QUEST FOR THIRD WIFE.

New Zealand Herald, Volume LXVII, Issue 20650, 23 August 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

QUEST FOR THIRD WIFE.

A HOUSE OF MEMORIES.

WHERE TWO BRIDES WERE MET.

Staying at a boarding-house at Southsea, says an English newspaper, is a man of 50, who twice has married women he has met under the same roof while on holiday. Now a widower once more the man is back again hoping that before his holiday has ended he will have met bride number three among the guests. He is Mr. Ralph Goodson, a London engineer. When interviewed ho confessed that he had high hopes that his quest would end satisfactorily. "I have got my eye on one or two possibles," he said. It was while staying at the boardinghouse 30 years ago that Mr. Goodson met his first wife, a girl of 19, who was staying there with her parents. Before the end of a fortnight we were engaged," ho said. " I married her six months later and we enjoyed six years of perfect happiness until sho died. " I havo no relatives, and as it was necessary for me to have someone to bring up my little girl I decided to marry again. It struck me that having found my first wife at the boarding-house, I could not do better than to go there again and see if I could meet somebody equally charming and satisfactory." Strangely enough, Mr. Goodson had only been at the boarding-house threo days when there arrived a pretty young widow and lie fell in love again.

" Beforo the end of the holiday I proposed and was accepted," tho twicewidowed man said. " Now my second wife is dead. There are three more children to bring up, so I must marry again." - -