COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP.

Lake County Press, Issue 2183, 22 August 1907, Page 5

COMPLICATED RELATIONSHIP.

A widower and eon courted and married a widow and daughter, the son marrying the widow and the father the daughter. Can you explain the relationship all round ? SUBSCRIBER. A stagger can fco made at it anyhow. It had better bo started with a diagram ; Widow. Widower.

Daughter. Son. The saw-back arrangement is rather difficult cf solution. When the widower married the daughter be became father-in-law to the widow, who was his daughter-in-law, or, in other words, was father-in-law to hie own mother-in-law. Do you grasp? His wife became the step-mother of her son-in-law, who was, in fact, her half-brother, being the full son of his father, her husband. The son and widow who married without the aid of a net caused a complication somehow. So when the son married the widow he became the father-in-law of his own father, because his wife was his father's wife’s mother. (Would you like a whiff of the smelling salts ?) By this marriage the son became the sfep-father of his step-mother, who was his step-daughter. Touching the widow, she is mother of her daughter, and is also daughter-in-law of her daughter, who so recently became her mother-in-law. The widow is likewise the daughter-in-law of her husband’s father, who, it cannot be denied, is her son-in-law, by being her daughter’s husband. By marrying the widow the son became the son-in-lnw of her mother, for the reason that she was the wife of his father. When the son married the widow he became the father of his father’s wife, his half-sister his own daughter, because she was the daughter of his own wife. (Are you still alive?) Referring to the old man for a few minutes, it would seem that when he married the daughter he became his son's wife son-in-law, that lady it must not be forgotten, being only his daughter-in-law, although the mother of his wife. The father’s wife, as stepmother to his children, was therefore step-mother to her mother and step-father, the latter being the son of her husband. Supposing, if you are not tired, that the son was blessed with a girl baby. Then, ordinarily, she would be the father’s grandchild, but in this instance the old man being son-in-!aw r to the son, he, in addition to being its grandfather, is a half brother to the infant, and the child is halfsister to its grandmother.—Cincinatti Exchange.