Very Much Mixed.

Manawatu Herald, 21 February 1899, Page 3

Very Much Mixed.

» Some time ago a marriage took place in Birmingham which brought about a very complicated state of family relations. The woman had been married three times before, and each time had taken for her husband a widower with clildren. Her fourth husband was also a widower, and as he had clildren by his first wife, who was herself a widow with children when ha married her, the newly-married couple started in their matrimonial companionship with a family com posed of no leas than eight previous marriages. Another curiou9 case was in Australia. A Dr King, a widower, married, a Miss Norris. Shortly after th© doctor's honeymoon the doctor's pon married a sister of the doctor's wife. Now a brother of the doctor's wife is about to marry the doctor's daughter. In other words, the doctor's son became his stepmother's brother-in-law, and when the doctor's daughter has married the doctor's wife's brother she will have become her stepmother's sister-in-law. The doctor, by the marriage of his son to the sister of the doctor's wife becomes father-in-law to his sister-in law, and the doctor's wife, by the marriage of her sister to her stepson becomes stepmother-in-law to her own sister.