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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.

—a radical reform in his peaceable and conservative principality . He summoned the officers of his Court together , ( the Board of Pink Cloth , ) he determined to hold and did hold , in the ancient language of the legal documents , ( borrowedapparently , like a neAV fashion

, from Paris , ) " a bed of justice , " and propounded his intention of dressing all his Courtiers in nankeen small-clothes . He had seen nankeen for the first time in London , and took a wonderful fancy to it . This was henceforth to be the dress " de

rigueur " for the Court . The old nobility and the " gens de la Cour , " loudl y objected . Some of them were old , some of them were thin ; some of them were fat , some of them Avere knock-kneed ; some disliked change , many suspected foreign interests ; while not

a few even went so far as to say that the Jesuits had a " finger in the pie . " And thus began that famous feud which convulsed the little Court and principality for many months . Parties Avere formed , and chiefs elected . There were three parties mainly . The young and ardent , ( if not verdant , ) who went gallantly for the " small clothes ; " the timid and the old

who suggested " en pantalon ; " while the " great middle class , " of the independent and the educated , asked both for liberty of conscience and fulness of trousers . It was then that "Gaetano Paesiello , " our hero ' s father , threw his great weight into the scale of the " via media" and

, declared for the unfettered rights of the country and people—in the full , free , comfortable , easy-going , neatly-fitting , nankeen trousers . And such a moderate and sensible view of course prevailed , and for a long time such was the normal

regulation of that Court and Principality . Probabl y , in the changes of Italy , that little free spot has been swept away and absorbed , ( that is the correct word , ) and those old customs with it ; but , at any rate , numerous tracts are extant—in the

British Museum , and the Library of the Vatican—to demonstrate the vivacity and bitterness of the contest , the eloquence of opposing patriots , the unanswerable arguments of the pamphleteers , and the greatness of the question , and of the victory ! Benedito was happy in having an educated woman for his mother , who encouraged him in his studies , ancl lauded

his acquirements . For Benedito was always a lover of books , and : under that sunny clime , and amid scented Orange groves , surrounded by the songs of birds aud the perfume of flowers , he mastered the great principles of a serene and

practical philosophy , Avhich he never lost , Avhich he never forgot , amid the trials of later years , in the " tourbillon" of earthly society . He often used to say to himself and to his intimate friends in later times" I never can forget Avhat I OAve to

, an interest Avhich never ceased , to an intellect Avhich was ever active , to a wit which was ever pleasant , and to a sympathy which Avas ever abounding ! " We hardly often here realize , it appears to meAvhat Ave OAve to the mother ' s

in-, fluence , to Avoman's directing will , or intellect , or cleverness—her ceaseless kindness , sympathy , and love ! For woman , strange in her psychology , and differing vastly from man , is , no doubt , in the good Providence of God , mindful when man is

oblivious ; careful Avhen man is reckless ; pitying when man is contemptuous ; just when man is hasty ; loving when man is indifferent ; and conscientious when man is lax .

Some of our greatest heroes , many of the human " idols " of admiring generations , owe the very " contour , " so to say , of their characters , the great " primum mobile " in them of all that is good , true , admirable , heroic , to the tender nurture , the true heartthe wise aphorisms of the

, mother , or the female ! Yes , the female , often doubted , not unfrequently condemned , but still , as God ordained , is man ' s helpmeet ever here , a truth Ave sometimes lose sig ht of , and around her innate tendernesstruthfaithand love

, , , , circle , if I may so say , all the virtues of life , all the visions of the good , the beautiful , and the true ! Poor Benedito lost his father through an attack of malaria , and his mother , after a feAV years peaceful Avidowhood passed

aAvay , too , amid the tears and regrets of her son , leaving him just twenty-one , friendless , to Avage life ' s Avar comparatively all alone , for his relatives Avere sparse , and his acquaintances Avere feAV . Thus often ends the dream of life , when all seems fairest and brightest now . The blue sky becomes overclouded in a moment , the sea rises ,

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Untitled Article 1
PREFACE Article 2
INDEX. Article 4
Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 7
SONNET. Article 7
HISTORY OF THE "PRINCE OF WALES LODGE." Article 8
SUMMER. Article 18
THE ADVENTURES OF DON PASQUALE. Article 19
TRAM-CAES AND OMNIBUSES. Article 22
WONDERS OF OPERATIVE MASONRY. Article 24
THE TRUE FREEMASON. Article 26
TOM HOOD. Article 27
IN MEMORIAM — BRO. GEORGE FRANK GOULEY. Article 30
THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION. Article 32
CARA IMAGO. Article 33
HARRY WATSON; Article 34
EVERY YEAR. Article 36
THE WORK OF NATURE IN THE MONTHS. Article 37
BRO. JAMES NEWTON'S SKETCH OF THE CONCORD ROYAL ARCH CHAPTER, No. 37, BOLTON. Article 41
"ABSENT FRIENDS." Article 42
SHIRTS AND COLLARS. Article 43
Our Archaeological Corner. Article 46
A Review. Article 47
NOTES ON LITERATURE, SCIENCE AND ART. Article 50
Forgotten Stories. Article 53
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The Adventures Of Don Pasquale.

—a radical reform in his peaceable and conservative principality . He summoned the officers of his Court together , ( the Board of Pink Cloth , ) he determined to hold and did hold , in the ancient language of the legal documents , ( borrowedapparently , like a neAV fashion

, from Paris , ) " a bed of justice , " and propounded his intention of dressing all his Courtiers in nankeen small-clothes . He had seen nankeen for the first time in London , and took a wonderful fancy to it . This was henceforth to be the dress " de

rigueur " for the Court . The old nobility and the " gens de la Cour , " loudl y objected . Some of them were old , some of them were thin ; some of them were fat , some of them Avere knock-kneed ; some disliked change , many suspected foreign interests ; while not

a few even went so far as to say that the Jesuits had a " finger in the pie . " And thus began that famous feud which convulsed the little Court and principality for many months . Parties Avere formed , and chiefs elected . There were three parties mainly . The young and ardent , ( if not verdant , ) who went gallantly for the " small clothes ; " the timid and the old

who suggested " en pantalon ; " while the " great middle class , " of the independent and the educated , asked both for liberty of conscience and fulness of trousers . It was then that "Gaetano Paesiello , " our hero ' s father , threw his great weight into the scale of the " via media" and

, declared for the unfettered rights of the country and people—in the full , free , comfortable , easy-going , neatly-fitting , nankeen trousers . And such a moderate and sensible view of course prevailed , and for a long time such was the normal

regulation of that Court and Principality . Probabl y , in the changes of Italy , that little free spot has been swept away and absorbed , ( that is the correct word , ) and those old customs with it ; but , at any rate , numerous tracts are extant—in the

British Museum , and the Library of the Vatican—to demonstrate the vivacity and bitterness of the contest , the eloquence of opposing patriots , the unanswerable arguments of the pamphleteers , and the greatness of the question , and of the victory ! Benedito was happy in having an educated woman for his mother , who encouraged him in his studies , ancl lauded

his acquirements . For Benedito was always a lover of books , and : under that sunny clime , and amid scented Orange groves , surrounded by the songs of birds aud the perfume of flowers , he mastered the great principles of a serene and

practical philosophy , Avhich he never lost , Avhich he never forgot , amid the trials of later years , in the " tourbillon" of earthly society . He often used to say to himself and to his intimate friends in later times" I never can forget Avhat I OAve to

, an interest Avhich never ceased , to an intellect Avhich was ever active , to a wit which was ever pleasant , and to a sympathy which Avas ever abounding ! " We hardly often here realize , it appears to meAvhat Ave OAve to the mother ' s

in-, fluence , to Avoman's directing will , or intellect , or cleverness—her ceaseless kindness , sympathy , and love ! For woman , strange in her psychology , and differing vastly from man , is , no doubt , in the good Providence of God , mindful when man is

oblivious ; careful Avhen man is reckless ; pitying when man is contemptuous ; just when man is hasty ; loving when man is indifferent ; and conscientious when man is lax .

Some of our greatest heroes , many of the human " idols " of admiring generations , owe the very " contour , " so to say , of their characters , the great " primum mobile " in them of all that is good , true , admirable , heroic , to the tender nurture , the true heartthe wise aphorisms of the

, mother , or the female ! Yes , the female , often doubted , not unfrequently condemned , but still , as God ordained , is man ' s helpmeet ever here , a truth Ave sometimes lose sig ht of , and around her innate tendernesstruthfaithand love

, , , , circle , if I may so say , all the virtues of life , all the visions of the good , the beautiful , and the true ! Poor Benedito lost his father through an attack of malaria , and his mother , after a feAV years peaceful Avidowhood passed

aAvay , too , amid the tears and regrets of her son , leaving him just twenty-one , friendless , to Avage life ' s Avar comparatively all alone , for his relatives Avere sparse , and his acquaintances Avere feAV . Thus often ends the dream of life , when all seems fairest and brightest now . The blue sky becomes overclouded in a moment , the sea rises ,

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