Father Johann Rudolf Meyer, Citizen of Aarau: A Memorial

This brilliant upswing in his financial circumstances, which leads others who rise unexpectedly from poverty into timid avarice or into arrogance and excessive display, had absolutely no influence on his domestic life. He remained unchangeably the same in the modesty of his way of thinking and in the simplicity of his customs.

"Wisdom simplifies our needs."

When, after the loss of his wife in the year 1783, he married for the second time, taking a daughter from Nidau, Miss Marianne Renner, who was equally worthy of respect by virtue of her heritage and virtues, in order to give his children a second mother, she did indeed bring a certain graceful comfort and outward elegance into the household and the large residential building that was erected just at that time; but without showing any other kind of expenditure than that solid sort which