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    LIFE ASSUBANCE. 121

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    It Has Been Frequently Said That Few Emp...

    she can ; and it is their interest , as it may be made a source of considerable The dail pecuniary in exhibiting profit . - the lists of subscribers to our various

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    wealth which has made our country the wonder of the world . But how much better to prevent poverty than to relieve it , and this an

    active Life Assurance agent is the means of doing when he succeeds use in persuading of any of some the form careless s of parent Life Assurance , or inattentive . The husband agent , is to ( under make

    children even Providence tuall le are fr y om lef ) sinking the t b w eing cause holl in cast to desti perhaps on pauperism tute public of no p t reven benevolence from or t sin ing the , two wilful or . a or Numb widow three lec ers g t and of irls of young those little from neg

    peop on whom they may y be dependen , t , but because their parents They were do not do know aid no at t regular know to make that intervals any if some provision to a comparativel secure for them Life y Assurance from small limited instalments office means ( of .

    money p which perhaps they are needlessly wasting ) that they could provide a marriage portion for a daughter , or the means of setting

    a son up in some business , or giving him a good education , —to say nothing of being able to leave a wife provided for . It by no means the

    means deteriora of tes pecuniary the life a profi gent t ' s ; occupa as it ti is on nothing that its to duties the are disadvant made age of the beautiful principle now under consideration that various

    necessitous men have used it for merely selfish purposes , without vul any reference ar ersons to t its ake value uthe to the duties communit of life y a ; en or ts tha and t occas by io urg nall ing y

    its g prac p tice in an imp p udent , indelicate way g , disg , ust those upon ci whose led , attentions eculations they and thrust the disgraceful it ; for notwithstanding transactions of the which unprin of

    psp l will ate y be ears the it h most as been valuable made t system he vehicle of , preven it is , tive and and probabl prospect y eve ive r

    remedies , for the alleviation of all kinds of distress and embarrassment connected with pecuniary contingencies which has ever

    been Some made idea known ; be formed of the pecuniary emoluments of life

    b agents means , when of agents it may is stated could that name all those umbers oinces of which intelligen procure t respec business table

    men y to whom they pay , from fifty to three and four hundred pounds annumand maninstances might be cited of gentlemen who

    per , y rec When eive six an hundred individual pounds thinks a year , en to tirel become y for life a life agency agent . a letter

    explanatory of the writer ' s condition proper in life is sent to the secretary , , and one or two references as to respectability ; when , if the secretary

    teous considers reply that and there various is any printed prospect papers of obtaining will be returned a good , agent which , a being

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    Life Assubance. 121

    LIFE _ASSUBANCE . 121

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 121, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/49/