Marriage In Olden Times

It is usually considered a noteworthy circumstance for a man or woman to be married three times, but in olden times the number would have been thouht little of. St. Jerome mentions a widow who married her twenty-second husband, who in his turn had been married to twentytwo wives. A woman named Elizabeth Mast, who disd at Florence in 17ö8, had been married to seven busbands, all of whom she outlived. .She married the last of the .seven at the age of 70. When on her death-bed she recalled the good and bad points of each of her husbands and, haviny impurtiallv weighed thetn in the balance, she singled out her fifth spouse as the favorito, and desired her remains might be interred near his.