WORDS TO WIVES.

Thames Star, Volume VII, Issue 1989, 20 May 1875, Page 4

WORDS TO WIVES.

How strange that wives are indifferent respecting Life Insurance 1 Thousands of women are the companions of husbands ■whose, business is in connection with swift-running machinery, or other imminent dangers, and yet who* if sudden death should overtake them, would be left almost penniless. The presence of their suffering sister ought to admonish them. What town, neighbourhood, or village has not its " destitute widows? " Our cities are,full of them. You know many of them. Perhaps they are fighting off starvation and temptation with- the point of a needle. .

"Stitch! stitch ! stitch! In poverty, hunger, and dirt, Sewing at once, with a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt." Perhaps they are having a small school in the" house to pay rent, keeping a few boarders, attending store, taking in washing, or perhaps half living in a sort of " shabby gentility" upon the scanty means which some "rich relative" patronizingly furnishes! The haunts of vice would tell many a story of those driven to desperation, then to crime, then to an ignominious death and an unmarked grave!—and all from being tired of struggling with poverty. Even a moderate insurance upon a deceased young husband's life had saved them from.all this! Will you repeat this folly, and confront, such a fate ? Beware! A precious boon is extended to you in life assurance. Better sacrifice almost any other worldly good than this I See that a policy is taken, and kept in force, even if you have to economize and struggle to do it- You cannot afford to neglect this provision. The risk is too great—too fearfully great.