Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1919 — PARASITE [ARTICLE]

PARASITE

One who feeds at the expense of someone else so the Good Book tells us. For instance the goof who gobbles your chow and repays you with buffoonery or flattery—the name of the world’s greatest smoking tobacco is the name it is more, commonly known by—or your neighbor’s chickens which pay a daily visit to your garden patch.