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better than no loaf at all , " aud that therefore looking at all things calmly and sagely she made up her mind to accept Riquet , and his " little estate , " his hump , and his tuft , aud his town house , and his operabox . I may be wrong , and do her

injustice , and , if so , I am sorry . We may call to mind that under that fairy regime , if Ave find the " varium et mutabile semper fsemina , " Ave also can trace out a great deal of feminine determination and " savoir faire . " But what a

curious fact it is in our human psychology , this tendency for people to fall in love , and very often with the Avrong people ? Yet people do so every day , and a very remarkable chapter in the history of our race , is that of our loves and hatesour likes and

, dislikes , our prejudices and our prepossessions ! Here Riquet , Avho was a plain young man , fell in love with a Princess as beautiful as she was good , and plain young men everyday fall into love with exceedingly handsome young Avomenhighly

, educated , charming in every sense , and do not seem to perceive the enormity of their offence , or even the impropriety of their conduct . In the history before us , at the

expiration of the tAvelve months , Riquet reminds the fair Princess of her agreement , at which she is at first much agitated ! Young ladies always are on such occasions , though the agitation soon passes away , and they become , as old Jorum says , " as cool

as cucumbers , sir , aud a great deal less nervous , sir , than the men !" AVe may remember also that as Riquet could make his lady love clever , so she could make her "futur" handsome , and that in this case they carried out an

" exchange without robbery . " They Avere dul y married , and from that moment she became the cleverest of females in her age , having been a very stupid young woman before , and he seemed to her the most elegant of young men , having been before

that happy hour the plainest of the plain . And then the chronicler goes on to assert what I cannot understand , can you ? " Illnatured people have said that this was no fairy gift , but that love created the change . J hey declare that the Princesswhen she

, thought over her lover's perseverance , patience , good-humour , and discretion , and counted his numerous fine qualities of fcund and disposition , saw no longer the

deformity of his body , or the plainness of his features ; that his hump was merely an exaggerated stoop , and his awkward movements became only an interesting eccentricity . Nay , even his eyes which squinted terriblyseemed ahvays looking on all

, sides for her , as a token of his ardent love ; and his great red nose gave him an air very martial and heroic . However this may be , it is certain that the Princess married him —that further , she retained her good sense , as he never felt the Avant of it—and he

never again became ugly , or at least not in his wife ' s eyes . " So they both lived very happy together until they died . " This is a very remarkable passage , and requires much and serious consideration , first to believe it and next , as Jorum says , " to swallow it . " Now I have been deeply

affected by this fairy tale of my youth , long forgotten , read over again to-day With pleasure and emotion ! What an argument in it there is for matrimony , and for love ! If such a state of things existed now , hoAv many people—indeed , I may say all

people—should at once fall in love and marry . It is most satisfactory to think how love and matrimony change everything , and throw a UBAV colouring on everything , and give a new appearance to everything . I am rather inclined to think that the fairy chronicler was seeking to pay a sly but handsome compliment to the ladies ! And I , for one , quite agree with

him . Men are so captious and hard to please , so very critical , and so very ceremonious , so thoughtless and so fickle , so difficult to catch , to fix , and to retain , and see now the contrast between ungrateful inconsiderate man , and gentle , timid ,

selfsacrificing Avoman ! Yes , " Look on this picture and look on that , " see Baiiy ' s expurgated edition of Shakespeare . A woman makes up her mind to marry her "Eiquet with the Tuft , " and she means to make him a good wife

, and she does her duty manfully to the last . She bears with his infirmities , overlooks his improprieties , forgets his drawbacks , and pardons his delinquencies ! To the eye of the loving wife her Theodore is all perfection . Whatthough others criticise

, or condemn , she will not—not she , angelic creature ! He is , in her eyes , all that is kind and amiable , good-looking , and agreeable , and she " battles the watch" with him , I

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Monthly Masonic Summary. Article 1
"THE GOOSE AND GRIDIRON," Article 2
DR. RAWLINSON'S MS. Article 3
THE CHARGE. Article 7
THE CREATION. Article 8
AN OLD, OLD STORY. Article 12
BE HAPPY AS YOU CAN. Article 14
SOCIAL PROBLEMS AND THEIR PEACEFUL SOLUTION. Article 15
THE ORIGIN AND REFERENCES OF THE HERMESIAN SPURIOUS FREEMASONRY. Article 18
THE WOMEN OF OUR TIME. Article 20
" GLAMOUR." Article 22
ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREEMASONRY. Article 22
OUT WITH THE TIDE. Article 25
TAKEN BY BRIGANDS. Article 26
MAGIC. Article 32
FAIRY TALES UTILISED FOR THE NEW GENERATION. Article 32
THE MUSICAL ENTHUSIAST. Article 34
CONTEMPORARY LETTERS ON THE FRENCH REVOLUTION. Article 34
Our Archaological Corner. Article 35
Untitled Article 36
ISRAEL AND ENGLAND. Article 36
REVIEWS. Article 39
ADDRESS OF P.G.M. BRO. HON. RICHARD VAUX, AT CENTENNIAL OF AMERICAN UNION LODGE. Article 43
A CONFESSION. Article 45
NOTES ON LITERATURE , SCIENCE AND ART. Article 46
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Fairy Tales Utilised For The New Generation.

better than no loaf at all , " aud that therefore looking at all things calmly and sagely she made up her mind to accept Riquet , and his " little estate , " his hump , and his tuft , aud his town house , and his operabox . I may be wrong , and do her

injustice , and , if so , I am sorry . We may call to mind that under that fairy regime , if Ave find the " varium et mutabile semper fsemina , " Ave also can trace out a great deal of feminine determination and " savoir faire . " But what a

curious fact it is in our human psychology , this tendency for people to fall in love , and very often with the Avrong people ? Yet people do so every day , and a very remarkable chapter in the history of our race , is that of our loves and hatesour likes and

, dislikes , our prejudices and our prepossessions ! Here Riquet , Avho was a plain young man , fell in love with a Princess as beautiful as she was good , and plain young men everyday fall into love with exceedingly handsome young Avomenhighly

, educated , charming in every sense , and do not seem to perceive the enormity of their offence , or even the impropriety of their conduct . In the history before us , at the

expiration of the tAvelve months , Riquet reminds the fair Princess of her agreement , at which she is at first much agitated ! Young ladies always are on such occasions , though the agitation soon passes away , and they become , as old Jorum says , " as cool

as cucumbers , sir , aud a great deal less nervous , sir , than the men !" AVe may remember also that as Riquet could make his lady love clever , so she could make her "futur" handsome , and that in this case they carried out an

" exchange without robbery . " They Avere dul y married , and from that moment she became the cleverest of females in her age , having been a very stupid young woman before , and he seemed to her the most elegant of young men , having been before

that happy hour the plainest of the plain . And then the chronicler goes on to assert what I cannot understand , can you ? " Illnatured people have said that this was no fairy gift , but that love created the change . J hey declare that the Princesswhen she

, thought over her lover's perseverance , patience , good-humour , and discretion , and counted his numerous fine qualities of fcund and disposition , saw no longer the

deformity of his body , or the plainness of his features ; that his hump was merely an exaggerated stoop , and his awkward movements became only an interesting eccentricity . Nay , even his eyes which squinted terriblyseemed ahvays looking on all

, sides for her , as a token of his ardent love ; and his great red nose gave him an air very martial and heroic . However this may be , it is certain that the Princess married him —that further , she retained her good sense , as he never felt the Avant of it—and he

never again became ugly , or at least not in his wife ' s eyes . " So they both lived very happy together until they died . " This is a very remarkable passage , and requires much and serious consideration , first to believe it and next , as Jorum says , " to swallow it . " Now I have been deeply

affected by this fairy tale of my youth , long forgotten , read over again to-day With pleasure and emotion ! What an argument in it there is for matrimony , and for love ! If such a state of things existed now , hoAv many people—indeed , I may say all

people—should at once fall in love and marry . It is most satisfactory to think how love and matrimony change everything , and throw a UBAV colouring on everything , and give a new appearance to everything . I am rather inclined to think that the fairy chronicler was seeking to pay a sly but handsome compliment to the ladies ! And I , for one , quite agree with

him . Men are so captious and hard to please , so very critical , and so very ceremonious , so thoughtless and so fickle , so difficult to catch , to fix , and to retain , and see now the contrast between ungrateful inconsiderate man , and gentle , timid ,

selfsacrificing Avoman ! Yes , " Look on this picture and look on that , " see Baiiy ' s expurgated edition of Shakespeare . A woman makes up her mind to marry her "Eiquet with the Tuft , " and she means to make him a good wife

, and she does her duty manfully to the last . She bears with his infirmities , overlooks his improprieties , forgets his drawbacks , and pardons his delinquencies ! To the eye of the loving wife her Theodore is all perfection . Whatthough others criticise

, or condemn , she will not—not she , angelic creature ! He is , in her eyes , all that is kind and amiable , good-looking , and agreeable , and she " battles the watch" with him , I

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