Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1900 — Where Mothers-in-Law Are Happy. [ARTICLE]

Where Mothers-in-Law Are Happy.

It appears to be the custom of the people of Somaliland, which is on the coast of Africa at the entrance to the Red Sea, for a man to offer the use of his property to a mother whose daughter he wishes to marry. Mr. Glecbien, who accompanied Mr. Renual Rodd’s mission to Abyssinia, states that he offered the use of his mule to the wife of his head Somali camel-driver, aud she Informed him that she would be honored to have him as a son-in-law, but unfortunately her daughter was already married, and In that case it was impossible that sbe could make use of anything belonging to him.