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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3504, 18 March 1880, Page 2

Speaking, of the feeling .of the Mormon ladies upon the marriage question, the Star gives extracts from the. writings of Mrs steahouse, and other ladiet acquainted with life in Utah. Describing a new marriage of the lord of the honse, a ludy says:—" After dinner, which dragged terribly, the bridegroom looking; very sheepish indeed, preparations were*, made for the opera. He placed his arm gently around the slender waist of his new bride, folded her cloak close to her form,. and drew her towards'him in light of his . wife and all the guests,. She responded.' to his caress with a tender glance, and the lady who describes the' scene noticed in - the first wife's pallid face a look of agonised endurance, minglejl with devilish. ■ malignity. When the. visitor expressed ■• her sympathy after the departure* of. s the bride and bridegroom, the first ••; wife replird: 'I am not jealous, but happy in this new love of my. husband. Our faith, teaches us to i. loro these sisters in marriage as our own flesh. This marriage is not an estrange*, ment of my husband's lore, as it would \ bo in an unsanctified Gentile, but a re* ' marriage to myself. In this marriage I , live OTer again my own espousal, my own bridal, and renew again the first sweets of married love.' When the other guests ' had gone, however, the truth came out unreservedly, 'I am most wretched. Between me and any celestial lights, or any glory or peace or consolation in this life or the world to v come, there stands that woman. Between me and all the lifcht of my religion stands that woman. This girl's face is hateful to me: that my husband should lore one for her mere beauty alone! My imagination cannot ' : be held back from all the soul-torturing, crucifying things which follow in the train of this marriage.' " '', ,