Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-06-01
FOR CHILDREN ONLY


Fill u LonX-Frlt want.
1t is q pretty well accepted fact thai
children from the time they can walk are
always in some kind Of trouble. If they
are not falling out Of windows, or drink.
ing the oxalic acid used for cleaning the
boiler, they are playing on a bridge span
ming a rustic stream, or padding about
the pond in a boat, especially if they can
not swim.
1t therefore seems to us that it would
not be a bad scheme to start an accident
insurance company for children. There
would undoubtedly be profit in such an
institution, because children are never
known to be killed by accidents.
With her children cover ed by policies
in this company, the washer widow could
go forth in the old gold dawn and agitate
the washboard with bare knuckles right
into the robins egg twilight, without any
fear for the safety of her children at
home. For should they meet with disas-
ter, the insurance company would pay
the doctors fee and the apothecary's bill.
The company could also furnish an at
~tractive list of prices for various calami-
ties, after the manner of other comma
nies, SO that a pare Mt might know what
would be coming in to pay for the sum
mer's junketlng in case # certain acct
oents-so much for an eye, SO much a
tooth, and 30 on.
"Oh, am afraid Jimmy is going 10
lose a leg!' his mother would mufmur In
great anguish
1T is terrible 10 reflect on, Madeline"
would reply, but The price Of hat leg
put IN the bank viii start Jimmy in bust.
ness when he is Of age, or, if we should
decide otherwise. he beng q minor,
there's trip TO Europe in it."
Then the cumpnn, could print o report
showing what it had paid u TO adver-
Use it's great va'ue to the poor man with
a large family something like this:
Thomas W. Kidder, Sax paw, Mich.
Lost all eye looking down the bar
rel Of a gun that he thought was
not loaded. ...""..... $1,000. 90
While 10 es, Limbui ger, VI Inter
nal Injuries iron ~ ailO"ing a y..r
OF manicure scissors .......... 81. 20
James Foley, Be hlebem, l.. /. Lost
three toes while kicking at y bull
dog through q picket fence. ....... 42S 90
Josey Simmons, Flint. Mich. Butted
by a goat. Three ribs troken..... 70. 60
Katie jenkins, Battle Creek, Mich.
Swallowed a vial OF quinine pills,
thinking them peppermint drops. 40.e5
Harry Judson, Cambridge, Mass.
>ose broken 10 rough-and-tumble
fight. ........... 100 90
oscar Farrell, Nesarx, N. j. Lost
three fingers taking a ball of the
DAT ioo'eo
The foregoing are only a few samples,
which might be carried to greater length
if it were not for the value of the space.
But we think we have pointed out a way
by which men with idle capital may con-
fer a boon OF poor humanity with profit
to themselves. Risks" could be CLASH
fed according to circumstances, for the
safety OF the company, ard It could get
higher rates on children living near the
railroad tracks, planning mills and lakes
than on subjects residing in quarters
where they woul0 no, be exposed TO the
dangers of such institutions.
Such a company would be at once a
real blessing and "A source Of great profit.
Then the small boy could tantalize the
mule, hang by his toes from the tree top,
and indulge in any other delight peculiar
10 boyhoOd he might desire, without the
ordinary fear attending such expert
ments.
Such a company would FL Il long felt
want.