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The Approaching Festival of the Girls' School ready to use every opportunity of throwing a shadow of THE APPROACHING FESTIVAL OF doubt and distrust upon any well-intentioned scheme. The THE GIRLS' SCHOOL. " wet blanket " class have not been behind-hand Jhis time, but! shall we be too sanguine if we venture to express are now coming' within measurable distance of WE our belief that notwithstanding tho vapourings of a few the Annual Festival in connection with the Royal who conjure up sentimental grievances and apprehensions , Masonic Institution for Girls, which is fixed to take place the coming Festival will be a success, worthy to bo at Freemasons' Hall, on the eleventh of next month : and reckoned amongst the prominent Masonic events of the very naturally there exists a certain degree of hopeful Jubilee year ? speculation in the minds of many as to the magnitude We have already witnessed the celebration of one its results will assume. The Institution is so grounded Anniversary Festival this year—that on behalf of the in the affections of the Craft that there need be little fear Royal Masonic Benevolent Institution—and the exceptional as to the outcome of the united exertions of its supporters ; result of that gathering induces us to hope that a like at the same time it is absolutely necessary to occasionally measure of success is in store for the other Masonic remind the brethren of England of the responsibilities which Festivals of this auspicious year. Anyhow, we are not devolve upon them in connection with this and the other disposed to encourage any gloomy prognostications in Charities of the Order. Time passes so swiftly that there regard to that on behalf of the Girls' School. almost seems to be one continuous appeal before the Craft Judging from what we hear around us on every side on behalf of its three Institutions ; no sooner is one Festival there is as healthy and robust a feeling of interest in disposed of than preparations are made for its successor, the School this year as ever. Up to present time two and the various Lodges are again asked to lend a hand in hundred and fourteen Stewards have offered their services raising the funds actually required to meet the expenditure and support to the President of the day, Brother Sir of the year. It is just this necessity of providing for cur- Offley Wakeman , Bart., Provincial Grand Master of rent expenses which renders such frequency of appeal Shropshire, and undoubtedl y in the few weeks that imperative, and it is just this urgency which should have to elapse before the Festival this number will influence brethren when they come to decide on the answer be further augmented. With such a body of supporters they shall give. It is not sufficient to refer to the large the Festival can hardly fail to be satisfactory, and sums contributed in the past—they have been spent , and we trust there is an abundant store of disappointment in they have induced a line of action which virtually demands waiting for the " croakers " who would throw cold water a continuance of past liberality; promises have been made upon the affair. by those who have contributed in years gone by which Within the last few weeks ample evidence has been have to be redeemed by the present generation of Masons, given to prove how thoroughly the Chanty k fulfilling and we feel it is only necessary to remind them of what its mission, all the candidates eligible for the April is expected in order to ensure its being supplied. election having been admitted without the cost, trouble Freemasonry in this country owes no small part of its and anxiety of a contest at the poll. But this step popularity to the three Charities which are so intimately has added to the number of pupils in the School , and associated with it, and it is not therefore out of place for has consequently increased the claims which the Charity special attention to be devoted to the Festivals of the Insti- has on the sympathies of the Craft, while it has also tutions as year by year they come round. The actual con- given rise to a report that the Institution is not really tinuance of Freemasonry is, in a measure, dependent on the in need of funds. The mere fact of admitting all who success of those Festivals, for however much any one may were eligible is sufficient in the eyes of some to prove that urge that the Charities are not essential to the Order , there the Institution has as much as it wants ; but what is really is no gainsaying the fact that without the practice of the case r As a special matter, a few children who would charity on an extensive scale Freemasonry would have no otherwise have been rejected have been admitted to the particular object in the United Kingdom. If we took Institution , on the supposition that the Craft will do as away from Freemasons the privilege of benefiting their much on its behalf in the future as it has done in the past. fellow creatures nothing would be left sufficientl y attrac- There is no room for a falling off of support ; on the con- tive to keep them together for any length of time, and trary, additional responsibilities have been undertaken , and accordingly the Order would gradual ly dwindle away. to meet them increased funds are necessary, so that instead Benevolence being, then , the main object of Masonry 's of calling for lessened aid the action of the subscribers existence, the practice of it on a large scale naturall y should cause renewed enthusiasm ; for it is only by such follows, but unfortunately there are far more applicants means that the Institution can be maintained , or its work than it is possible to relieve. This will explain how it is amon g the daughters of English Craftsmen continued. th at so little provision has been made for the future by It would be idle to speculate as to what the result of the the Institutions entrusted with the distribution of the coming Festival will be. So many matters have an Craft's bounty. In their desire to do the greatest amount influence on the ultimate total that any estimate we mi of ght good at the time, the subscribers have spent the money give would be little else than the result of guesswork ; at as fast as it has come in , feeling sure that brethren who the same time there are indications sufficient to justif y onr came after them would do as much in their turn as th en- prediction of a success, although we cannot say wc are predecessors. The Festival to be held next month will no convinced that this year's " success " will be a comparison doubt prove, as those which have gone before have done, with some of the totals which have tne been realised in the correctness of this surmise, but it behoves us to look past. It does not follow that a satisfactory Festival must be around and make sure that every effort is being used to in advance of all its predecessors in regard to total of preclude the possibility of failure, especially when, as is donations, although we naturall look for a regular usuall y y the case, we have in onr midst a body of carpers ¦upward tendency. All we can hope for is, that sufficient will be realised to allow of the Institution being continued clothing of boys and girls ; and it will be accepted as a in its present condition , while if there is a balance of fair deduction that the expenditure needed for, say, 250 receipts over expenditure during the year we shall be all girls may be taken at little more than two-thirds of the the more delighted. This and much more can be achieved similar expense for the same number of boys. Paterfamilias if the Chairman of the day is as liberally supported as he knows to his cost how frequently the wardrobes of his deserves to be, and for this reason we earnestly plead on young hopefuls require replenishing and repair, what behalf of the Royal Masonic Institution for Girls. justice they can do to the trencher after their out-door athletic games, and how essential it is to give them a superior education , so as to fit them for the battle of life and enable them to hold their own in an acre when competition becomes every day more keen. In all these THB JUBILEE AND THE BOYS' SCHOOL matters boys are—at any rate in their earlier stages—more ONE effect of the action of the Executive of the Royal expensive to maintain than are their sisters, and the Masonic Institution for Girls, in deciding to admit computation made by Brother Binckes is very fairly tho whole of the candidates upon their list for the next proportionate. If so, the admission of twenty boys beyond ' election without a contest, in celebration of the Queen s the number for whom vacancies already exist, reckoning Jubilee, has been to raise an inquiry as to whether a the cost at the very low estimate of forty pounds a year, similar course might not be adopted with regard to the would involve the necessity of an additional income of Boys' School. Now, as we briefly pointed out in these nearly a thousand pounds per annum. It is self- columns a fortnight ago, snch a step, however desirable in evident that in the present position of the funds, the idea itself—and no matter how unanimously it would be suggested by some writers that the Executive of the Boys' approved by the whole body of subscribers, if the School should imitate the example of the Girls' is far responsibility which would attach to it wero not greater beyond the range of practical consideration.
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