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Relations by Marriage.i A great many complex relation-ships come nUxit by marriage. \Ve have heard of the mother and dam?h ter who married brothers, ami who thereafter addressed each other alt; sis Itrs; and, also, of the young man,who, on lieing asked hy a judgewhether he had a father :*n I mother, said he wasn't quite certain wheth* erhe had or not ; first his father diet!, and then his mother married a^ain, and then his mother died, and his father married again ; and now he didn’t know exactly whether they were his father and mother or not. But Dan Bryant tells of the most complex family ever known, something in this wise: “I married a yourg widow, who lived with her stepdaughter, my father shortly after married the step-dang!iter. My wife was therefore the mother-in-law and the daughter-in-law of my hither. Iam the step-father of my mother-in-law, ami my wile’s step-daughter Is my step-mother. Well, my stepmother—that is to say, my father’s wife and my wife's daughters —hail a son. He Is my stepbrother, of course, but being the son of my wife's step Iti u id iter, my wife is of course his grandmother and I am his grandfather as well as hia step broth er. Mv wife also had a hoy. My stepmother Is consequently the step sister of iny l*oy and also his grand* mother, because he is the *hUd of her ! step-son, and my father is the broth-1 er*iti*law of my son, who is the sonof my step mother. I am my moth* er’s brother-in-law, and my wife is the aunt of her own son, my son is I the grandson of my father, and 1 am my nwt) grandfather.— Cleveland (O.) Leader.
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Sedalia Democrat
Sedalia, Missouri, US
Thu, Jun 22, 1871
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