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Show Five Hundred Dollars for Happy Mothers Insurance Company Organized to Pay for Visit of the Stork. BOSTON. Mass.. Oct. 23. In order that ample preparations may bo made for the visit of the stork in any housohold, and to make such colls welcome, prorrtinent women of this city, noted for their work alon tho lino of advancement of their sex, have Incorporated tho American Birth Insurance company By taking ndvnntago of this unlquo scheme, a mothor. after tho pajment of an Initiation fee and certain monthly duos, may at tho birth of each child ro-celvo ro-celvo from J200 to JSOO. BusIncflB will bo begun by tho company as soon as tho names of GOO members are filed with tho Commissioner of Insurance, Insur-ance, together with dues of J3 each. It Is said that the requisite number of members mem-bers has been secured. The president of the American Birth Insurance In-surance company Is Mrs. Estelle M. II. Merrill of Boston, and secrotary and treasurer, Miss Emma Menter. On tho advisory board are Miss Mary A. Llvermore, who is so well known to every American; Mrs. Martha Dyer, Jr., noted for her philanthropic work, now president of the Charity and, Wlntorgreen clubs; MrB. Mary E. Parmelvca Rice, president of tho Mothers and Fathers' club of Boaton; Dr. Mary E. Jones, president presi-dent of tho Ladies' Physiological Institute cf Boston; Mrs. Agnes C. Fall of Maiden, Mai-den, who Is said to havo received ono of the largest retainers ever paid a woman attorney; Dr. C. Patterson of Boston, and Marian A. McBrido of Arlington. Initiation fee Is J3, annual dues $1, and there 13 a monthly assessment of 3. After tho tenth payment If a living child Is born the mother receives 5200; after the nineteenth. J3C0; after the twenty-eighth. 510-3; and after the thirty-seventh. $500. It Is stipulated, however, that eighteen months must elapse between the birth of each child ln any one family. Tho great object as expressed by tho president and in Its llteraturo is to regulate regu-late the birth us far as possible and to provide for a parenthood thought, rather than chance, 'as Is almost universal at the present time "If wo can but accomplish this object," ob-ject," said Mrs. Merrill, "we can remake the United States and solve, ono of tho greatest sociological questions of the age." Mrs. Merrill said they had applications for membership from as far away as Africa Af-rica and India.- |