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Show Marri'ges That Led to Odd Relationshipo Mysterious muddles sometimes arise out of second marriages. A Corsica!, girl married a man whose first wife ; was the sister of the girl's grandmother. grand-mother. This makes her her own I mother's grand-aunt and her grand I mother's sister-in-law. To her urothu j and sisters she is great-aunt. Finally, she is her own grand-niece. Her hus-j hus-j band is the brother-in-law of his grand nephews and grand-nieces. An elderly American became the grandfather of his six children, and his first wife's stepfather. He divorced his wife and married his mother-in j law. The widower who married in succession suc-cession seven sisters contracted vari-j vari-j cms relationships, says the Montreal Family Herald and Star. This man started by marrying the eldest of the sisters, and subsequently went right down the line. Finally he led the seventh and last sister to the altar. A German vilhige Is puzzled over the relationships resulting from the double marriage of a father and a son. The father, a widower, married the village belle. She thus became a stepmother to her husband's forty-year-old son. The son, in his turn, met the girl's mother and married her. Consequently his ' father Is now his son-in-law and he i himself is his own grandfather. In the meantime, the .village belle presented : her husband with a baby daughter. : Clearly this child Is sister-in-law to her grandmother I |