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Show MUST HAVE HAD BUSY LIFE Boer Woman Surely Holds the World's Record for Her Many and Varied Marriage Ventures. Tho world's record In matrimonial ventures Is probably held by Mrs. Tholla I.I do Boor, a widow, sovonty-eight sovonty-eight )enrH of ago, residing at Pretoria, Pre-toria, Transvaal. At tho age ot olght eon she married I'ctrus Jacobus Lubbo, who died, leaving her with ono child Ton months later slit took another an-other husband, n widower with throo chlldron A year and five months afterwards ho also died, leaving her with four children Within live months aho married for tha third tlmo, another an-other widow or, this time with saven chlldron With him sho lved for eleven years, and had seven children, when ho also died, After llvo years' widowhood bI.o marrlod for tho fourth tlmo, on thU occasion a widower with eight children With him Bho hud four chlldron. and aftor olovon jears, ho, too, died Flvo years later she mar rled a man named Hendrlk Kloppor. Another olovon j ears elapsed, and then her fifth husband died, leaving hor with ton chlldron. In two ears' tlmo sho contracted onothor mnrrlngo with Hendrlk Van Wk, a widower, who brought flvo chlldron to swoll tho family fam-ily Another cloven years passed, and ho, too, went tho way of his flvo predecessors, pre-decessors, his death occurring only recently. re-cently. Mrs do Boor Is now tho mothor nnd stepmother of 40 children and tho brandmothor of 27 |