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Show COMMENTS OF THE : NATIONAL PRESS.ON : j THE SMOOT CASE j A QUINTUPLE LIFE. ( New York World: A double life, with a disagreeable publicity always Imminent, has 1U disadvantage. A quintuple matrimonial mat-rimonial career such a that of Apostle Smith, countenanced and approved by his f ellow-dtisens, may have it benellclal , Such a husband undoubtedly Uvea a. broader and fuller life than the monogamous monoga-mous husband. Choosing a first wife for her homely virtue, a did the Vicar of Wakefield, he 1 prepared to exact a qualification qual-ification of beauty in the aecond, brains in the third, vivacity or other personal charm in .the fourth, and social accomplishments accom-plishments in the fifth. By a choice of wives of different nationalities be may Improve Im-prove hi acquaintance with modern languages. lan-guages. In matters of architecture, his original helpmeet might occupy a lowly thatched cottage, and her successor In turn be provided with a Queen Anne villa, and Elizabethan or Colonial mansion or an Italian palace. At the table of one the husband could obtain "plea like mother made," and at another's the most appetising appe-tising products of the chef's art. On parlor might have a mandolin to amuse him and another a mechanical piano-player. piano-player. The educational and -aesthetic advantage advan-tage of constant, association with a plurality plu-rality of wives appear infinite. And with a conscience set at rest by the "divine rev. elation" sanctioning it. the Mormon' lot may seem to be a happy one for the husband. hus-band. r 1 Philadelphia Inquirer: The gist of the evidence seems to show that, so far as hi Senate seat 1 concerned, Reed Smoot might Just aa well have bad all the wives he wants. |