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Show An Old Maid's Fund. They have a dowry insurance plan ivt Sweden by which the poor but honest parens deposits a small sum trom time to time in the names of his infant daughters, and. when each one grows up she receives modest dot which serves the double purpose of enhancing her value to her husband and. helping set up housekeeping. Why should we not reverse this plan and use it iu our own country, establishing an insurance fuud frorn which, in case of the calamity of a woman remaining unmarried, she hould receive re-ceive damages, or rather a consolation fund at a certain age, says Kate Field. Every unmarried un-married woman might be made to con-tribe con-tribe to it, aud, humau nature remaining a it is, the scheme would work admirably, as no subscriber to the fund would ever Lecouis Us beneficiary except as a last resort. |