BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WIVESBEAN SOUP AND HARMONY.

Westport Times, Volume V, Issue 784, 4 March 1871, Page 3

BRIGHAM YOUNG'S WIVESBEAN SOUP AND HARMONY.

A Chicago exchange says : Another lady I met gave me a long and interesting account of Brigham Young's family. She knew fifteen of his wives, but did not know how many children he had. The wives all have different apartments, but are expected to meet their lord Brigham every night at prayers, after which they all shake hands with him and depart. If they want to see him for a social chat, they make some bean soup, (his favorite dish) which always secures him. The exact number of his wives it is impossible to tell. I have asked a great number of well informed mormons but they all say they do not inow. At the theatre last night I saw twelve of his daughters, and this dozen did not fill up one-fourth of the septs reserved for his family. The handsomest daughter, for short, is called " Punk. " She is a sprightly, handsome, well-formed, brighteyed damsel of seventeen, and now the old gentleman is absent, is having her full of flirting with the handsome gentlemen around the Gentile Cubernational office. She handled her opera glass with grace, and kept dodging about the theatre from one seat to another, to the evident disgust of four of President George Smith's wives, who occupied the lower circle. The other eleven girls kept quiet until the play was half over, when they all retired—a gentleman at my right said—for prayers.