Lodge Meetings Next Week.

202 Friendship , Devonport 208 Three Gd . Principles , Dewsbury 275 Harmony , Huddersfield 276 Good Fellowship , Chelmsford

283 Amity , Haslingden 318 True and Faithful , Helston 324 Moira , Stalybridge 332 Virtue and Silence . Hadleigh 337 Candour , Um > ermill

346 United Brethren , Blackburn 348 St . John , Bolton 361 Industry , Hyde 403 Hertford , Hertford 410 Grove , Ewell ' 449 Cecil , Hitchin

450 Cornubian , Hayle 456 Foresters , Uttoxeter 469 Hundred of Elloe , Spalding 475 Bed . St . Jolin Bap ., Luton 590 La Cesaree , Jersey

594 Downshire , Liverpool 625 Devonshire , Glossop 630 St . Cuthbert , Howden o 36 De Ogle , Morpeth 707 St . Mary , Bridport 710 Pleiades , Totnes 761 St . John , Dursley

784 Wellington , Deal 787 Beaureper , Belper 807 Cabbell , Norwich 904 Phoenix , Rotherham 935 Harmony , Salford 966 St . Edward , Leek 971 Trafalgar , Batley

1032 Townley Parker , Chorley 1097 St . Michael , Tenbury 1151 St . Andrew , Tywardreath 1163 Emulation , Birmingham 1164 Eliot , St . Germans 1166 Clarendon , Hyde

1313 Fermor , Southport 1322 Waverley , Ashton-under-Lyne 1345 Victoria , Ecclea 1392 Egerton , Bury - 1404 . Saint Vincent , Bristol

1418 Fraternity , Stockton-on-Tees 1437 Liberty of Havering , Romford 1505 Emulation , Liverpool 1519 Albert Edward , Clayt ' n-le-Moors " 1578 Merlin , Pontypridd 1616 Fr ' hdship & Harmony , W ' yb ' ee

1626 Hotspur , Newcastle-on-Tyne 1702 Sub-Urban , Great Stanmore 1705 Prince of Wales , Gosport 1763 St . Mary , Thame 1817 St . Andrew , Shoeburyness 1884 Chine , Shanklin , Isle of Wight 1957 Grove , Hazel Grove 1971 Ald ' shot , Army & Navy , A ' shot .

Speaking at a Masonic meeting at Chatham last week , Dean Hole referred with gratitude to the festival held in Rochester Cathedral last year , and to the splendid offering left by the'Freemasons of England for the beautifying of the building . He had hoped that the time had come for replacing

the present unsightly tower by one worthy of the fabric , but , alas ! the Masonic champion of the cause , the Earl of Lathom , had been removed by death , and there was no one to take his place . The offering made by the Masons would be devoted partly to general restoration , and partly to the erection of

four stained glass windows in the South transept . Three would illustrate great builders : Solomon and the Temple , Ethelbert and the first Christian Church in England , and Gundulph and Rochester Cathedral ; while the fourth would depict the great characteristic of the Masonic body—Charity .

Lodge Meetings Next Week.

2028 Granite , Narborough 2091 Castleberg , Settle 2101 Bramston Beach , Godalming 2184 Royal Vict . Jubilee , Rainham 2189 Ashburton , Ashburton 2195 Military Jubilee , Dover 2214 Josiah Wedgewood , Etruria 2215 Anfield , Anfield 2263 St . Leonards , Sheffield

2269 Peace , Wigan 2335 Cycling and Athletic , Liverpool 2375 Hflbre , Hoylake 2387 Manchester Dramatic , M ' chester 2418 Hedworth , South Shields 2462 Clarence , West Hartlepool 2463 Bootle-Wilbraham , Knotty Ash 2474 Hatherton , Walsall

Friday . Council Bovs School , Freemasons Hall , at ' 4 . 197 Jerusalem , Freemasons ' -hall 1591 Studholme , Cafe Royal

355 R'l . S ' x . Emulation , Swindon 401 Royal Forest , Slaidburn 460 Sut'land Unity , N ' castle-u-Lyme 602 North York , Middlesbrough 652 Holme Valley , Holmnrth 810 Craven , Skipton

1034 Eccleshill , Eccleshill 1074 Underley , Kirkby Lonslade 1303 Pelham , Lewes 1391 Commercial , Leicester 1435 Annesley , Nottingham

1777 Royal Hanover , Twickenham 1822 St . Quintin , Cowbridge 1920 Eurydice , Surbiton 2078 St . Lawrence , Scunthorpe 2371 Felix , Felixstowe 2380 Beneventa , Daventry 2415 Tristram , Shildon 2431 Kingsley , Northampton

Saturday . . 1297 West Kent , Crystal Palace . . 1679 Henry Muggeridge , Anderton ' s 149 Peace , Meltham 444 Union , Starcross ' 453 Chigwell , Chingford 631 Methuen , Taplow

1462 Wharncliffe , Pemstohe 1531 Chislehurst , Chislehurst 1579 St . James , Enfield 1712 St . John . Newcastle-on-Tvne

1851 Ewell , Kingston 1965 Eastes , Bromley 1982 Greenwood , Sutton 2087 Electric , Hampton Court 2421 Carrington , Amersham

Female Freemasons.

FEMALE FREEMASONS .

rj THE Paris Correspondent of " The Daily Mail" forwards the 1 following interesting account of the French Female

Freemasons : — There are women Freemasons in France . I was received , on calling at her residence , the other day , by Mme . Georges Martin , the Venerable of the Lodge , in her charming house in the Latin Quarter .

" Your information about us , " said Mme . Martin , when I had made known the object of my visit , " is not entirely correct . There does not exist , anywhere in the world , an exculsively female Lodge of Freemasons , but I am the Venerable of the Mixed Lodge , and this is the only Obedience of its kind in existence .

" You want to know why we started a Lodge for both sexes ? There is no greater apple of discord in a family that Freemasonry . The husband goes to his Lodge and returns late . The wife wishes to know whathas taken place there . Nothing has taken

Female Freemasons.

place , most probably , that she should not know , but the oath we take forbids us to divulge certain secrets . Very well , then . " The wife and husband become disunited . It is a little rift within , the lute which leads to misunderstanding and discord .

Then the priest steps in . You who have lived in France and know the life here , know that the priest hates Freemasonry . The doctrine of Freemasonry is essentially different from his . In fact , to put it upon a broader basis still , religion , as the word is understood , has nothing in common with our doctrine .

' - ' Eeligions divide the human race . Mixed Freemasonry wishes , to unite the whole human race in one vast Brotherhood . " When the Mixed 'Lodge was started six years ago it numbered but seventeen members , most of whom were ladies . At the present time we are 200 in number , men and women , and the fair sex still predominates by about two to one .

" Our meetings are exceedingly interesting , and the members belong to every possible class . All mix upon terms of absolute equality , and the work girl is as acceptable as the millionaire or the countess . Fathers and mothers join us with their daughters , husbands with their wives ; we form a large , happy , and united family of Brothers and Sisters .

" In our opinion it will not be very long before Freemasonry all over the world embraces the tenets of the Mixed Lodge , Woman ' s field in the human economy becoming as it does wider and more extended day by day , it seems more than probable that it will extend to Freemasonry .

"At the present time the Lodge is looked upon with a certain amount of disfavour by members of the Grand Orient of France , the most powerful Masonic Obedience in this country , but this disfavour is rapidly dying out , and although French Freemasons refuse to recognise the lady members , they do not now , as they did some years ago , refuse admittance to their Lodges to male Brothers of the Mixed Lodge .

" We belong to the Scottish Bite of Freemasonry , and the Grand Orient know that we have a far greater power than themselves at our back . "At the meetings of the Lodge men and ladies wear the same insignia , not , as'in England , the apron , but the cordon of broad blue ribbon with the Masonic signs upon it , and bordered with red . "

" Then , in a word , madame , " I said , as I rose to take my leave , " what is the dominant note of your mixed Brotherhood ? " " Brotherly and sisterly love , and woman in her rightful place , " was Mme . Martin ' s simple answer .

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