DIVORCE INSURANCE.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIV, Issue 141, 11 December 1911, Page 6

DIVORCE INSURANCE.

PROPOSAL BY AX AUTHORESS. "Divorce insurance" is the novel solution of the problem of marital nnhappiness suggested by Mme. Karin Michaelis, the Danish authoress of "The Dangerous Age." In the New York Evening News tin; novelist argues that the time has arrived when all parents should insure their daughters against a divorce, the policy to mature after a certain number of years. Her scheme provides for the compulsory assumption by the husband of divorce insurance responsibilities. She would regulate the annuity in accordance with the husband's income, and s&vs that no premiums would be paid after the couple had reached an age when divorce is out of the question. If the "calamity" should still happen the wife would be entitled to draw an annuity by virtue of the amount paid up on the policy. The authoress admits that the scheme may be faulty in detail, but is confident that its principle will eventually toe adopted. "I am aware," she says, "that many will call my idea silly and impracticable, and that old-fashioned people may take great offence, but some day, when I am lying undr a beautiful weeping birch, with little birds on its branches, I expect that divorce-insured women will come on my birthday and decorate <my grave with flowers of thankfulness."