Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1899-09-08
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lie Became Deaf
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as this Mr.. Gwilliams?" inquired
the caller, a snug person OF selt-posses-
sed bearing and business-like aspect
addressing himself to the somewhat
angular elongated man seated at the
rool-topped desk.
Yes, sir"
"Glad to know you, Mr.. Civilians
Ny name is Scrojcl-Godfrey Scrojel
| see you are busy, and am not the
man to take up another mans time
without some good reason for it. Are
You carrying all the life insurance you
want, Mr.. Gwlliams?"
eyes, sir"
"1cs? ] represent the Unpunctur-
able Mutual Life Association, a COM
pany, Mr.. Civilians, that combines
the stability OF the old line insurance
organizations with the economy of the
frLternal insurance orders. II guaran-
tees to furnish absolutely reliable pro-
lection at actual cost. We pay no
fancy salaries, Mr.. Civilians. The
office OF the Unpuncturable, Mr.. CIVIL
liams"-
"Your family we'll, Mr.. Scrojel?"
"Oh, yes, thanks. AS l said, we
furnish the best insurance ut actual
cost. What is your age, Mr.. Gwilli-
ams?"
"My age? Well, suppose you put
it down at thirty"
"H'm-I should have guessed you
were considerable older than that.
However, on the basis of-let me see
here it is-at thirty it would cost
you, on each $1,000 only $500, Mr..
Civilians. Figuring on the basis OF
of forty-five, let us say, it would
cost only $17.SS year, or little over
$50 a year on $4,000. l defy the
world, Mr.. Civilians, to equal those
figures
"Do you belong to any church, Mr..
Scrojel?"
"No, I'm not exactly member.
attend church pretty regularly,
though. l believe in churches and all
that, of course. I've taken the appli-
cations Of hundreds of church mem.
bcrs. In fact the Unpuncturable al
most makes a speciality, if you might
say, of insuring that kind of people.
1t pays bigger dividends, Mr.. Gwilli-
ans, than any company
"What is your first name, Mr.. Scro-
jel"
Godfrey"
"Oh, yes. 1 remember. Ever in
McConnellsville, Ohio?"
al never was. Now
Handsome old town. Some OF the
best people l have ever known came
from McConnellsville. If ever you
have the chance, Mr.. Scrojel, you
must visit McConnellsville without
fail"
eyes, certainly will. How much
life insurance did you say you were
carrying. Mr.. Gwilliams?"
II didn't say, Mr.. Scrojel. said
was carrying all the life insurance
wanted to carry. Mr.. Scrojel"
81 know, of course, how it always
strikes man when anybody talks life
insurance to him. If he is asked
straight up and down if he wants any
insurance nine times ont Of ten he
doesn't. But when I can get man
to listen for just few minutes while
I show him how much better on,
plan is than any other, Mr.. Civilians
By the way, Mr.. Scrojel, did you
ever take up oxygen as q special
study?"
IL can't say ever did"
ats wonderfully fascinating sub.
ject. The air we breathe, Mr.. Scroiel
as you may be aware, is composed OF
about twenty-one parts of oxygen and
seventy-nine parts of hydrogen. With
every breath you draw you cause the
air to lose about per cent of its oxy-
gen. If we suppose you breathe
twenty-six cubic inches of air at each
inspiration and breathe eighteen times
minute, you cause 1853 cubic inches
of air to pass through your lungs
every minute, and in an hour you viii
ate-let me figure little-you viii
ate, Mr.. Scrojel. quantity of air
equal to-
at wouldn't take me two minutes
Mr.. Civilians, to-
But passing by the mere question
OF figures, Mr.. Scrojel, let's consider
oxygen in relation to the blood. The
oxygen is taken up by the lungs and
carried off in the arterial circulation
imparting to the blood in the process
the bright red COLOR
"Now there is no use of your trying
to have fun with me, Mr.. Gwilliams"-
II don't like to mention it, Mr.
Scrojel, but you have been chewing
wooden toothpick ever since you cam,
in. I may be unduly fastidious, bu
the habit offends me. A man VIII,
goes around chewing toothpick-