DIVORCE INSURANCE.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1299, 30 November 1911, Page 4

DIVORCE INSURANCE.

■■- '. _— *__: _ . PROPQSAL BY AN AUTHORESS. , "Divorce Insurance" is the novel solution of the problem of .marital unhappiness suggested by Mine. Karin Michaelis, the Danish authoress of "Tho Dangerous .Age." ■ . .' lu Hie New York "Evening News" the novelist argues (hat tho time has arrived when all parents should insurn their dnujbters against a divorce, the policy to in a (.urn after a certain number of years. Her scheme provides for the compulsory assmption by the hsband of divorre insurance responsibilities. She would regulnfo tho annuity in accordance with tho husband's income, and says that no premiums would bo paid after the couple had reached an age when divorce is out of the nufstion. If the "calamity" should, still happen the wifo would bo entitled to draw an annuity by virtue of I lie iimount paid up on tho policy. Tho authoress admits that the scliemo may be faulty in detail, but is confident that ils principle will eventually be adopted. "I am aware," she snys, "that many will call my idea silly and impracticable and that old-fashioned people may tako great offence, but some day wlien 1 in) lying under a beautiful weeping birch, wit'i little birds on its branches; I expect that divorce-insured women will como oil my birthday aud decorato mj jraro .with, lowers of thankfulness. , '