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Show 794 -What happened?" Clare asked. "I mean, this home is beautiful, but..." "The others said no, that i t would be too difficult -- especially since some have children at home and some don't." "Well, they've lived that way before," I explained. "It worked just fine, but everything had to be so carefully organized, and no one could just relax and live by her own standards." I remembered tales I had heard of who took power and who didn't. Saul's big complaint was that he could have only one slice of bread per meal. My mother's comprint was that she could never find anything in the kitchen when i t was her turn to work. Clare was talking. "Your idea is much more sophisticated - the circular concept is more refined and highly-civilized, based on harmony." I thought of the beehive - Utah's emblem - and of the many comparisons between the industrious Mormon and the 'worker bee'. "The sharing of food and work goes with the sharing of one's husband and father. It's another principle that's supposed -be practiced with plural marriage. It's called the United Order. Plural marriage doesn't work too well without it." The new wife and I avoided each other's eyes. My father had tried to get his families to live the Order for years, and now was making one last-.attempt to get all volved. My mo the p u s h e d him to i t , pointing out how the financial inequities were destroying family harmony. After so many years of keeping quiet, she was at last learning to of the r. assert herself. But while manyWn voiced support the prospect o± * A • m u c h resistance, equality and fairness,* actually living ±o I wondered again why he vh,a dA +taoik<e-pnn mmoorree elements into his |