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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 18TH, 1922

WHERE TO STAY WHEN VISITING HOME.

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MYSTERIES OF MASONRY.

LIGHT ON THE GREAT BROTHERHOOD"

COST OF LIVING IN

GERMANY.

SOME STRIKING FIGURES.

One of the Craft writes in a bonte The Divil Service Correspondent of The. paper. Mom and more every year Free Daily Telegraph writes: Civil servants masonry grows in universality. Like and the public generally will be interests. Run by the owner, has the best situation, and is First Class One minute's walk from love, it is as wide as the world. In Greated in the following figures issued by the HARRODS, HYDE PARK, and SLOANE STREET, 100. Bedrooms with Hot and Cold water, ample Britain, nominations for initiation bave German Civil Service Union, dealing with statistics are based on investigations us, Bathrooms, pleasing Restaurant and Lounges, Luggage stored for any period, also room for become so overwhelming that many or the cost of living in Germany. The A number of lodges have declared their to how much money, a middle-class man serting and Packing. "En Pension" terme from 29/6, Double rooms without food from 3-most pre-war lodges have a full house, Bingle from 11/6, Baths included. Excellent Cuisine.

limit of membership: for the time being would reed to earn to enable him to live their doors are closed. In others, can with his family as he did in 1913. The didates for initiation have to quene-up, enlculations are based on the assumption so to speak, four deep, and may have to that the family consists of father, mother, son, and daughter, and that they are await membership for many moons.

Happily, new lodges are from time to living in a cheap quarter of Berlin with time consecrated as Freemasonry grows, four rooms, kitchen. bath-rooms, arī a so that no just, upright, and free man, pantry at their disposal: of mature, age, sound judgment, and strict morals, need despair of a place in the craft sooner or later.

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I have wad many alleged exposures and heard many objections to

really And those who are curious about exposure of the sort will And in the British Museum one of the earliest; it is in the "Flying Post of 1773, No. 4719. From this ancient lumin- ary I learn that when a Freemason is entered, after having given to all present a pair of Men and Women's Gloves and leatherssapron," he swears to reveal no secrets of the Worshiplul Fraternity, on pain of having his throat cut, and diving a double Portion of Hell and Damnation hereafter."

Truly the kinger we live the more we learn. Coramon objections to Freemasonry run on familiar, if necessarily ignorant, lines. One is that Freemasons generally are no better than other people, and sometimes WORSE.

Another is that, of several degrees, the greatest of these is the Knife-and-Fork Degree. Still another is that Freemasonry is a secret society, and that cobody ex- cept Freemasons can know what shocking Berets they keep

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In regard to the Delectable Degree of The outputations of the pamphlet put Decorous Diners. is sometimes supposed down 2,000 for rent M. 0.102.40 for that it is wholly and solely by this beating, M.2,069 for lighting, M.5.000 for! mystery of mysteries that men leave their charwoman. M.11.se for clothing for the loving wives and won't go home till morn- father, M.11,740 for the son, M.10,750 for the mother, and M.10.000 For clothing for the daughter. Rathing and ablutions of the whole family post M:9,080, house cleaning and household washing M.1,000, household requirements, such as the pur- chase of cooking utensils, linen, etc., is put down at M.4,000. Further provision is made for general purchases, such as curtains, gas, mantles, cleaning prepara- So that's that. It is now a secret no tiens for clothing and implements, re mare. And really and truly it never was pairs to furniture and clothing, books, and never can be the most valuable secret school books, and writing material, of the craft. The must valuable secret.of pocket money for the children, doctora the craft constitutes a sublimity, fint a costs, deliencies, and expenses for recrea dinner.

Although at my initiation I was taught to be cautious. I can say at

once that the only secret I have been able to dis- cover about this.degree, if any, .untu this day, is that the food is sometimes rather good, that the wine is often net so bad, and that occasionally the speeches could not passibly be worse.

A RELIGION OF BROTHERHOOD

tion and amusements, and, finally, travel ling expenses and taxes. All these items: would raise the living. experises of a What is Freemasonry! I am confident modest middle-class family at the pre-war | 11 shall not be hanged on the nearest rate now to a total of M.939,988.50. If we lamp-post for telling. Freemasonry is a consider that the same family has to live peculiar system of morality veiled non probably 1.36,000, exclusive of taxes, allegory, illustrated by symbols, and per annum, it is not difficult to imagine founded on brotherly" love, relief, and under what conditions the middle-classes truth.

have to live at present.

That, on my honour and conscience, is the shortest answer I would be prepared to make on oath in any witness box in the land. Even so, I can conceive that those who sit in the seats of the scornful or push out their noses from the corners of curiosity will suspect the answer as an evasion, or, what is worse, as a termino- logical inexactitude,

But what precisely," they will prob ably demand. is this peculiar system of morality?" I have no objection what ever to reveal even that secret in more specific detail. Believing that Free masonry is a great good thing, and that more people ought to know what a great good thing it is, I even welcome the opportunity..

Now to the uninitiated, the mocking, and the suspicious, Freemasonry is merely a mysterious craft: to the true Freemason it is a religion of brotherhood, and a fascinating sudy in history: Freemasonry understood, reverenced, and practised 18 a hand-maid of religion, for in itself it is the religion of morality,

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There are some healthy and fortunate people who know icdigestion only by name, but the vast majority of us have a touch of this distres sing ailment at some time or other. Ca modern habit of doing everything in a hurry can't "the stomach little repose, and we always spare the time to eat our meals slowly and rest a little while afterwards, as we ought to do to give the digestive organe time to assimilate the food and obtain from it the fall nourishment it contains.

leaves

Only a strong, healthy stomach can stard the conditions of modern life, and if

you wish

to avoid paios after eating, a sense of fulness and weight, flatulence and all the other miseries,

A London telegram to Indian papers you must keep your stomach healthy and dated August 21st says:-The Prime Minis.strong, 6t to carry out its digestive duties, ters advice (after Wellington) to "Pub-easily and naturally.

in the form of the publication of a book let by the Westminster Gazette.

lish and be damned" has been accepted If for any reason your stomach loses tone by Major-General Sir Frederick Maurice, and eficiency, take the World-wide Bemedy for digestive disorders, the ideal stomach and liver daily tonic, Mother Seigel's Syrup. Take It will be remembered that Sir Frede after your meals for a while, and note the health-the increase of rick wrote to Mr. George demand-improvement in

Your of an impatation your vigour. No other remedy before the the withdrawloyd contained in a statement by the Premier public possesses its splendid parem of toning

tomach and House of in

and strengthening

action of the liver and

ing

up

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remedy for digestive disorders.

incorrect information regarding the nu

France, merical strength of the army in

A good many people would not mind indiges and that Mr. Lloyd George replied on 28th July that he was content to leave tion so much if it only meant feeling a little the matter to the unprejudiced judgment les vigoarous Its the in and distress of

while he referred General of posterity,

of flesh that makes thit common Maurice, regarding the latter's threat indigestion, added to the weakness and the publish the correspandene on the subject, complaint so hard to bear. If you suffer la this way, you asterally want to get well again of Wellington in similar circumstances as quickly as you can, and the best way and

important secrets *

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The booklet reveals

the shortest way is to taks Mother Seigel's Syrupy up "Зутир

is not a cure all. It owes ita the success to the fact that it contains the

and seeks to show that instead of a more

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Minister, was response figues medicinal extracts of mors than ten root,

conflict by is inconsistency and against the British General Staff. It quotes, tarks and leaves, which, is combustion, bave as an example, an occasion in 1918 when a remarkably beneficial effect in toning up and "within six weeks of Mr. Lloyd George's strengthening the organs of digestion. Thus administration, the Chantilly plan was over Mother Seiger's Syrup restores these organs to thrown, the Italian plan advented and working order, clears out of the system the abandoned and the Nivelle plan finally poisonous products of indigestion and enibles from fox, the only to gain flourishment from you to a lopted."

Genera: Maurice spenky of the embarass-way in which it can le gained. But if you ment of Field Marshal Haig and General Sir aro wise, you will not wait until you suffer William Hobertson when the plan to give from indigestion you will be guided by the General Nivelle the control of the British

the consequence of stomach and liver of the Allied Conferens. Both had been troubles by just taking thirty drops of Mother aring was sprung upon them in the middle aroid tte of the thousands of people who Previously ignorant of wint

was nfoot Scigel's Strap whenever they feel the slightest Maurice

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