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Show "THE OTHER HOUSE ' 1 There began in the September number num-ber of the "Delineator" a powerful story of Utah polygamous life. The title of it 1- "The Other House; The Intimate Personal Tragedy of s Mormon Mor-mon Marriage." The story is writ I en and prepared bv Martha Anderson and Harvey J, O'Higgins- " is the ifs Story 01 S happy Mormon girl, h'' marriage, and her experience With the new polygamy in Utah The editor's bote in the September number expla ins I hs t Martha Anderson is an orthodox Mormon Mor-mon woman, who here folates with the help of Harvey .1 O'Higgins Iter experience experi-ence wlih pew polygamy in Utah in order to protei t Innocent persons from the consequences of publicity names nave been Changed, .places bav U'n disguised, and cognizable details of character and circumstances have been altered In the narrative; but the cfkoii- Mai facta have hern in no way falsified and the truth about present-day conditions con-ditions In LJtah has been presented as faithfully as possible In typical incidents inci-dents personally observed in Mormorrlsm the women and children -f plural marriages say "he Is at the other house" when the husband and fntiur js abiding for "a week"' or "a day about according to whatever may he his domestic method and discipline -at the house of his oilier wife and hr familv, And that phrase "the other house" has become sinlatexly significant i Of all the cruelties, Ihe mysteries, and the silent despair er the new Mdrmon polygamy now continually recrudescent In the editor's note on the installment install-ment for October is the following: i.ast month we printed the story of tfie first wife of a Mormon religious fanatic, iter anguish In sharing her husband with another women was, if possihe. Intensified In-tensified when she learned of 'he birth of a son by flu's other "marriage." The fact thai the other woman woo n neigh: j bor 'f an irreproachable character but ,idie,i i, the horrors of. the situation. With this number we give th reverse side of the picture- the cruel postjrn f,r the second wife, in the absorbing interest in-terest of this story do not forget that it is true, and that P Is typical of an American State whose eie,-(ri representatives representa-tives have sive,, 1 heir solomn word that the practice of polygamy has ceased. The story in the September number relates tllO dreadful experiences of Ihe first wife Soon after marriage, her husband was called on a misiion; and the tension which this creates in the mind of the newly-married bride is faithfully depicted And after her liu band's return, Ihe shock on learning that he is being importuned to go into polygamy-, and the grief and gloom I which set t led upon her when she realized real-ized that the polygamous stains is actually entered into, make a grievous situation. The girl who is to be the plural wife is worked upon so thai she goes to Mexico, and (hero enters! into the plural marriage with Martha' Anderson's husband The October number tells of the misery of this sc, -on, I marriage, the haunted hiding of 1 lie plural wife and her babe, and the shocking misery of all concerned in the tra n-.-ict ion. The third installment should give the horror of the whole situation to the polygamous man Presumably that will be in the November or some succeed ing number; for any man of human snnsibijity placed in tiie position that this narrative places this one, must have a shocking experience of his own to narrate. The trilogy would form a powerful and complete picture of the gloomv despair of modern polygamous relation- in Utah; where the offenders are not oiilv under the shadow of outraged out-raged law, but under the ban of ihe church, at least so far as ihe offenders are unable h, Keep secret their illegal and ostracised relations That the Story is one written by an! orthodox Mormon woman rai-ed in j I'tah i- v hod for by the editor of the "Delineator." and adds the touch of realism and ObSolute truth to the whdle story that make it beyond criticism criti-cism .'is to source, and beyond assault as true. |
