DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume VI, Issue 875, 28 August 1879, Page 2

DECEASED WIFE'S SISTER.

The writer of "London Town Talk" in the Melbourne Argus says : — I am much mistaken if the Prince of Wales haa not put his foot in it, in espousing the cause of the gentlemen who wish to marry their wives' sisters, For my own part I have no opinion on the matter ; but on happening to say bo — i.e., remarking on it as being an open question —the other night in female society, I found that I had upset the whole beehive. 'It was so like a, man ;'• "so thoroughly selfish, and careless of the. feelings of others," &c. When I asked for an explanation, I got it with something added. "How coulda wife/ being ill, send for her younger sister to take care of dear Jack, if this horrid proposition became law ? She would rather come down half dead, and in her dressing-gown, than permit such a dangerous tete a-tetc." As for £he sister-in-law taking care of his house and children when the wife was dead, that of course would be no longer possible. Upon my word I was so far convinced (as well as being very frightened) as to allow that the measure will be highly inconvenient to her upper classes. Whether the advantages conferred upon the lower will be so material as to compensate for this, j am not in a position to judge. What struck me, however, as being intensely significant of

intensity of the feeling against it was that the Prince of Wales, who is the especial favdnrite of the lapies seemed to have forfeited their good opinion all together -by his advocacy of the bill"Everybody knows why he does it,' they said. "It's because his sister Beatrice wants to marry the Duke of Hesse." I was quite glad to leave the room with my life and my head of hair. - - „. ■ <—- „, ■ „. ....... .. ~. -... . ...