Mdme Karin Michaelis, a DanishAmerican writer, recently suggested that every girl child should be insured from birth against divorce, or “ singleblessedness ” after the age of fortyfive. A father would have to pay the premiums till his daughter married, when her husband would continue the payments. If the couple remained happily married the husband would get some benefit from the annuity his wife would receive after celebrating their silver wedding, and the single woman would begin drawing her annuity at forty-five. If a married couple parted the wife would immediately begin drawing her an-
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 17862, 2 June 1926, Page 3
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