History of Utah, 1540-1886 - Brigham Young University

580 POLITICAL, SOCIAL, AND INSTITUTIONAL.
scape. The fields were billowing with grain, the
cattle sleek and thriving, the barns well filled, the windmills
buzzing merrily. Nevertheless, among these
smiling settlements a painful deficiency might be
noticed. Everything that industry and thrift could
accomplish had been done for the farm, but nothing
for the home. Between the houses of the poor and
the rich there was little difference, except that one
was of logs and the other of boards. Both seemed
like mere enclosures in which to eat and sleep, and
Salt Lake City in 1860.
around neither was there any sign that the inmates
took a pride in their home. One might pass three
dwellings enclosed by a common fence, and belonging
to one master, but nowhere could be seen any of those
simple embellishments that cost so little and mean so
much—the cultivated garden plat, the row of shade
trees, the rose-bush at the doorway, or the trellised
creeper at the porch.
The city itself wore a different aspect. The streets,