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    122 ¦ LIKE, ASS.UBANCE. .

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    all clearly defined , explain themselves upon perusal . The remuneration is in the following ten per centthat is two shillings in the

    pound , of the premiums way or instalments , paid , to the office for the first earand five per centwhich is one shilling in the pound , for the

    y , , second , and for every year during the payment of the premiums . Supposing an agent canvassing for business to obtain only at the rate of one

    policy a week throughout the year for the small assurance of £ 200 , this would be productive of £ 500 a year premium being paid to

    the office . The agents profits at ten per cent would be £ 50 the first earand £ 25 a year so long as all the premiums were kept

    paid an active . y It , is agent easy may to im realise agine , , therefore and without , how g h iving andso up me any an tra income de or

    employment he may _previously be engaged in . We are sure that many readers of this article will wish they knew how to make such

    an addition to a small income . To be a life agent requires no larger amount of energy , tact , and industry , than are necessary to

    carry out other Undertakings , only unfortunately the subject of Xafe Assurance is not so well understood as other social departments ;

    when it is , our statistics of crime and pauperism will not be so painful and alarming as they are at the present moment . Any of the

    Life Assurance offices where the business is partly carried on by means of agentswould courteously respond toand readily instruct ,

    any intelligent respectable , female who might app , ly for the appointment of agent . The more conscientiousbenevolentand intelligent ,

    , , applicants might be , so much the more would their efforts be likely to succeed , for it is a great mistake to suppose the occupation will

    only suit common-place illiterate persons . There is a great dearth of intelligent agents , and it is a singular fact that London , as the

    emporium of all that is intellectual and intelligent , should supply a smaller number of assured persons than the country towns . Indeed ,

    London may be said to be comparatively untried ground , agents doing less business there than anywhere else . Our metropolis then

    offers a large field for tlie operations of Life Assurance . Almost every office keeps little books which give an outline of

    the simple foundations of Life Assurance ,, and also explain the leading features—that isthe particular advantages offered by each to

    , its policy holders , or those who are assured with them . An agent should be acquainted with all the particular benefits held out by each

    of the offices , as it is obvious unless he be so that he cannot point out the superiority of the office to which he may have engaged his

    services . Some offices pay at once a large per centage on the premiums obtainedand no yearly per centage afterwardsas the yearly

    income paid to agents , is occasionally very large , sometimes , we believe as much as fifteen hundred pounds per annum . Indeed it is not

    possible for » any system to be more benevolent , or more productive of large pecuniary results to all parties concerned , from the directors

    to the house messengers , than a prosperous Life Assurance Company

    122 ¦ Like, Ass.Ubance. .

    122 ¦ LIKE , ASS . UBANCE . .

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  • English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), April 1, 1859, page 122, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01041859/page/50/