The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1856-1888, 1883-02-17
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The following statistics about Freemasonry,
which appear il a French paper may interest
the brethren OF the mystic tie who reside in
Honolulu. The figures give an inadequate idea
of the immense amount of good done by the
craft, representing as they do. only the charity
that is made public. In 1880, when the last
masonic census, if We may so call it, was taken,
there were, spread over the various countries of
the globe, 137, O65 lodges, with the enormous ag-
gregate annual revenue of four millards of francs,
or about s1e0,0 900, 900. OF this sum, francs
1895. 693. 600 were discussed for clerical erpen-
ses, printing, correspondence, maintenance of
lodges, and SO forth. In relief to masons and
their families in distress francs, 1,7S5, 96T, 600
were expended. To widows and orphans of
members of lodges, francs ST.. 658, 900 have been
given. To masons in misfortune. who belong
to no lodge, francs 246, 92I 900 were distributed.
Finally, masonic schools and asylums were dow
cred with francs 42s, s65, 600, or considerably
more than seventeen million pounds sterling,
during that brief period of twelve months. The
two most important lodges in the world are the
Grand Lodges of England and New York. The
first has l01 600 members. the second so, 900.
A maiden lady oil mature years, and presuma-
~ NCN DNAOh~ hAA
women the other night in the Franklin institute,
on How to wash II baby" She p~refaced her
remarks by informing her audience that owing to
circumstances beyond her control she had not
been able to provide a baby wherewith to Illus
trate her lecture. but that If any one Of her
audience would kindly loan her one for a few
minutes, she would guarantee t. return it in
good condition, or give the owner another
equally as good, At first no one seemed to be
very anxious to hand up a baby, but finally one
woman stepped forward with one that she
guessed the lecturer couldn't spoil. no matter
how much she washed it. The lecturer began
by stating that she would first show her audience
how Ia put the baby into water without
drowning it,. Many mothers, she went on
to say, had spoilt their young babies by hold
ing them in the bath with the head down. This
was all wrong. Instead of taking the child by
its little "heeis-ies --peelsies and p~lunging
it into the water like a churn-dasher, so, and so,
(illustratingl, the way was TO secure a firm hold
ON the skin at the back of the neck-which
would generally be found loose enough to afford
a secure grasp-and swing the baby to and fro
in the water as one would q dish-rag. If by
chance the baby should chance TO slip out of the
washers ~clutch-through being slippery with
soap-it can can be picked up again by the ears,
thus. just here, as the lecturer stopped
over to lift up the baby, its mother sprang on to
the stage and snatched the infant to her arms,
shrieking. The lecturer then explained that
while CASTLE soap was the proper thing with
which to clean the skin of the baby with, as, in
case it was not all washed off Mt one time, it
would not hurt the child, and 'Elooked betterr
than patches of Brown Windsor. Zone old lady
here remarked that she had always used a rather
weak solution of lye- water but she supposed
she was old-fashioned, and would not be listened
and sat down agnin.l Another baby having
been borrowed-fron II woman outside the door
found to be very dirty when its rags
were stripped of, the lecturer then went on to
her work, and soon had the youngster
as red as a boiled lobster. She then proceeded
to dress the baby. working on the sam priuci-
pie that a cook does in trusting IA fowl-onlv be-
ing a little more awkward about it-and finally
produced the child clothed from top to toe in n
elaborate toilette, which, in honor of the
was composed of very fine material.
1t was then handed about for inspection, the
lecturer dwelling upon the superiority of her
method - over that of the thirty married ladies
present, until it reached its mother, who discov-
cred that it was deadl whereupon an indignation
was held by the audience, and they re-
solved that they knew more about washing and
dressing their own babies than the lecturer could
find ont in a life-time-unless she mar
ried