A Company to Provide for Their Wants In Old Age. FOR SPINSTERS.

Te Aroha News, Volume V, Issue 245, 10 March 1888, Page 3

A Company to Provide for Their Wants In Old Age.

FOR SPINSTERS.

Schlkswig boasts of an institution unique of its kind an I well worthy of imitation. Ifeis a spinsters' insurance company. Its purpose is to provide for the single lady members of well-to-do families. The company gives them shelter, board and pinmoney. The method is the following :At the birth of a girl the father inscribes the child's name in the books of the company and pays a certain sum every yoar. When bis daughter reaches her twenty-fourth year, and is still unmarried, she is entitled to a certain income, and to a couple of wellfurnished rooms in a house belonging to the company, which has a fine garden attached to it, and is inhabited by other younger or older s >in»ters, who have become members before her. If the father dies before his daughter attains her twenty-fourth year the girl enjoys the same privileges. In case aha dies or marries all her rights are forfeited and the money paid 4nvre^ertB,to the company:' These chances enable Jhe company to make the provision-, named; while parents" have the satisfaction of knowing the future of their daughters to be secured in the case of the death of these natural providers.

A sailor being asked to define the differ, ence between a hurrican and a typhoonsaid, "In a hurricane- the wind blowa as hard.aa it can right at wight along.; bat in a typhoon, jaat as it is blowing its hardest, it givefl an awful jerk."