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Show Payson, Utah - the Home of the Tanners Mary Jane's description of their abandoned cabin is fascinating. The roof was of small cleaning and 189 patching up the poles covered with willows and straw, and a on it, packed so hard it did not leak, but great depth of dirt laid it made at our a fine home for the mice which made themselves merry expense. Ma gave me one of her bedsteads which my father had made. It was planed and morticed and nicely put together, but it had been taken apart so much for the purpose of scalding bed bugs that it was getting dilapidated. one The bedstead Jane had received from her Ma was a rather fancy for the time; most folks made them by sawing off two poles to the proper length, boring holes through them, and lacing them with rope. Jane explains that those made with ropes were more comfortable than the later ones which used slats. Mary Jane's journal was written for the benefit of her children, and lest they get the notion she was complaining about the dirty little cabin and the poor furniture, she explained: How little is necessary for happiness! It may benefit my children when they feel to complain. We soon found that we were better off than our neighbors, for we had plenty to eat.'! I was content and happy; for happiness does not depend on rank or station, but buds and blossoms in the heart. and Jane bought the cabin they were living in and made But before they got around to it, Myron changed his mind and decided to build near the herd grounds three miles from Myron to build. plans town. Jane felt a little out of place in Payson, as she was of used to a social life she did not find there. On the twenty-fourth July, in a wagon came serenading; it was not much of a band, and Jane was not impressed with it. She went into the house and had a little cry. She was having a hard time adjusting to the primitive life in Payson; in Salt Lake there were social and cultural activities. some men In the afternoon there was a picnic under the Bowery, and she did not want to go, "but Myron said I must go and make friends of the people I had come to live among. "12 |
