Polygamy As An Investment
Salt Lake Corrcspondcncc San Francisco Chronlcle. We waited at a way .station for dinncr. A white-haired but not very sanctimonious saint occupicd the chair next to me. A resident of the country ?" I asked. Oh, yes, for twenty-fiveyears." " Married ?" " Some." " More than one wife ?" "I thinkso, I'vefgota few scattered about, here and there." "Believe in polygamy, I presume?" " Certainly. I'd never have made a living if Ihadn't." "How's that?" " Well, you see, stranger, T uaed to think a? you do. I had 150 acres and one wife, but didn't uiake much headway. There was too much work for one man to attond to. Finally I took a second wife. She took lier share of the burden like a brick. and affairs moved on in better shape. Then I got to thinking if two wives were better than one three would be better than two ; consequently I took a third and my affairs improved still more. I ïuapped out the business of the ranche, and gave a part to No. 1, and a part to No. 2, and a part to No. 3, and took a part myself. Kverything went on like clock-work. Our little couiiuunity was thoroughly organized. Finally 1 concluded that a fourth wit'e would be quite an advantage, and I lookedaround and "wured her. I found that the more wives l had the more land I could opérate. 1 tinw work 240 acres of land of one kind mul USOthr, and havethings systeraatized down so that everything goos on lovely and I don't have to work much mysolf. Pulygamy is a great idstitution, my friend, and you'll novcr BUOOeed in-the world until you marry a lew times. Sometímee one of my wivesgets a little offish like, but instead o f inukiiijí ;i greal row aboat it and getting a divotce M vou do in California, I si:nply stay away IVoin hoi' t'or a day or two, and then when I do happen around she stnilea all over her face and loves me in a desperkte fwhioD. Oh. yes, I uiay marry sevcral times yet be f 'ore I die and the more women I marry the richer I get." This talk is by no means suphistry, as I aftcrwards ascertained. A large part of the woinon of Utah are slaves. " Manv kyoang lady who objects to being kissed undor the mistletoe has no objection to being kissod under the rose' ' A carelos compositor malo an error in the above, rendoring it, " has no objection tu ba ki-iscd undor the 0086." In these daysofpedestrianisni' this isn't so bad : In the race for inatrimony it is not always the girl who covers the most laps that wins.
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Ann Arbor Courier
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