| Show COMPANIES NOW SEEK TO mm I 1 ill S U R E WOMEN afien I 1 1 I am in a new held field for wor homans womans nans i work said a prosperous looking young I 1 woman and I 1 thinks we pioneers are I 1 i going to do well at al it 11 something or of I 1 the sort should havo have been be e n started blurted long ago 0 I 1 but it has never been attempted i thematically 1 1 before it Is 9 life insurance tor for oman worked up by women I 1 themselves of 0 coure some women hive taken out life insurance policies for years yeara but the number has baa been campara lively few until now life basura insurance i as regards the unquiet sex has bits ha s been vol 9 luxury only the wealthy have in dulled in it for the companies never i awakened to the c possibilities in small policies for women of oc limited means by policies I 1 mean poll clea cies of 0 live five hundred or L thousand dollars where the yearly freml premiums urns would be within reach of 0 women with wit very limited incomes not only did the com companies pantos call all to hice ze the importance of this now new field but they have been actually shut ting their door against women by ca calling ling the them a special pedal risk that la Is they made every woman moman who took out a policy pay five dollars a thousand per year more than EL a man of the th same age they did not noi wish nish to insure women at all ah and took look this means to di discourage senura 9 a female applicants I 1 such a thing as soliciting insurance among women wag waa hardly known A few of the large companies dabbled a little in lt it but with unsatisfactory results the higher rate spoiled the chance of 0 business and the world of womankind was never made to understand the advantage of a policy but the companies have now begun to understand the opportunity end and the lun unworked worked territory and are grasping them eagerly eael aly tho the larger companies have organized departments and a nd have taken off edtia premium some have already two or three women out my aly company has engaged but me and 1 I in fact am ahe he entire woman wo mans s department yet they intend as aa L soon 0 a as a the territory la Is somewhat d developed e veloney velo ned to send out a number of woman canvassers in the meantime they are pitying paying mo me a laige salary to handle this hat they now nov consider very important work As to the ultimate success of the scheme I 1 the slightest doubt although I 1 have bon been at it only it a little over a month yet I 1 a am making T king cl a careful study of the best people people to rip ap preach the sell self supporting wo man in i tile the verson person to insure it may be nn 03 bible later on to insun married mantea nomen n also liln but buc as a a rule lilly art an I 1 tor f by policies taken out DY by their tini has bands when insurance i among woy women nien men becomes general me ae sit ill eamil cani alga against them but while we ire are eau s caling the people to our adm th tia i spinster and the maiden mala n ft ho he are work it r in ing for small salaries art are our best ma material terill 1 I myself am shaking the lh woman 1 chool teachers of new york tork those it N vi no ho get gel too t OO to calary a year bel before 1 fore next spi ing I 1 shall hire have visited I 1 every one of 0 tham I 1 arn am In terming them in the twenty vear endowment endow mAnt F 4 polky in an investment costing in prep ire I 1 giuma about fitly fifty dollars bollara a yem year to ten I 1 per cent or less of their india ir 1 4 a dollar a A week eek nearly every working 0 woman can afford to lay aside at ae the be end ot of twenty years the policy TOIL M have gro aronn n to from rom 1310 to IMO I 1 auly ably close close to to the later figure no I 1 don dont t find school teachers tea chera haril hard to a persuade I 1 bring to their minda is as a far better than a savings bank school arbora tc horto am trained to br be lopic logical alfand they gener ally sta e the foice of 0 nii argument very lery quickly when I 1 so go down the stenographers ors and women clerics I 1 thinks I 1 shall find it a harder task As aa a ule lule I 1 visit the women at their homes late in the afternoons afternoon never neier al at the schools I 1 seldom tall fail to see one they are generally srener ally curious enough to come down in ili spite of 0 the fact that my card announces I 1 arn am from the lite insurance company it Is one of ct the best of 0 the new occupations cupat ions ns tor for bomell bome this girt girl went on oil the hours can be made short or long inns at pleasure I 1 seldom try to sw sto over five people it a day myself to undertake the work a girt must I 1 hive confidence and remember that I 1 she Is 19 not peddling but doln oual obelne oB lne fo for five hundred and thousand dollar orders and yet y t she must have en ell thu chism ilam and yet again she must thoroughly realize that she Is perform ing it a public demice sen ice to ui mankind i in bringing this thing thin to their notice that Is the way I 1 am going bring about it and perhaps the reason I 1 am writ fl ing so many policies it 14 th thit lt I 1 nake make a woman understand thab afore I 1 have hava talked with her ten minutes there must be about div nomo tn in new yoi york k now on this work wore fitton tho the year li iq out it if I 1 am not mistaken there will be many mor copyright t W i ill hi isiac literary r ary and news nevis arvi J |
