NINETEENTH WIFE
An Egyptian man, said to be aged 130, "is about to marry again—for the nineteenth time. His bride will be a girl of twenty-five. All his other wives are dead, but his twenty-three ch»ld, ren object to his marrying again on the grounds that there is a difference of~los years in the ages of their father and oi his bride-tc-be. The old tr.an indignantly affirms, however, Miat he enio ,_ s psrfect health and Ihersfore has"*a right to marry if lie wi:he3.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 10
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83NINETEENTH WIFE Evening Post, Volume CXXI, Issue 142, 17 June 1936, Page 10
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