Atlanta tri-weekly journal. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1920-19??, 1922-12-02

1t is announced that one of the big insur-
ance companies is going to underwrte matr-
mony, and doubtless, in the future when a
young couple take out their marriage license,
they will also take out an insurance policy on
their domestic felicity at the same time.
This may not be romantic but it is I'M
doubtedy prudent, for when loves young
dream goes to smash, there is no such COM
fort as having hard cash to fall back upon. OF
course, no money can pay for the broken
hopes and blasted illusions of marriage that
turns out badly, but it is sadly and sordidly
true, that no other remedy is so eficacious in
assuaging the ache of broken heart as q
poultice of the long green.
This feature of the affair will appeal par
ticularly to women, for, unless a woman has
money of her own, when she marries she
backs her luck with all that she has got. She
is plunger who risks everything on her one
best bet because she gives to marriage, and
the making of home, her youth, and
strength, and enthusiasm, and the time in
which she could he getting a start in some
self-suppOrting occupation.
If, then, her marriage turns out failure it
is a double tragedy because she not only loses
her husband, but her home, and her means
OF livelihood. In the case of divorce, the
courts may allow her a pittance of alimony
which it generally takes a female ShylOcll to
collect, as there is other debt that a man
pays so grudgingly what he owes to his ex-
wife Nor is there any other money that ever
comes to a woman that seems SO tainted, and
unclean to her.
Therefore, women Will hail with Joy the
sporting chance offered by the marriage in
surance. It's an anchor to the Windward in
case of storm The woman, herself, helps to
throw it out when the skies are bright, so the
compensation she gets for the loss Of the af-
lection of tickle husband comes to her i'm
personally. and she IS not forced to feed on
the crumbs that fall fIOm the table of the
woman who has gotten him. And that saves
her face.
Just how the matrimonial insurance is to
function has not yet been made public, but it
is easy to see how it may be as beneficial
lsychologically, as it is materially. 1t may
really assure marriage by insuring them.
Before you can insure your life, you ust
undergo thorou examination by compe-
tent medical men who must attest that you
have no disease. If you have tuberculosis, or
cancer, you can get no insurance. If you
wish to insure your house, that also is exam
ined by experts, and you can get no insurance
il it is improperly wired, or you carry inflam-
mable material in it, or if in any way it is
not good risk.
) Doubtless. before a marriage insurance
policy is written, the company will Investigate
tn fitness Of the man ana woman to we'd who
wish to be protected against the chances of
matrimonial disaster. Cold statiCians will
have figured out the chances of happiness of
the very young who rush into matrimOny and
of foolish boys who spouse women older
than themselves, and of senile rich men who
believe that girls young enough to be their
granddaughters love them for themselves
alone
Also, there will be scientific data showing