The state rights democrat. [volume] (Albany, Linn County, Oregon) 1865-1900, 1882-05-19
4 sKETOH OF EORMON LIFE.

Before the glass, as usual. do be-
fieve Ruth, that you are vainer than
ever"
The person addressed piroquetted
across the room, shook her ringlets,
smoothed out her draperies, and
settled. herself gracefully in a chair be-
fore replying.
Don't be cross, Myra, there's q dear.
have 70 take q little pains with my
looks when people are dropping in al
most every hour in the day to see the
BRIDE"
The BRIDE! Oh, yesl beg your
pardon: I had almost forgotten that
your honeymoon Is not over. And now,
seeing that We are alone, tell me; is it .
honeymoon altogether"
1T 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 pretend it's mans religious
duty to treat all his wives 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 .t-home-apd every blessed
day of that week he stayed with his first
now he Is away. There's something that
didn't bargain for, and / don't mean to
stand it"
'aT confess I don't quite seen how you
are going to help yourself"
''Oh, I'll manage him, never you fear,
By the way, how ugly his first wife is
growingi She has changed so within q
month that declare when met her on
= Ha-- II hor 4IxyE hav..
and suppose now she will go and tell
Philip I wouldn't speak to her-the
spiteful thing!''
esYou ought not to talk In that way,
Ruth. The poor woman sees trouble
enough, have no doubt"
'sWell, can't help it, and I'm sure it
isn't my fault. II she didn't want Philip
to marry me, why did she give her con-
sent? And If she is growing old and
ugly, I am not to blame for that, and
Philip Is not to blame either for wanting
a wife that doesn't look like q grand
mother"
Ruth, how old are you?"
81 shall be sixteen next birthday"
Ruth, poor child; I pity you"
ssNow, Myra, that is just like you-al-
ways trying trying to spoil my good
times. I don't know, I'm sure,
why I should be pitied, unless it is be-
cause Philip insists on taking rooms
right here at fathers instead of giving
me house of my own. But I'll have
different arrangements In six months, as
you'll see If / don't manage to be the
mistress of his new house by that time,
my name is not Ruth"
Indeed, and what viii you do with
Jess1e?"
"Oh, she can have the old house. It's
comfortable enough, and she don't care
anything about style. She looks like a
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 a great
way when you want to please q man
Last week when Philip came over here,
he looked as if he'd just been to q
funera1-I dare say Jessie had been Civ
ing him some awful lectures-but I had
studied what to do, and I was ready to
meet him. I had the new silk he gave
me made up lovely, and / wore tea-rose
ribbons, and Jane Taylor came over and
dressed my hair. She said looked like
picture, and believe Philip thought
so too, for he frightened up wonderfully
after came down stairs"
"Well, Ruth, / want you to take all
the comfort you can; though. If were
you, am afraid should look forward
sometimes to the day when I would be
obliged to step aside and give place to
some one else; aud you know it is the
last wife who gets all the attention"
Now, Myra, I don't think there is
another person in the world who would
say such things to me-and in my honey
moon, toc." Here an embroidered hand
kerchief was produced, and the bride
buried her pretty face in its folds.
Don't cry, Ruth, I didn't mean to
make you feel bad"
The face came up again from Its
hiding place.
'sI won't cry and spoil my eyes, for ]
am going down to the store, and [ want
Philip to think I look lovely. I know
he'll think it, though he won't say it
the provoking man! How is my dress:
Aunt Margaret says it's my own fault il
I don't make Philip worship me, and If ]
manage right can have such house
and furniture and such dresses as I've
never dreamed Of"
'sIf those things will make you happy,
I hope you may get them. For my part,
If ever marry, want q husband who
will not belong to any one but me, and
then think I could be contented with a
crust of bread"
'sIt's no wonder, Myra. that you are an
old maid, with such notions, How are
Won going to get husband who will not
belong to any one else? IF you are the
first wife. You viii never know what day
vour husband will bring home a second
Aunt Margaret said to me, Whatever
Won do. don't think of being any mans
first wife, for you will live a life of dread
before he takes his second, and life Of
misery afterward' Aunt Margaret hai
cot sense. She's fourth wife. She il
netted. and has her Own way in every
thing. and she knows her husband won
take another; but her sister, who is {
first wife. is put off on a sage-brusl
ranch. and don't see her husband once
Do any of our readers object to tn
foregoing style of conversation? lt oni,.
exhibits the practical, every day appll
cation of a religious principle which ou
Government has regarded as SO sacre'
That for years it has been an ef1ectua
shield from the penalties of law "hlcl
i openly violated by whole people.