GET MARRIED.
PATERFAMILIAS DECLARED VER\ BEST INSURANCE RISK. CHICAGO, June 2.—Are you single 40. and fat?—Yes.
Rudolph, please play the funeral march slowly —our brother is doomed. The grave beckons vampishly for the bachelor fat man of 40, according to J. E. Flanigan, lies Moines actuary, ;i delegate to the convention of the American Institute of Actuaries. If he's 20 per cent, overweight at 45—well, his friends might as well begin talking in the past tense. '“Tho middlo<hged lat man,” said Flanigan, “is a mighty poor insurance risk."'
Tile best risk, he added, is tho mar lied man who has a family, lives a (piiet existence, smokes and drinks mildly, and takes no unnecessary chalices.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 5
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115GET MARRIED. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15594, 10 August 1921, Page 5
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