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Kleptomania Among the Wealthy

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Pacific Press Publishing Company · OAKLAND, CALIFORNIA · Oct 11, 1899

FromSigns of the Times, Vol. 25, No. 41.

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Kleptomania Among the Wealthy

Kleptomania, the scientific and society name for polite stealing, has become so common that one of the wealthy ones is calling for "gold nails with a jewel in the head of each," and tiny gold chains, for the purpose of securing valuable objects of art on reception days. Jewelry, delicate lace napkins, etc., are to be nailed down and chained up to prevent theft among the wealthy. Truly, as the apostle declared, the last days are "covetous," and the world is waxing worse, however thick its coating of pious veneer.