Northern Times.
Liverpool, Merseyside, England, 1857-08-01 00:00:00

MR. BRIGHAM YOUNG AND THE LADIES.

In a recent lecture delivered in Utah by the Mormon President, the
Wiles of the territory were addressed as follows:—Some women will
set emptyings in the morning and let them stand until they sour, and
mix up the flour with them and sweeten it with saleratus, and then
knead it ready for baking ; and if Sister Somebody comes in, th-y
will sit down and begin to talk over old times, and the first they
know, the bread is sour. " Dear me ! I forgot all about that bread !"
and into the oven she puts it and builds up a lug, fire, and again sits
down to visiting with her neighbaur, and before she thinks of the loaf
there is a crust on it from a quarter to half an inch in thickness. So
the bread is spoiled, there goys one quarter of the flour, the bread is
sour and disagreeable to eat, and the husband comes home and looks
sour, and is sour, as well as the bread. tie finds fault, and that
makes the wiie grieve, and there are feelings of unhappiness and
dissatisfaciion in the family. The husband may be a good man,
and the wife may be a good woman, and try to please har
husband, and to do as much as the old lady did who said "it
was impossible for her to please her husband in baking bread, for
If it was halt dough he did not like It, and if it was half burned up
he scolded about it." You may say that it is hard work to
please a man—yes, and woman too. But when a man does
hss duty in providing for a family, there can reasonably be but
little complaint on the part of any sansible woman. A man may be
good and industrious, may be an excellent mechanic, and in many
things a diligent man, as in the case with a number with whom I an
acquainted, yet go to his house and esk, "have you a pig in your
pen ?" " No, I have nothing to feed a pig with. I cannot keep one."
Sit down to his table and he has not a ynontt ful of meat from week's
end to week's end, unless he buys a little. "Have you a cow ? ' "No,
I have nothing to feed a cow ; I cannot hire a pasture, and were Ito
hire one driven to grass as far as the herd boy go she would not give
milk enough to pay the herd bill." I have been in worse places than
this and kept a cow. I have taught the brethren how to live upon
less than 5 dollars, 3 dollars, or even 2 dollars a day for the support of
a small family, and when men complain that they live here on bread
alone, they do not reflect that they do not know how to provide for
themselves. Years pass away one after another, and I see more and
more that there are but few men and women that are even capable of
taking care of themselves temporally.

SYDNEY SMITH AND COLERIDGE.—In London be saw a
good deal of Sydney Smith, and some anecdotes are re-
lated. The best thing is the commencement of a charity
sermon by the witty Dean, as reported by Mr. Crosse,
" Benevolence is a sentiment common to human nature.
A. never sees B. in distress without wishing C. to relieve
him." Coleridge he never met, but he tells of his brother,
Richard Crosse, who was as ardent in metaphysical as he
himself was in physical science, visiting the old man, and
coming away after listening to him for three hours, when
be was in the middle of his second sentence !—Memoirs
of sindrew Crosse.