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The M . W . M . then rose and said : —I now come to the toast of the evenings ¦ " Success to the Btoyal Freemasons' Girls' School , " and I regret I have not powers of eloquence adequately to recommend it to your notice . The institution w as founded nearly 70 years ago , in the year 1788 , by Chevalier Ruspini , and it is remarkable that he being a man in good circumstances—a good man and good Mason , and most charitahly disposed—having founded this school with the most disinterested motives , two of his grandchildren were subsequently ^ received into it . This
school is a great honour to Freemasonry , has been well supported , and is so now ; but I hope to see the time wheu the benefits it is so well calculated to bestow may not be limited , ; as they are now , to sixty-six children ; but that , as there is considerably further accommodation in the building itself , the liberality of the Brethren may provide the means for increasing the number of inmates . There is an additional reason for a call for extra support , viz . : the large outlay expended on the building has necessitated the selling out of a portion of the stock from which th © permanent income of the charity is derived , and reduced the income by £ 300
a year . It is true the advantages gained by the transfer from the old building to the new are very considerable as regards convenience , and also in a moral as well as sanitary point of view , while , from the saving In ground-rent and other ways , we are not affected pecuniarily to the full extent of the income so lost . Still I wish to impress on you how desirable it is in every respect that the amount of stock so sold out should be replaced . The old School was badly situated near the Thames , and the atmosphere was polluted and prejudicial to the health of the children , to say nothing of the degraded state of the neighbourhood in which it was
situated . I have it upon the authority of one of the medical officers that never was the health of the School better than at present ; the new School-house is built upon a fine gravelly soil , with pure air and a good garden for the recreation of the children ; and , moreover , they can go out without the fear of contamination . The School itself is admirably managed . Miss Jarwood , the matron , has long been connected with it ; indeed , she was herself brought up in it , under the late Mrs . Crook , and she has also under her a governess who was educated in it . A visit to the school will well repay any person making it , as he cannot fail to be
delighted with the neatness , regularity , discipline , and manner generally in which the children are brought up . In addition to receiving a good education , they are taught and practised in every description of domestic work , there being only one servant kept in the establishment , with the exception of the cook . On the present occasion it is my pleasing duty to present various prizes to those children who have distinguished themselves—the medal for " good conduct" being awarded to one who is chosen by her companions as best entitled thereto . This year their choice has fallen upon Sarah Ellen Stringer , to whom I now present it , together
with the " Life of Christ , " the gift of Bro . E . H . Batten * The other prices , the gifts of Bros . Patten , H . B . Smith , and the Rev . J . G . Wood , were then presented to the following children : —Mary Teulon Lloyd , good conduct , " The Lives of our Saviour , the Prophets , and the Apostles ; " Cordelia Owen , good conduct , "The Pilgrim Fathers ; " Sarah Langley Purdy , good conduct , " Biblical Cyclopaedia ;" Mary Ann Bull , good conduct , "Biblical Antiquities ; " Charlotte Field , good
conduct , "Thomson ' s Poetical Works ; " Emma Susanna Cox , good conduct , " Moral of Flowers ; " Mary Ann llcid , good conduct , " Kirke White ; " Susannah Sarah Gray , good conduct , "Anecdotes of Animal Life ; " Emma Charlotte Hurrell , good conduct , "Anecdotes of Animal Life ; " Louisa Carolina Barnsley , good conduct , " Parables of Krummacher ; " Kate Pollard , good conduct , " Ministering Children . "
The M . W . G . M . then proceeded to say—I trust that the prizes , which the children have just received will be duly estimated by the in , and that they will look upon their education as their safeguard in after-life , so that they may turn out well , and become an honour to this Institution , as hitherto no child that has boon brought up within its walls ever turned out ill . Now let me address a few words to tho children themselves : —My dear girls , I beg to assure you that every girl educated in this School will be sure to find friends and well-wishers amongst the Members of the Craft . Lot me recommend you , if a , t any time in after-life you should be placed in difficulty , to apply to a Mason , from whom you
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The M . W . M . then rose and said : —I now come to the toast of the evenings ¦ " Success to the Btoyal Freemasons' Girls' School , " and I regret I have not powers of eloquence adequately to recommend it to your notice . The institution w as founded nearly 70 years ago , in the year 1788 , by Chevalier Ruspini , and it is remarkable that he being a man in good circumstances—a good man and good Mason , and most charitahly disposed—having founded this school with the most disinterested motives , two of his grandchildren were subsequently ^ received into it . This
school is a great honour to Freemasonry , has been well supported , and is so now ; but I hope to see the time wheu the benefits it is so well calculated to bestow may not be limited , ; as they are now , to sixty-six children ; but that , as there is considerably further accommodation in the building itself , the liberality of the Brethren may provide the means for increasing the number of inmates . There is an additional reason for a call for extra support , viz . : the large outlay expended on the building has necessitated the selling out of a portion of the stock from which th © permanent income of the charity is derived , and reduced the income by £ 300
a year . It is true the advantages gained by the transfer from the old building to the new are very considerable as regards convenience , and also in a moral as well as sanitary point of view , while , from the saving In ground-rent and other ways , we are not affected pecuniarily to the full extent of the income so lost . Still I wish to impress on you how desirable it is in every respect that the amount of stock so sold out should be replaced . The old School was badly situated near the Thames , and the atmosphere was polluted and prejudicial to the health of the children , to say nothing of the degraded state of the neighbourhood in which it was
situated . I have it upon the authority of one of the medical officers that never was the health of the School better than at present ; the new School-house is built upon a fine gravelly soil , with pure air and a good garden for the recreation of the children ; and , moreover , they can go out without the fear of contamination . The School itself is admirably managed . Miss Jarwood , the matron , has long been connected with it ; indeed , she was herself brought up in it , under the late Mrs . Crook , and she has also under her a governess who was educated in it . A visit to the school will well repay any person making it , as he cannot fail to be
delighted with the neatness , regularity , discipline , and manner generally in which the children are brought up . In addition to receiving a good education , they are taught and practised in every description of domestic work , there being only one servant kept in the establishment , with the exception of the cook . On the present occasion it is my pleasing duty to present various prizes to those children who have distinguished themselves—the medal for " good conduct" being awarded to one who is chosen by her companions as best entitled thereto . This year their choice has fallen upon Sarah Ellen Stringer , to whom I now present it , together
with the " Life of Christ , " the gift of Bro . E . H . Batten * The other prices , the gifts of Bros . Patten , H . B . Smith , and the Rev . J . G . Wood , were then presented to the following children : —Mary Teulon Lloyd , good conduct , " The Lives of our Saviour , the Prophets , and the Apostles ; " Cordelia Owen , good conduct , "The Pilgrim Fathers ; " Sarah Langley Purdy , good conduct , " Biblical Cyclopaedia ;" Mary Ann Bull , good conduct , "Biblical Antiquities ; " Charlotte Field , good
conduct , "Thomson ' s Poetical Works ; " Emma Susanna Cox , good conduct , " Moral of Flowers ; " Mary Ann llcid , good conduct , " Kirke White ; " Susannah Sarah Gray , good conduct , "Anecdotes of Animal Life ; " Emma Charlotte Hurrell , good conduct , "Anecdotes of Animal Life ; " Louisa Carolina Barnsley , good conduct , " Parables of Krummacher ; " Kate Pollard , good conduct , " Ministering Children . "
The M . W . G . M . then proceeded to say—I trust that the prizes , which the children have just received will be duly estimated by the in , and that they will look upon their education as their safeguard in after-life , so that they may turn out well , and become an honour to this Institution , as hitherto no child that has boon brought up within its walls ever turned out ill . Now let me address a few words to tho children themselves : —My dear girls , I beg to assure you that every girl educated in this School will be sure to find friends and well-wishers amongst the Members of the Craft . Lot me recommend you , if a , t any time in after-life you should be placed in difficulty , to apply to a Mason , from whom you