The Mormon Bishop and the Gentile Perhaps this scene , sketched by our artist near Salt Lake City , accounts for the fact that the Mormons dislike ' Gentiles ' or only like them at a distance . The veils of the Mormon Bishops ' s wives are long and gauzy , giving them a sylph like airiness ; while , the mode in which they wear their shawls suggest that they had taken a fashion from the aboriginal squaws , not yet extinct in the neighbourhood . 1871