Daily Ohio statesman. [volume] (Columbus, Ohio) 1855-1870, 1867-11-06
OtheliO in Ufah--ShOwing How
that Tragedy is Intensified Un.
der Nor mon Auspices.

Alta Mormon theater, not long ago. they
played "O5hello." Othello was represent.
ed, as usual, but poligamy demanded more
than one DesdemOna, so there were fifteen
Mrs. Othellos for this Moor to be jealous of
The consequence was he grew fifteen times
as jealous as any other Othello on the stage
and raved and ranted fifteen times as loud
The actor who undertook the part has
been laid up in bed ever since.
In the first place there were fifteen Bra
bantios clamoring for their daughters, who
had eloped and married the Moor. The
text had to be changed a little of course
When brought before the Senators, charged
with winning fifteen young women of eau.
casian blood by the use of charms, love
powders, ETC., he said:
..Their fathers loved me, oft invited me;
Still questioned me the story of my life.
Ssa to the battles sieges fortunes
Fifteen mortified and repentant fathers
Immediately regretted that they had seem
ed to countenance negro equality by in
viting the black man to their homes, al
though he had fought nobly during the
war. Then Othello drew a touching pic.
ture of the sympathies which. his tale ex-
cited in the breasts of the fifteen young
women; how they would hurry through
their housework to listen to it. half wash
ing their breakfast things and leaving the
chamber work until afternoon. He found
at length ''a plant hour" when the fifteen
susceptible young women were all together,
and drew from them "a prayer of earnest
heart" that he would give them the story
entire in one.number, which they got in
fragments from day to day. He consented,
and often did beguile tears from fifteen
pairs OF eyes when speaking of some dis
tressful stroke that his youth suffered.
Fifteen women power sighs rewarded his
story, and then they swore-fifteen OF 'em-
"They wished they had not heard it, yet they
That heaven had made them such man."
They requested him. it he knew of any
promising young man of good income who
was in love with them, to teach him how
to repeat that entertaining yarn of his. and
that would WOO them. On these fifteen
hints he spoke:
''They loved me for the dangers had passed,
And loved them that they did pity them.
Here come the ladies, let them witness it,"
Then the fifteen Desdetiionas enter, per-
ceiving divided duty between their hus-
band and their fifteen paternals, but they
shake their papas and cling to the Moor.
thus administering salutary rebuke to
the opposers of universal suffrage.
The plot progresses. Iago excites the
jealous rage of Othello by pretending to
find fifteen pocket handkerchiefs, that the
Moor had given to his wives, in Cassio's
Deu-CndulueT. 1Hey were neatly EN- mDr0ld-
cred handkerchiefs, with butterfly in one
corner, and his initials, &c. w. or
George Washington Othello) in red.
1t was hard to make Othello believe for
some time that his fifteen wives had. gone
back on him, but the willy and treacherous
Iago plies his arts so skillfully that the
Moor is at length convinced, and resolves
to avenge his honor, that had received fif-
teen deadly stabs, by making himself
widower. This he accomplishes by smoth-
ering his fifteen wives in their fifteen SEN
arate bed-chambers with fifteen different
holsters, being called before the curtain by
the enraptured audience at the death of
each of the fifteen Desdemonas.