BREARING THE MARRIAGE RECORD.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1882, 23 April 1889, Page 4

BREARING THE MARRIAGE RECORD.

The New York correspondent of the Melbourne Age writes :—“ Did you ever hear of a man being married three times to one and the same woman, and a woman three times to one man and twice to aaothrr? Wei!, this has just happened at the Slate of Ohio—one of the prosperous commonwealths composing the United States, A presumably fair maiden named Gaines was wooed and won by Mr William C, Queeu. William and his spouse did not live pleasantly together, and she sought relief m the Divorce Courts, Very soon after the divorce was granted she married Mr Samuel Seitz, and he, too, developed a temper that was incompatible with that of his spouse. She. was divorced from him, and married Jacob Meeker. Though she thus became Meeker in name she was not so in temperament, for she soon broke the bonds of matri- | mony with another divorce, and was once more free. What did she do but seek her first, or rather second, love—the Seitz for whom she gave up her name of Queen ! Married they were a second time, but they did not long remain so. Another divorce was obtained, and somehow or other Fate brought Meeker again to the front, and married him a second time to the grass widow, who had declared she could not abide him. Old Tempus Ed ax soon drew her away from Meeker and round I to Seitz once more. She, therefore, is Mrs Seitz no less than three limes, and Mrs Meeker twice—and the same Seitz and the same Meeker too. It is safe to say that this enterprising woman has broken the matrimonial record of the United Slates, if not, of the whole Christian world. The last marriage took place on the 240 h of February , the returns for the whole month are not all in yet. and possibly there may be another wonder in store for us. If this sort ot thing becomes fashionable, it will be necessary for every man and woman to carry a note-book with suitable blanks for recording daily marriages or engagements. There will be a run upon tho divorce machinery, and tho occupation of divorce lawyers will be more lucrative than ever b-fore. What a plot for a dramatist has been furnished in the career of the much-married woman whose adventures ore recorded in this paragraph !”