BRIGHAM YOUNG'S HOUSEHOLD.

Otago Witness, Issue 1189, 12 September 1874, Page 21

BRIGHAM YOUNG'S HOUSEHOLD.

Mrs. Ann Eliza Young, Brigham's wife, gave in a recent discourse the following interesting account: —ln the President's household they have what is called ration day. Once a month each family receives five pounds of sugar, one pound of candles, a bar of soap, and a box of matches. The lecturess emphatically stated that she never received £800 a year, as has been reported. The rule with all the Prophet's wives—except the favourite-is that all food beyond the plainest fare, and all olothina:. except what nature demands for the protection of the person, the wife is expected to provide for herself and children. Brigham once remarked to the leoturess that he was ashamed to own his wives and children because of their frivolity in dress. She said to him : " You dress in the finest cloth, cut in the latest style. Why is it worse for them than youiself ?" He said he did it to please his wives—not because lie liked it. Brigluun promised his wives £250 a year pin-money, and a good ho»"e, but they get neither. The lecturess here details how the Prophet sent her mother away from her, and subjected her to menial labour. She had bated Brigham from the day he had mentioned her mother's going. She was then neglected, insulted, and humiliated in every way. The speaker said that while Brigham was paying his attentions to her ho was addressing another lady, near her age. He married that lady about six months before he married the lecturess. After marriage she went out with him perhaps half-a-dozen times during the first two years, but never after. Sometimes he would not come to her house for two or three months at a time. She had no one to take care of her when sick except tj^ir mother. She was lonely, desolate, miserAle, tied to an old man who grudged her every farthing she had. ♦