Los Angeles herald., 1907-03-16
BRIDES NOW TAKE OUT
TR0USSEAU INSURANCE
Special to The Herald.

Special to The Herald
NEW YORK, March 14.-''Trousseau
insurance" is the title which might be
given to a new system Of money saw
ing looking to a future day instituted
by dozen pretty girls employed in one
of the Twenty-third street stores. In
the matter of incentive 1t has life in
suranee Of any sort "beaten to a stand
STILL" for not only is there no need OF
dying TO beat the game" but you
draw double prize-a husband and a
trousseau.
This is how the piquant and blond
young woman who sells combs ex-
plains the new money saving club:
"There are twelve of us and we each
put up a dollar week on pay day.
The treasurer deposits 1t in savings
bank. That is $12 a week. In ten
weeks we will have $120 to our credit.
Then IL someone should get married
not that any of US are engaged-well,
$120 would buy a very pretty wedding
dress and ct cetras."
"Oh! Then it is sort of matrimonial
| bait?"
| The treasurer looked pained.
| mot at all. That trousseau money
will not help any avaricious man. We've
sworn an oath to spend every cent that
| is coming to us on a trousseau, not on
household goods. or in setting husbands
up in business. This is distinctly
practical and feminine game"
Suppose none of the twelve should
marry before a year had passed. Then
you would have 1924 and interest Would
| bride No. get it all and leave the ex-
| cheuuer empty for bride No. 2, who
might have her wedding day set for two
months later?"
"Oh, we have that all fixed" replied
| the treasurer, triumphantly. I'VE have
| fixed the maximum amount that can
be drawn at $3.50. If there is more in
the fund, it will be held over for the
next bride. And of course every time
there is a wedding we will admit an
other-er-'
'Victim?"
mo; remember. Lots of girls want
to join, but we have limited it to twelve
because when you have a lot there is
nearly always fuss, You see, most Of
us have small savings accounts of our
own, but we also have some home re-
onsibilitieS-Someone dependent upon
us, and it is dreadfully hard to save
any large sum against rainy day-or
your wedding. Honestly, I knew one
girl who was engaged five years, and
never could save enough to get trous-
Seau, and the little household linen she
hal been taught woman must have
before her wedding. Personally, /
wouldn't risk married happiness for
| any such foolish reason, but just the
| same girl wants to have a little we'd
ding and some pretty clothes, whether
she marries out of store or an Office
| or from her fathers comfortable home.
| N9nv a girls happiness, resulting from
a proposal and the consequent engage
ment ring, has been marred by the
thought that she would have to scrimp
like sin to get her trousseau. This way,
laying aside 81 weekly, you will be able
to recognize that a mans intentions
are serious without worrying yourself
about the wherewithal for your bridal
| gowns.
"And don't see why you can't have
trousseau insurance. You buy Long
Island property on the installment plan
and there is no telling when earth
quakes will shift from Jamaica to Long
Island. You stint to pay your building
and loan assessment-and the treasurer
or some other official may abscond with
the funds. You pay a benefit associa-
tion due-and never fall i'll. You buy
life insurance, and maybe the under
taker and the cemetery company get 1t
all. Now, with the trousseau insurance
it is different. There is always a pleas
ant possibility besides the financial re-
turn, for business or no business, we
are all old fashioned enough to feel
that matrimOny is still worth while
and the selection of a wedding trous-
seau the sartorial climax OF n woman's
life"