The weekly Minnesotian. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1852-1858, 1857-06-27


Utah.
We have files Of the Desert News to April
9, containing full accounts of the present
condition of the Saints. Brigham Young, it
appears, is still on hand, and is now enjoy
ing the pleasure Of rural excursion.
The Saints have been treated to some
pl.in preaching on the means Of getting along
in tie world in the following discourse by
President Brigham Young, Bowery, April
6, 1857:
Br Heber has made a remark that l will
take for text. He said: 1t is whispered
around that some of the brethren laboring
on the public works are living on dry bread"
[ want to preach a short discourse on this
subject, and will endeavor TO do so to the
understanding of those present. L acknowl-
edge that some persons live very poorly and
are very destitute; but there is not one fam
ily ont of thousand in this Territory of
tbos> who live pOorly but what that dest-
tude mode of living is brought upon them
by themselves, through their own misman-
agement or the want of economy. For this
reason wish to confine my remarks to tue
principles o! economy necessary in obtsin
ing a comfortable living.
have been poor boy and poor man,
and my parents were poor. L was poor dur
ing my childhood, and grew up to manhood
poor and destitute, and aM acquainted with
the various styles Of living and with the
different customs, habits and pra@tices Of
people, and l do know by my own expesi-
,anos that there is no necessity for peoples
being 40 very poor, if they have judgment
and will rightly use it.
BRICHAM's EXPERIENCE.
There is no necessity for any PERSONS liv-
ing on bread and water. We have not a
man at work for us out what has had means
Tut into his hands sufficient to support from
five to twenty persons, and many of them
could lay up from $500 to 81 900 year, if
they would use proper economy. | have
comfortably supported family, when l was
poor, and that too in a country where it was
more difficult to do so than it is here; where
it was often almost impossible to hire to do
a days work; where man would have to
rum and perhaps, beg and plead to be en-
ployed to do days work; and when the la
Dor was performed, it was frequently worth
twice the amount to get the pay, which
would generally be only three or four bits,
though sometimes ordinary mechanics would
receive FIVE or six bits, and good mechanics
one dollar or one dollar and quarter per
day.
have labored for SIS month to sup
port family, and that too, in a place as
hard again for person to live in as it is in
this city. You could not have the free use
of as much as quarter Of an acre of ground
thrswn out to the public for COW to Craze
upon. You c'uld not get a. stick of wood,
although in a well wooded country, without
paving for it, You could not get pint of
milk or even of butter milk without paying
for it.
RECOMMENDS FEMALES TO BE ECONOMICAL.
have worked for nearly all the various
grades of wages and supported family,
since | was quite young. l know how to
live and have taught my brethren here how
to live. But you may take . hard working
man, one earning good wages, and though
he carries an abundance into his house, his
wife may sit there and toss it cut again
You will find that much depends upon the
economy of the women, in regard to living
with the poorer class OF people of the labor
ing class. For instance, let man buy ten
pounds Of fresh meat, and carry 1t home, in
the morning the wife will cook up perhaps
four or five pounds of that meat for the
breakfast of a man, wife and a little child
TO begin with, it is often cooked very badly.
not properly seasoned, smoked up, part of
it burnt and the rest raw, so that they can
not eat much of it; and there is great plat
ter full left that cannot be eaten; and the un
cooked portion has been neglected until it
is spoiled, and thus nearly the whole is was
ted.
Sisters, if you do not believe this, many of
YOU 90 home-remember what you cooked
for breakfast this morning and see the plat
ters full, and the plates full, and the little
messes standing here and there. BY and
by it is not fit to eat, and finally thrown out
doors. Is this true? 1t is! The reason
saw so. is because see it with my OWL eyes.
You may wish to know where I see it,
Among some of my neighbors where visit,
among some of my own family, and IN many
places where L go.
THE LADIES OF THE TERRITORY WILL GOSSIP.
Some women will set emptyings in the
morning and let them stand until they sour,
and mix up the -four with them sad sweeten
it with saleratus, and then knead it Eaady
for baking, and if sister somebody comes in
they will sit down and begin to talk over
old times and the first they know the bread
is sour. "Dear me! forgot all about the
bread % and into the even she puts it and
builds up large fire, and again sits down
to visiting with her neighbor, and before she
thinks of the loaf, there is crust burned
on it from quarter to half an inch in
thickness. So much of the bread is spoiled,
there goes one quarter of the fOur-it is
wasted-and the bread is sour, and disagree
able to eat and the husband comes home
and looks sour, and is sour, as well as the
bread. He finds fault, and that makes the
wife grieve, and there are feelings and un-
happiness and dissatisfaction in the family.
The husband may be a good man, and the
wife may be good woman, aud try to please
her husband, and do as much as the old lady
did who said :" it was impossible tor her to
please her husband in baking bread, for if it
was half dough he did not like it, and if it
was burned up he secluded about it." 5ul q
You may say that it is hard work to
please man-yes, and woman too. But