MARRIAGE TANGLE

Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 19884, 10 March 1939, Page 8

MARRIAGE TANGLE

MOTHER AND DAUGHTER

WED TO BROTHERS

LONDON, Jan. 21

A widow and her daughter were recently married to two brothers at Birmingham Parish Church and, according to the mother, they are all going to live as one happy family.

The senior bride was Mrs. Eleanor Louisa Iliffe, who is 50. Her former husband died 12 years ago.

Her bridegroom was John Thomas Meller, a 36-year-old cabinetmaker. The daughter, Miss Irene Gertrude Iliffe—aged 18—was married to Mr. Arnold Meller, who is 25. The elder bride had promised her own mother that she would not marry again while the latter was alive. Her mother died a year ago. Mrs. Iliffe said: “We are quite sure about our marripge now, for at a seance we had a spiirt message through a medium who said, “Job wishes me to tell you that what you are looking forward to is 0.K.”

Job* was Mrs. Iliffe’s first husband. The new Mrs. Meller, 'senior, has lived in the same house for 30 years, and said she expects to do the cooking, as she has always done.

As a result of their marriages mother and daughter became sisters-in-law and the Meller brothers become stepfather and stepson-in-law.

Mrs. Iliffe became both mother-in-law and sister-in-law of Mr. Arnold Meller, and her daughter became John Meller’s stepdaughter and also his sister-in-law, and so on.

PNEUMONIA DEADUY CHICAGO, Jan. 19. The Journal of the American Medical Association said editorially to-day that the man who is addicted to alcohol is less likely to survive pneumonia than a moderate drinker. The Journal said a survey at the Cook County Hospital, Chicago, had shown that the pneumonia mortality rate among excessive drinkers was 49.87 per cent. 34.4 per cent among moderate drinkers and 22.45 per cent among occasional drinkers,