The guild of good life : a narrative of domestic health and economy / by Benjamin Ward Richardson.

  • Benjamin Ward Richardson
Date:
[1884?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The guild of good life : a narrative of domestic health and economy / by Benjamin Ward Richardson. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    Every man has some social hobby, and David Jessel, fadier of Judith, had his. His hobby was Odd Fellowship. He got into the order in early life, and he lived in it. To him its secrets were real solem- nities, its titles and honours appalling. When in due course of events he was raised to the head of his lodge, was surrounded with all the regalia and ceremony attached to that dis- tinguished office, and was addressed for the first time by the title of “ Noble Grand,” his heart swelled within him. “It was more than he could bear, it was indeed.” “ Noble Grand, Brother David Jessel!” No- body, no brother, at the end of the term of office, had ever gone through the duties So nobly and grandly as David. He had held, during that term of office, evening receptions at his private house, at which he once invited as many as fifteen of the brethren at a time and their ladies, until all the lodge and its wife had seen the jeweller’s two pretty drawing-rooms and their young mistress, the blooming Judith. “ The ‘ Lodge of Good Health,’ ” said the immediate Past Noble Grand, as he moved a hearty vote of thanks to David at the close of his year of office, “ ought to be called the lodge of good luck to have had such a man at the head of it.” “And good health is good luck—the best of luck,” observed the young secretary of the
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