QUEER RELATIONSHIPS.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 19278, 16 September 1924, Page 7

QUEER RELATIONSHIPS.

MUDDLES IN THE FAMILY CIRCLE.

Second marriages often cause queer muddles in the family circle. A Corsican girl recently married a man whose first wife was the sister of the girl’s grandmother. Consequently she is now her own mother’s fjrand-a/unt and her grandmother’s sister-in-aw. To her own brothers and sister she is great-aunt. Finally, she is her own grand-niece. Her husband is the brother-in-law of his grand-nephews and grandnieces. A 60-year-old American startled his family by becoming the grandfather of sir children and his wife’s stepfather. He divorced his wits and married his mother-in-law. . The widower who married in succession seven sisters must have given up trying to puzzle out bin various relationships. TJiii man began by marrying the oldest of -the sisters, and subsequently went right down the line. Not long ago he led the'seventh and last sister to the altar. A German village is _ still hopelessly puzzled over the relationship resrdting ;from the double marriage of a father an<x a son. The father, a widower of 66, married the village belle. She thus became stepmother to her husband’s son. The son, in his turn, met the girl’s mother and married her. _ Consequently his father is now his aon-in-law, aim ha himself is his own grandfather. - In,;tHe meantime, the village belle has presented her 68-year-old husband with a ..baby: daughter. Clearly, this child is sisteednlaw to her grandmother t - -. -v 5 b