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are becoming fashionable at recreation banquets and even fish dinners , and that when all have well dined then appear thc streaky bacon and the obese bean . Wc suppose that this is a development of ; ustheticism , of cunning menus , of new ideas ; the more so , as some one proposed the other day to alter the whole arrangement of the customary dinner table , and to bring on
" p ieces de resistance" first , and the " entrees " and "hors d ' osuvres" last . Whether it be a new menu , or an old bill of fare , we wish our worthy brethren all , as the friendly Germans say , " guten appetit" at these their summer
gatherings ; and we trust that they will survive , one and all , the effect both of beans ^ and bacon , that mayonnaise of salmon , and those numerous other delicacies of the season which arc so rife just now both at Recreation banquets ancl Greenwich expeditions .
* * WR arc living in a very sensational age . Wc hear of odd distorted lives every day , abnormal episodes , and strange conceits which the whirligig of time brings with it hour by hour for us ancl ours . Perhaps one of the queerest we have heard of for some time is that which is so
markedly headed in every paper , " Elopement with a Mother-in-law . " We know , all of us , the old old story , and the curious facts with respect to this respected relative of the married man , —and even Mr . TRKYKLYAN , the staid Chief Secretary for Ireland , could unbend in the House of Commons lately with a grim joke about a mother-in-law .
But to elope with a mother-in-law , to leave a young and blooming wife behind to penury and suffering , does seem an act of outrageous cruelty , of vile unmanliness , of insane folly which deserves the severest retribution . We apprehend that the Nemesis of such domestic iniquity is not far behind , the
more so as the prohibition to marry a grandmother has always appeared to us to stand on exactly the same footing as the prohibited degree of a mother-in-law . Of course there are mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law , we all know that : but we confess to have been severely moved by this startling
and weird announcement . * SAD among the sights and scenes of thc green leaves and the fragrant flowers of p leasant summer is thc sense of the inevitable flight of time , the irresistible decay of normal powers . Weare many of us not so young as
we were ! Four decades have passed over some of us since first wc saw the light of Masonry , and nunicrojs are the friends we have made , thc mates alas 1 we have lost . Memory goes back to-day , half-unconsciously , halfreluctantly , to other scenes and other days . We summon up before us clear and full-voiced the " cari louoghi , " the cheery comrades of "Auldlang Syne . "
That gcod lodge we knew so well , and loved so much , is full of life and animation , warm youth , cheerful maturity , complacent old age—all are there . But we can only wistfully , as it were , re-create for ourselves for a few passing moments the work and the workers of years gone by . For us those pleasant hours never can be again ours , in that they are but shadows of the past ;
and the laughing ghosts , who have long since paid their obolus to Charon , fade rapidly away , leaving us behind , old and wayworn , solitary and forlorn . Old age is here , and others are ready to fill the place we once filled with zest , and do the work wc once did in honest intent , and the unceasing flow of the great river of time carries us on forward , " willy nilly , " to land us on those distant banks from which there is no returning .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution was held on Saturday the Sth inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . Col . Creaton , Grand Treas ., in thc chair . There were also present Bros . Joshua Nunn , Frank Richardson , A . E . Gladwell , Henry Smith , Kev . A . F . A . Woodford , E . H . Finney , C . J . Perceval , John Mason , E . auersnail 01 reiersvaiv i
letchworth , A . rt . l , * C . , > . cr nupciiiiii , u . nyuuan , v . -JIIII - ^ , J . A . Rucker , George Brown , J . T . Halkin , J . H . Matthews , Rohert Grey , A . D . Lowcnstarlc , H . A . Dubois , Peter de Lande I . onjj , H . Massey , Freemason . Thc reading of the minutes of thc Special Court , and of the subsequent General and House Committees , occupied a long time , and after this was concluded the Court placed the candidates for the October election on the list .
The next business was the consideration of Bro . A . H . rattershall s motion to amend Rule 56 as follows : — " No girl shall be eligible for election or for admission by purchase or otherwise who has a sister in the Institution , unless the number of vacancies is in excess of the number of candidates . " The Rev . A . F . A . WOODLORD , asked whether any opinion had been
received on the rule as it at present stood in the Institution . Col . C REATON said such an opinion had been received from the Grand Registrar , but he did not think it was necessary to read it before the questioned was discussed . In reply to a further question by Bro . Woodford , Col Creaton stated that the opinion of the Grand Registrar was that the rule did not exclude any one purchased into the Institution .
Bro . T ATTERSHALL said lie would not detain the brethren by making many remarks . The motion spoke for itself , and he brought it forward because some brethren were of opinion that a child who had a sister in the Institution could be admitted by purchase , although a child could not be elected into the Institution who had a sister there already . Thc addition of
the present motion would render it perfectly plain . Bro . A . D . LOFAVF . NSTARK seconded the motion . Bro . F . BINCKES said as this was a rule which affected the Institution with which he was more particularly connected , if it was necessary , he might be allowed to make an explanatory statement of thc rule as it had
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been observed in the Boys School . If the present motion was adopted , as it had been considered prudent to assimilate the rules of the two Institutions , the Boys' School would have to adopt this motion also . Now in the Boys ' School it had not been considered necessary . It was made as explicit as possible that no petition should be read for admission to the Girls' School if thc girl had a sister there already . Nothing more than that was necessarv .
If no petition could be received under such circumstances , it seemed to follow that no girl could be purchased into the Institution . He had heard a question raised as to the reception of a petition for a purchase case . Now no girl could be received without an authorised form of petition . In his School no boy had been admitted , whether by election or purchase , without a petition , and thc Boys' School and Girls' School hacl been workino- in
unison . Still further to strengthen thc position , thc words " properly qualified" were inserted in the laws which gave people thc right to purchase cases into the School if they would not go to the trouble and expense of an election . For 170 guineas they had the power to purchase a child into the Institution . Whatever was the meaning of thc words " properly qualified" they were thc governing
words throughout those laws , and a petition could not be received if the child was not properly qualified . The proper qualifications were set out in thc laws , and those were endorsed on every form of petition , and " properly qualifisd " must govern a case , whether tor election or purchase . How it could be argued lhat in a purchase case a petition was not needed seemed to him incomprehensible , because unless thc General Committee was certain that the case was properly qualified it could not bc entertained . If these
forms were not complied with , how were they to know ihat a girl was the daughter of a Mason ? If no petition was necessary , a girl purchased into the Institution might be any girl taken out of the streets . It appeared to him that thc addition of the proposed motion to the rules was quite unnecessary . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . WOODFORD thought the great difficulty that arose appeared to be from the fact that they were legislating in the dark . It was known there was an opinion of the Grand Registrar .
Bro . Col . CREATON said this subject could not be discussed in the Quarterly Court , when it had not yet come before the General Committee . "' The information was not refused , but the matter could not be discussed , though he should be glad , as a matter of courtesy , to give the information . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . WoonvoRDsaid it wasapity then that the matter should have been brought forward at all . They knew that af brother very
emincnt in the law had said there was nothing in the laws of the Institution lo prevent a child being presented for admission by purchase without a petition . It was a most important element in the question , but yet there was another brother also in the room who had expressed , as they hacl just heard , a different opinion . With thc Grand Registrar , he ( Bro . Woodford ) held there was no necessity for a petition in a purchase
case . He did not deny that there were some difficulties in the case , but whatever had been the understanding , whatever might be supposed to be implied , the matter now could solely bc governed by the legal interpretation of the exact verbiage of the laws . Something might , he admitted , fairly be said on the other side , by those who took liro . Binckes ' s view , as to the custom in like cases ; but believing that the matter was purely a question of
exact interpretation of the laws , and that , to a certain extent , [ the rights of the subscribers generally to purchase a scholastic presentation was involved in the discussion , he should , accepting the dictum of the Grand Registrar , as he understood it , vote against Bro . Tattershall ' s motion . It was one thing to exclude a second candidate from the same famity into thc Charity as a Charity ; it was quite another thing to purchase an admission to the educational course . The former certainly did not seem to preclude the latter .
Bro . BINCKES said that even in the case of a perpetual presentation , for which ; £ iooo was paid , a petition , had to be presented and all the other forms had to be gone through . Bro . J OSHUA NUNN said that as a member of the Committee who framed those laws , he might inform the Court that it was distinctly understood by
every member that there should not be two daughters of the same brother in the Girls' School , or two sons of a brother in the Boys' School at the same time . He thought that in supporting this motion of Bro . Tattershall ' s , they were only clearing up a difficulty as to the qualification for the admission of a girl . It appeared to him clear that no girl could be admitted unless all the qualifications were complied with .
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON did not see wh y two children should not bc in the Institution at the same time , one by election and one by purchase . If £ 175 was not sufficient let them make it higher , say £ 275 . Bro . WALTER HOPEKIRK thought there should be no difference between election and purchase cases . The School was a Charity School , but if Bro .
Woodford ' s opinion was correct it might soon become nothing more than a Masonic Boarding School , and 170 guineas would be a small sum to pay for its exce'lent benefits . Such a thing would be injurious to the Masonic Institution in particular , and Masonry in general . Bro . PERCEVAL could not see why if the 170 guineas covered the expenses of one child the child should not be admitted .
Bro . E . LETCHWORTH would like to ask when the 170 guineas covered the cost .
Bro . Col . CREATON said this was beside the question , but he might say that when thc sum was fixed at 170 guineas thc matter was thoroughly gone into , and it was found that 170 guineas would cover the cost of a girl . Bro . TATTERSHALL , in reply , said that the Grand Registrar having expressed an opinion , that according to the rules there was nothing to preclude a purchase child being admitted who had a sister in the Institution , he thought it right to bring this motion forward . The motion was then put and carried by twelve to nine votes .
Col . CREATON said if the votes had been equal on each side he should have given his casting vote in favour of the motion . Bro . TATTERSHALL then moved to insert in Rule 37 , after the word " Trustee , " " that those members shall retire annually , and shall not be eligible for re-election untii after an interval of twelve months , " but after some discussion he withdrew the motion .
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D .. Vice-Patron moved " that a further gratuity of £ 25 , in addition to the £ 25 voted at the Special Court held on 1 oth June , 1882 ( making altogether a sum of £ 50 ) be awarded to Bro . W . G . Weber , tha Senior Clerk in the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ,
on his rctiremeet in consequence ol ill-health , and to assist in defraying the expenses of the journey of himself and family to Australia . Bro . TATTERSHALL seconded thc motion , which was carried unanimously . Bro . HEDGES said that H . R . H . the Dukeof Connaught , K . G ., P . G . W ., who took thc chair at the last festival of the Institution , intimated that Her
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are becoming fashionable at recreation banquets and even fish dinners , and that when all have well dined then appear thc streaky bacon and the obese bean . Wc suppose that this is a development of ; ustheticism , of cunning menus , of new ideas ; the more so , as some one proposed the other day to alter the whole arrangement of the customary dinner table , and to bring on
" p ieces de resistance" first , and the " entrees " and "hors d ' osuvres" last . Whether it be a new menu , or an old bill of fare , we wish our worthy brethren all , as the friendly Germans say , " guten appetit" at these their summer
gatherings ; and we trust that they will survive , one and all , the effect both of beans ^ and bacon , that mayonnaise of salmon , and those numerous other delicacies of the season which arc so rife just now both at Recreation banquets ancl Greenwich expeditions .
* * WR arc living in a very sensational age . Wc hear of odd distorted lives every day , abnormal episodes , and strange conceits which the whirligig of time brings with it hour by hour for us ancl ours . Perhaps one of the queerest we have heard of for some time is that which is so
markedly headed in every paper , " Elopement with a Mother-in-law . " We know , all of us , the old old story , and the curious facts with respect to this respected relative of the married man , —and even Mr . TRKYKLYAN , the staid Chief Secretary for Ireland , could unbend in the House of Commons lately with a grim joke about a mother-in-law .
But to elope with a mother-in-law , to leave a young and blooming wife behind to penury and suffering , does seem an act of outrageous cruelty , of vile unmanliness , of insane folly which deserves the severest retribution . We apprehend that the Nemesis of such domestic iniquity is not far behind , the
more so as the prohibition to marry a grandmother has always appeared to us to stand on exactly the same footing as the prohibited degree of a mother-in-law . Of course there are mothers-in-law and mothers-in-law , we all know that : but we confess to have been severely moved by this startling
and weird announcement . * SAD among the sights and scenes of thc green leaves and the fragrant flowers of p leasant summer is thc sense of the inevitable flight of time , the irresistible decay of normal powers . Weare many of us not so young as
we were ! Four decades have passed over some of us since first wc saw the light of Masonry , and nunicrojs are the friends we have made , thc mates alas 1 we have lost . Memory goes back to-day , half-unconsciously , halfreluctantly , to other scenes and other days . We summon up before us clear and full-voiced the " cari louoghi , " the cheery comrades of "Auldlang Syne . "
That gcod lodge we knew so well , and loved so much , is full of life and animation , warm youth , cheerful maturity , complacent old age—all are there . But we can only wistfully , as it were , re-create for ourselves for a few passing moments the work and the workers of years gone by . For us those pleasant hours never can be again ours , in that they are but shadows of the past ;
and the laughing ghosts , who have long since paid their obolus to Charon , fade rapidly away , leaving us behind , old and wayworn , solitary and forlorn . Old age is here , and others are ready to fill the place we once filled with zest , and do the work wc once did in honest intent , and the unceasing flow of the great river of time carries us on forward , " willy nilly , " to land us on those distant banks from which there is no returning .
Royal Masonic Institution For Girls.
ROYAL MASONIC INSTITUTION FOR GIRLS .
The Quarterly Court of the Governors and Subscribers of this Institution was held on Saturday the Sth inst ., at Freemasons' Hall , Bro . Col . Creaton , Grand Treas ., in thc chair . There were also present Bros . Joshua Nunn , Frank Richardson , A . E . Gladwell , Henry Smith , Kev . A . F . A . Woodford , E . H . Finney , C . J . Perceval , John Mason , E . auersnail 01 reiersvaiv i
letchworth , A . rt . l , * C . , > . cr nupciiiiii , u . nyuuan , v . -JIIII - ^ , J . A . Rucker , George Brown , J . T . Halkin , J . H . Matthews , Rohert Grey , A . D . Lowcnstarlc , H . A . Dubois , Peter de Lande I . onjj , H . Massey , Freemason . Thc reading of the minutes of thc Special Court , and of the subsequent General and House Committees , occupied a long time , and after this was concluded the Court placed the candidates for the October election on the list .
The next business was the consideration of Bro . A . H . rattershall s motion to amend Rule 56 as follows : — " No girl shall be eligible for election or for admission by purchase or otherwise who has a sister in the Institution , unless the number of vacancies is in excess of the number of candidates . " The Rev . A . F . A . WOODLORD , asked whether any opinion had been
received on the rule as it at present stood in the Institution . Col . C REATON said such an opinion had been received from the Grand Registrar , but he did not think it was necessary to read it before the questioned was discussed . In reply to a further question by Bro . Woodford , Col Creaton stated that the opinion of the Grand Registrar was that the rule did not exclude any one purchased into the Institution .
Bro . T ATTERSHALL said lie would not detain the brethren by making many remarks . The motion spoke for itself , and he brought it forward because some brethren were of opinion that a child who had a sister in the Institution could be admitted by purchase , although a child could not be elected into the Institution who had a sister there already . Thc addition of
the present motion would render it perfectly plain . Bro . A . D . LOFAVF . NSTARK seconded the motion . Bro . F . BINCKES said as this was a rule which affected the Institution with which he was more particularly connected , if it was necessary , he might be allowed to make an explanatory statement of thc rule as it had
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been observed in the Boys School . If the present motion was adopted , as it had been considered prudent to assimilate the rules of the two Institutions , the Boys' School would have to adopt this motion also . Now in the Boys ' School it had not been considered necessary . It was made as explicit as possible that no petition should be read for admission to the Girls' School if thc girl had a sister there already . Nothing more than that was necessarv .
If no petition could be received under such circumstances , it seemed to follow that no girl could be purchased into the Institution . He had heard a question raised as to the reception of a petition for a purchase case . Now no girl could be received without an authorised form of petition . In his School no boy had been admitted , whether by election or purchase , without a petition , and thc Boys' School and Girls' School hacl been workino- in
unison . Still further to strengthen thc position , thc words " properly qualified" were inserted in the laws which gave people thc right to purchase cases into the School if they would not go to the trouble and expense of an election . For 170 guineas they had the power to purchase a child into the Institution . Whatever was the meaning of thc words " properly qualified" they were thc governing
words throughout those laws , and a petition could not be received if the child was not properly qualified . The proper qualifications were set out in thc laws , and those were endorsed on every form of petition , and " properly qualifisd " must govern a case , whether tor election or purchase . How it could be argued lhat in a purchase case a petition was not needed seemed to him incomprehensible , because unless thc General Committee was certain that the case was properly qualified it could not bc entertained . If these
forms were not complied with , how were they to know ihat a girl was the daughter of a Mason ? If no petition was necessary , a girl purchased into the Institution might be any girl taken out of the streets . It appeared to him that thc addition of the proposed motion to the rules was quite unnecessary . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . WOODFORD thought the great difficulty that arose appeared to be from the fact that they were legislating in the dark . It was known there was an opinion of the Grand Registrar .
Bro . Col . CREATON said this subject could not be discussed in the Quarterly Court , when it had not yet come before the General Committee . "' The information was not refused , but the matter could not be discussed , though he should be glad , as a matter of courtesy , to give the information . Bro . the Rev . A . F . A . WoonvoRDsaid it wasapity then that the matter should have been brought forward at all . They knew that af brother very
emincnt in the law had said there was nothing in the laws of the Institution lo prevent a child being presented for admission by purchase without a petition . It was a most important element in the question , but yet there was another brother also in the room who had expressed , as they hacl just heard , a different opinion . With thc Grand Registrar , he ( Bro . Woodford ) held there was no necessity for a petition in a purchase
case . He did not deny that there were some difficulties in the case , but whatever had been the understanding , whatever might be supposed to be implied , the matter now could solely bc governed by the legal interpretation of the exact verbiage of the laws . Something might , he admitted , fairly be said on the other side , by those who took liro . Binckes ' s view , as to the custom in like cases ; but believing that the matter was purely a question of
exact interpretation of the laws , and that , to a certain extent , [ the rights of the subscribers generally to purchase a scholastic presentation was involved in the discussion , he should , accepting the dictum of the Grand Registrar , as he understood it , vote against Bro . Tattershall ' s motion . It was one thing to exclude a second candidate from the same famity into thc Charity as a Charity ; it was quite another thing to purchase an admission to the educational course . The former certainly did not seem to preclude the latter .
Bro . BINCKES said that even in the case of a perpetual presentation , for which ; £ iooo was paid , a petition , had to be presented and all the other forms had to be gone through . Bro . J OSHUA NUNN said that as a member of the Committee who framed those laws , he might inform the Court that it was distinctly understood by
every member that there should not be two daughters of the same brother in the Girls' School , or two sons of a brother in the Boys' School at the same time . He thought that in supporting this motion of Bro . Tattershall ' s , they were only clearing up a difficulty as to the qualification for the admission of a girl . It appeared to him clear that no girl could be admitted unless all the qualifications were complied with .
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON did not see wh y two children should not bc in the Institution at the same time , one by election and one by purchase . If £ 175 was not sufficient let them make it higher , say £ 275 . Bro . WALTER HOPEKIRK thought there should be no difference between election and purchase cases . The School was a Charity School , but if Bro .
Woodford ' s opinion was correct it might soon become nothing more than a Masonic Boarding School , and 170 guineas would be a small sum to pay for its exce'lent benefits . Such a thing would be injurious to the Masonic Institution in particular , and Masonry in general . Bro . PERCEVAL could not see why if the 170 guineas covered the expenses of one child the child should not be admitted .
Bro . E . LETCHWORTH would like to ask when the 170 guineas covered the cost .
Bro . Col . CREATON said this was beside the question , but he might say that when thc sum was fixed at 170 guineas thc matter was thoroughly gone into , and it was found that 170 guineas would cover the cost of a girl . Bro . TATTERSHALL , in reply , said that the Grand Registrar having expressed an opinion , that according to the rules there was nothing to preclude a purchase child being admitted who had a sister in the Institution , he thought it right to bring this motion forward . The motion was then put and carried by twelve to nine votes .
Col . CREATON said if the votes had been equal on each side he should have given his casting vote in favour of the motion . Bro . TATTERSHALL then moved to insert in Rule 37 , after the word " Trustee , " " that those members shall retire annually , and shall not be eligible for re-election untii after an interval of twelve months , " but after some discussion he withdrew the motion .
Bro . FRANK RICHARDSON , P . G . D .. Vice-Patron moved " that a further gratuity of £ 25 , in addition to the £ 25 voted at the Special Court held on 1 oth June , 1882 ( making altogether a sum of £ 50 ) be awarded to Bro . W . G . Weber , tha Senior Clerk in the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls ,
on his rctiremeet in consequence ol ill-health , and to assist in defraying the expenses of the journey of himself and family to Australia . Bro . TATTERSHALL seconded thc motion , which was carried unanimously . Bro . HEDGES said that H . R . H . the Dukeof Connaught , K . G ., P . G . W ., who took thc chair at the last festival of the Institution , intimated that Her