Show AMERICANS WW aka LVE t avs lonset occupation that are Coutu Cone clie elve to I 1 or bhart lit OB what oc occupation cu pation tends most tc i ion long life asked a re reporter portar of the ch A mathematician for one of the great I 1 insurance companies that is a difficult ques question tiou he m r plied 1 I can only answer it by ring leing to the occupations of persons chos lives hv ana kave have been insured by u inasmuch as aa they number several hui hud deeds of thousands they T mil ill afford pretty good basis from which to dra draw drat T conclusions on the subject according Accor diug to this evidence it appears that co commercial rumer travelers and agents live longer than men in any other land kind of business busi nesa notwithstanding the hazards which attend transportation by rail and water avate er next to them como dentists teacher and professors including music teachers and who after them next to them in point of loh gelty are hatters clergymen and missionaries i es the last may occasionally furnish food for the larder of untutored savages but they are a first class risk nevertheless next come alx lx bankers and capitalists who I 1 heern to live just a trifle longer than butchers bat chers and market men lawyers and jewelers follow and they are succeeded on the list by merchants peddlers milk men and pawnbrokers pawn brokers then come gardeners laborers civil engineers and canvassers perhaps the treatment t which canvassers are apt to receive it in the ordinary course of their bu shortens their lives where do newspaper men come in on oh they the dont live as long as any of the people I 1 have mentioned even bookkeepers and bank cashiers as well as artists and architects are ahead of them they come in next with tho the printers physicians and gentlemen who axe are no not t engaged in any active employment then follow the apothecaries and photographers tog and after them in order bak bab ers cigar makers real estate agents army officers and soldiers liquor dealers mariners marinero ma and naval officers shortest lived of all seem to be the tha auctioneers boarding house keepers barbers and drivers do you take into consideration the tha question of a customers occupation in granting a policy not unless it is more hazardous than any of those I 1 have inen mentioned indention tion ed though if we were in doubt about accepting the tha man as a risk for other reasons such sach a point might turn tum the scale washington star |