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wore a calico sunshade, which she made herself.
Now she must have a bonnet.
A bonnet costs twenty dollars, and implies a shawl and gown to match.
A bonnet to one wife, with shawl and gown to match, implies the like to every other wife.”
This taste for female finery is breaking up the Mormon harems.
Even Jennings shrinks from the expense of dressing several fine ladies, and Brigham Young may soon be the only man in Salt Lake City rich enough to clothe a dozen wives.
No gathering of the Saints to Zion, no assertion of divine authority, can impede the action of this enemy of Brigham Young.
Women who dress like squaws may obey like squaws.
The sight of a pink bonnet wins them back into the world, and arms them with the weapon of their sex.
1875.
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