News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1884-08-28
YOUNG MEN INSURED.
A NEW PHASE IN LIFE THAT HAS TO
BE MET.
The Insurance Agent on the Track Of tho
NewIy-Married Mantle is Always Sue
cessfuI.
from the Milwaukee SUM-

From the Milwaukee SUM-
An exchange says: Insurance agents
go for all newly married men before the
honeymoon has begun to wane." There
is something peculiar about that, and
great deal more truth than poetry in If.
When a young mans engagement is an
nounced in the papers he is met by
some old school-mate, who has become
en- insurance agent, and the life insur-
ance question is gently agitated until
the would-be married man becomes in
terested. So it goes on for several
weeks, and by the time he is ready to
get married every insurance agent in the
city has stopped him on the street at
different times, and given him a few
"pointers" to the effect that the COM
pany he is working for is the only re-
liable one in the world.
Finally the young man gets married,
and after spending delightful wedding
tour of a few weeks, he once more re-
turns to his native ham and eggs, with
"why -is-life-so-short ?" expression on
his face, and dignified bearing, that
would well become a man twice his age.
AS he starts for business on the first
morning of his return, it seems to him
as though every one III the city wants to
congratulate him, and by the time the
office is reached, and he has shook the
hands of his fellow workmen, he feels as
though he owned brewery, and is
obliged to tighten up the strap on his
trousers to keep from splitting wide
open. Little does he know how he will
have to suffer for the next few weeks.
and his sufferings commence on the very
afternoon of his return.
After dinner he returns to the Office,
and finds his old school mate, and after
congratulations are over the insurance
question is brought up. Row if an in
surance agent would give the least
chance for life it would be different; but
they have a way of telling a man. in
cold blood, that he is liable to die at any
moment, and even take the trouble to
show YOU list of all the newly-married
that have died since the day that Adam
popped the question to Eve. When a
man is just married he don't like to
think of such disagreeable things, and it
| is very wrong for an insurance agent to
| talk of it: bat like a ligbtning-rod ped
| dIer, they are all born without con-
science, and SO they describe death in
all its horrors, with a GOODNESS that
would freeze one of Ella Wheeler's
! poems. If there was only one or two
insurance agents in the city it wouldn't
be so bad, but the woods are foul Of
them, and they all take turns in calling
on the young man who has just tackled
matrimony, and who few weeks since
was an innocent, guileless youth. After
the young man had stood off his school
mate, with promise that he will re-
member him when he is ready to insure
his life. he begins to think that he has
heard the last of it, but he is doomed tc
disappointment. Every day brings
new agent, until every one in the city
has given him call, and at the end o.
two weeks he is unable to eat or sleep
He sees insurance agents in his dreams
tastes them in his food and as last re
sort, he is obliged to go out in the coun
try for his health. OF course they ar
not all alike, though; some will Civ
you four or five years to live, but tn
majority insist that you are liable to oil
inside of twenty-four hours, and If yo1
want your wife to see that your grave 1
kept green, yoN have got to have
policy. This way of doing business /
dead wrong, aud the enterprising insur
ance agent should give the gentle you'll
who has SO recently launched his boa
on the sea of matrimony, chance It
pay his last years tailor bill befor
springing the insurance question Oh
] him