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Show ANTI-POLYGAM- 82 Woman as a Benefactress . MRS. WILSON. ( Continued .) Five years had accustomed the natives to the anomaly of teaching girls, and a somewhat better class than had at first attended were now to be seen congregated round their on th d teacher, seated floor, tracing their crabbed characters on a slate, or reading in sonorous voices the translations of the parables and miracles. Still none came, unless brought by the women who were employed to go the rounds of the bazar in the morning, and who received so much for each child; bribery alone ensured attendance, and none of the pupils re-- : mained more than two or three years at the most. As for the natives of the upper class, all attempts to gain a footing seemed to be total failures. The examinations of the school were attended by all the native gentlemen of rank who professed to take an interest in education, but none of them appeared to desire its benefits for his own daughters, though Mrs Wilson offered to attend them privately, when not engaged in the duties of the school. At length, the same rajah who had given the ground informed her that his young wife insisted on e had already learning English, learned to read and write Bengalee, d but as this did not satisfy her, Mrs. Wilsons services which were immediately given, and she found her pupil a very apt scholar, eager for information of all kinds. In the course of a few weeks, the lady succeeded in obtaining her husbands permission to visit Mrs. Wilson at the Central School and to be introduced to some more English ladies, who were delighted to receive their, distinguished visitor. She was very animated, and her extreme youth she was not more than sixteen gave a charm to features not distinguished for regularity. Secluded as her life had been the young creature was far from being timid. She was quite at her ease and ready to enter into conversation with any who understood Bengalee. She could not converse in English, but was proud of her acquirements in spelling and reading, and she informed the ladies that she had prevailed on the rajah to hear her repeat her lessons every evening. But alas, the lessons only continued a few weeks longer, for the rajah fell into disgrace, and this was the first and last pupil Mrs. Wilson had in the highes ranks. This disappointment, however, was more than compensated by the accomplishment of another scheme, perhaps more important for the amelioration of the native female character. We have said that the attendance of the day scholar seldom exceeded three years, and much as Mrs. Wilson desired to believe that the bread cast upon the waters would not be lost, no well authenticated evidence ever reached her that the school days produced any permanent effects, sufficient to counteract the superstition and ignorance with which her pupils were necessarily surrounded. But she had always cherished the idea of rearing some cross-legge- here-queste- -- Y children from their very infancy, uncontaminated by the evil examples of a native home, but it was not till just before she moved into the Central School that she had an opportunity of carrying Ik r plan into Her dnrzie (tailor) feelexecution ing himself dying, sent for her and implored her to take charge of his only child; he said he could not be a Christian himself but he wished his little girl to be one, and in the presence of his relatives he made her over to Mrs. Wilson. In a very few weeks, another orphan, totally destitute, was thrown in Mrs. Wil-,- s ins way, and about the same time she was requested to receive as a boarder a little slave girl, who was the charge of a lady whose health and position prevented her from caring satisfactorily for the poor little castaway. That there needs only u beginning was never 'more fully verified than in the case of the OrThat which for phan Asylum. several ) ears had been the wish of Mrs. Wilsons heart was accomplished in a few months, and she s.on found herself surrounded by iwenty-fiv- e dependent little creaiures. From the first, the orphans were trained to contribute by their labor to their own support, and they were never without large orders for worsted work which paid well. She was assisted by a young lady who had joined her from England, and before this noble girl fell a victim to the climate, some ot the elder girls under her tuition had become so expert in the use of the needle, (another innovation on the privileges of the male sex) that they were able to copy fancy work of all kinds, from the sale of which a considerable sum was realized yearly. CA1 the orphans, however, were not entirely dependent on Mrs. Wilson, many of them were boarded with her by persons who were only too thankful to find such a refuge for any poor stray sheep thrown upon their charity. Thus, one girl was the child of a wretched woman executed for murder, and the benevolence of the Judges wife kept her in the Refuge; another was a fine, handsome girl who had been stolen from New Zealand, and left destitute in the street of Calcutta. There was also one boarder of quite another class, the wife of a young Hindoo, who, while studying at Bishops College after his conversion, was anxious to rescue his young wife from heathenism, and placet her with Mrs. Wilson, to be educated as a Christian. . Continued) Characteristics of Mormon Polygamy. No. iv. Mormon polygamy is characterized by immorality and licentiousness in cause as well as in effect. It is a notorious fact, and we challenge a refutation, that a large per cent-ag- e of Mormon children and youth are precocious in a remarkable degree, and are entirely lacking in that simplicity and innocence which is an attribute of childhood almost the world over.' Some of them from infancy develop the lowest anc most depraved tastes, and are familiar with the vilest of pratices, STANDARD. but how can this be wondered at, well enough when it is lived properwhen men will live with different ly, although of course it is a great wives and raise several families of trial even then, but the majority of children in one room. Leaving the the men enter it from pure wickedchildren out of the question, such ness. .We shall have more to say on relations cannot help blunting the this phase of the subject at a future moral senses and destroying every time. vestige of womanly modestly and in the women themselves. ottscketpcrst Sorner. Even where outward circumstances do not outrage decorum so flagrantHousehold Hints. Grained wood is effect almost the the should be washed with cold tea. ly, precisely re-inem- ent -- same. How can a wife have those holy and tender feelings which should always be associated with the marriage tie, and which are inseparable from a true union, when she can speak, and to all appearances calmly, of her husband having gone to s ay with some of the other women. What ideas of home love and home associations can chil' dren have who talk about fathers week at the other house, and who discuss freely which woman is his favorite and which womans children he is most indulgent to and provides for the best, if he does provide for any of them. There are many Mormons who have, or pretend to have no doubts as to the divine origin of polygamy, who are free to admit, that the experiment has proved a failure in this day and generation, and who also acknowledge that numbers of the men only enter it for the purpose of pandering to their own base passions, and have no religious convictions whatever. The) also claim, at the same time, which is undoubtedly true, that many do practice it honestly and that their moral natures suffer necessarily as much as do the women, until association with the monster blunts their sensibilities, deadens their spiritual natures and quickens their animal propensities so that manliness and moral strength is entirely destroyed. Not long ago in visiting one of the settlements, we came in contact with a woman, a good Mormon, too, who expressed' to us very freely her views about polygamy, and the way it was practiced by some people. It is a divine institution, she said, but the majority of people make it a devilish one. Cut hot bread or cake with a hot knife, and it will not be clammy. Camphor, placed in drawers or trunks, will prevent mice from doing them any injury. Ceilings that have been smoked by a kerosene lamp should be washed off with soda water. Cayenne pepper blown into the cracks where ants congregate will drive them away. The same remedy is also good for mice. Furniture needs cleaning as much as other woodwork. It may be washed with warm soap-sudquickly wiped and then with an oily rubbed dry cloth. A nice soft soap for washing dishes can be secured by placing in an old dish (and occasionally adding water), all the scraps and bits of hard soap which are too small to use for washing. Uses of Stale Bread. i. Make a dressing of meat crumb it fine, turn hot broth over it, season, add butter and a egg, or more, acto cording quantity. 2. Make bread, pudding soak two hours in sweet milk, then beat eggs, sugar and spices and bake. I sometimes add fruit. 3. Make biscuit soak over night in sour milk, mash fine with the hand, mix in your buscuit for breakfast, adding salt, lard and soda. They are better than without the stale bread. 4. Make pancakes or gems soak over night in sour milk, add n eggs, corn meal and Graham flour to make a batter, and soda and salt, and bake on a griddle or in a gem pan. 5. Crumb fine and put them in the next omelet you make. 6. Toast your bread; seta pan of milk on the stove, but do not remove the cream from it ; add butter and salt, dip the bread in this and send to the table for supper or breakfast. 7. Crumb fine and put in your tomatoes when you are stewing them. 8- - Pound fine, season and roll oysters or fresh fish in them and fry in nice lard. Corn Starch Cake. The whites of six eggs, two cups powdered sugar, one cup of butter, one cup sweet milk, one cup corn starch, two cups flour and one even teaspoon baking powder. White Sponge Cake. The whites of ten eggs, one tumbler of flour, one and tumblers sugar, one teacream tartar rubbed in flour, spoonful beat the eggs thoroughly, then add sugar and flour; bake in long tin in quick oven. Eggs for Breakfast. Take four or five eggs, boil them three and a half minutes then take them out of the shell and beat them up in basin with pieces of butter the size of a quarter, salt and pepper to taste. After well beating, spread the mfxtureon hot buttered toast; place in a hot oven for about five minutes, and serve hot. Nf.w England Election Cake. Two cupfuls of sweet milk (warm), one small cupful of yeast, and two he; p rg cupfuls of sifted flour ; let it rise in a warm place over night, and in the morning add two cupfuls of sugar, one of butter, two eggs, and a heaping cupful of sifted flour. Let it rise again; when light, stir in one quarter teaspoonful of soda dissolved in a little water; three more heaping cupfuls of flour, two cupfuls of raisins, a little grated nutmeg, and a very little clove and cinnamon. Let it rise twenty minutes in the pan. s, well-beate- n well-beate- Now, when my husband took his second wife, he did it with my consent, for I knew it was done with pure motives, for religions sake, to build up his kingdom. He chose a sober, steady woman, who has brought up their children properly, and who has kept her place and never interfered with my rights and privileges. But, wIkhi he took the third, it was done for pure sensualism.; he was captivated by her pretty face, and she threw herself at his head, because he was the bishops son, and the old gentleman is said to be pretty well fixed, although, dear knows, there are plenty to share it when he is gone, for he has about twenty children. You should have seen the billing and cooing and the love making for a few months, it was perfectly disgusting not much religion about that. So, when he returned from Salt Lake, after being sealed to her, I bundled them out of my house pretty quickly, and the second wife, next door did the same, so he was forced to take her back to her mother until ho could provide a home for her. No, polygamy is Look qut fur A Wifes Martyrdom. a-h- alf |