What Is The Good Of Freemasonry?

to a quiet chat on the discipline and rules of tho establishment . This is the Freemasons Girls' School . It ' clothes , educates , and thoroughly provides for , one hundred and three girls , * who must be daughters of Freemasonsbetween eiht and sixteen

, g years of age , and Avho are elected by tho votes of its subscribers . The comforts of its internal arrangements , its spotless cleanliness , the healthiness of its site , tho judicious trainins . and considerate kindness of

its matron ancl governesses , the themes Ave descant upon at length ; the rosy faces and unrestrained laughter of the children bearing forcible testimony to us . Tho committee of management visit this school frequently ancl regularly , and their deliberations generally terminate in a romp Avith

the school-girls . The little gardens , some Avith paper notices pinned to the shrubs , Avith : " Please do not come too near , as AVO have SOAVII seed near the border "—Signed 28 and 22 , Avritten in pencil in a girlish hand ; the healthycleanldormitories ;

, y the light and airy glass-coA-ered exercisehall , where the young people drill and dance ; the matron ' s private sanctum , Avhich is like a fancy fair to-day in the extent and A-ariety of gay birthday presents laid out ; the tea-room where Ave all have

jam in honour of the matron ' s nativity ; the board-room , bung v . dtli tho portraits " ol Grand Masters and Masonic benefactors , and Avhich is placed at our disposal that we may enjoy a quiet chat ivith the two dear little girls in lvhoni AVO have a special interest , are all A'isited in turn . Then a

procession is formed , and " We IOA-O Miss iSmoothewig dearly , " and " So say all of us 1 " are sung , while Brother Buss , P . M ., and P . Z ., AVIIO has just come in , ancl Brother Putt , G . A . D . C , and his fellow house-committee-man , AVIIO has already

Avclcomod us , beat time joyously to the good old "jolly good fellow " tune . This song is a little surprise prepared every year for tho birthdays of governesses and matron , and the amiable assumption of dolHifc at an unexpected noveltAvhich beams from

y the fitter ' s kindly face when the Avell-worn tune is sung , is not the least pleasant incident of the day . The Freemasons Boys' School is at Woodlanc , Tottenham , and in it from

eighty to a hundred sons * of Freemasons are clothed , educated ancl provided for Avith similar comfort ancl completeness . The institution for the relief of aged Freemasons and their Widows , though neither so Avoalthy nor so liberal as tho other two , provides an asylum for and grants annuities to the old and infirm .

These are some of the secrets of Freemasonry . The coffins in which , as many of my friends firmly believe , immure young and tender candidates ; the painful brandings Avhich make sitting doAvn impossible ; the raiv heads , red-hot pokers , and

gory bones with Avhich AVO heighten the awe-someness of our dreadful oaths ; the Avild revels and orgies which some ladies believe in , must be left in obscurity . Having shown the fair fruits of Masonry , I must leave you to form your unaided judgment of the tree Avhich brinus them forth .

Besides , I dare not reveal more . The learned author of many volumes of Masonic lore has stated his firm conviction that Adam Avas a Freemason , and that the Order and its accompanying blessings extend to other worlds than this . I offer no opinion on any such highly imaginative hypothesis ,

but confine myself to the stout assertion that Freemasons have a tie Avhich is unknoAvn to the outer Avorld , and that theii Institution is carefully adapted to the needs , hopes , fears , weaknesses and aspirations of human nature . That it has

un-Avorthy members is no more an argument against the Order , than the bitter sectarianism of the Eev . Pitt HoAvler , ancl the fierce uncharitablenoss of Mrs . Backbite , are arguments against Christianity . —All the Year Hound , July 1-1 , 18 G 6 .

Mrs . Colt makes it a point , rain or shine , to take a Avalk through her p istol factory tAvice a Aveek . The promenade is healthful and consolatory , especially Avhen peoples are at logger-heads and

want Aveapons . A tourist Avho Avas asked in what part of Europe he felt the heat most , replied : "When I Avas going to Berne . "