Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-10-07
Trey LIVE LoNsEE EaAN MEN.

The RECORDS OK q WoHpn's snsuEeASe
Company show Some In.ssss,ins rsess.
"I don't see who women Can't have
their lives insured as well ss meD,
and so I've come to hsve my life in
sured."
TIE voice was that Of woman,
and 1. was heard by New York
Mail and Express reporter in
the cfflce OF q womer's insurance
company. The words suggested an in.
quiry into the subject of women insuriag
tneir lives, and the reporter questioned
one Of the officers OF the company. II,
said that while the idea OF women get
ting their lives insured was IS YET
novelty the number was coE-
stantly increasing. Five yesrs ago the
proportion Of women who were Insured
to mer was 10 per cent; three yesrs ss2
1t was IS per cent, and the LAST two years
IL has been betWe cen 50 and 60 per cent.
He added:
This shows that the sEbjsct Ia being
brought more generally to the attention
Of women end that they find equally good
reasons IS the men do t.r getting injured.
A feature CT the work Just now is tIe
interest that is peing taken in the idea u
Other couLtriea. we hsve had 81 sp
plicStion recently to open g bE2c CT
Ofiice in Central America, and to-daY l
received very Interesting letter ffcus
GsImSny on the suffice, with the sGatt-
meut thss /. was new iieE CT wcmeG &c
think themselves worth ins uricg,' cad
asking for more particulars. Al letter
from Washington ststes that the plsn Is
Just what Is wsEts there, and from BIZ
ton srd Chicago are coming Letters OK iD-
guiry. Another notable TACT is the l2cge
number # Womsn who this summer GLvs
had themselves Insured sgsin5t accident
while travelling abroad or GCroB5 The con-
tinent here"
"Do you fad tie death rste greater CT
less among women than men?"
"It is g fact taat Te find The death rate
emong women who ara insured less thai
shat smong men. Naturally we have
made special study ct THIS subject, srd
We have soMe interesting statistics IL
the msiter. The celebrated observations
OF the STede, Wergenten, and tae
equally celebrated Dr.. PIice, who prs
pared tables en- tee subiecS, Il 81
pointed out thaf there was difference, IL
fact, between the mortality OF the EEK e,
and that it wss uniformly in favor Ct ia
males above the sge of childhood. Tain
the Dutch with shire I'd eye to business,
for the most part nominated young Wom-
en- for ann uities to the government SUD-
scriptions Issued BY Great Britain. Gil
fifth Davies in 1927 ssid 'All OBJ
seryations tend to copfirm that female
life is better than male, snd even married
better than SINGLE In 1929 John Finlsi
son, government sctu ~ OF England, laid
before Parliament his report on life an
nuitiee, and in this he repor ed that il
every census there were found siiSe more
females than males. His SUCCESSOR CT the
same name, In 1860, reported tie superb
ority Of female life in all ages over twelve.
Ii is evident that, upon genera!
principles, II the mortality OF fsmsles
were greater than that of males this dis
proportion would sooner or later disap-
pear, and II continued would in time
show the reverse result. In 1860 the
government scsusry O: Z agland reported
these words: Il is almost certain that
any material improvement In the huInsn
physical constitution will be tirss 90
served in the tiwirusion Of the infantiie
snd female mortality. This is borne out
in striking degree in the latest E1gl=h
reports. rs