Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1885-09-24
WHAT LOVE DOES.
4 Man who w as Fafherfn.Iaw IN
His Mother-in-Iaw.

Fargo Argus.
80, yes said an attorney to whom
a reporter applied for any information
he might possess on the subject of
whimsical marriages, Il know of a
case IN this city where two uncles
and their nephew married three sists
ers. Thus the nephew's wife became
the niece of her sisters. and her hus>
band became the brother,in-law of
his uncles. His first boy became the
grand nephew OF his aunts his moth
er's sisters and his cousins were nee
essarily his aunts and uLcles."
Thus encouraged the reporter with
a mission looked about for more
whimsical marriages and learned of
half a dozen in as many hours. A
prominent sewlng-machine man who
formerly lived ia this city mar
ried a widow who. had a young
daughter. When the latter had grown
up to womanhood the sewing machlEe
nan obtained a divorce from his wife
and married her daughter, making
his former wife his mother>in-law.
the three were often seen riding out
together III the same carriage 1t is
but a few years since a certain we'll
known historian and poet, after the
death OF his wife, married her daught-
er by a previous marriage, much to
the disgust of his son. who found
that his sister had Suddenly grown
into his mother-in>law.
But the queerest case of al. is that
of a widower and son who married a
widow and her daughter, the son mar
rying the mother and the father the
daughter. When the wldower mar
ried the daughter be became father.in.
law to the widow, who was his dau
ghter>in-law; or, in other words, was
father-in~law 10 his mother-in-
law. His wife becam the step-moth-
er OF his son-in-law, who was liz fac.
her half brother, being the full son of
her father, her husband. When the
son married the widow ne became the
father-in-law OF his own father, be-
cause his wife was his fathers wife's
mother. By his marriage the son be.
came the step-father of his step-moth-
er who vas his his step-daughter. The
widow is not only the mother of her
daughter, bat also her daughter.in>
law and her daughter becomes her
mother-in.law. The widow is like
wise the daughter>in.law of her hus-
bands father, who, it will be remem-
bered, is her son>in~law by reason of
being her daughters husband. By
marrying the widow the son became
the son-in-law Of his mother, the wife
of his father. The son becomes the
father of his fathers wife. his half
sister, his own daughter, because she
is the daughter Of ms own wife. The
old gentleman, by his marriage with
the daughter, becomes his sons wife's
son>in-law, that Lady likewise being
his dsughter>in>law, although being
his wife's mother. The fathers wife,
as step-mother to his children, is
therefore step>mother to her mother,
and step.father, the latter being the
son of her husband. If the union of
the SOL and the widow be blessed with
a girl babe, the little one would ordin-
arily be the old gentieman's grand
child. In this instance, however
the old man being son>iu.law to The
son-he, in addition to being it's grand
father, IS a half>brother TO the infaut,
and the child is half sister to its
grandmother. In case the daughter,
who married the widower, should
have a boy, he would at once become
his grandmother's half-brother and
her brother-in~law at the same time.