Show W B the N Y correspondent of the cincinnati I 1 commercial says the topic which has occupied the greatest amount of attention among the ladies ir in this vicinity has been the letter recently published by one of the wives of a distinguished mormon gentleman it has hai been usual to imagine that one wife is in about as much as one man ought to attend to but mrs pratt knocks that tion into pi and goes in for a sort of spiritual circle of spouses just imagine an gentleman not like john rogers with a wife and nine small children and one at the breast but with nine wives eighty one children and nine at the breast who would not pity the sorrows of the poor old man when a general squall wv was given or a chorus of voices arose for more sugar i in n their coffee and more molasses on their muffins just imagine the old gentleman to say my dear little duck dock give one kiss and then to see a whole regiment rise and match march at him aim with devours devouring anxiety yet M mrs ris pratt says say that this little polyglot po of y alot family MY circle is charming and that they are all happy as clams at nigh high tide we begin to meditate the subject seriously Wy just jast consider whit what a delightful val variety kity so no tor visiting your neighbor no finding a dull doll lethargic lathar gic evening at hone home and being compelled to invent an excuse i to go to the Lodge there being lodging enough I 1 in in ifor yufor own house oo necessity of getting up op an imaginary ward meeting and being appointed cha chairman irmam no hiving having to meet a friend or to I 1 absee see about some business busi nesa down dow n town t those se I 1 hou ideal engagements which it does not tube e y your r wife long to translate in the plain english of going to the theatre a concert conek or party with wih a female friend or to mean that there are three gentlemen waiting round the corner comer for you to go and look at the faces facea of certain speckled backed pieces of square pasteboard paste board or gr drive with long sticks certain ivery balls red and white over a green table cloth vive la utah athe grasshoppers ra are very plenty throughout the valleys and have done and are doing considerable sid erable damage in gardens and to th the late grain all right us aa we shall have more time to take good care of whitt what is left and to read the news atthe july mail arrived on the alt aboud about sundown too late to print gleanings in this number we will begin to deal out the fore foreign aga news il in our next and continue nue to do so until you a are all ail posted up |