New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-13
MRS. JOHN A. LOGAN'S
TALKS TO WOMEN
Mans Obligation to Provide for His Own
This is the third of Mrs LOean's series
OF Informative Talks

to provide for those dependent upon him.
Assuredly, his bride would head the list
of those of his own family for whom he
must make provision.
1t is unfortunate that many Of the
Jewish laws and customs are not in
force to-day; were they. we should see
less of this reckless rushing into the
marriage relation without any provision
whatever for the future We have even
drlfted far away from the customs OF
the earlier days of our own country.
Parents give their daughters into the
keeping of men who have nothing on
earth to put up as a guarantee that they
will fulfill their marriage VOWS or are
able to support themselves or their fami-
lies; not even a Life Insurance policy,
the safest possible investment should
their husbands be called away by acct
dent or disease.
In the days of John Alden and Pris-
ella a home was provided by the bride
groom before the marriage ceremony, so
that the bride was sure of dOmiCile over
which she was chosen to preside. No
young man would have had the audaCity
to ask a young woman to become his
welded wife or the permission of her
parents or guardians to make her such
without having some evidence of his
eligibility. | remember once of hearing
story of a young man who was des-
perately in love with a pretty girl in the
neighborhood. He worked and saved
money enough to buy forty acres of
land upon which to build a home. The
young lady favored his suit He APP
preached her father, telling him he had
the indispensable number of acres re-
quired before marriage could be allowed.
The eXacting parent insisted that the
swain also have a horse to till the land
Had the many reliable Life Insurance
companies been in existence then the
presentation of a policy in one of the
good companies by the young man to his
bride eleCt would have appeased the
parent as it would have convinced him
that some provision had been made for
his daughter if anything should happen
to her husband
The plans of Life Insurance have
reached a standard of perfection that
will enable any one to carry some pro-
vision for those depending upon them
in case of accident or death Life Insur-
ance is far superior to any other system
whereby such provision can be made.
Policies can be secured and the premiums
paid regularly by practicing little self
denial in the matter of selfish indulgence
to which almost every person is given.
1t IS a curious fact that many men
who are considered honorable and most
devoted to their wives and children, and
are most demonstrative in their affections
and spend their money freely for the
pleasure of the family, at the same time.
will go through life spending every dollar
of their resources, and when they come to
die, as they know from the beginning
they must, they leave nothing upon
which their dependents can subsist How
often Life Insurance for a moderate
amount would have saved loved ones
from the hardship and humiliation of
going out into the world to earn their
daily bread1
l will gladly send to you upon appl-
cation, the literature of the Metropolitan
Life Insurance Company and advise you