Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — The Comic Side of Polygamy. [ARTICLE]

The Comic Side of Polygamy.

There is a comic as well as a pathetic I side to Mormon polygamy. Among the mormon women in Utah was one I who accepted, in full faith, the polygamic revelation. She had found in I polygamy an ample compensation in I he supposed right of the first wife to chose her husband’s succeeding wives. This was her argument: “If the first wife selects the other wives, it has the effect of showing them that the husband thinks much of her judgment, and is willing to abide by it, and that I they will have to do the same. This I is, of course, as it should be. But if I she lets her husband choose bis own I wife, he is almost certain to take a I fancy to some one his first wife does I not like at all, and, consequently, her authority is undermined. The first wife ought to have all the power in her own hands.” The sequel of this lady’s story is extremely ludicrous. After she had chosen two other wives for her husband, he was so perverse as to choose a fourth for himself, the fourth being not at all of her liking, as she herself admitted. This is her own account of the matter: “‘I teU you,’ said I, ‘l’m quite disgusted with you; a man with three wives—and me one of them—to go talking twaddle to a clattering hussy like that with her cat’s eyes and red hair I ‘Golden hair, my dear,’ he said 'Charlotte’s hair is golden.’ *1 say red!—its straight, staring red—red as red can be,’ I told him; and then we had a regular fight over it. I don’t mean that we came to blows, but we had some hot words, and he went out j and left us two alone. Then that young hussy was impudent, and I don’t know how it was, but somehow when we left off our conversation I found some of Charlotte’s red hair between my fingers, and there,” she said innocently, holding out quite a good-sized tuft of aubarn hair, “there, I put it to you, Bister Btenhouse, is that red, or is it not?”

Bktll th the Workshop.—To <’o good wt rk lhe mechanic must have good health. If long hours of confinement in close rooms have enfeebled his hand or dimmed his sight, let him at once, and bef* re some organic »>ubh* appears, lake plenty of Hop Ehlers.' His system will be rejuve- > nale«i, his neivcs strengthened, bis s «ht become ciear, and the whole cotssiitution be built up to a higher Working condition.

The London telegraph operators em-1 ployed by the government have de-1 elded to cease working over-time on the 27th Inst., as a preliminary step to obtain a reduction of hours of service. The Leeds operators approve the action of the London committee, and resolved upon a given date to dis- 1 continue all over-time working. A special congregation of cardinals has been summoned by H. H. Pope Leo to “pronounce” upon Father Curd’s new book, which frankly advocates the union of church and state.

Of course it will “pronounce” against it, and the book will be placed on the I “Index Expungatorius,” or papal list of forbidden books.