Grace Greenwood On Mormon Women

You hears go 1 1 deal about that "cross froia both Morinon husbands and wiveg, but you only see the shadow of ï'tio the laces of the women. 1 do not nioan to indieatethat thcy all look decidedly unhappy. There ia rathei in their lacea a quiet, baffling, Degative and abnegative ëxpros ñon, whiota certainly is as far from h;i;]v content as it is i'rom desperate rebeluon Naturally thoy are muro alivo tu tho out side pressure ot' public opinión more sen sible to tho abloquy and ostraoism whicl theii po8ition provokos, than men. l'n tient and passiva as they seum, tinr. futtÜL'so tilines keen ly - the more intelligou among theio at least - and tbough up holdby a sincere, devout faith n thi atraogi a, thcy have toward Btran gen a peculiar air ofreticenoo, of mis trust, almostof repulsión, i do not won der at it- their hospitolitr and conlidouc li:iv .■ ofttm beun abused - thej have been intruded upon by impertíueDt interview ii's and theii reluetant answers in porsis tent qnestioning publiahed abroad, wi( ! starthng additiona and dramatic crabe; lwhmente. Thuae I have met appoar t me, 1 must say, like good and gent] Chribtáan women. They me singular] in dress and modest in dome-mor. What saddens me is their air of extri m quietude, retirement and reprossion. B j tbr the children around them you woulr Munk somo or thera were wom-.-ii who had uil li this World. I :im told thut tho wives of oven tho Jiighest Mormon dijrintaries show little pride in their lords. It was perhapa difficult to féel mucfa pfiflo 'ii the Bixteonth part of a Man, asmen go. Even the firet wife of a wciJthy saint butruy.s in her husbaad and household, thoy s:iv, 110 itxultant joy of pO398MÍ0n. Au iureatment in a Mormon lieart and homo must bo rathcr unccrtain stook for a vo111. m. I am assurcd, though, that fche seooad wife is scldom taken without the full coiwent of tho first. jS'ot only ore the poor wonien's l'eligious faith and zeal appealed to, but hermasnánimity toward herñstoi womanoutinthe cold. It mustbe throuêh great suffering that sucli hsighta of self-abngation are reached. The crucüixion ut the diviue weakness of a loving wowan's héart must bo a sovoru prO cess.