PECUNIARY VALUE OF A HUSBAND AND FATHER.

Thames Star, Volume X, Issue 3409, 25 November 1879, Page 3

PECUNIARY VALUE OF A HUSBAND AND FATHER.

Suppose a man earns £500 per year for the support of his family, what capital does th t represent? A family investment cannot be fairly estimated as netting more than five per cent., or £50 yearly per £1000 invested; £500 per annum therefore represents a capital of ! £10,000. In fact such a capital, securely invested, would not equal in pecuniary value the fruits to a family of a man who yearly brings home £500 in cash sines he would, at odd times, do and see to many things which without him the family would have to hire for. It is indeed strange that well-to-do, intelligent business men do not oftcner think of this relation of their own lives and labours to the support and welfare of their families. It is still more strange that thoughtless women, and even children old enough to reflect, do not properly prize the valuable capital that exists in a diligent husband and father. If this were aiequately estimated by them, it could not fail to command a prudential provision against any sudden loss of such an important financial r; source. Suppose that a man owned a house, upon the income of which alone his family would be dependant for a subsistence in case of his death, would he allow that property to be uninsured for a single day ? Would he or would his family risk the liability of having only a heap of ruins instead of the productive investment ? This is a world in which the bread-and-butter question is a reality; and the pecuniary value of a husb.md and father is a reality that should be considered.— Banking Record.