The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1881-04-07


Mr.. Black for the sake of a home, with
out caring for him in the least, while
the first wife loved him devotedly. All
went quietly for time, till Mr.. Black
attained the grand object of q Mormon's
.inbition. He was given what they call
mission that is, he was sent abroad to
proselyte. In his absence the two
wives lived together, and the second
wife attracted the attention of an inferi-
or man.
'The first wife was all amiability to the
second wife. especially when the in
ferior gentleman called. She discreetly
withdrew, and never seemed aware that
the two had fallen madly in love with
each other. So matters went on until
the return of the mutual husband. Wife
No. found a confession obligatory.
The husband could not have been more
astonished if the heavens had fallen, and
1aved more about wife's shame and a
husbands honor than Othello himself.
What was to be done? A husbands
honor must not be furnished, a wife's
faithlessness must be avenged. With a
grim smile wife No. saw wife No.
driven from home disgraced; for, though
the outraged husband speedily divorced
her, the inferior gentleman refused to
make an honest woman of one who had
publicly been pronounced the reverse,
and, driven from pillar to post, the poor
creature became an outcast, and so con
tinued until her child became beauti-
full and sturdy boy. Taking him by the
hand one day she went to wife No. 1,
and implored her to take him and rear
him properly; 'but do not separate us,
she said; give me shelter too, and I will
be your servant, your willing, uncom-
planning slave, until deatn.' And so
they all live together, the mother in the
kitchen, the son in the parlor, hardly
daring to speak to each other. the
divorced wife the rd-driven mental of
the woman whose equal she once was,
and the husband, though tolerating her
presence for humanity's sake, never per-
hitting her to speak to him.
cat almost the first dinner was in
vited to in Salt Lake City I was intro
cuced to q gentleman. We viii call him
Jones. was also introduced to two
ladies named Jones, but it did not oc-
cur to me until was told afterward that
they were both married to him. One
was passe, proud and stately in bearing
and appearance. The other was young,
very pretty, and seemed to shrink at the
sound of the others voice. She flew to
obey her commands, which consisted of
orders to wait on Mr.. Jones. Emma,
she would say, hand George this, hand
George that; get Georges hat, get
Georges cane fetch Georges gloves,
ETC.
GAS I have said before, the first wife
is mistress of all the others, and they
are forced to obey her as abjectly as
slaves. Emma was the second wife of
Jones, and the wife ruled her with a
rod of iron. There was no tyranny she
did not infict upon her, no mean, mer-
CHESS grinding under foot that she did
not exercise. Jones left them to fight it
out. So hideous was the first wife's
treatment of the second that she finally
went crazy, and had to be confined in
an asylum. Mrs. Jones the first urbanely
gave Mr.. Jones permission to bring
home any number of young and pretty
wives, but at latest dates he had not
availed himself of her kindness.
Fighting it out reminds me of a
young fellow who had a pretty young
wife, but soon began to pay his address
es to young lady. He took the latter
on little excursion, on which, as it
happened, his wife had gone. They met.
and, as the wife had no intimation of
what he was contemplating, she began
to make scene, just as Gentle wife
would. He hurried both ladies into q
room in rustic hotel on the pretext of
talking it over quietly. As soon as he
got them there he slipped out, locked
them in, and gave orders below that no
one should let them out or pay any
attention to their cries for assistance.
The day went on, and the husband en-
joyed himself, but the women fought
and stormed and went into Mysteries
and tainted and recovered and finally
got awfully hungry. In vain they
shouted and begged to be released.
Then they wept and made up, and
when the husband came and demanded
through the keyhole if they were good
friends and would like something to eat,
they both said Yes meekly to all his
questions. Then he unlocked the door,
and they went and had cozy little din
ner together, and when he married the
young lady they were all happy ever
after.
T" While old men invariably select
young women as wives, they often make
a concession to q daughter and marry
her mother at the same time, so as not
to separate them, and young mal will
often take mother and grandmother
along with the daughter. Literally, in
Utah men frequently marry whole
family. A wife getting old is often glad
to have her husband marry daughter
by another husband, SO that the original
wife may not be ousted from her privi-
leges and comfortable home.
It is a custom out there to call a
woman after her husbond' s first name. in
order to distinguish her. For instance.
the wife of John Young is called Libbie
John, and not Mrs. John Young.
The first emjgrant women were
grossly ignorant. Those born in Utah
IN the present generation are educated
and refined, quite capable of thinking
and acting for themselves. What WITH
the newspapers brought into the Terri
tory, the railroads tempting them to
travel, and bringing in hosts of strang.
srs, the Mormon women of to-day have
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