Show A LADYS LOGIC mrs beens a wife contrast Mimo eamy and MR EDITOR I 1 buea you will not be very much pleased to hear from me so again but I 1 really roust write to keep from worse than dying with the bluda my little babo has been quite unwell of late and I 1 hare been afraid that it would die its father my hua jeand still keeps up his habit of remaining but late nights and oc cassio nally he drink too freely KB usual hitherto and be leaves mo with he sick child to get along a beat I 1 can ohl if ever a IN POLYGAMY half the cruel pangs which my gentile hui banda wanton indifference brutal lust and ill con conjugal infidelity inflicts up onroe why I 1 do pity her from the very bottom of roy heart As I 1 have and rocking the izaby away into tho benall hours of the night turning over in my mind this question of mono gaius vs polygamy plural mar baa hitherto always been re bolting td my mind but I 1 have be think that perhaps I 1 con damned the principles upon which ita practice is properly founded when I 1 married I 1 felt that I 1 wanted ALL aco 1 idolized almost worshipped wor shipped espoused husband hd I 1 only adored my god with half the zeal and devotion of affection which agave the man I 1 should not now be so heartbroken and forlorn I 1 lived only for him who won my love and in tho cancy of my soul I 1 forgot the almighty and trusted my temporal temp pral and capace of one human being I 1 little of the obligations of maternity and my life found its center of gravity both its object arid reward in the wild indulgence of passionately MENT but yiew of my past terrible experience as abife I 1 am inclined to think that atia ish and sinful tov alao thea love of a husband abaye the love some people worship gold others are wholly devoted to the pursuit of fame and down to early iho excessive indulgence of an all absorbing ap petito or passion and when a wo man is entirely wrapped up in the sole possession of a hubband hua band she is actuated by feelings analogous to those which animate aliser or a devotee of worldly pleasure or glory THE LOVE OF A WIFE towards her mate ia only too often excessive and when it has engaged all the motives of her existence the faithlessness of her husband can ruin her happiness and crush out her dearest hopes forever but the principle of plural marriage conscientiously espoused would save thousands of women in monogamy from a fate like this as t seems to me now and yet a plural wife surely would love her husband with a purity and fidelity that mist wifehood can scarcely hope to know because a true husband with a plurality of wives has littleox litt leor temptation to violate hia marital vows and under the sublime faith inculcated by the mormon doctrines THE HALO OF ETERNITY with the endlessness of the conjugal relationship hallows and sanctities and exalts the union of husbands and plural wives beyond the reach of those domestic misfortunes which shatter so many hearts and disrupt such a multitude of homes throughout the christian world today to day in the plural relationship according to the mormon doctrines god still retains the happiest place even over the domestic alter primary purpose of marriage the begetting and rearing of children is not supplanted by matrimonial HARLOTRY as is the case in farto many christian bomea JL true woman who is capable of willingly and happily permitting her husband to consort with other wives for a pure and legitimate purpose raises above ordinary feminine weakness and from the very nature of her plural marital relationship she has a better opportunity to conceive and rear children without impairing her own he althor outraging some absolute laws of her sexual nature on the other hand it occurs to mo that who honestly and to support MORE wivel THAN ONE under the theory of plural mar riago according to the precepts of the gospel embodied in the mormon faith will find it easily possible to live a pure life and the sacred obligations of bis marriage covenants together with the manly exertion which the support of a larga family exacts must lead to to expand his soul in natural channels and make him moro true to every obligation of a HUSBAND AND FATHER although I 1 had never thought of it until lately it now seems clear to me that a plural arife i or at least may be more independent and true to the functions of motherhood than a monogamist spouse can possibly be at least from my own knowl edge of the conjugal status of dozens of christian and gentile wives here in ogden I 1 am convinced that monogamy ia largely a failure and if polygamy is not better god pity humanity the practice of monogamy in a host of cases which have coma under my observation hero has FOSTERED prostitution both in the brothel and in the home the excesses of husbands arc betrayed only too plainly upon the palo ballow faces of hundreds of gentile wives to whom abusive lust has brought nameless dread diseases well while I 1 have been writing this much my darling babe has been sleeping in my lap but it is waking now ita bright eyes are open it lifts its tiny hands as if in mute appeal for my carressa car resea I 1 kia 13 cherub lips the pen ia about to fall from my hand and I 1 will be wholly a mother again MRS NEGUS sept and 2nd 1885 brnoit tonquin aay that the treaty of tien ksinia a dead letter so far as the evacuation of the country liy the chincie la concerned the troops have refused to return to china 6 to disarm and are farming a aarone army of and prepare inato attack tho french |