The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-09-18
CHASTITY YARNS.

OA EOp1US - '-F~r~~a H-AS w $780,
"ths undertakers see only the bright
side. We layers-out mingle with the
family. ar 3 unconsciousIy admitted
to their secret consultations, and are
not infrequently called upon to nego-
Ciats TEN porary loans, which can only
be effected by depositing collateral
with the neighboring broker. Death
Co3es a, tmes, when lily prepared
for. and necessary things have TO be
ohtsined somehow. There's piece
of alpaca. uog, which has done ser
vice on at lesst two hundred door
bells. Our duties are to wash the
BODY after death. set ihings 20 rights
in the house il the female members Of
me family are without help. and ar
range the body IN the coffin. fix the
flowers and do innumsrsble little odds
snd ends about tbs house The class
work for are generally either of the
poorer or, the middle order. and is 10
of them | am speaking. And, while
this subject has been commenced, |
would most earnestly ask you to urge
in your paper the terribly evil effects
ostly and snowy fuu erals have upon
the poorer class. II seems to me that
the poorer a family is the Shower the
funeral must be. The undertaker's
bill, the pay of the lSyer-out and IN
cidental expenses seem to be lost
sight of. and, if a cloth. covered cas-
ket, q long line of carriages and
plenty Of riders can be obtained, 90
that the funeral may be highly re
spectacle one, no thought is given as
to BOW the bills are to De met. 1
have seen families who knew not
where their.to.morroW's breakfast was
coming from have a funeral the cost
of which would comfortably maintain
them for months. I laid OUT man
last week who looked just too lovely
for anything ia his coffin, smothered
almost in choicest exotics, and that
night bis widow would have gone
supperless to bed had she ne pswned
her shawl after the funeral. Now
this is not single instance, bat like
ones occur almost every day IN our
city. | DO not protest against paying
all possible honor to the dead father,
mother, or child, but it's crying
shame that it is done at the moral az
we'll as physical expense of the living.
THE DEAD GIRL SAT UP AND SCREAMED.
"Have I ever bad any strange ex-
periences in my calling? Yes, what
you might call strange. but We be-
come so hardened. [ might say, that
we doR't mind the n. For instance.
some years ago | was sent for by
lady down town whose daughter had
Just died. The undertaken was cent
for st the same time, but his Residence
was at q greater distance and was
there long before him. commenced
to wash the body and had nearly
completed my work when tse cup
posed dead girl eat up and scrsAmed
sc lustily IS il nothing had ever allied
her. The family rushed In, but Rs
quickly rushed out agaih. and it Waa
long time before I could convines
them that their daughter was really
alive. Suspended animation | be-
ieve the doctors callsd it. That girls
son was here just awhile ago and she
herself is SIS healthy as you'd WIKI.
Sometimes / imagine I can feel the
heart beat in q body am, wasAing,
and in such cases | immediately send
for medical aid. Often, as Mr.. Moore
told you, We are called upon to cover
up the terrible cash in the throat or
the cruel cord mark OF the suicide
and the job is always cleverly done.
ga few years ago was called RpeE
to prepare lady for the grave. She
was lerge, stout woman. about sixty
years old. The house in which she
lived was elegantly furnished, her
husband was g prosperous nsnufsc-
turer and all the surroundings Indi-
Gated comfort and wealth. Imagine
nv sstonishmeat when I uncovered
the body and found that the head had
been shaved and an iucisien made in
her throat and se1ed uP-an incieioH
which said So plainly as wWds could
saw that this body had been in the
hands of the doetorS. had been
injected with a preserving fluid and
had been prepared for the disSscting
table. To say that I was herrifed
would but teebly express my feelings.
One of the daughters, between her
sobe, explained the matter fully to
me. and but IsW outside of the family
circle we're ever aware, OF tae cause
Of the lady's death and The subss.
euent usage of the corpss.
ESCAPING TIE DISsRcTNG TABLE.
1T seemed the lady was addicted
to taking q social glass, and when 30
inclined would SO to the heuSe of one
CT the other of her sons. Oh one Of
these 'periodica g che strsyed awsys
and that was the last seen of her
alive The tupl e,ition ID that she
wss robbed OF money snd nearly all
her clothing. and then wandered to
the Delaware ard walked overheard.
10 a Gay or no bloated. disfg-
ured corpse csme to the surface and
wss taken to the morgue. There it
vas recognized, few hours after
ward, by woman of disselute habits,
who said che had been her eonpan-
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