The Vancouver independent. (Vancouver, W.T. [Wash.]) 1875-1910, 1881-12-29
Entertainments.

Entertainments.
The long evenings in our northern
climate are close at hand, when all seek
social recreation and amusement, now
and then away from home. Soclality
grows best in the cold season, when the
ground is covered with snow and ice.
Then it is that we long to sit and chat,
and joke the long evenings away around
the tiresides of our neighbors. Then it
is we are ready for "hitch-up" and
drive, walk if we must to II public hall
or lecture room, where we may mingle,
perhaps, instruction with amusement
and socality. Then it is that we feel
like bestirring ourselves and going out
again. Winter is jolly season after ali,
even if its days are sometimes cold and
bleak. There is more good nature flow
ing about in rollicking, easy way when
the Thermometer has dropped down to
freezing than when it stands Mt blood
heat. Give us any day but July for
flow of social and fraternal spirits.
Where is the man or woman who was
ever real boy or girl, that doesn't hug
in the sweetest remembrances the long
winter evenings, when song, and laugh
ter. and blind mans buff made the old
house shake and the faces grow red?
Who wouldn't be boy or girl again?
Alas, we cannot! But we can hold onto
the jovial ways we had, and be jovial
still. We can turn out from our homes
once in awhile and take in the brac-
ing air that seems to give vigor, not only
to body, but to soul, and makes us roll
licking and young again.
Yes, we can turn our ways to the lodge
room, and turn this social season into
a channel that shall bring growth and
prosperity to our Order. This may
seem like making sharp turn of our
writing to practical point. Well, that
is what we are after. There is n season
coming rapidly on just adapted to the
mission we have in hand Of developing
the socinlity Of the Knights and Ladies'.
Let us appropriate it. How shall we do
it? We don't propose mOulds in which
to cast iron rules, directing what shall
be done, and how it shall be done. But
we are great on suggestions, and so we
will suggest.
First. We are soon to have Ritual
that cannot fail to please, and, if well
worked to bring out the members to the
lodge meetings. 1t is attractive in its
forms and dress, instructive in its les
son, dignifed in its style, and full of
points of real literary worth. If there
is any enterprise in n lodge ut all the
Ritual is going to beget n pride in its
members to see that it is we'll done.
Second. Once month lodge can
throw open its doors, and invite the pub.
lie to some kind OF literary and musical
nan,k hAxvovar fornnf m
declare o recess, in which there can be
free run for chit-chat and acquaintance
making. If you neglect this you lose
your aim of knowing and being known,
and you might just AS well have marched
IN solemn procession to church and
there held your services.
Third. At least bi-monthly bring out
your children to the lodge room and give
them some fun. Don't be awkward
about it and stiff. Loosen up little
yourselves; roost little lower down on
your own dignity. Leave his best Sun
day clothes at home, especially if you de-
tect any ambition to rig them out n little
ahead of BRO. BIS The lodge room is no
place for the cultivation of caste, but 1t
is Just the spot to grow future Knights
and Ladies out of our boys and girls, and
thus secures the premanancy of that
order, which is liable any day to become
our childrens best and, perhaps, only
friend.
Let us in every country town and vii
lage-and in cities, too-turn the cur
rents of sociality the coming winter to-
wards the lodge rooms, and thus make
the season growthful to our knights and
Ladies'. Lay out your plans, and APP
point your committee on entertainments
at the very next meeting. Don't neglect
it.-Knight's of HLnor Record.
prudent young man is asked by his
friend: "Why have you taken lodgings
on the ground fioor-you who are always
preaching that there is no air fit to be
breathed to be had short of five stories
upg
II will tell YOU" he replies. You
see, have taken solemn oath that un.
less Miss G. agrees to marry me, Will
throw myself out of the window. SEQ ~
There is only one woman we know OF
who can let other women pass by her
without looking after them to see
whether their polonaises are shirred in
the elbow and cut bias on the watch
pocket. The woman in question is to-
baccO siQn ON Pine street in Washington