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Show riates a man, and then he gets cross and disagreablo. When he has wives enough to fill nil his moods he's happy and so ure the wives. I've heard people bay plural marriage took the sentiment oufc of marriage. It does not. A man loves all his wives. He's not in love with just one of them. "The other women? Oh, they don't mind it; or, if they do, they do as 'other women' do in plural marriage and in singlo marriage. Men my dear, are not angels; they're rather troublesome creatures, crea-tures, but they're bearable when they're managed right. Plural marriage is the right way to manage man-age them. "Plural marriage 1 It is a blessing," bless-ing," said one Mormon woman. 'There were no homeless women when there were plural wives. There were no children sent out to beg, as I read of gentile children doing. Each wife had her place in the world, an honored place. Her sister wives respected and nearly always loved her. Plural wives were bound together by common interests. They nursed each other in sickness, and they comforted each other in sorrow. They lived in separate houses almost al-most always, but they were none Mormon Women's Views. "My dear," said one Mormon woman, "I am a fourth wife. I'm not going to talk to you about t he-religious he-religious part of our belief in plural marriage. You wouldn't understand. I'm going to talk plain English. I believe in it, because be-cause I tiiink it's better for women. When a woman's growing tired her children tugging at her dress for attention, she has no tim to the less of one family for that. Looked at from the merely worldly point of view, plural marriage was a great blessing. From a religious point of view there is no answering answer-ing its arguments. "Sentimental! We do not believe be-lieve in encouraging foolish sentiment. senti-ment. I do not deny that we first wives made sacrifices when our husbands chose a new wife. I do not say that we did hot have weak moments of regret" a spasm of pain passed over the woman's worn face "but," she said, her eyes lighting up with a sudden brilliancy, brilli-ancy, "we were sanctified by our sufferings. The gold must be tried by fire. Our women grow bother with a husband. She needs all her strength for her children. "You take a woman in the plainer plain-er ranks. Rich people can get along in any condition, plural or single; but you take a farmer's wife or a carpenter's wife. Now when her husband's around she's got to get three meals a day, the year round, sick or well, happy or blue. She's got to keep looking out for her husband. "Now, it comes pretty good to that woman to know that her husband hus-band is going to take a new wife, j She knows that he'll be taken up with the new wife for a while, and she can get a few minutes breathing breath-ing spell. Then, when tho first selfish and vain since the first divine di-vine institution of plural marriage has been frowned upon. They think of their own fcolish vanity and their own selfish feelings, instead in-stead of thinking of tho glory of a soul sanctified by suffering." From an article in the San Francisco Fran-cisco Examiner, by "Annie j Laurie." glamour of tho new wife is over, she and tho new wife will divide duties, and she'll go visiting and the new wife will come over and look after the children, and then, by and by she and the new wife learn about another and they breathe anotner sigh of relief, and they help the newest wife and she helps them, and life isn't all drudging and hard work. "Then, a man's better to his wives than ho is to one wife. If one of them is stupid he comes to her when he wants rest. When he's tired of rest snd wants amuse-i amuse-i ment ho goes to the wife who can talk and sing and dance. And he doesn't 'hetcher' cither of them into in-to misery telling her what she ought to be and isn't. "Men are many.sidod creatures. ; Women are one-sided. That ir- |