Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-26
Plural Blessedness.
Common Episode In Mormon House.
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draperies, and settled herself gracefully in 8 chair before replying.
 Don't be cross, Myra, there's 8 dear I have to take little pains with my looks when people are dropping in almost every hour in the day to see the bride.'" The bride Oh, yes I beg your pardon
 I had almost forgotten that your honeymoon is not over. And now, seeing that we are alone, tell me, is it 8 honeymoon altogeth- CT ?''
 'It would be, only for one thing. Philip is just as sweet as he can be, but then he is so awfully religious You know they will pre- tend that it is 8 mans religious duty to treat all his wives just alike. and Philip actually
 believes that The first week after we were | married he stayed here, of course; but the second week he told me it was his duty to go home-just think of it-home-and every 1 blessed day of that week he stayed with his
 first wife. Last week he was here again, and now he is away. That's something that didn't bargain for, and l don't mean to stand it.'
 ''I confess don't quite see how you are going to help yourself"
 ''Just wait a little and you will see How is it in other families Don't the last wife get all the betting and all the attention How is it in President Youngs family? When Emmeline was the favorite, you know he stayed with her right along; and now since he has taken Amelia, how many times do you suppose he has spoken to any of his other wives?"
 Mot very often, perhaps but with you the question is not what other men do, but what course your own husband is going to take"
 "Oh, I'll manage him, never you fear By the way, how ugly his first wife is growing She has changed so within month that de- clare when met her on the street yesterday I hardly knew her and suppose no~ she will go and tell Philip that wouldn't speak to her-the spiteful thingl"
 ''You ought not to talk in that way, Ruth The poor woman sess trouble enough, have no doubt"
 ''Well, can't help it, and Pm sure it isn't my fault. If she didn't want Philip to marry me. why did she give her consent? People ought to know their own minds and not agree to thing one day and make a fuss about it the next. And if she is growing old and ugly, am not to blame for that, and Philip is not to blame either for wanting a wife that doesn't look like grandmother"
 Ruth. how old are you ?''
 q shall be 16 next birthday"
 My poor child pity you"
 ''Now, Myra. that is just like you-always trying to spoil my good times. 1 don't know, I'm sure, why should be pitied, unlesa it is because Philip insists on taking rooms right here at fathers instead of giving me a house of my own; but I'll have different arrange ments in six months, as you'll see. If don't manage to be the mistress of his house by that time my name Is not Ruth" :"
 ''Indeed And what will you do with Jes- sie?"
 ''Oh, she can have the old house It's comfortable enough, and she don't care any thing about style. She looks like dowdy lately. Why, the dress she had on yesterday was perfect fright"
 Perhaps she has too much on her mInd just now to care about dress"
 If she knows anything at all, she ought to know that dress goes great ways when you want to please man. Last week when Philip came over here, he looked as If he had just been to a fuueral-1 dare say Jessie had been giving him some awful lectures-but had studied what to do, and was ready to meet him. I had the new silk he gave me made up lovely and wore tea-rose ribbons just my color, everybody says-and Jane Taylor came over and dressed my hair. She said looked like a picture, and I believe Philip thought so too, for he frightened up wonderfully after I came downstairs. '"
 'Well. Ruth, am sure want you to take all the comfort yoa can though, if I were you, I am afraid I should look forward sometimes to the day when I would be ob- liged to step aside and give place to some one else; and you know you have just said it is the last wife who gets all the attention ''
 I don't think there is another person in the world who would say such things to me-snd in my honeymoon, too"
 Here an embroidered handkerchief was produced, and the bride buried her pretty face in its folds.
 Don't cry, Ruth. did not mean to make you feel bad"
 The face came up again from its hiding place.
 "I won't cry and spoil my eyes, for am going down to the store, and I want Philip to think I look lovely. know he'll think it, though he won't say 1.-the provoking man. How is my dress And do you suppose my hair would look better if should loop these curls back-so? Did you ever hear of Philips oldest sister They say she was so lovely that she couldn't walk the street with out people stopping to look at her. We'll, Aunt Margaret, who used to know her, says I have her style of beauty, and she says, too, it's my own fault If don't make Philip Eor- ship me. She says he's worth deal of money now, and making more every year, and if manage right I can have such a house and furniture and such dresses as I've never dreamed of
 If those things will make you happy hope you will get them. For my part if ever marry. l want 8 husband who will not belong to anyone but me, and then think I can be contented with crust of bread"
 Its no wonder. Myra, that you are an old maid with such notions How are you go- ing to get husband who will not belong to any body else If you are the first wife you will never know what day your husband will bring home second. Aunt Margaret said to me :-
 Whatever you do, don't think of being any mans first wife, for you will live life of dread before he takes the second. and life of misery afterEard' Aunt Margaret has got sense. She's fourth wife She is petted and has her own way in everything, and she knows her husband won't take another: but her sister. who is a first wife, is put of on sage brush ranch, and don't see her husband once a year"
 Do any of our readers object to the fore going style of conversation? If so, we beg leave to remind them that it only exhibits the practical, every day application of 8 religious principle which our government has regarded so sacred that for many years it has been an effectual shield from the penalties of law which is openly and per sistently violated by whole people.
 Ruth Philip La Tours new bride. was fair specimen of the girls brought up in Utah, no better and no worse than the majority of those around her. She believed polygamy to be right because she had been so taught from her cradle, and she regarded her mar riage as legal and binding, because no opin- ion to the contrary had ever been uttered in her nearing. 1T anyone QAu lutluAJeQ Luaf she had wronged and outraged Philips wife by assuming the relation to him which she now held she would have lifted up her retty hands in herror and resented the imputation with hot words and angry tears
 It is true that she was shallow, vain and selfish; but then girls of that description may be found outside of Utah, and Mormon ism cannot be justly charged with develop ing traits that are quite as common among the adherents of other systems.
 She really thought it too bad that she, who was so much younger than Jessie, and in her own estimation very much prettier also. should have no more of her husbands society than the first wife; and it was an unheard-of thing that bride with so many attractions should live in couple of plainly furnished rooms, while the woman whom she regarded only in the light of an obstacle to her com plete triumph had handsome house ali to herself.
 She was fully resolved not to submit to such an arrangement, and in the end she had her way, for though she did not succeed ;n turning Jessie out of doors. she tormented Philip until glad to purchase peace at any price. he bought pretty cottage for her, and fitted it up with the best that money could buy.
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