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Show MORMON FAMILY LIFE. It Is One Continual Picnic A Charming Picture. Pic-ture. 1 From the Chicago Horalil. If there ore any young men m this comunity that have a leaning toward or a remote yearning for Mormonism thoy should read a recent article on "Family Life among the Mormons," by a daughter of Brighatn Young; and if the perusal of that article does not cure tho leaning and quench the yearning thoy should take the next train for Salt Lake City. At any rate there are some ideas in the article, and a few of thorn stand out so prominently that the reader cannot avoid stubbing the toe of his attention on them, la one respect the Mormon family may be likened unto a beehive, the h unburn! playing the part of the queen bee. Ho sits at his meals with the village that calls him father, ond breaks their monotony by telephoning to wife No.13 at the other end of the table for another cup of coffee. Of course each child Is connectod by a diroct wire with an automatic indicator, so that when the young hopeful in lection lec-tion F, seat 35, playfully inserts a spoon into its windpipe or a bean into its nose prompt assistance may begiven. In that Utopia of the philopaidiBt a young man can accumulate a family as easily as he can debts in other places. All he has to do is to wait until a vacancy occurs and marry a whole public school and a few kindergartens, with an assortment of teachers. He gets wholesale rates on everything bustles, babies and bliss. When the mild spring days come he charters char-ters an excursion train and takes his Sunday-school out on a picnic. He does not have to go outside his family for amusement unless he prefers the pleasure pleas-ure of solitude. When cucumbers nnd green apples are in season and the house becomes a little unquiet he can take a cot in a boiler factory, the Bilence of which will be a poultice to the blows of domestic domes-tic sound. Some, though not all, can imagine im-agine the feelings of a man with a fever blister on his lip having to kiss his tribe good-night. Family life among the Mormons Mor-mons must be a picnic for the family. |