The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-11-09
THE NORTON WIVES.


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General Aealthfal Features.
.. San Francisco Chronicle.
The tabernacle wall was undouLt.
edly boilt BY English workmen.
Within its enclosure IL also . very
handsome Gothic church. constructed
OF granite. and barely flushed. There
|" also . vast temple going up there,
which will stand for ages. II has
been built ior twenty-seven years, and
hopes are entertained that it will be
completed Eve years hence. The ma
tesial 10 cut granite Of the most en-
during quality, which is brought from
sumo mountain twenty or thirty miles
distant. Before the railroad to o.
den was built the granite blocks had
to Be transported BY OK teams, but
they nov come BY rail. Evidently
the MOrmons have strong faith 10 the
future Of their religion. The great
temple il not to b used for ordinary
theological purposee. but for solemn
and awful cerem0ni.ls. Of which de-
graded outside barbarisns are not to
b permitted any knowledge Of. 1t is
known, however, that the faithful are
to be snnointed within ito sacred cou-
lines. Or creased ~ the Gentiles
term il. l did not start out to write
a stereotyped article on Salt Lake
City. but merely to lightly refer to its
most conspicuous objects that . ;tracted
my attention. There 10 one thing
about to Mormon women which Is
commendsble. They dress plainly
and modestly and have none of the
catch-me-if-you-can' airs which Cen
tile women exhibit on the streets of
every city 10 the United States. with
the cole exception Of San francisco.
They do Not 6irt-at least not in pub
lie. Nearly every one / saw who
looked like . married woman, had q
baby in her arms. I saw a large
pas.eboard card hanging in the ho
tel labeled. 'Utahis best CROP Being
in search Of information, and presum-
ing that might learn something to
my advantage. turned the card over.
% the opposite side we're the photo
graphs in miniature Of about 800
babies. There il no humbug about
the matter. From center to circum-
ference Utah has babies. The Nor
none differ from outsiders on various
religious points. and are led about as
, matter Of course.
Ii IL claimed that the Mormon |
women carry . look Of blank despair
because Of the existence Of polygamy
in this territory. That statement has !
b-en manufactured to order. The |
Mormon women are not ~ intelligent |
- class. ~ the women of American
states and territories. for the msjor-
~ Of them, outside of Salt Lake |
City. are poor European emigrants or
heir descendants. The country is
not developed, and educational advan-
ages are not what they should be.
The Mormon women are cheerful,
,owever-jnst ~ cheerful - any mon !
'gamic wife who puts her husbands
Alsry on her hack every month and
ails down to the matinee. II has al
o been claimed that Mormon babies
Ire not up tn the Gentle standard
hat they look weak. puny and spirit
ess. That is another mere invention.
The race Of pe"ple in the Salt Lake
'alley may some day not be - vigor-
Ne - the people of some other dis :
ant sections, but the distinction will
ICED to be attributed to the mildness
{ the climate and not to polygamy.
am no friend to the peculiar institu-
ION / abhor it but ! don't believe i,
IN ever he extinguished BY lying.
As ] was taking q stroll one even
q | overheard two saints earnestly
hating on q street corner. To
blink Of going back tn one lady = was
be indignant exclamation of one of
be polygsmic pair. Thew appeared ;
, regard with horror the idea Of tying
man down 20 one wife. A man was /
ointed out to mo on the street % the i.
wner Of one wife and three brevet .
ifes. No. 4 WAS . blooming girl of
s. The owner Of these four women
- man fully IS years Of age, . !;
stive Of the state Of New York, and .
iueated and intelligent. In Salt |;
axe City, and IN most portions Of
tab, women are spoken Of - ladies. :.
mans wife IL biz 'ledy,' and bis :.
ives arc his ';adiss.' Many Of the :
y goods clerks in Self Lake City
ave three wives spiece. How the =
suce do these fellows support 20 :.
any wives? In California. . man 3
ho supports one does amazingly veil.
bic sAid to a old resident. WELL
} replied, in . multitude Of cases it's .
u women who support the men. =
ID Brigham used 70 preach to the :
D0en that they must make them :,
Ives useful - we'll - ornamental. :,
sey sew. take in washing and work =
If they like il, what bust !: :
- |. il to people . thousand miles :.
ny? have seen much Of poly ).
my; have s.journed with thor y
ghly married men-Wiih men Who =
We - many wives - many . mono = =
mic wife has devoted masculine ad- !" ..
rers: ! have mingled With Nor. y !"
,os in every part Of the territory. :
~ partaken Of their hospitality.
ked and frsternized With them; I
W seen their virtues and defects,
d know ths,r aspirations and absurd
liticsl dreams. Il IL impossible.
vever, to get the whole thing in one
icle.
Arenas Ward.
NJ. Toole. Who was one Of Arte mas
ards moss intimate ffieo1s 10 Lon