Daily State sentinel. [volume] (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1861-1865, 1864-04-08

the Union army didn't know whether saints
made good lint. but thought knew one who'd
get scaped a little.
OF the general aspect of 1.-THE ball, Mr.. Lnd-
low writes:
After spending an hour in a circuit and survey
of the room a. minute as compatible with
decency, arrived st the following results:
There was very little OstentAtion in dress AZ
the ball, but there was also very little taste in
dressing Patrician broadclOth and silk were
the rare exceptions, generally ill-made and
iIl- worn, but they cordially associated With the
great mass of pebean tweed and calico Few
ladies wore jewery or feathers There we're some
pretty girls swimming about in hateful whip
syllabub Of pulled taretan. Where sanity gen
tlemen came with several wives, the oldest gen
orally was the most deliberately dressed, and
acted much like an Eastern Chaperon toward her
younger sisters. Wives of the same man habit
ually besister each other in Utah Another TIL
umph of graceD
Among the men | saw some very strong and
capable faces; but the majority bad not much
character In their looks-indeed differed little
in that regard from any average crowd os men
anywhere Among the women, TO my surprise,
found no really degraded faces, though many
sLolid Ones-only one deeply detected. (this be.
longed 10 the wife of hitherto monoga mic hus-
band. who had left her alone in the dress circle,
while he was dancing with a chubby Young Nor
moness, likely 10 be added TO the family in
month or two,) but many impassive ones; aud
though l saw multitudes of kindly, good TEN
/ pered countenances, add score which would
have been called pretty anywhere was obliged
to confess, after most impartial and anxious
search, that had not met single woman who
looked high-toned. FIRST class. capable of poetic
enthusiasm, or heroic self-sacrifce; not a single
woman whom an artist would dream of and ask
TO sit for study; not one to whom a finely con-
! stituted intellectual man could come for CON-
panionship in his pursuits or sympathy in bis
warnings. Because / knew that this verdict
would be received at the East with just as
you might have expected" | cast aside every
thing like prejudice. and forgot that l was in
Utah, as threaded the great throng.
THE TALK OF THE SAINTS
Men, everywhere, unfortunately, tend little to
ward the error of bashfulress in their chat among
each other. but the most of us at the East would
feel that we were insulting the lowest member OF
the DEM monde, if we uttered before her single
Z sentence of the talk which forms the habitual
staple of all Heber KimbalPs public sermons TO
the wives and daughters who throng the Sunday
Tabernacle
Keber took vivid interest in Bierstadt's anC
my own eternal welfare. He quite laid himself
out for our convention, coming to sit with Us al
breakfast in our Mormon hotel, dressed in q
black swallow-ta. buff vest, and stupendou.
turncate cone of Leghorn. which made him look
like an Italian mountebank physician OF the sew
eDteenth century. | have heard men who could
miSquote Scripture for their ends and talk
long while without saving anything but he SC
far surpassed in these particulars the Hottest eff
forts within nv former experience, that could
think OF no comparison for him, but Jack Bun
sew taken to exhortng