Show AMERICANS WHO UVE LONGEST ST occupation that are conducive to long or live lives what occupation tends most to pro long ong life asked a reporter of the chief mathematician for one of clu great lifo life insurance su ranco companies that ia is a difficult question h he 0 ri roi plied 1 I can only answer it by referring to the occupations of persons whose lives are and have been insured by us inasmuch ts they number several him hun I 1 dred s of thousands the they will afford a clr ya ay iy ehod in badje sis froia which to draw I 1 conclusions 0 on of tile I 1 sit t ac coain to this evidence it appears that comme commercial travelers and agents livo live longer than men in any other kind of business notwithstanding the hazards which attend transportation by rail and water neat to them come dentists fists teachers and professors including music teachers and who after them nest next to them in ill point of lon longevity gerity are hatters clergymen and missionaries the last may occasionally furn furni ish sli food for the larder of untutored savages ea but they aro are a first class risk nevertheless nest next come bankers and capitalists who seem to live just a trifle longer than butchers and marke market traen men lawyers and jewelers follow and t they hey aro are succeeded on the list by merchants peddlers milk men and pawnbrokers pawn brokers then come gardeners laborers civil engineers and canvassers perhaps tho the treatment which canvassers aro are apt to receive in the ordinary course of their business shortens their lives where do newspaper men come in oh oil they 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 como come in next with the printers physicians and gentlemen who aro are not engaged in any active employment then follow aliv apothecaries and photographers tog raphers and after them in order bakers cigar makers real estate agents army officers and soldiers liquor dealers marL marivers mariners ma ners and naval officers shortest t lived of all seem to bo be tho the auctioneers boarding house keepers barbers and drivers do you tako take into consideration the question of a customers occupation in granting a policy not unless it is ft more hazardous any of those I 1 have mentioned though if wo were in doubt about accepting the man as a risk rizk for other reasons such a point might turn the scale washington star |