The Women Of Our Time.

gentleness and goodness , so to say , on all Avithin her reach . How many a youthful impetuous spirit has she Avisely , truly , guided , how many an admiring nephew or niece has she affectionately controlled , for her advice is always sound , because unselfish ; and her heart is ahvays warm and truebecause

, lleligion has made her feel alike her duty and her responsibilities , the sacrifices she has to undertake , and the labour she has to perform for others . I know of no happier or no more peaceful career than that which is animated alike by a perception

of efforts to be made , and toils to be undergone for the good of others ; which is consecrated simply by a surrender of self and personal ease , and personal comfort ; Avhich passes on relyingly and cheerfully through dark days and treacherous showers to that " other laud , " which lies beyond the

" silent sea , " where the everlasting hills rise above the distant horizon , telling to the often weary wayfarer to-day of peace and rest , reunion and happiness one day hereafter . If there are any of my readers who will still talk slightingly of old maids , let

them do so , and let them remember that in so doing they commit a very grievous blunder . " Au contraire , " I would impress on all AVIIO read these pages to treat them and regard them Avith kindliness and respect . They are there before your very

eyes , doing their duty nobly to the last ; they are firm friends , sound advisers , most true-hearted women , and putting away from you the '' Smalltalk and 'badinage ' of society , " see in them a type very often of all that is tenclerest and most precious , and most cultivated and most admirable in woman !

" Glamour."

" GLAMOUR . "

THE breath of flowers was on the breeze And all the odours of the spring ; Amid the gently-budding trees AVe heard the throstle sing . AVe Avatched the tender leaflets curi'd No green seemed half so gay before ;

A hundred springs may deck the Avorld But those green leaves no more ; No , never , never more !

" Glamour."

The sun drank up the tears of night The happy tears of early dew , Each drop became a globe of light With golden-green shot through . We shook them off the primrose flowers , No dew seemed half so bright before ;

Now winter rain may fall in shoAvers , But those bright drops no more ; No , never , never more ! AVithin the blue , unblemish'd skies The infant cloudlets cradled lay , Like neAv-born souls in Paradise

, All clad in Avhite array ; And in our happy eyes that met There shone a light unknown before ; NOAV suns may rise , and suns may set , But that love-light no more ; No , never , neA'er more !

Zoroastrianism And Freemasonry.

ZOROASTRIANISM AND FREEMASONRY .

( Continued from page 78 . ) PART III . A DABVAND , then , is not necessarily a non-Zoroastrian , because the latter may belong to a monotheistic reli gion , and may have practised all the virtues common to

pure Zoroastrians . All the popular aversion to a Darvand at present , through a miscomprehension of the term and its uses in the Avesta , is solel y levelled undeservedly to a foreign religionist . This , plainly , should not be . By all means

avoid the shadow of a Daiwand , but do not by any means identify him Avholesale with all non-Zoroastrians . The Farvardin Yashts proclaim loudl y against this absolute condemnation of all non-Zoroastrians by in itself invoking the spirits of the

Asho of all creeds and castes , climes and countries . To sum up , then , there is nothing inconsistent or derogatory to a follower of Zoroaster in associating , sympathizing , and fraternizing with Freemasons of all countries and beliefs . And

yet not a . feAv there are among us Zoroastrians v / ho entertain such vague notions of Freemasonry as to A'iew Avith great alarm and disapprobation the admission of Zoroastrians into the Masonic Craft . 1 remember I once proposed a Dustoor as a candidate for initiation . A Dustoor ,