Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1915 — MISERLINESS [ARTICLE]

MISERLINESS

Miserliness is a form of insanity. Misers differ in cast of countenance from other persons. Disinclination to social intercourse is another characteristic. Hiding money in out-of-the-way places is a characteristic of misers. Some of the famous misers ate diseased meat and lived in filth, although they possessed hundreds of thousands of dollars. liii<i I One famous miser “played dead” for two days, thinking that his domestics would fast for that time, and thus save some expense.