SOLOMON AFTER A NAP.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 6, Issue 1680, 8 May 1884, Page 2

SOLOMON AFTER A NAP.

The 'Lancet' of a recent date has a sub-editorial on "Temperance Insurance." Such articles must open the darkest and njost prejudiced mind.to some light on this great hygienic and social; question; ;~ :■...'. "Surely the tables were never more ■••■■* completely turned than on the subject of . Temperance - and, insurance. The Times recently published a letter from Mr Rohert Warner, in which that gentleman records a fact pretty generally known amongst the abstaining community, that the ■ first insurance office established •on a Temperance basis was founded because a leading insurance'office refused to. insure him. surcharge, on the ground that the life -of an abstainer from alcoholic beverages, was not. so good as the life of a man who partook of such beverages. In these days tIuTV judgment on this, question is reversed in the most striking manner All -the companies are becoming more particular in their inquiries as to the drinking habits of proposing: insurers Some, companies, the Briton for example, are permitting abstoiners to insure at a reduced,annual permium and new companies are being formed in order to carry out other special advantages for the the absolute temperate. One company, '■ the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution/ founded by Mr Warner fpurty-foui' years ago, and has had from the first two cjascesof insurers, oneof temperate, another of abstaining habits, There is no denying that the results of this test have been strongly in favor, of the abstaining class, ami that the vulgar prejudice which originally, enforced the contest is by the merciless logic of facts shown' to be wrong. ;