Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1908 — TERRORS OF “FEAT” INITIATION. [ARTICLE]

TERRORS OF “FEAT” INITIATION.

Sorority Ceremonies Shatter Nerves of Novitiate and Arouse Mothers. The nerve racking, even though fancied, terrors of an initiation into ft. Greek letter society of girl students in private and

preparatory schools In New York City caused a meeting of twenty angry mothers at the home of Mrs. Elizabeth Moors. Their first purpose is to break up the local organization of the Sigma Gaimms Society, and their second is to start a campaign throughout the country against secret societies school girls. It was the story of Julia Mills, not yet 17, as told by her to her mother, that caused Mrs. Mills to take the first steps. Julia. Mills was "initiated” the other -ftlghtaq— — : *> Miss Mills, according to her story, was summoned to appear at the Moore home. Wbon she was ushered in she was led into a dimly lighted room between two columns of black robed, black masked figuies, up to the high priestess. “This will be a test of your fortitude, of your fitness to be a sister. You are ordered to thrust your hand into a small caldron of molten lead, which you see before you. Ready! fjfley orders!” Miss Milla dashed her band into the liquid and sank to her knees in fright. After she recovered her composure in part ahe was surprised to note that the caldron was filled with mercury. Suddenly the lights went out. Miss Mills felt the floor give way beneath her and she felt herself go- down, dowp, and then land on the pillows. The candidate was ordered to grasp the hand, for which she could only feel. Shuddering. she Involuntarily drew back her, arm when she felt the clammy fingers. She had grasped a wet chamois skin glove filled with sand. Again she was led forth, th(p time to drink a nauseating liquid out of a skull, which liquid "would serve to make brt of one blood with her other prospective sister-*.”