| Show OnN on making aking a will am AW ANY really s sensible ens ibl c women women MANY mi who are arc practical levelheaded and farsighted in every other ya way have an unreasoning horror of making inga a will I 1 they will evade this very evident du duty ty and put it off with h any i and every excuse A baltimore woman of this chis sort said to me a fe few w days baysa ago da make it a will no indeed I 1 would be quite sure cure 1 I was going to die immediately 11 this seems to be the viewpoint of six out of seven otherwise other wise sane women wo men and the only reason i ea they can give for ne neglecting afe 1 a very palpable ible duty this duty is imperative if a woman owns proper property or there are childr children I 1 to 0 lie considered where ones personal effects are few and of small value it seems beems hardly n e c essary to ko go to fo tae trouble anal adf expense of ri going nd io toa a lawyer landye and making h a will ivill bit but t trie r e wise woman in vc will ill make iso some me kind of a document disposing of what hai she has even if it be merely a list iiii of small c bequests witnessed by at least two 0 members of her famil family for friends in the case of a of means mean s surely she should have so some mesay say as to who shall inherit her hei property and because she makes a will to today day does not bind her irrevocably A she can make another one next week if she so desires anil and des destroy froy the former one A rather tragic c re result sult of no will Wili cariie came to my ears cars re recently benilo i A young matron an fn on with a few thousand a y year died rather suddenly leaving no will 1 ear a heart broken husband and nd two wee the husband managed to console himself im with a no 2 within a shorts short space at and being fairly prosperous n no 6 thought was given to wills or future provision about four years afterwards zhe the mati man met with business reverses and in his anxiety to save s something om ething for his children deeded over the first cifes money to the second wife on the understand understanding 1 il 9 that she would leave it to the first bif cifes es children later alii taij same second wife was dying and to io provide for her own child refused to make tile the promised will after her death it was found that she had previously made a will leaving all she had to her own child nothing could be done and the two small girls were forced to work for a 4 i living while the m money on 6 y by rights theirs kept their half sister f from r 0 m tie the same fate we all know how many families are arc disrupted and feuds formed over property and money when there is a will but at least everyone knows what tile the writer of the will desired even if I 1 they hey do contest it but where there is we may inay feel quite sure the one who should benefit by our goods and chattels is generally the one who comes out at the small end of the horn |
