Salt Lake evening Democrat. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1885-1887, 1885-04-11
oyLY WOMAN FREEhASON'
.be,h 81. Beger was SOL
Why EllIToducted Into Masonry

elih''
....od saws the London Tele-
The unlnl.lI"ttiba habit of asking: II
naOh, are IL Ia S' such an admirable msti-
fraenlasISlTl,' is it not thrown open to
] luton, why and. furthermore, if it be good
rerOne I ' are not women also IN
for men VIZ its secrets? To this the
trusted wlIn r ,,T that were the priyi-
geso 81 i its mysteries becoming uig tamil mil
dspelsyIG5' lose their vale ana SINK M ln ',O
lar, would i ond, when pressed, they are
disregard, ID, 18th That on one occasion a lady
ain to ad mn o o,,, through the degrees
vas actually 5yn 9. emerged full Ereemason.
It would an aBF quarter of the eighteenth
the seconu Meetings of lodge "A used
century lI me i at Doneraile house., the
10 be Itlu rd honorable, in Ireland, his
seat OF LolG ;nr then worshipful master.
IorlS4RIP pDe D had sister, Hon, Eliza IT
Lord S % 1Teger-1tterward lion. MRS
beth 81 tiI and the young lady so man.
AldToTTfh:m,atTT@at she possessed herself OF
aged affairs til"E a.. 10 Iodce workings. The
all 'i Te9ers, it will be TememegereaSS Were
NJ n oTnferprising family f Ilan1some
an en' Il:i, uln.@ one OF the founders OF
Jack .E SeLIII Fire Club" and the Doncaster
the ne" q boon companion of the first
S. L Is5oa1 in Europe" inherited all the
gel.S s:.' and liveliness of the Doneraile
C ,IS some say that the Hon. Eliza
ooD' sreted herself in a clock case,
l sl,, that she witnessed the working
Glnb crevice in the wall of the apart
. -ot sacred to the mysteries OF the
- n,4 What were the members of
llin a to do under the circum-
l gr5c Having found her, had they
i ,t' Lar 90 free she might have revealed
,,,rsts close kept since the days of the
InIIinc of the temple, to all the parish,
and So to society at large. We may sup
nose that her brother, the worshipful
master. and the officers and brethren as
ssmbled were hard put how to act for the
hest Women might not become Free
masons Yet here was a woman who, so
far as a knowledge of some of the most
mnortant secrets, never revealed to the
ortqr or popular world, was already one.
The constitutions did not provide for such
contingency, and it became necessary
hestablish a precedent. Thereupon the
Hon. Elizabeth st. Leger, only daughter
d Arthur, first Viscount Doreraile, was
luught before the authorities of lodge
No. Il. and solemnly indicted into the
secrets and mysteries, the signs and
tokens Of a Free and Accepted Mason.
What was impaired to the lady is not
likely to be made public. For, as one of
he most learned of Masons had laid
down, Of all the arts which Masons prac-
tee the art of secrecy particularly dis
fnguishes them and that it is agreeable
1.-THE Deity himself may be easily con-
Gived from the glorious example which
be gives in concealing from mankind the
secrets Of His providence. The wisest of
|mncannOt pry into the Arcana of heaven,
nor can they divine to-day what to-mor-
row may bring forth" Indeed Hipocrates
|ad Angerona were not more sacred to
silence among the Greeks and Romans
than is all that goes on in a lodge closet
h tO the discreet Freemason. What
5Tw was told to Miss st. Leger, under
b seal Of secrecy, she possessed the
Ensclence and prudence never to let pass
Aer hps, The Irish Masons revere her
|memOy, and her likeness in full Masonic
Gi0tlLlg is still nraSarved