The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1893-06-20
Utah Women at the Fair.


Utah Women at the Fair.
The Denver Ners, like all the live
papers of the west, has a special cor
respondent at the World s Fair, and like
many OF the best of them its correspond
ent is a lady. The Ne,cs representative
has discovered that number of the
bright and able women who have been
taking an active part in womau's work at
the lair are from Utah, and that even
Mormons have been recognized by the
prominent managers and club workers.
The Neaes of the 18th inst. contains q
long communication on this subject.
with portraits of a number OF Utah
ladies at the great exposition, among
them Mrs. EMILY S. RICHARDS, Mrs.
CARRIE THOMAS, Mrs. ELEcrA BULLOCK,
MINNIE j. Snow and MARY RoMNEY.
They are all described as Of Salt Lake and
that is about as correct as some other in
formation conveyed in the letter. For
instance, it is stated that notices of this
kind are given out by the Mormon minis
Ter who breaches ''sermons having the
unmistakable stamp CT polygamy:"
Our young peoples Wednesday even
ing meeting will be held at the residence
of Brother THOMAS wife AMANDA. After
the meeting the young people will adjourn
to the home OF Brother THOMAS wife
1 un r,,, II, nc n fol
reunion.
! There are other statements as wide of
the truth as that, showing that either the
lady has been beguiled by somebody who
knows nothing of the state of affairs or
wanted to have a little fun at her expense
or she has been drawing upon her imagi
nat ion SO as to make an interesting letter
| for her paper. She informs. the Denver
people, most OF whom know better, that:
Sin the days of Brigham Young it was
obligatory for man to have at least four
wives.' ''There was severe penalty for
helpmates. But now it is agreedthat "a
man need have only one wife unless he
wants to have more The condition OF
young women in those times is thus
described:
''They were given no advantages at all.
They We're kept in great ignorance.
They were scarcely sent to school. Any
thing like young girls societies and asso-
| nj
taught nothing at all. They were as ig-
norant as Turkish women in harem or
japanese girls waiting for sweetheart. -
The impression derived from the letter
is that all this information" was de.
rived from the Mormon women them
selves. And yet they are described as repre-
and women organizations that are to be
found in America That is what SC
distinguished woman as MAY WRIGHT
SEwELL told the Nelss correspondent,
and she also said that "a delegation o.
Utah women, second to none in any re-
specs, have come to US to represent theil
state at the Woman's congress and at the
fair
The comments made by thecorrespond-
: ent on the Utah ladies she met are in &C.
cord with what Mrs. SEwELL told hel
and are given in spirit OF fairness anc
with the evident intent OF doing full JUS
tice to them. This leads to the inferenc,
that somebody has been stuffing the cor
respondent on the Utah question, ane
that she has mingled the fictions sh,
heard with the facts that she saw.
} From the most reliable sources we learr
that Utah has made an exceedingly cred
liable appearance at the Great Fair. Thi
not only in the exhibits in the Utaf
building, but in the personal representa-
f ton OF the ladies and gentlemen whc
: have taken a prominent part in exposi
ton affairs. Utah has suffered nothins
from their presence, but they have beer
the means of dissipating a great man,
erroneous impressions concerning thi
territory and its people. If the variou
press correspondents obtain their infor
nation concerning Utah directly from
those Utah people at the fair who under
stand the situation here, they will b.
able to write quite as interesting letter.
for publication as if they draw upoi
their fancy or repeat silly stories to fl
the popular notions about life at Sal
Lake.
Contemporary Humor.
IRter-0ceGn: Precipitation is now get
, ting the drop ON US.
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