The Irish standard., 1908-02-29
L0NG on HEALTH
The Men Examined For Life
ssa Insurance Policies.
healthy From Childhood's
Hour, to Hear Them Tell 1t.

The roly-poly, good-natured exam
lining doctor for the life insurance com.
4 pany was telling about some of his ex'
periences to the New York Sun.
wonderfully healthy lot, from
I childhood's hour, most of these fellows
to hear them tell it, he said. "Hardl.
one of them ever had so much as a toe
ache in all his born days.
1.-THE deadly earnestness with which
! they tell me these things doesn't be-
4 come less diverting because I see anG
hear SO much of it. I firmly believe
that most OF these good fellows be.
lieve what they say, at least for the
moment.
es"I never let on that think these ex-
aminees are arduously endeavoring to
deceive themselves-and me- What
would be the use? If they've got them
selves to thinking they are right ply
sically and are not they'll know it
when 1 tell them. If they know they're
not right physically and expect to bluff
it through they're in again for dis
illusionment.
$50 my only way, when they're tell
ing me all about how ever blessed in
their lives, is to look guileless or wise,
or little of both, and then go ahead
and find out for myself how they meas
ure up physically
"Only yesterday weazened but mer-
ry faced little man of As or so treated
me to an exhibition of what l may call
agreeable brass that made it hard for
me not to laugh in his face. He told
me at the outset that despite his rath-
er poor color, which of course l no
ticed at once, he was as trig as a new
red sled and always had been.
'"You'll find that examining me will
prove to be mere matter of form.
Doc he said to me breezily. THE kind
Of health I pack around with me al
ways has been a source of scandal In
my neighborhood. Never even had
growing pains when 1 was a boy, nor
the earache. Why, say, I've been
across the Atlantic half dozen times.
and l never could even get seasick.
Guess 1 was born tough
well, hadn't had my ear on the
left side of him for more than five sec
onds before I discovered that he had
heart that did it's work like a. creaky
windmill and that stood quite still and
skipped a couple of beats just about
whenever it felt like it.
Hearts a little eccentric told
him.
".Whose? Mine?' said he, looking
greatly mystified. My heart is eccen-
trio, you say?'
yes I told him. Decidedly eccen-
trio. 1t lays Off every little while and
forget about ts job. Been that way
long,?
r Doc, you amaze me- exclaimed the
merry faced, weakened little man. You
certainly do. I am shocked. sure am.
My heart wrong? Most astonishing
thing I ever heard i'll my life!'
Really. he was so tremendously in
earnest about it that ! couldn't deter
mine whether he was giving me an ex-
hibition of skilful acting orwhether he
really believed that his heart was nor
NAL He appeared to be q keenly dis
appointed and perturbed little man
while he was resuming his apparel. for
Of course there was no possibility of
his being recommended for a policy
with his kind Of heart. For all his dis
appointment he handed ME a keen lit
tie shot when he started out
ayes, sirree,' said he, certainly
am surprised at what you tell me. I'm
going to see medical man about it..
s and he accentuated medical man. with
u such obviously intended malice that ]
couldn't help but laugh.
"Others when l am forced to tell
them that they have things the matter
with them that must cause their re-
i lection for policies, get mad. Several
months ago I examined a man who
4 could see at a glance was in bad way
from 1labitual heavy drinking.
You take quite some liquor, ]
\ Judge said to this man.
'Oh, a little,' he replied quite Off
hand. Take a nip when 1 feel like
want it,
S5sssts" How often might that beg asked
Il him.
{ oh, I don't keep count Of m,
y drinks he came back, fiaring bit. =
can touch it or leave it. Rum is moth.
& Ing to me-
3 81. WELL I felt in duty bound to tel
& him then, you are to understand that
speak purely in a professional sense
sand not, Of course, censoriously-that's