. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . PTER VII. OUR WELCOME TO ZION. —UTAH IN EARLY DAYS. Our Welcome to Zion. — Housekeeping under Difficulties. — Our FirstHome in Utah. — The Second Wifes Baby. — The Young Mother.—A Very Delicate Position. — Doctors at a Discount. — Brighams Wifeturns Midwife. — An Obedient Woman. — Taking care of the Baby. —Practising Economy.— The Path of the Crickets. — Too much CrackedWheat. — Building the First Mill. — Brother Brigham Speechifi
. Wife no. 19, or, The story of a life in bondage : being a complete exposé of Mormonism, and revealing the sorrows, sacrifices and sufferings of women in polygamy . PTER VII. OUR WELCOME TO ZION. —UTAH IN EARLY DAYS. Our Welcome to Zion. — Housekeeping under Difficulties. — Our FirstHome in Utah. — The Second Wifes Baby. — The Young Mother.—A Very Delicate Position. — Doctors at a Discount. — Brighams Wifeturns Midwife. — An Obedient Woman. — Taking care of the Baby. —Practising Economy.— The Path of the Crickets. — Too much CrackedWheat. — Building the First Mill. — Brother Brigham Speechifies. —Tea at Five Dollars per Pound. — Californian Gold Discovered. — Build-ing up Zion.— Brighams Dress Reform. — A Rather Queer Cos-tume.— The Women Assert Themselves . — Clara Decker Rebels.—How the Prophet treats his Wives. — I ask for some Furs, and amSnubbed. — How the Prophet doled out his Silk.— Eliza Snow and Fan-nys Finery.—The Prophet Snubs Eliza. — He Combats the GrecianBend. — Dancing among the Saints. — Polygamy Denied. — How theSaints received It. — A Nice Little Family UR own imme-diate family werewelcomed byElizabeths par-ents, who hadgone on with thefirst body of theSaints, and wereliving as com-l~i\^ fortably as theycould under thecircumstances, inthe Fort. Wewere their guestsbut a short time ;then we movedinto a tent and our covered travelling-wagon, which consti-tuted our first housekeeping establishment in Utah. •J^B *^GREC»AN BETHD.* 124 TAKING CARE OF ELIZABETH. We were quite in the fashion, however, as nearly all ourfriends were living in the same way. My father commencedimmediately to build an adobe house, hoping to get us intoit before the winter set in. When it was finished it was re-garded with admiration, and ourselves with envy, since noone else had so fine a place. The reason of its superioritywas, that it was the second house in the place, and theother was a miserab
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