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Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
We have already traversed a good deal of ground , and under the circumstances Ave think it will be as well , perhaps , to defer the rest of the story of our perambulation till another number . What remains for us to tell will be more immediately connected with the Craft
and Craftsmen . ( To be continued . )
ij rjjOai ^ j i ii
Should Ladies Be Banished From Our Recreation Banquets ?
SHOULD LADIES BE BANISHED FROM OUR RECREATION BANQUETS ?
THE question which heads this paper may Avell be ansAvered in these pleasant pages . We allude , of course , to the great and grave query whether ladies should be invited to our Recreation Banquets , for that is a subject which haunts and harrasses our little Masonic world .
As to the general impropriety and unfitness of ladies taking part in our normal Masonic proceedings , no one , we fancy , has any doubt . For good and sufficient and weighty reasons ladies are excluded from Freemasonry proper ; and none of us who have once studied the question carefully , or realize what is meant and what is provided for
by such ostracism , can have any doubt but that the old and universal law of Freemasonry on the subject , stern and harsh as some may think it , is wise , and for the best . In France , where they are always fond of trying experiments , wishful to hear of and discuss " some neAV thing , " not very sensible of
ancient traditions or respectful of old-world scruples , they sought , in the last century , by a sort of compromise , to make the unchanging laws of Freemasonry , the " modus vivendi " of long years , bend to the difficulties of the situation and the needs and follies of the hour .
Accordingly they invented their " Maconnerie d'Adoption , " which had a short if brilliant existence , and having been for a little time in the height of fashion , and patronised by great Queens and titled ladies , sank into insignificance and oblivion , having been both silly and harmless , and childish and fantastic all at the same time , a real" caput mortuum , "
without meaning or importance , reality or good . Indeed , its songs and its sallies , its gay dresses and festive scenes , may be said to have simply faded before the uproar of the French Revolution , and the still
Note: This text has been automatically extracted via Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software.
Early Haunts Of Freemasonry.
We have already traversed a good deal of ground , and under the circumstances Ave think it will be as well , perhaps , to defer the rest of the story of our perambulation till another number . What remains for us to tell will be more immediately connected with the Craft
and Craftsmen . ( To be continued . )
ij rjjOai ^ j i ii
Should Ladies Be Banished From Our Recreation Banquets ?
SHOULD LADIES BE BANISHED FROM OUR RECREATION BANQUETS ?
THE question which heads this paper may Avell be ansAvered in these pleasant pages . We allude , of course , to the great and grave query whether ladies should be invited to our Recreation Banquets , for that is a subject which haunts and harrasses our little Masonic world .
As to the general impropriety and unfitness of ladies taking part in our normal Masonic proceedings , no one , we fancy , has any doubt . For good and sufficient and weighty reasons ladies are excluded from Freemasonry proper ; and none of us who have once studied the question carefully , or realize what is meant and what is provided for
by such ostracism , can have any doubt but that the old and universal law of Freemasonry on the subject , stern and harsh as some may think it , is wise , and for the best . In France , where they are always fond of trying experiments , wishful to hear of and discuss " some neAV thing , " not very sensible of
ancient traditions or respectful of old-world scruples , they sought , in the last century , by a sort of compromise , to make the unchanging laws of Freemasonry , the " modus vivendi " of long years , bend to the difficulties of the situation and the needs and follies of the hour .
Accordingly they invented their " Maconnerie d'Adoption , " which had a short if brilliant existence , and having been for a little time in the height of fashion , and patronised by great Queens and titled ladies , sank into insignificance and oblivion , having been both silly and harmless , and childish and fantastic all at the same time , a real" caput mortuum , "
without meaning or importance , reality or good . Indeed , its songs and its sallies , its gay dresses and festive scenes , may be said to have simply faded before the uproar of the French Revolution , and the still