The Elk advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Elk Co., Pa.) 186?-1868, 1867-11-07
VOLUME ,SETEN-NUAlBER 35.

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At a Mormon theatre, not long ago.
they played "Othello." Othello was
represented as usual, but polygomy de-
manded more than one Desdcmona, so
there was 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 raw.
ed aud ranted fifteen times as loud. The
actor who undertook the part has been
laid up in bed ever since.
In the frat place there were fifteen
Brabantios clamorng for their daught-
ers, who had eloped AMI married the
Moor The text had to be changed a
little Of course. When brought before
the Senator'S, charged with winning fif
teen young women of Caucasian blood
by the use Of charms, love powders, etc,
he said:
"Ther fathers loved me, Oft invited me :;
Still questioned me the story of my life,
From year to year; the battles sieges,
fortunes
That had passed"
Fifteen mortified aud repentant faith.
ers Immediately regretted that they had
seemed to couutouauce negro equality
by inviting the black men to their homes
although he had fought nobly during
the war. Then Othello drew touch
ing picture of the sympathies which his
tale excited in the breast of the fifteen
young women; how they would hurry
through their housework to listen to it,
half washing their breakfast things and
leaving the chamberwork until after.
noon. He found at length "a plant
hour" when the fifteen susceptible
young women are al together, aud drew
from them, prayer Of earnest heart" !"
that he would give them the story en,
tire in one number, which they got in
fragments from day to day. He con-
sented, and did beguile tears from ff-
teen pairs of eyes when speaking Of
some distressful stroke that his youth
suffered. Fifteen women power sighs
rewarded his story, and then they swore
fifteen of m
"They wished they had not heard it, yet
they wished
That heaven had made them such man."
They requested him, if 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 would WOO
them. On these fifteen hints he spoke (:
"They loved me for the dangers l had
passed,
And loved them that they did pity them,
Here come the ladies, let them witness it,"
Then the fifteen Desdemonas enter,
perceiving divided duty between their
husband and the fifteen paternals, but
they shake their papas and cling to the
Moor, thus administering a salutary re-
buke to the opposers of universal suf-
frage.
The plot progresses. Iago excites
the jealous rage of Othello by pretend
ing to find fifteen pocket hankerchiefs,
that the Moor had given his wives, in
Casslo's bedchamber. They were neat
ly embroidered handkerchiefs, with
butterfly ia one corner and his initials
&" G.. W. O." George Washington
Othello,) in red.
It 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 skill
fully that the Moor is at leugth conyin-
ccd, and resolves to avonge his honor,
that had received fifteen deadly stabs,
by making himself a widower. This he
accomplishes by smetherirg his fifteen
wives in their fifteen separate bed
chambers with fifteen different holsters,
being called before the curtain by the
enraptured audience at the death of
each Of the fifteen Desdemonas.