Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1896-06-11
AFTER WOMEN'S LIVES.
Man Has Now a New Rival in Hust-
ling Business.

Women seem TO have a rooted dis
like to insuring their lives"
This was the assertion Of one of a
new firm of women insurance
brokers'" who have established them
selves in New York in the hope OF edu-
eating the sex to the demands Of mod
ern civilization in this respect. Incl
Gentally, the brokers are earning few
dollars in the business. The new
woman has bee2 steadily pushing her
self into many of the avenues to riches
and fame hitherto traversed by men,
but the two keen-eyed but modest
widows who have taken to themselves
the title of insurance brokers' are the
first to venture on such a rocky road to
preferment.
They represent several large insur-
ance companies, fire and life, and they
viii buy or sell real estate, or trade a
secondhand bicycle for a fast horse, Or
buy you silver mine in Colorado or a
gold mine at Cripple Greek, or nego-
tiate any kind Of paper" or, in fact.
DO anything that live man Of business
in lower Broadway finds to his advan-
tage
why will not women insurer" asked
the Press representative.
IF it is a married woman she will
say: Why should | pay money for
another woman to enjoy after I am
gone? You see, they are always think
ing Of that terrible other woman that
is to occupy their place when they have
shuff1ed off this mortal coil 1t is a
strange thing that married women al
ways take it for granted that their
husbands will marry again If they be-
come widows. This thought in itself
is bad enough, but the idea of Number
Two having the money laid up by
Number One is worse. We so have to
educate the women up to insurance,
and 1t is anything but an easy task
But all women are not married.
Why should not single women get in
sured?"
There, again, the single woman has
plenty of reasons for refusing to insure,
and most of them valid She says that
she cannot afford it, for one thing.
Then she will ask why she should in
sure her life and pay out money annu-
ally, when she has no children to en-
JOY the money she may leave She
Will say that there is absolutely 10 in
ducement for her to go into such
speculation. Even when we point out
the advantages OF an endowment pol
icy, which will give her the money az
the end Of twenty or twenty-five years.
she cannot see it. She feels that she
would rather have so in her pocket to-.
day than wait twenty-five years for
$4,000. I am woman. and I know nv
sex"
But do not some women insure their
lives?"
Yes; but they go to men to do il. /
suppose there must be about s., 00O, 900
invested by the rich women OF this CITY
in insurance policies. Your rich
woman knows the value of insurance
and size does not hesitate to take anvT
means to add TO her wealth, even if she
must die to do it. We are trying 10
educate women to insure with women.
and we hope to succeed, but we have
to hustle. One of us stays in the Office /
and the other goes out to look up busi- !
ness, and we are never idle We repre-
sent q number OF excellent companies, /
Of worldwide reputation, but We are
hampered by our SEX. The new woman
has it not all her own way yet least
in the insurance business. New York /
Press.