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as also of the pigsty-like condition m which the kitchen was kept , ancl of tbe foul encrustrations which were permitted to gather about the insides of the cooking-pots , ancl over every other article necessary for the preparation ancl the serving up a decent-looking dinner . Again you will he told that although the house ' s then most unworthy superintendent hacl his discharge at last , and one of better promise was put in his place , yet that latterly this very successor of the party which hacl been so discharged has had

himself complained against , inasmuch as the culpability of those who are immediately under his authority reverts in some degree to himself , and hence his clue share of the blame . Yon will learn from these talkings , that the grey , square , tile-X ) aved floor of the reading-room , which now looks somewhat seemly , because scrubbed over and washed and cleaned every two weeks , had been allowed , nofc many months back , or scarcely a year ago , to become as black as the blackest parts of the streetfaced thickl

, y over with those accumulations which may be expected to find lodgment on such a surface , when continually shoe-trodden upon , shoe dirtied , and dirtied too , wifch grease and the peelings of boiled potatoes , and the careless spittings of many of the inmates ; dirtied , indeed , in a great variety of ways , and that dirt hardened by the heavy pressure of repeated footfalls , into a substance of immoveable position and ugliest hue . Ancl even now there are smotherings of complaint creeping about

in respect to unclean sheets , ancl as ill-savouring insinuations as to the cause ; the regular payments , as it is assumed , for the reputed regular sheet washing being made , although the work is not actually accomplished . How well or ill-founded these suspicions may be , one thing is certain , which is , that in a matter which lately engrossed so much attention from the inmates of the house , it is not unlikely that it should do so to some degree still ; and hence this sheet affair may

be expected to long receive a close watching , as also that of the drying towels in the up-stairs washing-places . Mi * . Taylor should bethink him that those who are under his orders , —as are the two men who have the joint care between them of the kettle-boiling , the bed-makind , tbe room-sweeping , and the stair-sweeping , as also the changing of the sheets and pillow-cases , and many of the smaller etceteras , —require the vigilant eye-watching of the master , as most people would do were they placed in a like situation ; and this he but rarely or never is known to trouble himself in doing . The social experiment involved in the expectancy which gave rise

to these " models , " is of a class too valuable to be consigned to the chance of an eye-shutting perilling . The rude but guileless Simon Elustrumsof the hamlet have hacl a kindly eye cast upon them in their native positions by the wise ancl generous of even this so much censured London ; ermined peers and other personages of high names or wealthy repute being solicitous that each of the Elustrum brotherhood , on arriving in London , should find such sheltering-place as might be requisite for the better and longer

conservatism of that pure relish for the pure in appearance which they had hitherto been accustomed to feel . Nor this alone ; but to lure on the Londoner as well , or other city or large-town-reared toiler—to lure on all alike to the love of the pure , ancl so to think more truthfully of the value of the clean bed to lie upon , a careful and constant clean-keeping of the hands and face , ancl other parts of the frame . AVho can deny the thorough excellence of these objects ? And therefore is it that the model loding-houseand all

g , similarly purposed establishments , are not to be supposed to be able , as the phrase is , to go safely alone when once they are fairl y put on their feet , but such earnestly watchful supervision be kept over them as never to allow the risk of their lapsing into anything but the best of " models . " Ancl this one of George-street is , in the main , of such character ; ancl is proving its altogether solvent , the income of last year

over the expenditure having amounted to the respectable sum of £ 330 10 s . 7 d . ; and this , notwithstanding there has been double the towel washing , perhaps more sheet ancl blanket washing , ancl certainly far more closets and corridor , and stair and reading-room cleansing than at any antecedent twelve months since the house has been opened , which was in 184-7 . Now , reading-room , stairs , washing-closets and sleeping-closets , ancl corridors are put in a course of a regular fortnightly cleaning and sweetening ba

strongy armed charwoman , employing water-pail , soap , sfcout scrubbingbrush , ancl rough woollen cloth ; whereas a long brush in the hands of a careless man , was formerly the chief instrument in use , and water but rarely applied , the male sex being either too stiff-kneed or stubborn-purposed to do as a woman will do in the matter of floor-scrubbing . Praisethenbe to those " grumblers" ( as suchdoubtless

, , uneasy , , was the name given ) who , some twelve or fifteen months ago , carrying the stories of their grievances to Exeter Hall committee , found that they had grumbled so effectually that Lord Shaftesbury and his consorting colleagues felt they hacl a strong cause on their side , and so enforced a remedy , as well by enjoining a stricter care

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on the part of the superintendent and his assistants , as by affording : the means to bargain with a poor hard-working woman for her services as " char" to the house ; for , after all , this woman is only occasionally engaged , and yet the benefits have become most notable .

The superintendent ' s salary , as is understood , is £ 52 per year , without rent and coal charges ; ancl that of the men bed-makers , a free lodging with 10 s . 6 d . per week ; to which such additions a ' re made as arise from a small charge for the letting in of lodgers after the door-closing hour of night , or from twelve o ' clock to one ; - no admittance being permitted at any subsequent hour until houseopening time , at five o ' clock in the morning ; the other source of perquisite being the calling up of such lod as wish to be

gers may waked at a certain hour in the morning , —as , for instance , at five , half-past five , six , or a quarter-past six , it being quite common to see these instructions chalked over the kitchen mantel-piece , thus : No . 9 , hi- ; No . 21 , 5 f ; No . 99 , 6 ; ancl so on ; so that the p ' articulaiassistant to whom this office belongs , on getting from his own bed in the early morning , learns at once what he has to do , and acts accordingly . Through such means , then , —and no doubt some othersthese considerabl

, — men y help out their more regular income and when the plain character of the whole of the duties they have to perform is considered , hi conjunction with the willintmess of many even of the lodgers to be so berffied , there seems to be no reason whatever but that both the parties so engaged as bed-makers & c , as well as the superintendent himself , should be made to keepthe place up to its proper position as a " model . " " But , " there are those who will say , "but , is not the

placealready too good for many who come to it ? " Why no , it cannot be this ; for although there may be a few of rude manners and disagreeable habits , yet in such a lodging something of improvement will insensibly creep over even these very parties ; their coarseness of expression and piggishness of conduct cannot but fall into the incline groove , and so causing them to become somewhafc less and less offensive the longer they remain in the houseIndeed

. , the _ great value of every such establishment is curative ; the cultivation of a better perception of one ' s own self-deservance—that sort of esteem which is not of the haughty nor of the fribblinocast , but has its just balance between what is our own proper due and the due of others .- And a clean face is a hel p in this way , a clean bed to lie on , a clean table to sit at , and a cleanly dished-im dinner to eat . The newspaper , also , is a help , and a great help in the miscellaneous information

we get from it ; and so , in like manner , are our gettings from the different other issues of the press , a great help , —these ranging from the cheapest of ths " periodical" progeny to the cheapest of our " s-olume" venturino-s —as in the "Home Library , " "Parlour Library , " "Popular Library , " " Penny Library , " and many other of these book-births . Ancl in these several particulars the George-street lodgers , as those in other " models , " derive advantages not to be had in the less cared about poor men ' s lodgings ; and are benefitted and raised by these advantages . —Builder .

Masonic Notes And Queries.

MASONIC NOTES AND QUERIES .

BRO . THE EEVEEEND UK . BAREY . A gold medal and vote of thanks was presented to the-Eev . Dr . Barry by Grand Lod ge on the 7 th of September , 1808 , stated to be " as a mark of respect for his loii ° - and faithful services to the Graft "—in what capacity ?"—PHILOMASON . JONATHAN 01 * THE PIBLAES , BRUNSWICK .

Was Hamburg ever under the Grand Lod ge of England?—C . S . —[ Yes . On the 12 th of February , 1744 , the Prov . G . M . of Hamburg and Lower Saxony , by virtue of a patent from the Grand Lodge of England , granted permission for the establishment ' of a lodge at Brunswick under the name of " Jonathan of the two pillars . " ] ADOPTIVE MASONET .

Where can I learn any details respecting Adoptive Masonry ?—EDWAED . —[ A Bro . Lenard , of New York , published them . He is styled Grand Secretary ofthe Supreme Constellation of the American Adoptive Rite . His declaration is worded thus : — "To that Master-piece of Divine Architecture . THE MASON TRIED A- * B TRUE , and to Her who is his greatest earthly consoler THE PATIEI-UI , WIPE , THE OBEDIENT DAUGHTEB , OK AEEECTIONATE ' SISIEB , this Journal—the work of many hands—containing thoughts