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The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
WOMEN AND INSURANCE.

The insuring of the lives of women
and the employment of women as So
licitors by insurance companies is a
comparatively new idea, but it has be-
come very popular and is growing rap
idly says the Chicago Record Herald.
There are probably 1000 women in the
United States to-day who make their
living in the insurance business, and
they have been so successful In secur-
ing business and earning large COM
missions that 1t may already be con-
sidercd an established profession, and
women insurance agents will hereafter
work on the same terms and under the
same conditions as men.
The big life insurance companies here
all have women solicitors, and the man
ayers are unanimous in commencing
them. The New York Life was the
pioneer and employed it's first women
agents in Chicago about eight years
ago. 1t came about naturally. Miss
Jessie f. Niccolls. who had been a
teacher in the public schools and was
compelled to give up that employment
because of poor health, brought in
some business to the general agency
here, and was told to go out for more.
That company now has twenty-one
women solicitors. the Mutual Life has
thirty or more. the Equitable six or
seven, and all the other COMPANIES have
women among their solicitors
The managers also tell me that a
larger proportion of women who at
tempt to solicitor life insurance are sue
cessful than of men. They. show more
tact, they are more intelligent in col
Letting and presenting facts, in han
ding their patrons; they are more per-
sistent In following UP arguments to
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11

else to which young children take kind
ly at any time. 1t is extremely weari-
some to them. 1t is the poorest form
of exercise they can take, involving the
greatest amount of fatigue with the
least amount of active movement. The
effort of keeping the spine erect and
balancing the body is very fatiguing to
the young, and this may easily be DEM
onstrated by taking a young child for
a longish walk and noting how very
quickly 1t become tired and begins to
drag it's steps languidly along.
The best form of exercise for children
is one permitting of the greatest
amount of movement and the most ex-
ercise for the least fatigue. Games
such as children love. with hoop or
ball, are much better for them than
long. dreary set walks, allowing as they
do a constant change of muscular
movements, giving each muscle it's due
need of exercise without overstraining
one particular set of muscles. In this
way all the muscles of the body may
be pleasantly exercised without any be-
ing over fatigued.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
HORSE VS.. AUTO.

Dick and his girls just left us. That's
them nigh out of sight.
wish him luck, for it's surely a royal
sparkin' night
From our double gate to the court
house is fourteen mile exact.
A two hour drive, we call it, when
roads are good and packed;
But that auto rig contraption of his
scoots up and down,
And he says it cuts the distance in half
'twixt here and town!
Well, mebbe it does; but seems like
he's goin' at things wrong
On a night like this he ought to con-
trive at twice as long!
IT'S part of the age, however, an age of
rush and run,
When, unless you're fairly jumpin', you
can't be havin fun;
When a couple must take their ridin'
at gallop speed or more,
With a choo! choo! chool behind them
and nothin' at all before
In rig that can't be trusted to mind a
crooked road,
And right in the midst of matters is
liable to explode.
l reckon that one feels clever to make
the doin whirl.
But days when l was a-sparkin' the
main point was the girl!
When was a-courtin' Marthy I hitch
ed up old white Pete,
And the only thing I asked him was
that he'd keep his feet
wasn't obliged to guide him. He did
the turnin' out,
And he rounded all the corners at a
mile an hour, about.
When Martha was snug beside me that
old horse seemed to know
The likeliest. Shaded stretches, where
he had best go slow
Why, grass and the trees and bushes
along the way he croppe1t
Slow Well, on a few occasions We
warn't aware he'd stopped!
That was the style of ridin' when I was
courtin'-see?
Nothin' to watch but Marthy, and both
hands. bless you. free,
With old Pete joggin'. grain and
cockin' at times an eye
Back at the seat, but sayin', 'Don't
mind; it's just a fly"
/ s'picion there's fun in courtin' at
even breakneck pace,
And Dick is the boy to do tive read
it in her face.
But courtin' by rapid transit don't
pear to me so sweet
AS the rambly, ambly courtin' of Mar
thy and me and Pete.
-Lippincott's.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
MRS. q. SUMMERS Box 4O4 NOtre Dame, Ind, U. S. A.

shop, with his heart in his mouth, and
all his available cash in his pocket. to
buy the ring. Probably it is the first
time he has ever taken such a STEP
and 1t never occurs to him that the
diamond expert behind the counter has
diagnosed his case long before the
sound caused by the opening of the
door has ceased to resound in his ears.
II want to look at some rings"
stammers the young man, making a
break in the direction of a case of rings
or an obviously masculine description;
and then, with what he believes to be
mastery stroke of diplomacy, he asks
10 see something smaller" 1t is all
due to the fact that he entirely fails
to realize that what is the event of a
lifetime to himself is the merest every
day occurrence to the self-possessed in
dividual on the other side of the coun-
ter.
But his troubles in a jewelry shop are
simply nothing to those which he en-
counters when he enters a department
shop in search of something which he
conceiveS will be not unacceptable to
the girl of his choice. Suppose, for in
stance, he is in search of gloves, which
are about the most obvious thing that
is likely to occur to the uninventive
masculine mind. He enters the shop
hesitatingly, and under strict cross
examination from the floorwalker con-
fesses the object of his search as
though it were something to be
ashamed of. Having arrived at the
glove counter, preceded by the nerve
SCATTERING announcement, "G1oves!" he
finds himself once more subjected to a
searching Interrogation with regard to
style, size. and color to which he
stammers out idiotic and irrelevant re-
plies; and probably goes off in the end
with boxful of black gloves with
green stitching from sheer inability to
explain what he really wanted.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
LEISURE HOUR WORK.

The idea of giving people pleasure in
the things they must perforce use and
make themselves was recently illustrat-
ed in the making of a small ash fen
der, says the Washington Star. The de-
sign of this useful article was original
1t showed grouped discs the size of
the small pill box which served as a
pattern.
To make this artistic fender the fol-
lowing materials must be provided One
strip of sheet brass six feet long by one
foot wide; eighteen screw clamps, and
a piece of one-inch soft pine board.
two inches longer each way than the
brass. The cowhide mallet and instru-
ments for tracing the pattern and for
the BACKGROUND of beaten work can be
purchased at any art furnishing store.
The first step is to screw down the
brass securely to the pine board with
the clamps. Then take a lead pencil
and draw a clear line one and one-hah
inches from the edge of the brass all
around, using a yard stick for a ruler.
AS in the case of the ash fender, the
pill box makes an excellent pattern for
discs, and these should be scattered at
regular intervals, in groups, on a piece
of paper the size of the brass, after
which they may be transferred to the
brass by means of1impression paper.
Next comes the only difficult part
tracing the line around the edge, and
then the discs with the metal tracer,
which should be hammered lightly with
the mallet. Mere delicacy Of touch and
much judgment will be required to keep
the line an unbroken one.
After all the tracing is finished, the
beaten work between will be compare
lively easy, and can be done by several
persons at the same time, If you wish
to have "a brass bee"
Some of your literary or student
friends will find manual labor great
relief from brain work. and they will
doubtless enjoy spending many merry
evenings with you hammering away
with the mallets to the time of the
music of their tongues.
The timers part comes next, for 1t
will be best for him to turn the top
edge and the ends over large wire,
and the bottom edge over fiat, mar
row row to which he attaches the dam
ty brass feet with nut screws.
Last, but not least, comes the polish
ing, which requires free use of rotten
stone and turpentine and plenty OF ell
bow grease.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
THE GLOVES OF ROYALTY.

carefully preserved in one of the royal
palaces is an interesting collection of
gloves worn by the rulers of England,
says the Philadelphia Ledger. 1t is no
tlceable that style in hand coverings
mas not been tickle, for these differ
out little from the modish gloves of to-
uay The preferences of the royal
"earers are, of course, evident.
mere is pair of gloves worn by
Sood-natured Queen Anne, now some
what sullied with decay. They are two
Ieet long, and are very strongly made
VI doeskin, but the inside is lined with
d sou, rich, blue satin, and the back
VI tne glove is beautifully embroidered
~ gold braid, in a design in which fig
uIes OF birds are the most conspicuous
VpJects. Queen Anne, like Queen Vic
.tSorla' despised buttons, preferring to
thrust her hand into the loose open end.
"A glove once worn by King George
Is of soft yellow kid, measuring
eoout fourteen and a half inches long
ana six inches wide. 1t gives evidence
mat his majesty must have possessed a
pretty large na::d.
the everyday gloves worn by Queen
vIctorla were of plain black cashmere
s sslu buttonless, just as those worn by
any sensible old lady. OF greater in
serest are the gloves of white kid, ten
1nhches long and three wide, worn by
ole girl Queen on the occasion of her
cremation, in 1887, and the other pair,
when formed part of her jubilee cos
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
THE H0MELY WOMAN.

The pretty woman hasn't all the
good things in life," said a plain wom-
an, according to the New York Mail
and Express. "She misses one thing
certainly-the comfort of ugliness. To
be sure, she has to be old enough to
have philosophical a bit about life be-
fore she finds this out. And before
that time she is certain to have laid
awake nights crying because the skin
deep gift of the gods has been denied
her. But by and by she begins to see
that her plain features, if they haven't
brought her joy, have spared her pain
In the first place, she hasn't expected
much of the world, and so she has not
been disappointed. Then she has had
leisure from her mirror and her ad-
mlrers, and, next of all from herself, to
think some thoughts worth thinking
and to do a little something of solid
worth. The worst slave 1 ever knew
was remarkably pretty girl who was
always in terror lest she was not at
her beauty's best, and whose whole life
was round of severe self-exactions
that she might keep her beauty unim-
paired. The poor child actually found
time for nothing else in life than the
Office of being her own groom.
Best of all, the plain woman is rea-
sonably sure to escape the observation
and comment that is sure to follow a
pretty girl. and which is not half so
pleasing to her if she is sensible and
right minded as the most of mankind
think
'Oh, yes, life has plenty of compensa-
ton to offer the ugly woman, as surely
am qualified to know. having led the
life of one, 10, these many years"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
THE GRATUITY QUESTION.

The question of tipping walters has
come up in England-in court-a wom-
an waitress being arrested for cheat
ing, and the question of tipping and
wages being brought in as an explana-
ton of the offense, says the Springfield
Republican. The waiter in question
was employed by caterers who offered
refreshments at the Earl's Court ex-
hibition, and one of the directors ex-
planned that three shillings sixpence
was paid for a weeks wages-or two
shillings sixpence-allowing for a shil-
ling for breakage. The walters were
given three meals a day; anything
more that they earned must be in the
way Of tips. At the trial the evidence
OF one woman was that she averaged
II shillings week. This, if it could be
counted on, would make the earnings
about $4.S7 a Week-a very small sum,
II the waiter had others to support, and
1t appeared that several of these wait
ers were married women, which means
in the main that they were obliged to
go out to earn or partly earn the sup
port of the family. The caterers testi-
fled that at this rate of wage "they
had an enormous amount of applica-
lions for work; that many asked to be
allowed to pay for the privilege Of
serving customers" also that to abol-
ish tipping they would have to reorgan-
ize their tariff, and that even under a
system of NO gratuities," they could
not prevent tipping. Into the question
or ethics the caterer utterly refused to
enter, contenting himself with stating
facts as he saw them.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
is CHINESE TASTE TO RULE?

It is said that Chinese cooks and
Chinese cookery daily grow more pop
, ular in America. The New York Trib-
une is authority for the statement that
in some American cities it is now the
custom to serve "chop suey' and "geish
main" side by side with lobster and
| crabs; that many rich families en-
ploy Chinese cooks, and that persons
of all classes frequent Chinese restau-
rants not for the novelty of the thing,
| but because of the excellence of their
| dishes. Special mention is made of
the perfect cleanliness of the Chinese
| restaurant, of the fact that in some,
furnished extensively with teakwood;
stools and tables inlaid with ivory and
mother of pearl, the entrance is
through the kitchen. with the idea that
patrons should examine the kitchen
and add to their relish of its dishes the
knowledge of the cleanliness in which
they are prepared. At these restau-
rants both chopsticks and knives are
provided, so that Americans may eat
without embarrassment.
Chop suey" and "geish y main" are
declared to be dishes that best suit the
American taste. Chop suey is made of
chicken breasts, celery, onion, pork,
water nuts. bean sprouts, young bam-
boo and mushrooms. These concomi-
tants are first boiled separately and
then cut up, the chicken into dice. the
vegetables into small pieces. and aft
erward fried in a little peanut oil and
dressed with 'see VOW" a famous inn
ported Chinese sauce, made of Chinese
beans, Chinese peppers and salt pre-
pared in a peculiar manner, and &C.
counted very appetizing. "Geish y
.t..Np T. IT,
ions, mushrooms, celery, chicken breasts,
Chinese water nuts and young bamboo.
In making II all the ingredients are first
boiled separately, and then, with the
exception of the noodles and chicken,
fried together with a seasoning of see
VOW. The dish is served in a howl
-Four tablespoons full of noodles are
placed in the bowl. the main" is
poured upon them. and on top Is
sprinkled three teaspoons of chicken
The desserts in Chinese restaurants are
fanciful in the extreme. such as chry-
santhemums, violets, roses and peach
blossoms, delicately fried and rolled in
powdered sugar. This sounds more
fanciful than agreeable. 1t would seem
hardly probable, for instance, that
chrysanthemum petals could have
nice flavor, and the idea of vulgarzing
flowers by frying them in batter is
one that would be disagreeable to
many.
The more one reads of Chinese cook
cry the more 1t is borne in upon the
mind that to the old-fashioned Amer
lean, brought up with a fresh and I'M
yitiated taste for mothers cooking"
which includes such savory old stand
bys as sausage, buckwheat cakes,
pumpkins and mince pies, and the de-
lectab1e doughnut-still to be found on
the New England breakfast table, and
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
DON'T WHINE.

A recent number of Medical Talk has
of whining" Complaints. says the
writer, are invariably made in minor
key. This monotony rasps the vocal
cords, taxes nasal nerves and muscles
that should not be brought into play
at all in speaking. and tends to shallow.
uneven breathing. The wilmer, too, is
almost without exception a more or
less idle lazy person. The habit of
whining itself tends to sap initiative
impulse and increase phlegnnatic ten
denotes. Habitual whining, not healthy,
vigorous faultfindina where fault
really exists, but the helpless, futile
complaining of narrow nature too
indolent to make any effort to right
the causes of complaint, has definite
ly deleterious physical effect on the
whole constitution. Add to this the
fact that eternal faultfinding is more
than likely to wear out the StancheSt
friendship and take the light from
the loveliest countenance and the full
effects of this insidious and prevalent
habit will be better appreciated.
Get the whine out of your voice or
il will stop the development and
growth of your body. 1t will narrow
and shrink your mind. 1t will drive
away your friends: it will make you
unpopular. Quit your whining, brace
up; go to work; be something; stand
for something; fill your place in the
universe. Instead of whining around,
exciting only pity and contempt, face
about and make something of your
self. Reach up to the stature of a
strong, ennobling manhood, to the
beauty and strength of a superb wom-
anhood. There is nothing the matter
with you. Just quit your whining and
20 to work"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11

their clients and are not so easily dis
Outraged. They work among men, but
chiefly with women, and, as I have
said. the insurance woman has recent
ly become fad.
When asked Miss Niccolls how she
happened to go into the business she
said
II had to give UP school and was
compelled to do something else.
saw that the insurance field was open
and entered it. At first it was very
hard work, but it has grown easier
every year. The. first year I made
about $45 a month, which is the SAL
airy of teacher in a primary school.
/ confined my work to women and had
to educate everybody that l talked
insurance to. The second year 1
made three times as much money as
at first, and the third year did still
better. Now / am working among
men as well as women and on the
same terms as the men solicitors, and
1 am sure that soliciting insurance
has become a permanent and will be
profitable occupation for women. I
see no reason why it should not, par
ticularly as women are taking out
more and more insurance.
Who are your clients?'
mostly working women and IL
would surprise you how many of them
are supporting or contributing to the
support Of families. / believe that
nine-tenths of the wage earners of
Chicago have others wholly or partly
dependent upon them, and this class
of people is beginning to learn that
insurance is not only a good but a
necessary investment to protect those
who are dependent upon them and to
provide for themselves in their old
age.
Women are now considered good
risks. Formerly a woman had to pay
an extra premium to secure insur-
ance, but about six years ago that
was removed and now nearly all of
the life insurance companies accept
them on the same basis as men. One
of the old conservative companies just
yielded the point a few weeks ago,
but still makes an exception to mar
ried women, as several of the other
companies do. The mortality among
women is no greater than among men,
and their liability to accident is not
so great"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
HINTS ON DIETETICS.

A well-known writer on dietetics lays
down the principle that "an important
branch of the mothers profession is to
acquaint herself with the stomaehic
idiosyncrasies of each member of the
householder" and to "tabulate a code
of kitchen physic."
Why take nauseous drugs as cathar-
tics when figs are a palatable substi-
tute?
Why forswear the drinking of milk
on the plea that it renders one bilious
when the addition of lime water rend-
ers 1t entirely innocuous?
A fewfacts it is we'll to bear in mind
are as follows:
Pickles, except when eaten with meat
and oily foods, are positively unwhole-
some
Strong coffee, taken without cream,
is refreshing to the nerves and stimu-
lating to the brain.
Sweet things and rare meat conduce
to make equity acid in the b God OF
those predisposed to rheumatism.
Unripe fruits should never be par
taken of.
Well cooked rice. arrowroot and boil
ed milk heat intestinal irritations.
Oatmeal is heating, hence a desirable
cereal in winter months.
Toast and tea form an invalid diet
which is far from ideal There is tan
mic acid in the tea and but little nutri-
ment in the toast.
Food values differ according to indi-
vidual constitutions. According to the
old saw, Whats one mans meat Is
another mans poison"
Gastronomic experiments should be
made with extreme caution. Nothing
is of greater Importance than to par
take of those foods which best equiv
the body for life's work.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-11
Happy ForgetfuIness.

Won let me hold your hand at Will
And gaze into your eyes the whle,
Catch your low voices tender tnrlH
And battle me in your wondrous
smile.
But when, impatient of delay,
I drew still closer. holder grown
You turned your blushing cheek away
And bade me let the lips alone.
And later. when in trustful rest.
AS one who dreamed or Needed not,
Your lips to mine were softly PRESSED
Starting, you whispered, Il forgot!
Strange that oblivion's shrouding gloom
Should crimson to such wealth OF
bliss
That Lethe's drop should burst and
bloom
And flower in ecstacy--a kiss!
Can lack of thought so softly bring
Such happy glow to lips and eyes?
Is heedlessness so sweet a thing?
Then, sure, tits folly to be wise!
All! let each instant's joy efface
The instant past, when lips here met
Still smile away each mantling trace,
Still kiss me. love, and still-forget!
And when chill time has ashened DER
On lips with ages bitter dust.
Then we'll be thoughtful-not before!
Then we'll remember-when we
musti
PHILADELPHIA Press.