East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1910-06-08
WOMAN'S REVENGE.


tins of much injustice in life there
is no doubt. Martin Luther once said, |
This is a hard world for girls
In New York state a woman can
not vote. but occasionally we hang
her when she does the thing she
ought not.
But here is a true story about a
woman who lived in Brooklyn ~ Y.
not being able TO live in East Au-
rora for reasons best known to her
self-who got even with male man.
This particular woman lived her
life. raised a goodly brood of chill
dren. reached the pleasant age of sew
enty-two and found herself alone
with just twelve hundred dollars in
cash-whieh is not so bad, after all.
Some folks haven't twelve hundred
dollars. and lots of folks wouldn't
know what to do with it if they had.
and what did she do with the
money, Terese ?"
1 will tell you what she did.
She put on her best gown. her Sun
day bonnet. her Paisley shawl and
black mits and went over to Broad
way and bought an annuity from one
of the big life insurance societies.
This annuity amounted to S154.25.
An annuity is thing that happens
to you every year at the same time.
If you provide for it, the fellow
comes around on the exact date and
pushes the money in your pocket,
willy nilly.
So. as before stated, this woman,
Betsy Gage by name, left the insur-
ance office with nothing more than
a promise that she would be paid
s15425 every three hundred and six
ty-five days as long as she lived.
However. instead of allowing the
company to send her the money she
had them make a memorandum on
their books that she would call and
| collect it,
And so once a year the old lady
walked over To New York, sidled up
to the grated window, tapped on it
very gently and demanded her own,
and always they handed out the S154.-
25.
Now it seems that this women was
earning little money all the time.
/ enough to live on, and so when she
was eighty-eight years of age she
| had saved up from her anuity two
thousand dollars.
And SO on her eighty eighth birth
! dav she walked over with this green
ish wad, handed in the two thousand
| dollars and asked them to increase
the annuity all that conscience would
allow.
II seems that an annuity is one OF
those peculiar things that the longer
YOU live the more you get. whereas
| in life insurance the younger you are
the less YOU have to pay. In fact, II
you are one hundred years old and
YOU lay down a thousand dollars for
an annuity the company will agree TO
nav YOU eight hundred dollars year
as long as you live.
At eighty eight years of age Betsy
Gage found herself thereafter with
an income Of 1854 year.
Every year thereafter on the event
full day she walked in and demanded
! her 1854 and received it in good mon
ey.
On her one hundredth birthday she
sent word that she was not feeling
we'll and wished they would send the
money over.
And so they sent the money over
! And the president of the company
sent a five dollar bunch of roses and
a letter congratulating her on having
lived so long to draw down so much
money and wishing her many happy
returns of the day.
It was about six weeks after that
to be exact. on November 21, 1907
word came that the old lady had
gone to sleep and forgotten to wake
up and that the account should be
closed.
Her estate showed funds to the
amount of six thousand dollars to her
credit. divided among four different
savings banks.
This shows that Sam Patch was
right in his proposition that some
things can be done as well as others.
There is no doubt in my mind that
the effect of having a life insurance
tpolicy or an annuity when your hair
begins to turn gray tends greatly to
ward longevity.
We usually lose our illusions and
our hair at same time. Betsy Gage
had a beautiful head of snow white
hair-it was all her own-even unto
that day when she went to sleep ane
forgot to wake up.--Elbert Hubbard