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OUR GIRLS.*

Ox Friday, July 29th, in company with Sister Elizabeth Howard, I left Salt Lake to make a short trip through Southern Utah in the interest of the various Associations of Women.

We arrived at Salina the afternoon of the same day, and were met by Brother Baker of Richfield, who kindly took us over to that place that evening. We went to the home of Brother Geo. Bean, who, with his wife gave us a very cordial reception. The next day we spent in visiting with some of the sisters, until evening, when we held a Suffrage Meeting which was well attended, there being a number of gentlemen present.

Mrs. Celia Bean, the President of the Suffrage Association, is a very bright, energetic, sweet, womanly woman, and to her earnest efforts, no doubt, is due much of the thrift of the Suffrage Association of Richfield.

Sunday we atttended the general sacrament service, after which the Relief Society and Y. L. M. I. A. held a meeting conjointly. There was a large attendance of both old and young, many coming from the surrounding settlements, and we can truly say the Spirit of God. was in our midst, inspiring both speakers and hearers; testifying of His goodness to us, and causing us to resolve in our minds to live nearer Him and forsake everything evil.

After meeting we had many requests to go to some of the near settlements and hold meeting but as there was a team waiting to take us to Panguitch we were obliged to decline with regrets.

Words can hardly express our thankfulness to the people of Richfield for their extreme kindness and attention to us, especialy Brother and Sister Bean: their hospitality will, I trust, ever be remembered and appreciated by us.

The next morning Brother Lewis came to take us to Panguitch, a distance of ninety miles south. We traveled as far as Junction the first day, stopping over night at Brother John Morrill's. He and his wife were very kind to us, and were very desirous to have us remain and hold meeting there. Several of the sisters called to see us during the even ing.

Tuesday morning we started early and arrived at Panguitch about 6:30 p. m. We were driven to President J. W. Crosby's where we were entertained while in that place.

Wednesday morning and afternoon held Relief Society meetings. In the evening a young ladies' meeting. The meeting house was well filled with both men and women, and we had a most enjoyable time. The Spirit of the Lord was manifest in an untold degree.

All communications from the members of the Y. L. M. 1. Associations to this department should be addressed to Mrs. Elmina S. Taylor, 158 W. Third South St., Salt Lake City. The address of the Secretary of the Central Board of the Y. L. M. I. A. is Annie M. Cannon, Folsom's Avenue, Salt Lake City, Utah.

Thursday morning we attended Fast meeting and in the afternoon held a Primary meeting, a large number of children being present, also many of the parents, and all seemed to enjoy meeting together.

While in Panguitch we visited many of the sisters, and the enjoyable time we had among them more than repaid us for the long journey we had taken.

also met a number of old time friends, which added greatly to our pleasure. Friday Brother Crosby again kindly furnished us a team, and the same careful, good-natured Brother Lewis to take us over to Beaver--40 miles to attend the laidies' conference there. We arrived at our destination at 5:30 p. m. and drove to President White's. His wife gave us a cordial greeting and we shared their hospitality while in Beaver. Held three meetings on Saturday, Relief Society morning and afternoon, and Primary in the evening. The next morning, we attended Sunday School, and were well entertained in listening to the exercises, particularly the singing. The juvenile choir is most excellent, ands hows careful training. Sunday, in the afternoon, attended a funeral, and in the evening the Y. L. and Y. M. Associations held a conjoint meeting. There was a short programme, after which the time was occupied in speaking.

The next day we were taken to Kanosh-50 miles-where we met the sisters from Fillmore, who were holding meeting there. In the morning attended a Primary, then drove ten miles to Meadow

and held a meeting with the Y. L. and Primary associations. In the settlements quite a lively interest is taken in mutual improvement. Drove to Fillmore the same evening, and were the guests of Sister Martha Robinson. Wednesday we held three meetings. Thursday the young ladies met in conference, and in the afternoon the Primary. All these meetings were well attended, and a very enjoyable time was experienced by all.

Sister Robinson did everything in her power for our comfort and happiness while there. The same evening we drove to Holden--10 miles and held meeting. There, as at all the other places, we enjoyed that Spirit from which flows all truth, and a sociable, delightful time was enjoyed. Friday morning we traveled to Scipio and held two meetings, primary in the morning and young ladies' in the afternoon. A goodly number were present and all seemed well pleased and satisfied with having met together.

I cannot speak too highly of the hospitality of the people where ever we went, and the good Spirit which attended our labors. In every place the presidents of stakes and counselors, and bishops and their counselors attended our meetings, which was a great help and encouragement to us.

Saturday we returned to Salt Lake, in good health without accident, having held sixteen meetings, and trusting that we have accomplished some little good. ADDELLA EARDLEY,

Aid to the Presidency of Y. L. M. I. A.

YOUNG WOMAN'S JOURNAL.

ORGAN OF THE Y. L. M. I. ASSOCIATIONS.

VOL. IV. SALT LAKE CITY, NOVEMBER, 1892.

ZINA YOUNG WILLIAMS CARD.

No. 2.

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OUR PICTURE GALLERY.

ZINA YOUNG WILLIAMS CARD. THE subject of this sketch was born April 3rd, 1850, in Salt Lake City, being the only daughter of her mother, Sister Zina D. Young, and although one of the many daughters of President Brigham Young, she was none the less his beloved and prized child. Who that remembers the childhood and youth of this gifted girl will fail to recall the restless, dancing feet, the quaint questions forever bubling on the laughing lips, the sweet voice, always her greatest charm, trilling and caroling for very joy of living? She

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gnomes blue-eyed, silver-tressed
fairy queens, and brown-eyed,
curly-haired princes? Zina's
princes were always dark-eyed
and curly haired. Was there a
general stampede for our inner
bed-chambers? You
may be
assured it was with a thunder
shower which drove us indoors
or it was the tale of the crying
panther, and the yellow-eyed,
fierce wild-cat. Told by whom,
these stories? By that arch-magi-
cian, Zina. God bless her. No
one ever caught her in a mean or
ill-natured trick. Whose ghost
stories was it that peopled the
long, dark old garret with a thou-
sand hobgoblins, and made every
flower of the field a retreat and a
chariot for the tiniest of beauti-
ful spirits? The first buttercup
that peeped its dainty cup over
the brown lips of the cold March
earth was always Zina's prize;
others might find them afterwards,
but she found as if by
occult floral instinct, the first,
rare, golden prize. But there, this
is not writing a dignified sketch.
of my sister, it is just a rambling
back over the memory meadows
of childhood, and I must try to be
proper and dignified.

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wonderful in their variety and lack of utility; she first made. whole armies of paper dolls with wardrobes of bright colored dresses; who but Zina planned. and executed the magnificent pageants with which some hapless rag baby was consigned to stepmother earth? And whose hands but hers designed the delightful grass homes by the brook for the tiny china dolls which were such a rarity that they were usually owned by a small syndicate? Who did not feel grandly elated when chosen to be "Zina's girl?" Did we lie awake on the long upper porch in the sweet, starry summer nights? Whose stories of fairy life were richest in web and woof of magic carpets, frightful pretty, simple maiden she looked

When she, this sister of mine, was about sixteen, she was allowed by our indulgent father to gratify her instinctive love of the drama, by appearing on the stage of the Salt Lake Theater. What a

in the "Youth Who Never Saw a Woman," with her white swiss muslin frock modestly down to her shoe tops, and her long, fine, perfectly straight hair braided in two glossy braids upon her shoulders? How like a bird she looked when Sarah Alexander, who was the unlucky youth of the farce, put his head out of the rickety stage window, and calling the white robed maiden a bird, flung out grain to entice her, chirruped in delighted tones, "birdie! birdie?" Again, in the "Lost Child," who but she could have kept her face straight when the baby she brought out upon the stage caught sight of its mother in the front and electrified the audience by calling loudly for "Mamma, mamma?" Alas, the white muslin frocks and the thinly shod feet were too great a risk to run for the nervous, delicate constitution; her health was completely broken up never to be entirely recovered.

She was married to Brother Thomas Williams in 1868 in plural marriage. That is, she was the second wife. Never lived a more devoted wife, nor has this world ever produced a better, wiser mother than has this dancing, laughing girl proved to the two boys born before the death of her husband in July, 1873. Zina has preached the worth and beauty of plural life in the best possible way, by living it in the purest and noblest manner.

In the year 1878, one year after the death of her idolized father,

Zina came down to Provo and began attending the Brigham Young Academy. She intended to take up the course in literature but no sooner had she got fairly settled than our dear Principal settled her future labors. He needed her every day, every hour to assist him; and as usual she put aside her own selfish desires and allowed her course to be marked out by Brother Maeser. First the young ladies were graded and arranged in classes, with Sister Zina at the head or matron. She had charge of every girl monitor and to her was confided the whole spiritual welfare of these daughters of Zion. Then the Primary department was put under her, as her ability to control and teach children was and is something marvelous. But there was something yet; towards the close of the first semester, the inspiration to begin the work of manual training for girls was given to Brother Maeser, and at once he placed this mighty burden upon the capable shoulders of Sister Zina. I have persuaded her to write me a few details of the matter, and will add them to this article. But what words can I choose to tell the powerful influence exerted by this charming. woman upon everyone who came within the circle of her presence? She was to the girls what Brother Maeser was to us all-sister, mother, friend, lover, counselor and guide. Hundreds will read these words and echo this tribute of worth to the good done by

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