The making of the home : a reading-book of domestic economy for school and home use / by Mrs. Sameul A. Barnett.

  • Barnett, S. A., Mrs.
Date:
[between 1890 and 1899?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The making of the home : a reading-book of domestic economy for school and home use / by Mrs. Sameul A. Barnett. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    (or he) first begins to “ insure” (as this act is called) their lives. If a person is under thirty and over twenty-five, 2s. 6d. a year has to be paid, and so on, till the sum increases to 8s. 5d., which is the amount which has to be paid every year, if the person is sixty- five years old before he or she begins to insure their life. Besides this advantage, Government offers another to those people who wish to ensure that they shall have a little something to help to support them when they reach the age, when, in all probability, they will be too infirm to earn their own bread. By this system the Government takes charge of people's money at any time of their lives that they may wish to begin to put it by; and then, when they are old, it returns to them a regular sum every year, according to cer- tain rules which any one can get by applying to the post-office. But besides these methods of saving money, there is another way, which is perhaps the easiest way of all, and that is by belonging to a Co-operative store. Co-operation means working together, and the motto of the co-operators is one that we shall do well to bear in mind, “Each for all and all for each.” The whole of what is now a large and important move- ment was begun by a few working men living in ltochdale, in Yorkshire, who, in the year 1844, banded themselves together for the purpose of help- ing each other and their fellows. These few brave men started with unselfish aims and lofty hopes, and those who still live are not disappointed, for their members now number as many as 600,000. Their one little Society has now got 1,300 brothers and sisters; they have saved up no less than £18,000,000, and every year there is passed in their shops as much as £27,000,000. Has not the little seed sown honestly, grown into a big and useful tree ?