The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1914-04-20

LAFAYETTE, Ind. April 2O.-If
you were little college maid and
had been having lots or fun rompng
around with the other girls of your
class after an evenings study, would
you come back ready to kiss and
make up" if
Older girls OF the senior class had
done these things 20 you
Broke into your bedroom,
Tore of your clothes,
Poured red ink all over you,
Daubed you with sticky nrucilage
Stabbed you with pins!
Dipped you into a tub of cold water
Maybe you'd be angry and ready
TO fight after you'd gotten the ink
and muciiage of and the doctors
had cured you OF the effects OF be-
ing ducked in cold water.
But not SO Mable Rogers the pref
~ little freshman student in Purdue
university here.
When she got well again she came
right back TO college, ready to kiss
and make up
But she thought that the girls who
so cruelty hazed her should pay for
the damage done
That's no more than fair think"
she explained TO me while chatting
with her in her room.
I'm not angry at them. | have
no III feelings toward them at all.
Miss Rogers is the sole support OF
her widowed mother Her eyesight
has been affected by the cold-water
plunge that cold winter day. and she
figures II out that her good eyes
were worth $1,000. Hence the seven
seniors who are charged with carrying
schoolgirl pranks to the extreme OF
torture are facing a $1,000 damage
suit. Miss Rogers will be the com
plainant.
The seven defendants are:
Miss Ruth Cowan, Chicago: Miss
Mary Clark, Clarks Hill, Ind. Miss
Mary sheridan. Attica, Ind; Miss
Agnes Phillips. Monroeville, Ind;
Miss Helen Lee. Oxford, Ind; Miss
Esther Kisner, Terre Haute. Ind;
Miss Mary Blue. Star City, Ind.
Although Purdue is under gag
rule" and neither faculty nor student
body will discuss the suit, Miss Rog-
ers herself gave me her version OF
the hazing
at was no college girl prank the
girls played on me. Franks would
not have rendered me unconscious
and hysterical and would not have
10 go TO the hospital. would not be
wearing glasses today, IL the treat
ment | received was not terrible.
You see. Il was like this. Thirty
of us girls live at Ladies' hall. The
fsasAHaa,-Ial -one,-lixe- on-tAe third
floor the seniors have rooms below
us. The seniors complained that we
made too much noise, and we were
having lots of fun, YOU bet! ON the
night OF January % one OF the Sc
niors came up and ordered MS to be
quiet When we weren't quiet seven
OF them came up and they followed
me from the hall into my bedroom.
They pulled off my kimona and tried
10 pull of all my clothes.
"They poured red ink over me and
nut mucilage over my shoulders.
Then they stabbed me with pins The
more / fought them off the worse they
got. Al last they dipped me In tub
OF cold water. I'm not very strong
and that made me hysterical be-
came very sick.
NO one knew II till noon the next
day. when the matrOn came. she
brought the doctor and ! stayed In
bed until Tuesday Then tried TO
20 10 class but was too sick The
doctor came again and was sent TO
the hospital. Mother came TO see me.
Now my eyes are so weak as result
OF that dip in cold water that ! have
TO wear glasses.
81 taught school for four years TO
earn enough money TO come here.
want TO teach school when ! finish
my course In domestic science.
have my mother TO care for. and II
my health fails and | cant teach
don't know what I'll do.
81 know III win my suit. ! have
so many girls and two doctors TO
testify for me Some OF the girls
here are not as nice to me as they
might be- but o great many OF them
are standing hy me-"