Rensselaer Union, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 February 1875 — Wanted to Make Sure of It This Time. [ARTICLE]

Wanted to Make Sure of It This Time.

Yesterday a tall and masculine-ap-pearing female, who clung to a diminu-tive-looking specimen of a man whom she called husband, entered a Griswold street life insurance office and requested to see the insurance man. The agent ushered the couple into a reception-room and asked them to be seated. In a few minutes the woman opened the conversation with: “ Mr. Insurance Man, I’ll tell you my business here. You see that man there,” pointing to the pigmy who was quietly seated at her side; “ well, he’s my husband—my third husband, and I want to insure his life for $3,000.” The smiling agent, with an eye to business, rubbed his hands complacently and politely requested the little husband to go with him to the office of the company’s examining physician, a short distance up the street. After the Liliputian had been rigidly examined the doctor wrote out a certificate as to his possessing the necessary qualifications which entitled him to a life when the two returned to the insurance office, where the Amazonian female was impatiently awaiting them. A clerk having drawn up the necessary papers she took out a roll of bills and paid the first installment on the policy, which document she folded carefully together and hid in the depths of her skirt pocket. On taking their departure the prudent wife turned to tne insurance agent and thanking him for his promptness in making out the policy remarked that “ she wasn’t going to befooled this time.” The agent politely asked for an explanation of this strange remark, whereupon she replied that her first husband had died on her hands before she knew of the existence of such an organization as a life insurance company; her second husband was blown up on a steamboat after they had been married a week and before she could get a policy made out; and now that she married Joseph that very morning she wasn’t going to run another such risk, and therefore concluded to have things fixed up at once. “ Now, Joseph, dear,” said the affectionate wife as she hustled her spouse down the stone steps leading to the sidewalk, “you and me can spend a honeymoon just like two loving turtle doves.” —Detroit Free Press.