The Opelousas journal. [volume] (Opelousas, La.) 1868-1878, 1869-10-09

contented-they lived together in theil
house and were perfectly contented with
their lot, aud would not Change it i
they could. | was not q man. I did
not believe word of it, and so I went
to see for myself Iwent intotheir house
and it was a magnificent one. Here in Sar
Francisco it would be 1ne house, and
there in Salt Lake it was splendid one
Magnificent furniture, fine rooms, fine
gardens, and numerous servants.
and my friends sat down in the parlol
and in came nne of this mans wives,
She was fine, good-looking, healthy
Englishw"man, who could not speak
ten words of grammatical English to
save her life. talked freely to her
there was no hinderance to that
asked her how long she had been mar
ried. "Seventeen years - "Married
here 2" mo-" married in EnglAndr'
mo" "Where were you married,
then ?" "In St. Joseph" Her hus-
band began to fidget, and sent her out
to get piece of gold, or quartz, or
something of that kind. | undrtsood it
ALL She came back, and couldn't find
it, of Course knew that. tried to
commence where we had broken off, and
her husband Immediately wanted some
thing Oh the top Of the house. When
she got back again tried to commence
again where We had left off, and he
broke in, Miss Dickinson came to eat
strawberries and cream now, Maria, 90
off ani see they are ready" | under
stood it all. Yes, every word of it. By
and ny in came another sad-looking but
handsome woman. I looked at her;
said | at once, Madam, you are the
second wife," and so it turned out She,
al,o was an English woman, and the
two of them were the handsomest women
I saw at Salt Lake, But she appeared
sad and worn. There was no Joyous
happi,eSs f married life" about her.
There WA piano in the room, and in
came the tie little girl of the house. and
at once the father said something about
music, aud was evidently very proud of
his daughters capabilities in that line.
So asked her to play, and she did, and
made h"rrid din, and, cover of the
noise and din, had my conversation
with the wife. She had not understood
their doctrines. I asked her; did
you know when you married your hus-
band that he could, if he would marry an
other woman p mo" Ibid be not
tell you so at the time p mo, he did
not. Our missionaries and preachers
when they 60 out never preach that"
" SO you knew nothing of
it2" Nothing at all " But when
you came here and saw it was so, were
you not greatly disappointed and cha
grined =" "No, I was not l was sure
my husband would never marry again"
= But he did," said I. g 'Yes," she an
swered, and sad, narrowed look came
over her countenance. "Yes, only year
after he married again" "And do you
like that do you like him to have
more wives than one?' "Oh, yes, |
do! I wish he had six or seven" l
saw through it all in minute. l under
stood the state OF that WOrnan's mind at
once. But was not surprised, looked
blank and went back on the old tack
[ commenced and questioned her about
her English life, aud | painted the pic
ture of the little cottage at home and
the court>hip, and at last the marriage
to one whole-souled, honest husband and
how they would live together, and how
she would wait at the door of their
home 9:d wach his coming in the eve
uine ! Iasked her if she coull not
BE- happy there. Aud she put her hand
some h,n to her face and bowed her
head ana cried, oh my Gsd couldn't
T." And then it was plain, it was easy
to see, how that woman really thought
and felt.