Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1865-08-23

stitution for maintaining masculine au-
thority in the family; and the greatness
of true Mormon is measured, indeed, by
the number of wives he can keep in sweet
and loving, and especially obedient SUBJ
jugation. Such a man can have as many
wives as he wants. But President Young
objects to multiplying wives for men who
have not this rare domestic gift. So
there is no chance for you and me, my
dear Jones, becoming successful Nor.
mons!
In many cases, the Mormon wives not
only support themselves and their children,
but help support their husbands Thus a
clerk or man with similar limited income,
who has yielded to the fascinations and
desires of three or four women, and mar
ried them all, makes his home with No.
l, perhaps, and the rest live apart, each
by herself, taking in sewing or washing,
Or engaging in other employment, to keep
up her establishment and be no charge to
her husband. He comes around, once in
while, to make her visit, and then
she sets out an extra table and spends all
her accumulated earnings to make him as
comfortable and herself as charming as
possible, so that her fraction of the dear
sainted man may be multiplied as much
as possible So the fellow, if he is lazy
and has turned his piety to the good ac-
count of getting smart wives may really
board around continually, and live in
clover, at no personal expense but his
own clothing. Is not this divine in
stitution, indeed
When President Young goes on a jour.
ney through the territory, on private or
public business, he takes considerable
retinue with him, and always wife and
a barber. The former is more his servant
than his companion in such cases, how
ever. His household is said to he admi-
rably managed A son.in-law acts as
commissary; the wives have nothing to
do with the table or its supply; and
whenever they want new clothes or pock.
ct money, they must go to this chief Of
staff, or head of the family bureau. Con.
sidering his opportunities, the head Of
. the Church of Latter Day Saints has made
: rather sorry selection of women on the
score of beauty. The Oldest or first is 9
matronly- looking old lady, serene and so
ber; Che youngest, and present pet, whc
was obtained, they say, after much seek
ing, is comely but common-looking des
pito the extra millinery in which sh'
) alone of the entire family indulges. Tht
f second president and favorite prophet o
the church, Heber Kimball, who i'll church
: and theatre keeps the cold from his bar
: head, and the divine afflatus in by throw
7 ing red bandanna handkerchief over It
v is even less fortunate in the beauty 0
: his wives; it is rather an imposition up
: on the word beauty, indeed, to suggest i
!. in their presence. Handsome women an(
c girls, in fact, are scarce among the Nor
: mons of Salt Lake--the fewer Gentle
E can show many more of them. Why i
! this? Is beauty more. .esthctic than asce
r tic? Or. good looking women being sup
: posed to have more chances for matrimon,
v than their palmer sisters, do they all in
j sist upon having the whole of man, an,
: leave the Mormon husbands to thos
o whose choice is like Hebson's? The onl.
b polygamist, unto whose family circle W
c we're freely admitted. had, however, toun
two very pretty women to divide him be
: JWcGU tucu duu huop NVhiNoS my ~
" pcared to take their share of him quit
l. resignedly, if not amicably. They wer
e English. and of nearly equal years; al
o peared together in the parlor and in put
d lie with their husband, and dressed alike
o but they had the same quiet, subducc
:. balf.sad air that characterized all th
5, Mormon women, young and old, that
n saw in public or private. There is Gel
It tainly none Of that "loudness" about tb
s Mormon ladies that an eastern man car
d not help observing in the manners Of ou
n Western women generally. And ! hare
s. ly think the difference is to be attribute
to the superior re6nements and culture
le the sisters Of the Salt Lake Basin
4 rather and really is the sign and mark (