them to perpetrate
frauds. This, he says, is because Of the
mistaken notion that rotundity Of hg-
ure is an indication that It's possessor
has clear conscience; whereas In
most cases, II Is the result Of dealing
dishonesty with ones stomach. On
the other hand, the lean person, he
contends, is naturally less disposed 70
be dishonest and because OF the sus-
melon which his slim hgure arouses
dnds IL harder TO carry out financial
swindles on a large scale. After thl'
exposure. embonpoint viii cease to IN
spire confidence In Paris, The mex
fraudulent female, to succeed viii have
10 be as thin ss Sarah Beruhardt'
Sad news comes concerning Lieut.
Bise the author Of In Small CARR
son Town" II is only few years since
this young German olilcer staru0u wv
world with his book and us truly
vonderful revelations. 1t viii be re
membered that because OF It's pubiloa
lion he had TO leave his regiment am
the army. He retired with his famil'
IN a suburb OF Berlin, Zehrendorf an
tried to make Il living writing othe
novels. But he was a failure. MOI
word comes that he has disappeared
Leaving his family to the tender mer
cles of the world. His was moon
ugh, dltting" and the police, egged O
by a swarm OF creditors, are seekin
him. IL Is rumored that he has gon
TO the United states with a compahlo
who Is said to be very charmln
woman, but not his wife.
Judging both by past and present his
tory n sure way Of securing an abnol
nal success for a book II 70 nave
refused by about every publisher
town. That has been the experience
the mast. according 10 their own stor'
OF many OF the authors OF great .Iteraf
successes. IL IS the story now VI Jain'
Baker, author OF THE Inseparablos
for ne tells me that q publishers
London read the manuscript ana II
turned II TO him with the brleiost POI
sible notes OF refusal. Yet the nov
has Just passed IT'S third edition and
about to go into fourth.
Many valuahles are TO DO offered
the almost CONTINUOUS autumn 9"l'
held this month al Sotheoysi but OF
OF the most interesting things VIII
Keats VIII. Il Is written on q serap.
paper and was sent by the poet TO =
publisher, John Taylor, on Aug. "a, ~
The document reads as follows
MY chest OF books divide among y
friends. In case OF my death, IN
scrap OF paper may be seFYlceapie
your possession. All my estate re
and personal. consists In the hopes
the sale OF books pu1ush'd and unpu
ush'd. Now wish Brown and you