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Press, Volume LVII, Issue 17115, 9 April 1921, Page 9

The. heading "Cach' Ton Piano" (hide your piano) .in a French newspaper, reveals a novel method of gathering money for the Treasury. The French people i.re l*>ing taxed tor'possessing pianos, and each owner of an instrument mu;t pay from 30 francs to 60 francs for the luxury of keeping it. Householders who keep servants arc also, taxed. For tho first servant they .:..iit pay .40 francs, for the.second 80 francs, and for all male servants double rates. Tutor.* and governesses must be paid for at tho rate of 100 francs. It seems, therefore, that tho French people, of whom we always think is one oi the most luxury-loving peor.le, are being discouraged from possessing the comfortß of life. Threo times as many Masonic lodges were instituted in ID2J in England and those parts of the Dominions where the Unitea Grand Lodge of* England has •jurisdiction, as in any of tho previous seven years, according to a report recently made public. Similar increases were announced by Scottish and Irish grand lodges and chapters. Freemasons' Hall, tho craft's London headquarters, has'become too small for the demands made upon it, and the return from India of the Duke of Connnught, the grand master, is awaited for tho completion of a big extension scheme, including a new Masonic Temple,and offices to be erected as a memorial to members who fell in the war.

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