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LIFE ASSUBANCE. 317
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Life _Assurance needs the powerful aid of female influence _, We feel itive that were the advantsthe self-relieving "
self-suppos age , _,, means porting" princi other ples wide of this ldissemina most prolific ted and among benevolent the female system community by some , y
would from the be hig productive hest to the of lowest grea , t blessings an understandable and raise form the , that moral it ,
religious , and social tone of society . It is part of woman ' s mission t of Life do this Assurance , and she . has Now it in her the power numerous to aid associations largely by devoted means among
to female insurance policy , -ho etc lders ., alt , houg yet there h they is are none all which open to appeals the reception in a direct of to the interests of womenMen have their sick-clubs and
manner . reall friendly societ the ies , bu " wants t these " are of the not adapted is some for societ females . " t What he sole is age y
' benefit y among of the industrial classes of women , not only for those who earn those their whose bread existenc by e t is he dependent numerous on intellectual loyments labor of life . bu A t Life for
Assurance Society basis formed would chiefl not onl y of tend female to members foster the hi and hes arrange t order d on a y g
of feminine proper charac , teristics but would encourage a more thoughtful w and ld careful also ive expenditure loyment of the to numbers wages of of feminine women who industry under , and the
exis ou ting ies state w hile of it thing would s are afford at a to loss how the to emp means loy their of existence time or many
and energ open ; highly remunerative source of industry . A sketch of a , r society iremen is here ts of submi those tte con d , t which ingenci we es whi think ch al woul thoug d h meet common all the to equ
both sexes fall more heavily on women . ( alread We y propose explained then , ) with a socie six ty or formed more gentlemen on the " mu as tual directors " princi and p Act le as ,
many for Friendl ladies for Socie a ties commi " tt ee , to tered be either under enrolled the " Joint under Stock the Act " " the first method y of establishing g such an association would perhaps ;
be the most desirable as being attended with less expense and risk . The assurances to be limited to two hundred pounds and the Such societht
address embr annuities ace ing all to itself the thirty obj more pounds ects particularl aimed per as at annum cl y in k to existing . women . w c a ompanies ome Such nes a , societ ec mi while iall g y miht tin mtserve
offices enquiries young g ones ra The b , y peculiar being having en now o attainments to deterred encount necessary er from no ; t many hin making to g perform but the men , the necessary p in duties the y
who of secretary in . some measure would at has present been trained be onl for y the found in a as the tleman occu- , purpose
knowlege pation taught embraces to women of " one Vita ; or but l Economics two we branches hope " ( the abstruse of learning period as never is this at , term hand unfortunatel , reads when y it a , of the natural laws
means nothing more than a knowledge relating *
Life Assubance. 317
LIFE ASSUBANCE . 317
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Jan. 1, 1859, page 317, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01011859/page/29/
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