YOUR WIFE AND YOUR BUSINESS

Dominion, Volume 20, Issue 82, 31 December 1926, Page 16

YOUR WIFE AND YOUR BUSINESS

When you started for your holiday you turned the key on the safe or the cupboard containing all your papers and put everything connected with work out of your mind. It seems callous to mention such matters, but have you ever given your wife sufficient explanation of the business side of your home affairs to enable her to carry on in the event of a serious or fatal accident occurring to you? There are certain things which every wife should know Take your will, for instance. She need not be told the contents. but she should he given Mui name and address of the solicitor who has it, or be shown the’ sealed envelope in which you keep it. Then take your life policies. Make a list of them, setting out the premiums pavable, the dates when and the place where they must be paid, and the days of grace allowed. Your sickness and accident policy, your fire and burglary insurance, your car tax insurance, and any other periodical payments von make must be added to the list. " . , . And what about money? If anything were to happen to-morrow rendering you incapable of signing a cheque for a month, could your wife carry on? You can. of course, arrange with your bank that she can draw cheques on your current account, .with a private understanding that she shall only do so in nn emergency, or you can give her a power of attorney. Five minutes’ conversation with your banker, to whom you can talk freely as to her commerci’al capacity or otherwise, will put you on the right lines, hut it is your hounden dttfv to make such arrangements that in the event of disaster to you she will not have the added burden of financial worry. Tell her about the tenancy of your house—when, where, and to whom the rent, rates, and taxes are raid, and how if necessity arose, she could give notice to quit. “IF” (With Apologies to Kipling) “If you can keep your liair when all about you Are shearing theirs and wanting you to, too, It you can hold your tongue when others-mock you, But make allowance (or their mocking, too; “If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To keen votir hair long, after theirs is gone, And hold op to it when there’s nothing in von Except tlie will which says to you, •Hold On!’ . . . “If you can smile with not a hat to fit you, If you can sigh, but never.shed a tear, Yotfrs is the Earth and everything that’s in it, And—which is more—you’ll be a lady, dear.” —V. L. Shepherd, in “Harper’s Monthly Magazine.” ■