MAZY MARRIAGES.

Te Aroha News, Volume XLI, Issue 6598, 12 May 1925, Page 3

MAZY MARRIAGES.

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 grandaunt and her grandmother’s sister-in-law. To her own brothers and sisters she is great-aunt. Finally, she is her own grand-niece. Her husband is the brother-in-law of his grand-nephews and grand-nieces. A sixty-year-old American startlel his family by becoming the grand father of his six children, and his first wife’s stepfather. He divorced his wife and married his mother-in-law. The widower who married in succession seven sisters must have given up trying to puzzle out his various relationships. This man started by marrying the eldest 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 relationships resulting from the double marriage of a father and a son. The father, a widower of sixty-eight, married the village belle. She thus became stepmother to her husband’s forty-year-old son. The son, in his turn, met the girl’s mother and married her. Consequently his father is now his son-in-law and he 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 sister-in-law to her grandmother I