The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1903-11-29
The aqhia naily gagIe Sunday oruas Houeber e. 1903
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second generation were brought up in an
atmosphere of polygamy and sensibilities
| we're in measure deadened. IL they SUI
! .ered it was less acutely than their moth
ers. The young girls approaching ma
turity today have come to accept polyg-
amy as natural as would the girls of our
Eastern cities monogamy. They have
seen their mothers and grandmothers,
/ whom they love, living in plural mar
/ rage and the horrors of the condition
| have passed from them.
The most despairing aspect of the case
4 is that of the children. The little ones
/ living in small towns and distant hamlets
where no Gentle ever sets foot know
| nothing OF any other state, and grow up
as do the savages in the wilds Of Africa,
! ignorant and innocent of any sense OF
| immortality; but the children in Salt Lake
City and the larger towns Of the state are
constantly brought into contact with the
religious agitation around them, and seeds
| OF doubt a desire, to investigate, tram
/ of thought are instilled into their young
! minds, which poison their purity and
! eventually lead to disastrous moral con-
/ ditions. It is the children we women
I SHDuIu eilQcdfcI " saw ~
am afraid, reach the women
| L asked many foreign wonen-panes,
| Swedes, Poles, Germans, and Russians
how they came to accept MorinonisIn and
/ leave their own country, and they have all
substantially given me this reply:
1--WE were. promised one hundred and
I sixty acres of land if we would come to
/ this country and settle. Where is there
/ a. church that would give you one hundred
and sixty acres of land? How could we
! refuse such an offer? We came, we mar
| ried and after we were here and could not
/ help ourselves we found we We're not the
/ only wife. but one of many. We could not
heID ourselves. We have land; we can
| earn our own living and bring up our
| children. and the larger families we have
the greater will be our reward and the
! higher our place in Heaven
! In the older DAYS, before the Mormons
/ became so wealthy, man would build a
/ cabin with a door and a window. When
he took n second wife he added another
/ cabin. with a door and a window, and
! so on as he added wives, until one could
/ tell how many he had by the number OF
/ the doors to be seen in a row of cabins.
! This is all changed today. They have be-
/ come rich enough to build separate houses
and the wives live apart. l will give You
an illustration One day l called on one
Of nv patients and found her very much
amused. ] inquired the cause of her mer-
rinnent. and imagine my surprise when
she told me:
Z have just discovered that my next
door neighbor is one Of my husband
wives and has been for years.
can you not see from that how almost
absolutely impossible it is for an outsider
TO get any evidence of the existence of
polygamy?
"A very amusing incident happened
once in Salt Lake City. l had cured
wealthy woman of a painful disease from
which she had suffered for years. The day
I babe her farewell she said to me:
You have been very good to me. and
I want to save your soul
a" How? I inquired, very much sur
prised.
~ want YOU to marry my husband.
What have I ever done to YOU l
cried in my womanly indignation, That
YOU should insult me in this manner
- why should YOU say that?' she ex-
claimed in establishment. My husband is
the best man in the world. and whaht bet
ter could 1 offer you than him?
Il was very much incensed, at this Offer
land while under the excitement of it met
another patient the next day and told her
what had occurred the day before I'm
acine my establishment when the second
woman said:
+ DO not marry her husband Marry
Plurality of wives and large families
are considered godlike attributes in Utah.
The more wives and children man has
the more important Will be his position in
the next world. In a small village man
had three children born TO him on the
same day by three of his wives while he
was away with a fourth wife. The misery
Of those three women. enduring alone the
agony OF motherhood was the most
heartrending ordeal I have ever passed
through.
IN that same town it was a certain
vifes turn to entertain her husband.
he arrived he found three of the children
IN with measles. Never mind, Mary he
said. [ will go-and visit Jane this week
and come to YOU when it is more conven-
lent for you to receice me.
Edna the wife of President Joseph F.
Smith is his show wife. and it was she
vhona he took with him to St Louis TO
attend The dedication of the Worlds Fair
grounds. accompanying the governor of
J-tah. his staff and other high officials.
At the luncheon given by Senator Nearns
IN President Roosevelt she was a guest
of honor
= eH0 xk-iFa for whom
/ the best of everything is provided. The
duties Of attending to the husbands ma
terial needs are divided among the other
, wives. one will darn his stockings, an
, other will do his washing. I know Of a
case where the society wife lived in great
, style. while the wife who darned her hus-
: hands stockings could not speak a word
of English
These women especially those in Salt
, Lake city. whose husbands have become
wealthy. take the most exquisite care OF
, themselves. Their bodies are well groom
, ed. the clothes are finest. and no sum OF
: money is considered too large to eX-
mend in identifying and enhancing their
, charms. The woman who goes 10 Utah tC
give beauty talks speaks before large
audiences. The shops which sell cosmetics
. ana toilet articles are the best appointed
and patronized in the cities. These womer
I must keep themselves in perfect trim
Think of the competition they have. Re
, alize how attractive they must be 10 re-
tain their husbans attentions, is It not
e pitiful2
r In Brooklyn. within the last year. ths
= children going TO Il certain kindergarter