The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1884-01-05
JOINING A MASONIC LODGE.


A woman who has been married
four weeks to a clerk in an agricul-
tural implement agency in a country
town, writes "Pcck's Sun" to know
what that paper thinks about her
husband joining a Masonic Lodge.
She says they have talked it over
themselves, and he is twenty-one
years old, gets fourteen dollars
week, and they are boarding with her
aunt, and they have agreed to leave
it to the editor. He says that his
paper does not wish to encourage or
discourage any young man from
joining any Order that he feels it his
duty to join, but the INDIGESTION 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 powerful by the addition of
fellows VIII, have only been married
four weeks, and who are boarding
with their wife's aunt. A man can
join Lodge when he is twenty-one
years old, but Lodges are not search
ing the birth record to see when q
man arrives at that age in order to
get him to join.
When man becomes of age, and
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
week look tired without joining
Lodge. The girl that the young
man has married is liable to want
something besides day board. She
may want dress or two, or hat,
and time may come-at least we
have know it to come in great
many families-when the bride is not
as well as could be expected, and
the fourteen dollars week BRIDE
groom has to pay doctor. She is
the only bride he ever had, 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
fourteen dollars week. So it is
not best Ito hurry about joining a
Lodge. Any well regulated Lodge
will wait until you get the doctors
bill paid.
Then the young bridegroom should
begin to think about the time when
he does not want to board with his
wife's aunt, Or anybody else, and he
has got to furnish house out of that
fourteen dollars week. 1t will take
two weeks of that pay to buy cook
stove, to say nothing of things to
cook, and one weeks pay for a
dining-room table and chairs, and
several weeks pay for a bedroom
set. But it is not right to dis
courage young people by telling of
the things they need great deal
more than they do a membership in
a Lodge. A baby wagon can be
bought for about what it would cost
to join 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 it is awful hard to
pay for it after the baby has got SO
it can walk, and the baby wagon is
stored away in pigeon hole in the
attic for future reference, and the
parent is almost ashamed to bring q
baby wagon ont for second edition
before it is paid for.
Sol can be readily seen that join
ing 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 men who
join Lodges is that they want to take
all the degrees in sight before they
have a second shirt to their backs OF
their wives have much more clothes
then they were married in. They see
men who take degrees above them,
and they want to get there, and il
takes money. After man has got
home to shelter him and his wife
and little ones, and he feels com
paratively at ease financially, and
his children are not bare-footed and
their pants out atknees and oice Oersa
we would not discourage such
person from joining Lodge if he
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