The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1867-10-26

AT Mormon theatre, not long ago,
they played "OthelIo." Othello was
represented, as usual, but polygamy
demanded more than one DesdemOna,
so there were fifteen Mrs. Othellos for
this Moor TO be jealous OF. The conse-
quence 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 under
took the part has been laid up in bed
ever since. In the first place there
were fifteen Brabantios clamoring for
their daughters, who had eloped and
married the Moor. The text had to be
changed little of course. When
brought before the Senators, charged
with winning fifteen young women OF
Caucasian blood by the use of charms,
love powders, etc, he said
'sTheir fathers loved me, oft invited me;
Stiu questioned me the story OF my lie,
From year 10 year. The battles, seiges, for
tunes
That had passed"
Fifteen mortified and repentRnt faith
ers Immediately regretted that they
had seemed to cOuntenance negro
equality by inviting the black man TO
their homes. although he had fought
nobly during the war. Then Othello
drew touching picture OF the SYM
pathies which his tale excited in the
breasts of fifteen young women; how
they would hurry through their house
work to listen to il, half washing the
breakfast things and leaving the cham
ber 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 entire story in
one number, which they got in frag-
ments from day to day. He consented,
and often did beguiIe tears from fifteen
pairs of eyes when speaking of some
distressful stroke that his youth suf-
fered. Fifteen womau-power signs re-
warded his story, and then they swore
fifteen of EN-
"They wished they had not heard II, yet they
That Heaven had made them such man."
They requested him, ii he knew of
any promising young man of good in
come who was in love with them, TO
teach him how to repeat that entertain
ing yarn OF his, and that won. him. On
these fifteen hints he spoke;
"They loved me for the danger l had passed,
And loved them that they did pity tnem-
Here comes the ladies, let them witness IT,
lnen tue niteen DeSuetnOnhS enter,
perceiving a divided duty between
their husbands and their fifteen pa
ternals, but they shake their papas and
cling to the Moor, thus administering
salutary rebuke to the opposers of
universal suffrage.
The plot progress. Iago excites the
Jealous rage of Othello by pretending
TO find fifteen pocket handkerchief IS,
that the Moor had given his wives, in
Cassio's bedchRmber. They were neat
ly embroidered haudkerchiefs, with Il
butterfly in one corner and his initials,
&c. W. o." George Washington Othel-
10y, 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 art SO skill
ully that the Moor is at length con-
vinced, and resolves 10 avenge his hon
or, that had received fifteen deadly
stabs, by making, himself widower.
This he accomplishes by smothering his
fifteen wives i'll their hfteen bed cham
bers with fifteen separate holsters, be-
ing called before the curtain by the en-
raptured audience aL the death of each
of the fifteen Desdemonas.