The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1883-09-01
JOINING A LODGE.
sound Advice on the Subject by q
Disinterested Party.
lPsck's Sun.

n "OudH "nO udS Do0u married
four weeks to clerk in an agricultu-
raj implement agency in a country
town, writes To know what the Sun
thinks about her husbands joining a
Masonic or Odd Fellows lodge. She
says they have talked it over them
selves, and he is twenty-one years
old, gets fourteen dollars a week, and
they are boarding with her aunt, and
they have agreed to leave it to the
Sun. This paper does not wish to en-
courage or discourage any young man
from joining any order that be feels
II his duty TO join, but the indecision
OF this young married man is the best
evidence in the world that the time
has not arrived for him to join lodge.
Lodges are not made any more pow
erful by the addition of young fellows
who have only been married four
weeks, and who are boarding with
their wives aunt. A man can Join a
lodge when he is twenty-one years
old, but lodges are not searching the
birth records TO SEQ when man ar
rives at That age, in order to get him
10 join. When man becomes OF age,
aud gets married, he has other duties
to perform the first year, which are
more important than joining a lodge.
Several things are liable TO occur that
will make the fourteen dollars a week
look tired without joining a lodge.
The girl that the young man has mar
ried is liable TO want something be-
sides day board. She may want
dress or two, or u hat, and time may
come-at least we have known il TO
come in great many families
the bride II not as well as could be
expected, and the fourteen dollars a
week bridegroom has to pay doctor.
She Is the only bride he ever bad, and
she is the dearest bride on earth to
him, and the best doctor in town is
none too good, and some Of the best
doctors knock serious hole in four
teen dollars week. So it is not best
to hurry about joining a lodge. Any
well regulated lodge will wait until
you get the Doctors bill paid. Then
your bridegroom should begin to
think about the time when he does not
want tn board with his wife's aunt, or
anybody else. and he has got To fur
nish house out OF that fourteen dol
lars week. 1t will take two weeks
OF that pay to buy u cook stove, to say
nothing about things to cook, and one
weeks pay for dining room table and
chairs, and several weeks pay for q
bed room set. But it Is not right to
discourage young people by telling OF
the things they need a great deal
more than they do a membership in a
lodge. A baby wagon can be bought
for about what 1t would cost TO Join a
lodge, and young couple always
want the best baby wagon that can
be bought, the first time they buy
one. OF course, the young parent
might get trusted for the baby wagon,
but ii is awful hard to pay for it after
the baby has got so ii can walk, and
the baby wagon is stored away in a
pigeon hole in the attic for future ref
erence, and the parent is almost
ashamed to bring a baby wagon out
for a second edition before 1t is paid
for. So ii can be readily seen that
joining a lodge is the last thing to be
thought OF, until the candidate has all
these necessaries of life paid for, and
Is not cramped for money. The
trouble with many young ;nen who
join lodges, is that they want to take
all the degrees in sight before they
have second shirt to their backs, or
their wives have much more clothes
than they were married in. They see
men who have taken degrees above
them, and they want TO get there, and
II takes money. After a man has got
a home to shelter him and his wife
and little ones, and he feels compara-
lively at ease financially, and his chill
dren are not harefooted, and their
pants out at the knees and vice versa,
the Sun would not discourage snch a
person fraH joining o lodge, II he felt
like Il. he ~ at liberty - take thou
sand degrees, but as long as he owes
every man that viii ift him, aud
hasn't got credit enough % buy seek
of flour, and his family is pinched for
the necossaries OF life, II he yearns fof
expensive degrees they ought to be
drove into him with a club. The
Young wife who writes to the Sun for
advice as to her husbands joining a
few lodges can gather from these few
casual remarks that it is deemed wise
to postpone the goat cavalry business
Till next year.
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