Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — The Mormon Women. [ARTICLE]

The Mormon Women.

Bill Nye, the editor, of ,thq Laramie Citv Bbomertihg} recehtly paid a ( to &alt Lake City, where he attended the. Church of the Latter Day Saints, ‘ and in a letter to Jhf v jy*per,. srespecting these people, . “ I thought I had seen homely ‘WbtAen before, but to-day was revealed to nje sr spectacle of Morarnm will haunt' me always. *’ Th my opinion, poly gamy carries' Its - own* * pMWshifitent, along with it. It iarjuflicient punish-' meat for the to stay.ifl {the bo^se 1 with the wafty toads'*they call cnetr; wives, and the wffintn get enough suffer«| ing out of* living withj ja<.lipibßti<l wh<r deals out Ip ß affections }jn instidyiHits 1 and allows his piultitutjinous wife/ to herd the progeny. ’I have*'said some mean things aboutthb MonhohAfbut the more.J kncny about them, the more I despise myself for the weak. and inefficient way I have attended ‘to this matter. ' ‘' ‘ * I ought to go to bed now us the hour is late, but I don’t daye to get into bed and turn off the gas, because I kiioy I shall lie tortured all night by visions of a crooked-necked old Mormon woman who sat in the seat neat me to-day and' ate peanuts.”

Lodger at Long Branch hotel upon being presented with his bill—fifteen dollars for two days! Polito 'Clerk—< Correct, sir; you read figures like a banker’s clerk. Lodger—Do you take me for a bonanza mine pn its travels? Polite Clerk—Far from it; but you had one of the best rooms in the house. Lodger—One of the best rqpms in the house! Why, it wasn’t bigger’p a coalbin, and l had to sleep with my legs Out of the window. Polite Clerk—-That's! just it, you see. When a guest sleeps with his iegs out of the winapw we Always charge him two dollars and a half a' day extra, b ' ■ -;.>*<•• _,' •’'> THEComposer of “ The Watch on .the Rhine ” receives a pension of SI,OQQ 9 -.year. ■ • uod . • ■ v