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120 LIFE ASSUEANCE.
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XVIII.—-LIFE ASSURANCE AGENCY AS ¦ AN EM...
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It has been frequently said that few emp...
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Chapter I. Two Men Sat Together In A Sin...
and tended Mm in illness , and had soothed him in convalescence . But he soon hardened himself against -what he denominated a weakness ,
finished his preparations , and , with a few lines to Wyndham , ( which Wyndham never received , having left England the previous night , )
left the house with as little ceremony as if it had been a stranger ' s or a hireling ' s . In a few days he left England . He proceeded to
his new mission in capital spirits and renovated health . He was so delighted with himself , and the brilliant future he
anticipated , that he could afford friendly pity for the theoretic , obscure Wyndham , and had compassion for his soffc-hearted cousin . He
magnanimously hoped that the lovers' quarrel between them might be made upand that they might be happy . " But give me , " said
Arthur to himself , , " instead of the babyisms of love and the romances of Quixotic philanthropy , a good career and good brains , and the
world shall see if I do not win a vantage ground in its arena ! " I . B .
( To be continued . )
120 Life Assueance.
120 LIFE ASSUEANCE .
Xviii.—-Life Assurance Agency As ¦ An Em...
XVIII . — -LIFE ASSURANCE AGENCY AS ¦ AN EMPLOYMENT FOE , FEMALES .
It Has Been Frequently Said That Few Emp...
It has been frequently said that few employments , besides teaching
of various descriptions , are open to the more intelligent of the industrial portion of the female population ; and that there are
numbers of active , dependent women , who have really no field extensive h for the exercise of their energies . Among the
various emp enoug loyments suggested to them , it is matter of surprise that no one has pointed out the occupation of the . _- " Life Assurance
Agent , " and yet , from the very nature and objects of the Life Assurance princileand its paramount value to all but the richest part
of the community p , , no employment more suitable for the exercise of those qualities belonging ( we had almost said especially ) to the
female character could be pointed out to their attention . Unfortunately nearly all classes are very insufficiently acquainted
with the value of Life Assurance as a means of self-relief , as a provision for those dearer than selfor as a means of profitable
em-, p which loyment exercised ; while in women its present , all but limited ignore extent the existence is used of chiefl a system y for
their benefit , and are in general ignorant that it , is at once their duty and their interest , to endeavor to develope a principle which is
fraught with real blessings to all . It is their duty , since it is a
woman ' s province to improve the condition of those around her if
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 120, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/48/
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