Ten Husbands In Ten Years

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 16, Issue 18, 10 November 1950, Page 7

Ten Husbands In Ten Years

Fatima Ibrahim, of Cairo, has had 10 husband in 10 years and is said to be settling down with one of the ex-husbands. One can but wish her luck this time, because it is more usual for men to embark- on this sort of life than women, Abdul Hamid 11, Sultan of Turkey from 1876 to 1909, is said to have had 30,000 wives, all of whom at the same time. When he was deposed to cut things down drastically and lived in confinement in a fortress with a mere 200 wives. Th. redoubtable Brigham Young, by the most reliable counts, had 27 wives. He married the first when he was 23 years old and the last at the age of 67. He did not do things by halves. Sometimes he married two in one day. His record was four in one day, two before lunch and two after. He had 56 children and 306 grand-children. The high cost of living the world over has tended to make the bravest quail. Nevertheless, hope still springs eternal in Egypt, where there are 74,000 private harems, and more than 15,000 men married three wives. The courage and persistence of Fatima Ibrahim did not go to the extent of polyandry. In that women seem to be possessed of more common sense than men.