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The Mas 0:11c Mire0r.
children in the institution , as it shows to all that it is a reward to which you are fully entitled , having merited it as well by your conduct out of school amongst your playmates as in the school when engaged at your lessons . Let me charge you ever to place the greatest value in the possession of this medal ; let it pledge
you to future efforts to maintain the character you have obtained , and let me assure you that whilst you preseve and value it , you will always be enabled to find good and worthy Masons who will feel it their duty to assist and support you to the utmost of their means , and rejoice in your prosperity now and at all time . ( Cheers . )
The other prizes , principally consisting of work-boxes , were then presented as follows ;—Lucy Ann Leaver , aged 13 , the two prizes alluded to by Bro . Crew in addition to the silver medal ; Emma Susannah Cox , aged 13 , first-class prize for general good conduct ; Jane Maria Feddon , aged 14 , second-class prize for general good conduct ; Sophia Reinhardt France , aged 14 , second class ; Louisa Stein , aged 15 , second class ; Emma Hurrell , aged 13 , second class ; Eliza Chase , aged 12 , second class .
The R . W . Chairman addressing the children by name said , he had great pleasure in handing to them those beautiful boxes in testimony of their general good conduct , and , he believed , in some instances of efficiency in their studies . They must ever bear in mind that these boxes were only the emblems of the good things which woulol be in store for them so long as their conduct merited the approbationof thoseplaced over them ; and he trusted they would , prove an incentive to their zealously prosecuting their studies and cheerfully continuing their good
conduct in the mture , when whoever occupied the chair he then filled would be glad to again reward them according to their power and ability . He trusted all the children before him would do their best to maintain the character of the school ; he hoped and believed that at the next annual festival many more of them would come up for prizes , and when they went back to school he hoped they would remember what he now told them , —that amongst Freemasons , whether in London or in the country , they would always find friends happy to help those girls whose conduct deserved it .
The children having sung " Good Night' then retired , laden with the fruit from the table , the dessert being liberally showered into their aprons by the Brethren . The health of the Treasurer , Bro . B . B , Cabbell , was then drunk , and acknowledged by Bro . Crew , who apologized for the absence of Bro . Cabbell , owing to a pressing engagement , but announced that he had forwarded his thirty-ninth donation of . £ 10 10 s . to the school .
The next toast was " The Medical Officers—the W . Bros . Gaskoin , Howell , Barringer , and Bridge , honorary surgeons ; and to the W . Bro . Peter Matthews , honorary dentist ; and thanks to them for their gratuitous and valuable services . " Bro . Crew having read the list of subscriptions handed in hy the stewards , Bro . Colonel Brownrigg said he wished to call the attention of the Brethren to
a toast which he was sure would meet with a cordial reception . It was no light task to undertake the duties of the chair on an occasion like that , and do justice to all that came before him in the way of proponing the various toasts , but that Bro . Portal had done so he was sure they would all admit . He therefore asked all to join him ( Bro . Browmigg ) in drinking to the health of the " R . W . Bro . Wyndham Portal , the Chairman of the day . " ( Cheers . )
The RW . Chairman had great pleasure in performing a double duty—first , in thanking them for the very kind manner in which they had been pleased to acknowledge his services and drink his health ; and , secondly , for the very handsome ^ support accorded to the institution by the subscriptions of that evening , which he was happy to inform them amounted to no loss than c £ l , 7 £ > 2 15 . s \ , with another list yet to come in . ( Loud cheers . )
Tho RW . Chairman then proposed the " health of the house and other committees f which was briefly acknowledged by Bro . Frederick Binckes . Tho other " Masonic charities" and "The Ladies , " having been duly toasted , the R . W . Chairman gave "The Stewards , " which was responded to by the W . Bro . Viscount Raynham , M , P ., who expressed his grea . t satisfaction at the manner in
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The Mas 0:11c Mire0r.
children in the institution , as it shows to all that it is a reward to which you are fully entitled , having merited it as well by your conduct out of school amongst your playmates as in the school when engaged at your lessons . Let me charge you ever to place the greatest value in the possession of this medal ; let it pledge
you to future efforts to maintain the character you have obtained , and let me assure you that whilst you preseve and value it , you will always be enabled to find good and worthy Masons who will feel it their duty to assist and support you to the utmost of their means , and rejoice in your prosperity now and at all time . ( Cheers . )
The other prizes , principally consisting of work-boxes , were then presented as follows ;—Lucy Ann Leaver , aged 13 , the two prizes alluded to by Bro . Crew in addition to the silver medal ; Emma Susannah Cox , aged 13 , first-class prize for general good conduct ; Jane Maria Feddon , aged 14 , second-class prize for general good conduct ; Sophia Reinhardt France , aged 14 , second class ; Louisa Stein , aged 15 , second class ; Emma Hurrell , aged 13 , second class ; Eliza Chase , aged 12 , second class .
The R . W . Chairman addressing the children by name said , he had great pleasure in handing to them those beautiful boxes in testimony of their general good conduct , and , he believed , in some instances of efficiency in their studies . They must ever bear in mind that these boxes were only the emblems of the good things which woulol be in store for them so long as their conduct merited the approbationof thoseplaced over them ; and he trusted they would , prove an incentive to their zealously prosecuting their studies and cheerfully continuing their good
conduct in the mture , when whoever occupied the chair he then filled would be glad to again reward them according to their power and ability . He trusted all the children before him would do their best to maintain the character of the school ; he hoped and believed that at the next annual festival many more of them would come up for prizes , and when they went back to school he hoped they would remember what he now told them , —that amongst Freemasons , whether in London or in the country , they would always find friends happy to help those girls whose conduct deserved it .
The children having sung " Good Night' then retired , laden with the fruit from the table , the dessert being liberally showered into their aprons by the Brethren . The health of the Treasurer , Bro . B . B , Cabbell , was then drunk , and acknowledged by Bro . Crew , who apologized for the absence of Bro . Cabbell , owing to a pressing engagement , but announced that he had forwarded his thirty-ninth donation of . £ 10 10 s . to the school .
The next toast was " The Medical Officers—the W . Bros . Gaskoin , Howell , Barringer , and Bridge , honorary surgeons ; and to the W . Bro . Peter Matthews , honorary dentist ; and thanks to them for their gratuitous and valuable services . " Bro . Crew having read the list of subscriptions handed in hy the stewards , Bro . Colonel Brownrigg said he wished to call the attention of the Brethren to
a toast which he was sure would meet with a cordial reception . It was no light task to undertake the duties of the chair on an occasion like that , and do justice to all that came before him in the way of proponing the various toasts , but that Bro . Portal had done so he was sure they would all admit . He therefore asked all to join him ( Bro . Browmigg ) in drinking to the health of the " R . W . Bro . Wyndham Portal , the Chairman of the day . " ( Cheers . )
The RW . Chairman had great pleasure in performing a double duty—first , in thanking them for the very kind manner in which they had been pleased to acknowledge his services and drink his health ; and , secondly , for the very handsome ^ support accorded to the institution by the subscriptions of that evening , which he was happy to inform them amounted to no loss than c £ l , 7 £ > 2 15 . s \ , with another list yet to come in . ( Loud cheers . )
Tho RW . Chairman then proposed the " health of the house and other committees f which was briefly acknowledged by Bro . Frederick Binckes . Tho other " Masonic charities" and "The Ladies , " having been duly toasted , the R . W . Chairman gave "The Stewards , " which was responded to by the W . Bro . Viscount Raynham , M , P ., who expressed his grea . t satisfaction at the manner in