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Identifier: mormonsorlatterd00mackrich (find matches)
Title: The Mormons: or Latter-day saints, with memoirs of the life and death of Joseph Smith, the "American Mahomet."
Year: 1852 (1850s)
Authors: Mackay, Charles, 1814-1889 Smith, Joseph, 1805-1844 Mayhew, Henry, 1812-1887
Subjects: Mormons
Publisher: London (ngram)
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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from first to last with more sportiveflourish than a school-boy whittling his shingle. Inside the camp, the chief labours were assigned to the women.From the moment, when after the halt, the lines had been laid, thespring-wells dug out, and the ovens and lire-places built, though themen still assumed to set the guards and enforce the regulations ofpolice, the Emjdre of tiie Tented Town was with the better sex. Theywere the chief comforters of the severest sufferers, the kind nurses whogave them in their sickness those dear attentions with which pauperismis hardly poor, and whicli the greatest wealth often fails to buy ; andthey were a nation of most wonderful managers. They could hardly becalled housewives in etymological strictness; but it was plain thatthey had once been such, and most distinguished ones. Their art availedthem in their changed affairs. With almost their entire culinarymaterial, limited to the milk of their cows, some store of meal or flour, HEROISM OF THE WOMEN. 209
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Mormon Mowers. anrl a very few condiments, they bronc);lit tlieir thousand and onereceipts into play with a success that outdid for tlieir famihes themiracle of the Hebrew widows cruise. They learned to make butteron a march by the dasliinoj of the wagi^on, and so nicely to calculatethe working of barm in the jolting heats, that as soon after the haltas an oven could be dug in the hill-side and heated, their well-kneadedloaf was ready for baking, and produced good leavened bread forsupper. I have no doubt the appetizing zest, their humble loresucceeded in imparting to diet which was both sim))le and meagre,availed materially for the health as well as the comfort of the people. But the first duty of the Mormon women was, through all changeof place and fortune, to keep alive the altar fire of home. Whatevertheir manifold labours fur the day, it was their eifort to complete themagainst the sacied hour of evening fall ; fur, by that time, all the out-workers, scouts, ferrymen, or bridgeme

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