ANOTHER FEMALE FREEMASON.

Mount Ida Chronicle, Volume II, Issue 67, 13 May 1870, Page 3

ANOTHER FEMALE FREEMASON.

There is an old and, we believe, well authenticated story of ja lady in some country house in England, in which a Masonic Lodge was held, having been discovered. by her father and brothers, hid in a wardrohe, in which she had become possessed of some of the secrets of the craft At first it was determined to kill her, but eventually a compromise was effected by which the ladv wa§ duiyiriitiated a the

Order, and lived and died the first "Either to only female Freemason. However, she is apparently about to have a successor. The 'Cooma (.Y.S.W.) Mercury' sayi that at a meeting of the Cooma Lodge recently held at an hotel, just when the business was about concluded, a sound was heard in a room opening out of the Lodge-room." Investigation was made, and to the horror of the brethren within was dis. cohered a young woman, onsof the domestics of the house. She hurriedly, aud evidently in tae wildest excitement, asked'" What is the matter?" She was hiding herself beneath the bedclothes. After a little unsatisfactory conversation, tbe brethren re'tufned to the J ,odge-room to consult, and though the tyler was called to order for his carelessness, the difficulty .could be overcome by oue me.ms only -—viz., to make -the apparent evesdropper pay the usual penalty for indulging: the bump of iuquisitfveness. "fhe landlord of the house was consulted. He said the girl was unwell, and had perhaps got through the wiudow to go to bed, and, thinking the business « * the Lodge over, attempted, to come out - .of the room in the ordinary manner. How far this explanation consoled the W.M. and brethren is not stated, but it was resolved that the female at the * next meeting must aud should be made I a Freemason.