Fort Worth weekly gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1888-05-04

are who love their husbSncs ana are
loved In return, but who still have an
noyances and burdens to bear. l think
that most Of the better class look upon
plural marriages as cross which some
times presses heavily, Rout which they
must carry Il in the end they win the
crown. No woman In her senses Is
willing to share her hus b lnd with another
unless she believes It her duty to do so.
Plural marriages ere Q necessity, they say
In order that the myriAds Of spirits float
ing around Us IN space can be born and
become good Mormons and 60 where the
good Mormons go, and one's happiness
in the next worlds properticnste TO the
number Of these spirits which he or she
has been instrumental in clothing with
flesh and blood. -
SINCERE WOMEN HORIZONS.
Whatever the men may be, I believe
the women are sincere, especially the for
eigners, who are ignorant in the extreme
and show it in their faces and speech and
manners. Among the better
classes, however, IS the women are
intelligent and refined and We'll edu-
Gated, sending their sons to college and
their daughters to Europe, and livilg In
every respect like their wealthy Gentle
neishbor.E Some OF them profess to be
very heppy with their sisters, rs they call
their husbands wives, while others openly
denounce system which has brought so
much evil to them.
In q pretty cottage near our hotel was
q Scotch woman VINO talked freely upon
the subject. She married her kus band,
who WAS much older than herself, because
asked to do SO by his wife, with whom
she lived happily for time. Then farce
Jealousy and quarrels ensued and they
lived q cst-snd-dog life until the cid
man threw bomb into the camp
by telling them he was about to
marry Rose, f.ir-haired SHede of
twenty. Then the f:st and second be-
came unit and waged war against the
third, whose charms, however, prevailed,
and she came TO rule over them until the
first wife died and the second packed up
her goods and left the field TO Rose, whose
b ,ue-eyed babies I s&w, together with her
husband, q man Of seventy or more.
I WAS taken to the Lion House 70 call
upon Eliza Snow, a widow Of the great
apostle, who had, when he died, eighteen
wives, no: including Ann Eliza, and forty
seven or fifty children. The
room in which I IVES re-
ceived was pleasant, home-hke
apartment, with many portraits OF the
Youngs upon the walls, and among them
one Of Brigham. Sister E:zs, ss she Was
called, had been the..wife Of Joseph Smith,
the first expouuder of Mormonism, and
was about eighty years Of age, with the
sweet, l acid face Of one who, having
outlived the joys and sorrows Of life, was
patie. tlV waiting for the end. She Was
very intelligent and well informed, and
talked freely upon various subjects, es-
pecially that OF polygamy, in which ste
fully believed IS something sacred and
holy, alleging msny arguments in it's de-
tense, one OF which was that as women,
as class, are much purer than men, and
it il better for young girl to be
sixth In the love CT good man
than first in the heart Of bad one. she
was Mormon, and had been the wife of
a man Of many wives, and on that point l
bad no sympathy with her, but she i'm
pressed me as q sincere Christian woman,
with nothing in her religion except polyg-
amy which the most rigid evangelist
could not endorse, and wnen not long
sgo heard that she wae dead felt sure
that she had found the rest she WAS wait
ing for when, on the steps Of the Lion
house, with the moonlight falling on her
silvery hair, sheNSave me her blessing
and said good bye 4ereyexs