TANGLE OF AFFINITY.

Shannon News, 18 March 1924, Page 3

TANGLE OF AFFINITY.

“ -IN-LAWS ” AND “ STEP-S.” Inhabitants of the little village of Holienberg, 30 minutes run. from Cologne, have discarded low wages, high prices, passive resistance, the Separatist movements as. topics of conversa. tion and are absorbed in working out the complexities of two matrimonial adventures besides which the Table of Affinity appears ridiculously simple. The story started nearly a year ago, when a sprightly 68-years-old widower, wooed, won, and married the village b.elle, a demure madchen of 22, who thus became the step-mother of her Emboldened by father’s example the son. courted and *married the mother of the v girl, by. which his own father became liis son-in-law. \ As if the relationships of the four were not already sugiciently compli. cated, a few days ago the 22-years-old wil’e presented her 68-years-old husband with? a daughter !' It became obvious that the baby’s grandmother is also her sister-in-law, but if, as will probably Happen, the baby’s grandmother_.step-sister presenis her husband with a baby— is why one notices on the backs of a certain issue of .10,000,000 mark notes mysterious lists of “-inlaws,” *•’ steps,” and other legal relationships. Ordinary writing paper is too expensive.