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scratched the bamyard faithfuily for the support of the brood. They tumed the house into an i m and, though it was but sparsely funiished, it was spotlessly clean as 1 know, for 1 sat part of the afternoon in the kitchen The wife who was busiest there had no children of her own, though one of the other wife's [children] had been given to and reared by her, and she had the neat kitchen strangely fumished. One end was carpeted with oilcloth, and in fiont of a window, full of scarlet geraniums, stood a table with a bnghtly polished telegraph apparatus; and, she turned from her stove and its pots and pans to her battery and clicking needlepoint without fluny or embarrassment. 1 asked her whether it had been hard for her to l e q for she was no longer young. She said, 'Yes', that her fingers were inflexible, and that it had been very hard to eyes unused to delicate sewing and ears unpracticed to listen to h e differences of sound, but the Lord had helped her, knowing MI. Hunt's [Lunt] need. She spoke of herself as a rough and uneducated woman, though 1 found she had an accurate ear for music and a lovely voice in singing. But, she had mastered her profession well enough to tell by ear what was going over the wires, and 1 believe that it is considered a tolerable test. 1like to see women telegraphing, it is dainty work well suited to our sex; and, on our Eastem roads, the officers te11 me that the women telegraphers are more steadily attentive to their duties than men and, of course, seldomer, 1 hope 1 may say, never stupefied with the fumes of tobacco or liquor. Their offices are cleaner too, and gay with flowers, and those who, for their sins, are compelled to wait for a train at a wayside station ofien appreciate this difference. -Sta, women yield to one dissipation men are less apt to n indulge i, and it was a charactenstic that betrayed the
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| Title | Henry Lunt: biography and history of the development of Southern Utah and settling of Colonia Pacheco, Mexico |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Subject | Lunt, Henry, 1824-1902; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Biography of Henry Lunt, including the early settlement of Cedar City, Utah and establishment of the Iron Works. |
| Source | Henry Lunt |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1996 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Contributors | Researched by: Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Publisher | Published by the author: Jones, Evelyn K. |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/lunt.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 1072.cpd |
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