Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 May 1896 — Those Reiations of Ours. [ARTICLE]

Those Reiations of Ours.

> A British gentleman who has recently died has said that "a man’s mother is his misfortune, while his wife is his fault." This cynical harshness loses some of its unpleasantness when the writer goes on to explain that, while one’s friends are his choice, his relatives are thrust upon him, and no one is so angelic as not to confess that there are occasionally cases where the tyranny of kin is most lamentable. Tho scapegrace cousin, the tedious aunt, the gruff uncle who delights In humiliating the family, even the drunken father or the hoydenish sister are too well known to be denied.