The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1910-04-26

Forbes, the Iatter'S counsel moved for judgment by default, which was allow ed by the court. The only question ingredients as I have mentioned. For the next three weeks she was very i'll, and had to remain in bed. Later she was unable to walk more than a block from the house. It was finally beneficial, so I sent her to the sani- tarium at Brattleboro, Vermont, where she is at the present time"
 MT. Clark then showed a letter from Dr. g. E. Lawton of the sanitarium the gist of which was that Miss Clark was suffering with both stomach and intestinal trouble, due from a terrible shock to her nervous system Her ail- ment is the result of thoughtleSs practices which if not perpetrated at such a critical period of life, would not be so lasting in efect.
 Mrs. Clark was next called. She said: When Lorraine came home from school on Friday. Feb. 4th. about 1:3O o'clock, she had a, letter with her giv- the afternoon. She also had a mum Der of letters which she was to dis In all that afternoon she covered a distance of five miles in walking. During the afternoon one of the mem bers of the sorority called me up on the phone fnquiring if Lorraine had started I cautioned the young lady that Lorraine was complaining of a
  She replied that she member of the stunt committed would look after her, and would be careful. Lorraine came home that evening about 9:3O o'clock with one of the members of the sorority (A1isS Barbara DuBois, it was afterwards learned, but Mrs. Clark did not mention it.) asked Lorraine what the girls gave her. and she answered { Almost everything There were ap- tongue and on either side of her mouth The mother of the sorority girl who had accompanied my daughter home later called at our home for her daugh- mentioning names.1 While there I called her attention and the attention my daughters mouth. When they looked into her mouth they both ex- claimed. Oh. Loraine!'
 teThe next morning Lorraine was un- able to eat any breakfast. That aft ernoon the girl at whose home the in itiation took place called at our home. She was surprised to find that Lorraine was i'll. l asked her what she had given to my daughter, and received the information that it was macaroni boiled in soap and water. She said to to death when you drank all that cock tail. Why didn't you throw it up.' Lorraine dS; exclaimed that that she tried tried but but 18th when she went to pr. HallAr she complained of feeling distressed and feeling faint. On April 1st she was Ce1EAOAA CAAA1A' Ter was called. coming every day after that for three weeks. Prior to that suffered with stomach trouble. In fact she was an unusually well girl. She is 5 feet 10 inches in height and versation with the mother. of the pres ident of the society. at which the daughters were present, the mother daughter. This her daughter admit ted. and adding. You don't know how I feel about it; it., She asked what she do,' I said to her. is to call a. meet ing of the sorority girls and decide never to give any such preparations to another candidate The mother agreed with me, and added that if they did not arrive at that conclusion she could compel her daughters to resign from had sent in her resignation, I called up the home of another member of the sorority. The mother answered the phone, telling her about what had been given my daughter, and that it ought to be- stopped in the future girls at her home at the time, when she said that she could see no reason why the ritual should be discontinued, that the girls had always carried it out in the past. I considered that if that was the way she thought about it. that the Board of Education ought to know about ]" "
 Mrs. Clark stated that she had seen Lorraine only a few days ago. She found that she was improving, yet there was not a single day when she was not in pain. She walks three quarters of a mile each day to the re- treat, where she takes an electrical treatment. The doctor had informed her that she would have to give up all idea of entering school again this fall. and that it would, be at least three years before her stomach is righted.
 Miss Helen Ravens. daughter of Commissioner Ravens. and who is president of the sorority. was then called, saying: +"The day before the initiation, Lorraine was called to the home of one of the girls. She was handed letters which she was to dis tribute on the following day to the members of the sorority. That aft ernoon she started out from her house, I believe about t2 o'clock, travelling in all about five miles, partially by troI- ley. According to schedule she was o'clock, but she later stated that she arrived there 20 minutes earlier. Some of the girls were obliged to meet her at tEat time, but they Intentionally showed up at 5:10 o'clock. The girls then took her to the home where the initiation took place. She went up- stairs where she rested for 30 minutes. After her rest she was b1indfolded and came down stairs her hands and knees. There were two girls each side of her to prevent her falling. She slid down most of the way. Then we made her do a. few foolish pranks orations and tell the story of her life Then we tried the tossing in the blan- ket but she was so large that the girls