Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 152, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1913 — Saves Shoestring Tips to Sell Them for Junk [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Saves Shoestring Tips to Sell Them for Junk

MILWAUKEE, WlS.—That her husband was so stingy that he saved the tips of his Shoestrings and sold them for old iron, was the accusation Mrs. Walter Kaysing, 427 Eighth avenue, made in the district court. “You don’t tell me!” exclaimed Judge Neelen. “Yes, sir, your honor," the woman replied. “Once he saved up some scrap iron and sold it to a dealer for eight cents. And would you believe it, your honor, he even had little bits of pieces of iron." Kaysing was for abandonment. Mrs. Kaysing had been compelled to appeal to the county poor department for aid. Her husband, she said, worked in a tannery

and earned sll a week. He seldom gave her any of this money, she told the judge, and when he did it was only a dollar or two a week. “He ptit the rest of it in the bank,” she testified. “I had to go out washing to support the family. He wouldn’t even buy clothes for the children, and every time the rent was due, I thought the man would have a nervouß collapse.” In reciting some of the incidents of her unhappy married life, the wjfe said that one day a letter came from the bank informifag her husband that interest had been added to his deposit. “And do you know,” she said, “he went right down to that bank and scolded the cashier for squandering money on a postage stamp. Then he made them give him the two centß they had spent for the stamp, and he got it, too.” Under this severe arraignment, Kaysing sat in the prisoners’ dock. His lips were set firmly and his eyes glared defiance. “You’ll have to turn over half your weekly wages to your wife, or go to jail,” the judge said.