Coalville Times | 1896-02-28 | Page 6 | Mothers-in-Law up North

MOTHCnSINLAW UP NOnTH 1hot nr Iho llrlllili fnlmnbU lUie No rsrnrlln annn In fen A committee which has Just roturned to England I from llrHlsh Columbia where It has been engaged In making InvMllgatloni among Iho lavagc for tho enlightenment of the anthropological anthropologic-al of the llrllUh Anoclatlon re porto the discovery of a tribe knonn no the Taclenut This tribe though Inmost In-most respect outrageously bnrbvont loan mado ono extraordlnaiy stride forward for-ward toward civilization for nmong them the committee found tho custom ot avoidance between luothcr In law and soninlaw Thl cuitntu li I en lllled matuo ha u term which bear soma rcseuiblanco to mutiml hate II hl This I habit win cominou to nlf I hO Tlnneh tribe The savage eons Iniaw and motlierslnlaw were iot only nshunicd to take to each other but even carefully avoided seeing each other oth-er The reason for this curloua avoid anco could not li I dticovcrcd