Show A MORMON HOME round valloy or SCIPIO scipio Is the poorest and ind newest of the settlements we stopped ik it and has been much troubled with the indians the cormons mormons say troubled 11 1 t h indians as wa we might say troubled with kith 1 t h mosquitoes no one had been killed for four fou r yea years rs back tb though ough cattle had beell been driven off that year we were told the bishop came riding out to meet us no i handsome kindly faced man mounted on a horse that moved T s admiration we were taken to the house of his second vire wire a little one roomed lo 10 log g cabin wl witha wilha th a leanto lean to behind in which the cooking was lone ione lone ione the living room was given up to us its ita main gloy consisted irk in a wide chim claim ney place on whose hearth a fire ot of great nine aine logs blazed that serit sent a ruddy glow iven iver the whitewashed white washed logs of the wall wali and lle ile lie ae canvas belling cel ling and penetrated every erncr of the room with delicious light md ind warmth there was a substantial sub bub in one comer comet and curtains of iid ild ld fashioned chintz were tacked from he belling around it as if it had been it a our poster and amaat a jiwat patchwork coun erbane covered the seft soft featherbed feather bed A rag carpet wai wah was on the floor clean curtains hung at the windows and lean white covers coter eded edged with knitted lice fice the various bracket shelves that ap ported the house lifes bible book of formon ormon workbasket work basket lookingglass looking glass and few simple ornaments tw two or three i retty good colored prints hung on the valls vails then there was a mal mai mahogany logany bu eau baua a wasll wasil washstand stand a rocking chair and aalf a dozen asies with a large liest on which the owners name nama was aln lin minted aIn ted oddly enough it was the same as hat of the notorious blonde leader of a ham Lam eless troupe the emall email round table ras already spread for our supper with ekes akes preserves and pies ples and the fairly fair L 1 la was bp busily ally enga engaged ed in bringing I 1 in nho aho hot hoi yi oils meat tes tea and other good things in while ft miniature of herself still fairer and rosier about wo years old trotted beside her now endeavoring id tf rc rd ar arran ranc rane q the table by iry up upsetting settin and nd now making shy overtures or of friendship to rny irly boys with the assistance Istance ol of a lluc blue rih dih boned yellow kitten after our tea was over the husband bishop came in from lils liis other and with wife and babu bahu withdrew toi tol to 11 lp to meeting leaving us in sole coie possession 01 I 1 of the house wo heard heird no io bound sound tid of bf their entering reentering re till morning when the host cam in ta 0 o rou mouse rouse c up the shouldering fire firc I 1 have aye given thi ims s minute description of ail jho aho furniture of the man slon blon of which I 1 was housekeep housekeeper eg for twelve hours because it was a fair specimen of many luany of the humbler homes I 1 visited io utah I 1 lavo havo u already marked marred upon their unusual cleanliness and havo have now only to note the tho absence of the tha colored prints of roily olly 11 2 sour Zour mahal mahai ac la in halt dress cornmon mo n elsewhere the nent next time I 1 visited scipio was just nt at the tho breaking up of winten winter snow lay deep on the heights and in ehl the narrow canons and round valley valler was an almost almot impassable quagmire of half frozen mud acain again and ind again the horses stopped and anit stood with drooping heads and an an air nit that said 1 I really have taken the last laa step now im going to lie lle down and again and again they were weno coaxed nor for il r ward at a slower than funeral pace leforc defore we finally halted in front of bishop p thom sons dons our oun pretty hostess aunt lydia 41 was sich sick a little girl said opening the gate gat g into the edco epco sure in which both bobb houses blood and mother e expected us this time tsi tys 1 the door was opened to admit us by a slender cic cle elegantly dressed joun jonn lady glady mrs thompson I 1 inquired esita asila tip tib tingly no she answered smiling and blushing 1 I am only a guest like ilke yourself airs 1 rj thompson it mill III ili be here ina lna in a moment sister lydia Is eick sick and mrs thompson thought eoina been baking in would tempt he her appetite 46 6 she hab hah run xan across with them herc here bhe she sister loraina lorain thompson looked me ilke in an elder sister glater of 61 mrs lydias lydiab Lyd las iab but was no rell reil relation she shie bad had a large larre family 0 of children but seem seemed ednot not in the least disconcerted 1 by the addition to her household of 0 our irl ilu fellow guest ablest her ber husband and habr baby though although ul she had to entertain ain air staines fairles S and young kimball also and ird t carlt for the invalid my husband now entered with mr lir joseph sep liALI A young and bl his hib 4 brother mah Mab mahonri onri who had joined volnea us the day before and taking a wee nee baby from froin the arms of atle lady who had opened tha the door dood and aud anaw TV horm homm ho in ho bo introduced as his wife mr lir doting young presented the infant io fo T as his namesake paa pam eake eare they had come across from the country to see sec ris babylas baby was taking its ita prat jurney in the open air or it was w asa a bright lively little thing and lay on my knea knee baskins id ln the warm thoC the fire as the elders sat talking in one room loom while mrs thompson prepared supper in the other she had a youn yonn girl to help her but more than all nil she had faculty 31 and her hed meals were served with as ag much muck much heat beat in them and coolness in hersel herself ras fas as it if she had not both her rooms tilled fd ledwIth with guests cuesta and children when I 1 recollected haw many bowls and pans and plates luse when I 1 try to make cake and what a mess of sticky things I 1 leate leave leat lear the cook to clear away I 1 could not but buts express my wonder at her deft ways she Sha came in after her tea things were washed tip and sat bat beside me with her knItt knitting she latiz latic laughed hed bed when I 1 praised her saying baying that it ibb was no nd wonder I 1 hid had a girl to help her these three weeks I 1 bu hut but she ahe she levei never found the children in n her way they were a heip aliola and so they were the little eldest un the younger ones for bed or waiting it at table ing directions they vord word well trained as well as healthy rosy children and ana a little creature who could scarcely sat on my rny knee and ca rolled like adark larr lark up in the morning early and I put yut me ilmy in my little bed a still younger baby nodding an accompaniment with alth quite a good g notion this mrs urs thompson had grown up in the mormon falth faith oue oae friendt friend 1 told me her mother died during daring the exodus and sho gho then a mere child had taken caro care of her younger brothers and ti al stena stera and managed a her fathers house wagon hold 11 I 1 suppose up pose one should cabrit without a ald aid id from any one indeed she continued to be her fathers father 6 right hand until her marriage perhaps the ri korous rigorous training of circumstances in her y auth made hereon her hen con sidn sidor what I 1 thought such hard berd work easy when it was conein done in barown her own home working for her own om children and her pleas ant faced hus husband barid ought I 1 to despise that woman she certainly came up to 8 lon ion lo inong ions lons long ideal ot of a virtuous wife you would have despised her less it if you had felt the difference between her lou iou household Ou Behold and that of another woman at whose stronghold of freedom I 1 halted the day afterwards aftem ards above her house wage waie was exalted malted a pole bearl beading bearing nga bo 4 lid on which was waa painted old boor bun segars 11 upon the roof root lay old boots amt ami shoes ic a to be reduced to the rank of fertilizers tili but giving token of what was to be seen inside en the cabin I 1 found thattie that the dirt begrimed window prevented the household from rice dinga dinZa and the smoke blackened logs bf wall and g were in keeping with the unmade bed and its tattered hannings hangings hang ings Ther thene was waa a very pretty baby here too which lay in its cradle and looked at me in silent wonder the mother did no more she neter never me a seat nor the th ri aurb t f i ter I 1 had to ask for and I 1 help myself e to merely remarking that she i klu kiu of a paca wace for folks to come into her girl girt had left the place three weeks a ago ngo 0 o j andade and sic sac wan alt going goins to io stay st ty among the mormons cormons if she could get her husband to quit ault and go among among christian folks she supposed of course that sho was ivas rude rade to a ator Alor woman womac in ine rue ruc and I 1 confess that I 1 didiot claim heradia her asb abb ash chris chrls uart tian sister of course tl it would be lle as iiii unfair fair t 6 0 select such a wife as a specimen of gentile pioneer females as tha energetic afta and ac tite tiye mrs thompson of the average of mormon women ill ili health or indolence and aud cheerful activity ane anc to net nel neither orthodoxy nor y but a religious religions faith that animate the MG w whole hol hoi be inc inu enabling a woman vroman to be bli cheerful la in of adverse circumstances bushi ous hi spite of and tind her neighbor and showing erl eri owin it ly by charity in a word and duct th alts s ralth raith abote above doctrine I 1 11 I 1 nye nyc found roun d Q ite tte ite is as dotted agnoli among ivl ivi mormon ormon as amen amans z ott oti r Christ christain fin lin women twelve stai siai moa mon bomes homes vyv by ft lad fad II |