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THE MASONIC JOUKNAJ. FOE the LADIES. Jumbles.—One and one-fourth pounds flour, three-fourths of .sugar, three eggs, a little nut meg, three fourths of a pound of butter. Koll them in sugar. Gr.\ii.4.m: SoD.t Biscuit.—-One quart of Gra ham flour, one teaspoonful of flour dissolved ill two-thirds of a teaspooiiful of iuolas.ses ; mix with milk and water. Fok a Couoii.—Koast a lemon very careful ly, without burning : w'hoii it is thoroughly hot, cut and squeezi- it into a cup upon tliree ounces of sug ,r candy finely powdered. Take a spoonful waenever your cough troubles you. To Tell Good Eqgs.—If you desire to be ce-.-tain that your eggs are good and fresh put them in water ; if the buts turn up they are fresh. This is an infallible rule to distinguish a good egg from a bad one. To Remove Fruit, Coffee, or Tea Stain —Hold the spot over a pail, and pour on boil ing water trom a considerable height. Soap sets the color of the.se .stains and should never be allow ed to touch them Pickled C.vbb.vge.—Take large cabbage, .-trip off the outside, leaves, which cut in thin slices into a dish, sprinkling salt over tliem.— Cover them witli a cloth and let lie twenty- four hour.s; then drain the cabbage on a sieve and put it into a clean jar, wl ich should be well filled with allspice, whole pepper, and sliced giiigei. Pour over it cold vinegar and lie it closely over. Stewed Potatoes.—Talcc cold boiled po tatoes, pare tiiem and cut in thin slices; to a pint of milk, when scalding hot. stir in a tabicspooiif il of butler and flour, rubbed to getlier; s.dt to taste ; add the yolk of one egg and some par.-ley chopped fine. When well mi.v:ed, throw in tiie potatoes, shaking careful ly without a .sp.oou to avoid breaking. Let them stew I'or a few nioiiients and serve. M.vrble C.vke.—For the white, half a ciip- I'lil of butter, one cupful of white sugar, one- quarter cupful of sweet milk, whites of four eggs, half a teaspooiiful of soda, two ciipsful of flour, and flavor With lemon. For the dark, half a cupful of biilter, one cupful of inolass- e.s, yolks of four eggs, two cupsful of flour.— Put in a pan first a spoonful of dark cake, tiieii a spoonful of wliite, and so on. Bake in a hot oven. Toji.ato Figs.—Scald and peel smooth, ripe tomatoes, and put in stone j.ar witli equal weight of sugar, J.et them stand Iwm days, and then pour off the .syrup, boil and skim until no scum rises. Pour over the tomatoes, and let them stand two days then boil and skim again After the third time, they are re.ady to dry, if the weather is good; if not let them staud.iii the syrup until di-ying weath er. Then piit the tomatoes on earthen plate.s iiithesiui. When fully dry. wdiich will take about a week, pack them clr.wn in small bo.xeg with fine while sugar between each layer.— They will keep for years. Borax for Colds.—A writer in the Medi cal Record cites a mimbor of cases in which borax has proved a most effectual remedy in curing certain forms of colds. He states that in sudden lioaivseiiess or lo.-s of voice in pub lic speakers or singers, from colds, relief for an hour or so, as by magic, may be obtained by dissolving and partially sivallowing a lump) of borax the size of a garden pica, or about three or four grains held in the moiitii for ten minutes b-jfore speaking or singing.. This prcdiicf 3 a profuse secretion or watering of the iiioutli or throat—probably restoring the voice of tone to the dried vocal cords, just as • wetting” brings back the missing notes to a flute, when it is too drv. Th.e Investiture of tlie Apron, ed with aprons as a peculiar badge of dis- Simple axd Pretty Frames. —Leaf pic ture frames, if neatly made, are suitable for cheap piriuts that one may desire to frame without the e.xpeiise of a glass even. 'Take a piiecc of planed board of the size required, bind the edge.s with any fancy paper, attacli the screw's and cord, paste tlie picture on very solidly, excluding all air, and hang it up to dry. Tlien tiike pressed autumn leaves of all sizes and shapes and ariange tastefully about the margin, fastening them' with gum arable or flour pnisto, prcs.-iiig them down carefully i'rara base to point. Most of the stems will have to be removed, as they are in the way lp not stickwell. Hangup again until quite dry—w'liicti will probably be the next day— tlien neatly brush the whole, leaves, picture and all. with wliite varnish—Hearth, and Home, The term investiture is sometimes mis understood by the Masonic Fraternity, deeming it to refer solely to the clothing of a brother with Masonic regalia and jewels, but every such member of the Or der should be immediately divested of any such narrow definition ; The word refers as well to being clothed in mind, to endow, to confer, to put in possession of; the init-ate is invested with the word the sign, the token when he is put in pos session of them and their proper defini tion conferred upon him. And So with the doctrines, principles and virtues that are thereby inculcated, as also when cloth ed with his regalia and jewel, they are severally explained and commented upon to the understanding of tim receiver. We desire herein to refer to the inves titure of the candidate of the lambskin apron. ■Whose white investment figures innocence.” The white leathern apron commences its iesGoiis in the earlier period of the Neophyte’s progress by its symbolic teachings ; it is the first gift the no-fice receives and is impressed the more upon the memory; it is his first realizing fact of his being of the brotherhood. The apron shou.d in every sense, be pure and unspotted, of white color, although the regulations admit a blue border as the distinct mark of fiiendship, of which that color is the symbol ; in the ancient mys teries lue cai.diitate was always clothed in white : “Pontiffs clad ill white array Seek to journey in Tby way, Wliile virtue guides tneir erring feet And mirrored truth tlieir prayers repeat.” The color has in all friends and nation.s been esteemed an emblem of innocence and purity, the representative of charitv. It was with this view that a portion of the vestments of the Jewish priesthood was decided to be of white. In the mys teries of Mithras, in Persia, the candidate was invested with a white apron. In the initiations in Hindofistan, the ceremony of investiture was preserved, but a sash called the sacred zenner, was substituted for an apron. The Esseneans robed their novices in white. In Japan where mys tic rites have, from an unk.iown period been practiced, their candidates are in vested with a white apron, bound round the loins with a girdle. Dr. Oliver says in his “iSigiis and Symbols “The apron appears to have been in ancient times an honorary badge of distinction. In Jewish economy, none but the superior Orders of the priesthood were permitted to adorn themselves with ornamental girdles, which were made of blue, purple and crimson, decorated with gold upon a ground of fine white linen, while the in ferior priests wore only plain white. The Indian, the Persian, the Jewish, the Ethi opian and the Egyptian aprons, though equally supurb, all bore a character dis tinct from each other. Some were plain white ones, others striped with blue, pur ple and crimson ; some were of wrought gold, others adorned amd decorated with superb ta.ssels and fringes. In a word, through the principal honor of the apron may consist in innocence of conduct and purity of heart, yet it constantly appears through all ages Jo have been a most ex alted badge of distinction. In primitive times it was rathei an ecales'asteoal than a civil decoration, although in some oases the apron was elevated to great superiori ty as a national trophy. The royal stand ard of Persia was originally an apron in form and dimensions. At this day it is connected with ecclesiastical honors for the chief dignitaries of the Christian church, wherever a legitimate establish ment, with the necessary degrees of rapk and subordination, is formed, are invest- tinotion ; which is a oolateral proof of the fact that Masonry was originally incorpo rated with the various systems of divine worship used by every people of the an cient world, Masonry retains the sym bol or shadow ; it cannot have renounced the reality of substance.” We are taught in the ritual of the first degree, “that by the lambskin the Mason is reminded of that purity of life and rec titude of conduct which are so essentially necessary to his gaining admission into the celestial Lodge above, where the Su preme Architect ot the Universe forever presides.” On the score of economy other materi al than lambskin is frequently used, but only on this ground should it be allowed for the lamb is the appropriate of inno cence. Let us not forget that the lamb skin apron is the badge “more ancient than the Golden Fleece, or Eomau Eagle, and more honorable than the Star and Garter.” And when the last farewell be spoken and the sad words fall, “Alas, my Brother !” no substitute, but the defined apron of lambskin shonld accompany him to his long home. ' “Wliere angels ever bright and fair Shall gu)ird hi-n with their teiiderest care.” —Hebrew Leader. Love-Making in Portugal. FOR THE MASONIC FNATERNITY IK North Carolina and the South, A correspondent writing from Portu gal says: The young men here have one OGOupatioii more - important even than weaaing tight boots—that of making the very mildest form of courtship known among men. The process, indeed, is car ried on in so Platonic a manner, and with so much proper feeling, that I doubt if even the strictest English Government would find anything in it to object to. The young gentlemen pay their addresses by simply standing in front of the house ■'coupied by the object of their affections, while the young person in question looks down approvingly from an upper window, and there the matter ends. They are not within speaking distance, and have to content themselves with expressive glances and dumb .show, for it wou Id be thought highly unbecoming for the young lady to allow a h.Uet-doux to flutter down into the street, while the laws of gravita tion {ftand in the way of the upward flight ot such a document—unweighted, at least with a stone, and this, of course, might risk giving the young lady a black eye, or breaking her father’s window panes. So the lovers there remain, oft en for hours, feeling no doubt, very hap py, but looking unutterably foolish. TTrese silent courtships sometimes contin ue for very long periods before the lover can ask the fatal question, or the lady re turn the final answer. I heard a story of one such protracted courtship, which an ingenious novelist might easily work into a p.retty romance. About forty or fifty years ago, before the suppression of convents in Portugal, young lady was engaged to be married. For some reason or other, the marriage did not come off, and the girl was placed in a Benedictine nunnery at Oporto. Soon after came the abolition of convents; but, while the monasteries were absolute ly dissolved, and the monks scattered, the nuns who were already inmates of religious houses were suffered there to re main. The young lady accordingly, on the suppression occurring did not leave the Benedictine convent. It is presumed however, that the rules of this p.artioular establishment were sume'^hat relaxed, for the young gentleman who had been en gaged to this nun was ob.served to take his constant stand before the barred win dow of his former mistress’ cell, while she would become visible behind the grating. Here the romance I have imagined would perhaps, rather lack incident, and, except in a ma,steps hand, might grow monoto nous, for this hopeless courtship lasted no fewer than four and thirty years, till a bowed and middle-aged man paced the \ pavement and looked up to a gray hair- ed mistress. It only ended in the death of the lady, a few years ago. Many per sons have assured me that they had often been eye witnesses of what I have de scribed, and I found the fact notorious in Oporto. There are in the Sonik 200,009 Freemason,« and recognizing the imperative need for a reg ular and permanent Organ peculiarly suiteti to the demands of this vast number “who ar«, llnlced together by an indissolute chain of sin- oere affection,” we are now publishing a first class WEEKLY MASONIC NEWSPAPER, such as the dignity and advancement of the-. Fraternity will approve, which is the only MASONIC WEEKLY rUBLISHED SOUTH OF BALTIMORE and devoted strictiv to MASOKIC INTERESTS. Milha joHrnaligtio experience of several years and a determination to give all onr time, talent and energy to the promotion of this im portant enterprise we Iiope to receive from our JIasonic bredireii that liberal confidence and support whicli. by an entire devotion to its suc cess we. liope to merit. BS?* Terms CASH, and all money should be sent by Check, Fost-Oflice order or Registered Letter. Address la JJI E. A. WILSON, GayEMBOKo, K, C.
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