Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Swedish Female Shylock. [ARTICLE]

Swedish Female Shylock.

Stockholm has a female usurer and she is the worst usurer in the capital. Her victims are chiefly cadets at the army and navy academies whose pocket money gives out a long time before the next remittance can be expected. She lives in an elegant residence and to a glass of champagne she generally succeeds in persuading her young clients to sign papa’s or uncle’ name to the note—merely as a matter of form. As a rule, papa or uncle has passed through the naval or army academy when a young man and knows the mademoiselle from the days he sowed bis wild oats—consequently the drafts or notes do not go to protest