The Vinita daily chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1902-1913, 1903-09-28
FACTS ABOUT MARRIAGES.
GeneaIogfnt Sets Forth some Intsr~
esting Observations Bearing
Upon AEatrimony.

Upon MmtrAm0mys
"The marriages of family are q
good guide to 60 by in determining its
characteristics" said woman, whose
business 1t is to hunt up pedigrees, ac-
cording to the Chicago Inter Ocean. Z
should warn any girl who has many
old maid aunts and bachelor uncles not
to daily with her first proposal If she
would not be an old maid herself, Like
wise, / believe that a girls chances
FOR remarriage. If widowed early, can
be judged pretty accurately from the
annals Of her family in this respect.
Just as a certain sort of eyebrow or
cheek or chin formation is to be traced
throughout an entire family SO the at
titude of the family toward marriage
seems to be handed down.
When in the course Of my work
am in doubt about the identity Of a fam
lily | am guided a good deal BY the char
acter Of the marriages set down. For
these illustrate the dominant family
traits which govern as much in love
matters as in other concerns Of life.
IN some families early marriages
predominant. The men invariably
marry before they are 25. and the wom-
en- at a corerspondingly early age.
Again, late marriages will be the rule
with members of either sex.
Some family trees Rhow few second
marriages, and rarely a third marriage.
no matter how soon the married state
came to an end. Other records are re-
plete with second and third and even
fourth marriages on the part Of widows
alad widowers.
~Often 1t occurs that IN families Of
nine or more brothers and sisters. only
two or three have married, and the de-
scendants Of those two or three dis
played a similar proneness to bachelor
hood and spinsterhood.
Our family are not great on mar
rying. a girl. one Of four single sisters.
remarked TO me lately regarding the
family likenesses she was showing all
grouped together on one wall panel
And could not but feel that that
array of contented-looking single en-
titles among her kinspeople must ex-
ert some influence on her own matri-
monial prospects.
Some families display a marked
tendency to marry their kinsfolk. OF
the connections or relations Of their
kinsfolk. Others again seem by COM
mon impulse 70 have gone as far from
home quarteys as possible in search Of
mates
in records that go back only few
generations, there are instances Of
men who have taken three sisters sue
cessively to wife, and of women mar
rying their brothers in law and cousins
in law. or their stecfathers. the same
tendency to race afhhaition cropping
out again and again in the line In
other families living in the same
neighborhood and environment not
single instance Of marriage with rela-
tions or relations in law occurs.
"One comes upon families in which
an unmarried member Of either sex is
a great rarity and families in which
marriage seems to have come easily.
and as a foregone conclusion. and in
which none of the widows or widowers
gsayed single for any length Of time
"fu studying out relationships in
quantity old-fashioned communities
one runs upon families that seemed
bound TO marry at cross purposes. as
it were. both as to age and standing
Of the mates chosen. A widower takes
for a third wife his sons stepdaughter,
or widow marriAs the son Of the man
whom her daughter married. Just so
there are family records in which q
marriage at a very advanced age or
with a partner Of lower rank socially
never occurs.
Il thing fortune tellers could add to
the effectiveness Of their prophecies
in love matters II they could have the
advantage Of scanning the family an
mails of the applicants
There is no phase Of genealogical
research SO fascinating as noting the
record implied by the marriage on
family tree But the genealogist Of the
future viii have more complicated
work in tracing ont lines and traits
than exists now on account Of the d.
vorcss aguring IN the matter"