Show I I AMONG THE MORMONS I there thee is no end to bookmaking book making mak cing C I the english people are great book ma makers kers and book readers as are also their american cousin cousins and I the formans mormons Mor for NL mons and mormonism j isa se fruitful to which to write 11 by the book makers in all countries lady hardy a member of the I english aristocracy is a traveler and writer she has traveled across the american continent hag has noted I many things she has seen she has written and published them her ladyship as one of oilier her reviewers 41 observes is a keen observer I F I I k of men and manners she is a I pleas pleasant ant and an attractive writer during bc in this country bal I she came to utah and visited salt I lake and other cities in this territory in ili her volume of travels which hv has recently been published I in london her ladyship gives a bright pleasant description odthe of the capital of utah and the people of I that elf city Y believing it will be interesting to the readers of the HERALD to see how others see us we give a few extract aTrom her book which are 11 puna published ed in a london journal the 11 following is lady Ir hardys picture I of salt lake city the streets are all arranged in long straight rows and stretch away till they seem to crawl up the mountain sides and then are loston cither either side of or the roadways are magnificent forest trees which in summer time must form a most delightful shade though now it is autumn and the leaves are falling ilin g fast streams of water with their pleasant gurgling music flow on either side through a deep cutting which we should arrey brently call the gutter rushing along as though they were in a hurry burry to reach some everlasting se sea a the women come out with w ith their buckets and help them themselves while the children sail their toy boats clapping their hands bands gleefully I as the ille tiny craft is tossed tosse dand and tumbled and borne along on the face of the bubbling water street cars come crawling im aloag tile I astl straight abight streets crossing and nd 14 ing each other at different points but a private cab or carri carriage agG is rarefy to bo be seen every house be it only composed of a single room is is surrounded by br a plot of garden ground I WI where acre fruit flowers and vegetables all grow together in loving companionship ion ship everything seems flourishing and everybody seems well te to do there aro are I no signs of poverty anywhere no barefooted bare footed whining beggars fill the streets tramps trams there may be I passing I from one part of the state to another but these are all decently dressed aal and well fed for at whatever door they Z I knock they are sure to f find ind food and V I shelter charity to those in need be being n 11 a part of the reigning reli religion on the children who 81 swarm on alt sides are alie rosient rosiest ros pos iest happiest looking urchins conceivable some perfectly beautiful specimens of young humanity ono felt r sorry orry to think they must develop into the bewhiskered I man orbe frizzled woman there was not a pale or sickly face in all the I multitude I there are no sl signs of rank or fashion anywhere agns gns there cre are no drones I I low lounging aging about in this community I they are all busy bees every in man an aad and every woman too does his arher or her share in tho labor market all according to their special abilities and here it is the only true republic in america elsewhere it is the tile name and not the thing hero here republicanism exists in i y its genuine form it is not a commune and encourages no communistic communist le principles bero here every one must work uniting therein for the common good of all wealth represented by gold or other possessions is unequally distributed tri buted as iri III other larga large cities some live in large houses borne some in small some wear broadcloth some wear frie frieze e but the man who labors with hi shands and the man alao with hia his brain f those who plan and those who efte execute ute live together in in a common brotherhood for they are I I equally bell well educated and have ki V grown up in in or helped to make the world they live in the idle or the X dissolute are specially hunted out the community there Ther eisan is an equality in tone and manner among all conditions of people which strikes rather discordantly upon our ideas of the harmony of things but wo we soon get used to it we meet with a general pleasant courtesy which is never vulgar r r never over free there is a sense t rf of equality a sort of one man as good as another which is always felt though never obtrusively asserted t J while in utah h she was very curious to see and leam something of a the boru workings n gs of plural marriage I it appears that she was gratified to I I some extent below we give ive some k of heri her ladyships lady lidy ships observations on his this most interesting subject q 11 I have had tho the good fortune to get an insight into tte tho inner lives of the mormon wo have seen the skeleton grinning on their hearth I stones they are well cared for so far as creature comforts are concerned the wives of the tile wealthier classes have furnished houses 14 and devote themselves to the care and education of their children but he be who ia is the head cofone of one household today to day bangs up bis ht in another home tomor to mor row the ladies of refined cultivated Z minds and therease thera ther eare are mar many ay iy efthem of them I slave a patient waiting look upon their faces to toehold hold it seems as though the cross they carry is is sometimes heavier than they can bear my rema remarks do not apply a y in it I i jr I I I discriminate lv to all for hero arc many nany wives jhb are perfectly happy in in the tile poly camic state women to whom t tho to c children arc are thore than titan the husband whose material i instincts are much stronger than their neugal ax affections aliey bev live alife abife of daily crucifixion of spirit they suffer doubly as they are imbued with a strong sense of of religion ell gion and believe that polygamy 01 a my is is right indeed one of gots gods holy ordinances they are constantly constant engaged in m a spiritual warfare with and against themselves the mormon ladies are not tho the light minded sensuous race they are popularly supposed to be on the contrary they arc are crave gruve earnest women strong in t lie faith ith th they cy have been brought up in their brinds are completely under tho the control of their bishops and riders whoso choso words are to them as the written law of the tile lord loa it is not tobe to be expected th that lady atLady hardy can see mormonism in the light that mormons cormons Mor mons see it but sho she lias given as fair an account of the peep people le of utah and their religion as any outside writer on oil tho the subject which we have seen heretofore and which is far more creditable to her head and heart than the howlings oy of the religionists 15 in america who arc are constantly laboring for our extirpation I I the book is entitled through cities and frame prairie lands it is published by chapman hall london england |