The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-25
BOARD READY TO JEWELL ALL ALPHA SECRETS High School Girls Must Tell
 of Miss Clark's In
 itiation THEY WILL HAVE COUNSEL One Young Woman Finds Something Hateful In Sorority's Name
THEY WILL HAVE COUNSEL

It will be Ladies' night at the Board of Education rooms tonight. The la dies who have accepted invitations are very young, and they would rather not come. But they are under a measure of conpulsion, and cannot refuse. They will be accompanied by their parents, and they have also engaged a lawyer to see that the horrible old ogres of the board do not scold them too hard- The young ladies who are expected to be present are members of the High School Sorority. Alpha Alpha. and they must tell why on Feb. they fed to Miss Lorraine Clark, Clark, nacaroni boiled in soap.
 At this stage in their proceedings the misses are reputed to have said to their novitiate, Here. my dear. is a nice little angle worm. alive and wriggling. Swallow 1t down, now, like a real brave Alpha Alp1Ra girl.
 And one knows, does not one, that if one was blindfolded. a. piece of mac aroni boiled in soap would feel and taste just like an angle worm. wouIdn' t 1t now?
 Alpha means first. Alpha Alpha means first twice.
 fatefu in that nanre.'' said a young lady member this morning. ''We were the first to boil nacaronf in soap. and now we are the first to go before the Board of Education. And we are the first to gain national fame
 Why, continued the young lady, just see the newspaper clippings. Isn't it just too awful for anything And from all overt the country, too. This Is one of them" she said. as she she hanlsd h1,ua pink ,,e clipping sout of the
 She reads:
 ssSchool girls secret societies up fin Connecticut are about to be investigat- ed by the Board of Education begins Brightside, as the households aninat- ed encyclopedia condescends to enter tain his doting parent for a brief
 .'The mean things" exclaimed Son. 'No wonder us girls can't keep a se- cret,' he adds, sliding down into the Morris chair until he lands on the top veterbrae of his neck.
 Its going to be another sweeping inquiry, explains Father.
 'eWhat little glad eyes won't do to that highbrow school board you can put away in dust-pan. Whats the com plaint?''
 Making a new member eat soft soap at her initiation replied Father
 Leave it to the skirts to be there Handing out that line of dope is their speciality Usually pick us rude men for their victims. though. Probably practicing up when they try it on one of their own.''
 t"The gentlemen on the board didn't approve of that part Of the ceremony, ',. continues QaChSr.
 Left a bad taste in their mouths, eh?' surmises Son. eff they were wise ginks they'd pass the buck on that probe and swallow the soap stunt. When village school board starts to fuss with the secrets of Gladys, Pau- line and the rest of the merry cutups they might as we'll hand in their resig- nations and sidestep 8 bunch of trou- ble. The way those school girls can pass out the. double cross is something awful, Mabel.''
 Isn't it awful she said Isn't it just too awfully awful for anything g
 Lawyer Robert H. Gould will be there and he will do what he can. if the board will permit it's charges to be represented by counsel. Perhaps it may not.
 The Alphas who have been called before the board are those who are supposed to have been directly con cerned in the initiation of Miss Clark, who will not be present, as she is still i'll at a sanatarium in Vermont. Her 6ather. Representative Clark. will not be represented by counsel He will appear to tell the board the facts as he has learned them from his daugh- ter, and from young women of the sorority.
 The public will not be admitted to the hearing.