A PRUDENT MORMONESS.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3506, 20 March 1880, Page 1

A PRUDENT MORMONESS.

She was buxom, healthy, and did not exceed 25, and was probably the favourite wife of half a dozen women who had been sealed to one lusty man, and by reason of her leading position in the family had been selected to accompany her lord on his dickering trip to a Gentile community. Truck had evidently found a good market, and a portion of the profits had fallen to her share. Armed with coin and attracted by a costume that adorned a dummy on the side walk, she had invaded a prominent dry goods store, had the suit brought in, found the price satisfactory, and was chaffering with the clerk for a t reduction of six bits in the price. '" 'Pears to me she remarked - " that there isn't enough goods in the back breadths, and its narrer 'cross the buzzum I'll try this suit on and if it fits there'll .be a sensation in St. George the Sunday after this team gets back." The clerk suggested the.private room in the rear of the store, where the experiment could be made in due seclusion. "No private room for me," was the reply. " I've been in towns afore now, and although I'm of six, I've got a reputation to look out for. "Sou turn your back and pick out the purtiest figger in that pile of calikur, and I'll take the measure of this dress before you can make up your mind." "But madam," said the astonished clerk, " customers may come in ; the streets are in full view; the situation is too exposed for toilet purposes, and," becoming desperate he stammered out that " the retiring room in the rear was the proper place." " If you can afford to lose this trade, all right; but my husband has warned me about the temptations of dry stores, and I don't intend to give him or his wives any handle on me; not this trip, anyhow. Them other five is mighty hard to keep down now, and this yere dress is going to make me as much trouble in the family as I keer about. But, mister, ye seem to be kinder modest, and I'll just step behind that pile of goods on t'other counter, if that suits you." The embarrassed tapemeasurer was fain to give consent, and rushed to the door while the transformation was being made. Much to his relief no other customer dropped in, and a load was taken off his breast when the fair Mormon, clad in her purchase, called him and asked him what sort of an impression that dress ought to make in St. Gaorge. Being assured that the fair sex of that place would die with envy she planked down 7 dol. 50 cents and sailed out in search of the male head of the family. There will be war in that Mormon home when she blooms out in the latest style, and the old. man will have to grasp the reins with a pretty firm hand to stein, the _ current of jealousy that will invade the domestic circle on his return to his multitudinous home.-—Eureka (Nevada) Leader.