The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1916-02-24
ROBBED BY THEIR GUESTS.
Hntei Keepers Complain of the Continual
Theft of Small Articles.

1t is a fact well known to every hotel
and restaurant keeper in the city that
people will steal. Why they resort to
peculation is a mystery, but y far
greater mystery seems to DO wrapped
up in the class of articles that are
stolen.
Guests who stop at firsr-class hotels
and pay their bills in departing have
been known scores of times to take
with them toilet soaL and towels from
their rooms. Blankets, sheets. clocks
and ornaments likewise disappear with
the departing transients.
Nor does the peculation stop at this.
Cheap plated trays, cutlery, forks and
spoons, plainly marked with the names
OF the hotels, are stolen again and again.
This seems strange, for if the articles
are used by the thief. they bear, of
course, the indelible evidence of the
guilt of the peculators.
sometimes the stolen articles are re-
eoverel and sometimes they are not.
Only recently the proprietor of a local
hotel advertised repeatedly, and offered
a large reward for the return of a valu-
able clock of large size, which had been
taken from the hotel, and in a amer
never discovered. All the advertising
was in vain.
The late John Hoey once succeeded,
BY a shrewdly worded letter, in recov-
ering q valuable rug. which a well
known New York woman had taken
with her. As o 0 as its absence was
noted from the Hollywood, Mr.. Hoey
caused to be written to the woman q
letter, which read substantially a fol-
lows:
"Dear Nine: In packing your cloth
Ing your maid, by mistake, included the
Turkish rug, which was III your room.
Kindly have it returned"
The woman had no maid. which fact
was well known to herself and to Mr..
Hoey. The assumption that the theft
was not hers afforded her an opportu-
nifty to return the stolen article, which
she did at the earliest possible moment,
sending with it, at the same time, 4
not apologizing for the stupidity Of
the amaid.'-M Z. Herald.
Frig@rothcrapeuties.
The late DR.. Chapman cured colds by
applying ice to the spine. Prof. Pictst
claims to have discovered "frigothera-
psucy.' He has Interested the scientific
world in his experiments, which were
before the Academy Of Medicine at it's
last sitting. The doctor began expert
mentlng with dogs. He found that
when plunged IN a bath Of low lempera-
ture aud kept there for some time they
became ravenously hungry. Being
himself a sufferer for six years from q
stomach disease, he had forgotten what
it was to have an appetite for food. He
thought taat If he tried cold he might
relish his next dinner. So he descended
into a refrigerating tank. where the
temperature was many degrees below
zero. He was wrapped in a thick PEE
and other warm clothes. After
four minutes he began to feel hungry.
and In eight minutes climbed out Of his
tank with q painfully keen appetite.
Many such experiments were made.
All the meals he took after d short STAY
in the refrigerator agreed with him, and
found his dyspepsia cured after The
zenith descent. He insists on very warm
dress-furs il possible. One might ask
whether 1t would not be the same thing
plunge less waSnly clad into less ri.
gid air. He says not. He caanot vet
explain the law that under.ics bis dis.
c0sery.-Parls Letter.