Show IN A L WINDOW SCENES NES WITNESSED LESS LODGE ROOM proe of ft is tra didato t idea id ot the h op f life ob initiated into r same omett of the secret societies ot of the day Is a hilarious tul arlous and side adair for all con corned except the candidate it isa Is a kind of hazing bazing frolic when the head of the boure bold hold so called comes home late lit his wife with a grare grave hat be uz been to the A there i was a good deal on m the fond out soul has i been engaged la in though h hect necessarily scarily secret led with ibe the manage ie it society to which J that without hie his preslie aings the cloty would at lq bait lai been helping to adding victim through a gy a tics that it cilven i image of john i see certain n lodge of good bolds if its sessions oa on a a thousand usand miles f from am aate and id madison street 0 o bune lune the date ditto of not a thousand year years re first saturday evening of these ate not I 1 ul as th ty should be a la in ds that t keep the prying wan iud aud eavesdropper at g 0 es on inside tha the 4 on a certain go several young mea men cg better or to do nad nod who J ad themselves insel viM ved la in a cam join watched itched the process candidate ate into the my mys ader they could not diee ee firmance for mance ce but they saw a aw nil natures and their account illy given B below te about ut whose eye eyes a been led tied waa wits ma in robed in several ral times and led the idal lal at the further ly the ace ce some thing or he eared to take an ome kind ad he railed raised his extended ed it upward to if its Is held 1 it there so 10 long 0 get tired and it dropped brother pl up it d pushed ed the arm up ue Us up again lor for a little ain it began to droop abed ID again and every I 1 f flow let at h bli a aria arm down somebody dy shoved it up stand and it any looser longer ala arm to his aide side his a led him to some part of i out of the range of the 0 20 came e ic it sift a few as was attired in bis his shirt all bis his outer gar get n removed red in this airy s led still till into cresence of the same official alst eted 1 the obligation to arthy rose se up and the two ch other for about ten line being ng occupied seem elavery of a lone charge ae candidate lodato unto une use e foot the other as it t eye it over if IL as had led ras cornica ilag he might not uch a hurry bat this emony came to an end at d act ore i turned him about to fall all on his knees gathered ed round him so to 0 watchers hen could not seo see doing with him but it ey war 9 e not putting any a him for when be he was me he was seen to be in tolls as before conducted noted around the r holding ling him by each A or rug ig had been braught Y mysterious rious alcess ta a the ld as be e walked along this MIS on the floor boor in front of or be topped stopped on it a la in the tables i it van as jerked vio al under him and down ho he ted from sitting hard on a brethren area who had bold hold they j jerked him up performance bince waa repeated ines or aare ore the breth brethen ran 9 otherwise engaged la in for the can candidate didato give as he walked by y li aeng hiim jiin that looked ilk buge hug b bologna ay iy es and probably were aluli big begs lulled stuffed rith straw they pounded alu with these and flung dung them at him as he floundered and cavorted on the oua rug T nuo it brother frith with in an oblong wooden box supposed sed to contain bot shot rolled them from one end and to the other by railing each rod end alternately the object being to convey the idea that a waa was assisting at the etalon 1 another zealous brother tapped a deep tuned toll till at intervals title portion of he ceremony over the th candidate was permitted to reit rest a few moment moments A dozen or so 0 o of the mem ben bers took nil off their coat coate and prepared for the sarious sr lous business buil nees that wits to fol low they marched the doomed mao man still blindfolded about the room a few time times moren nil nj conducted hirn him to a plat piat form or stand about three feet high I 1 ibis his stand was near the center of the room they heild him up and stood him on top of it the bt brethren ethren who bad had taken their coats off brought out a big blanket and nil beld it fetched retched ret ched out gaily tightly in front of the lh helpless wretch at a rard ramrod signal tho the man with the shat box turned on another etoral the bell doletti dolefully lly through the room again ard a stalwart brother who bad hall taken hit his 1 11 i i behind the candidate gave it him ros n n quick push and tumbled him headlong bend long into the blanket outstretched to receive him the eager wat watchers chera on the outside crammed their handkerchief handkerchiefs into their mouth mouths and took in the entertainment they saw savy the athletes who held the blanket bend to their work toey saw aw the victim of that confidence game ame loecy pi 1 feet into the air ai at the first jerk lie ile came down on hie his bead head and went up aia agin like a feather at the third bounce bis his heels beels ItI cited the ceiling ile clutched and paved at the air hij his hair lood stood on end he nide des desparito ie efforts to ears himself himi elf but the fuu A axed faster and more purloin fur loin and up and down he bounced end over and now stiffening himself and now flop flopping limply able bile the sound of the iiii continued udd and the deep knue of the bell rang ran in hia his ear ears like the knell of or a n lost soul the grunts of 0 the blanket as a they stiffe stiffened tied their bilicka kept time time time in a kind of jerking rhyme to the see kw w motion nt the earceal brother who stood on a chair and churned hia his arm up and dovo do vo like parick gilmore conduction conducting an anvil chorus with the regularity of a R machine these coatless coate ornaments of the mystical brotherhood tossed the initiate into he the air without alsippia an eccentric or missing mirin a cor cog every ons ae of them bad had glae lh rula the mill himself himi elf and h ha wa was erea even they tossed him till they were tired ind and then with a final jerk that banned him adint the ceiling they topped stopped rolled him from the blanket to the floor and stood over him panting they had I 1 conveyed to his mind some idea of the ups and downs of life if he had failed id to receive bis his moneys worth the blame did not reit rest on their consciences coa sciences after a short bitne liin the recipient of all ell these fraternal frate roal attentions ras tas conducted conduct ed to the dressing room in the corner the bandage was wits removed from bis his eyes and he was permitted to put on bis his cloth UT UP AND OF LIFE he cwi wwi anen con bulled lu to llie isie inc ine official who apparently explained to ahn the symbolic meaning of the solemn ordeal be he bad had gone through and in strutted ted him in the grips signs and tokens of the initiatory degree that had just been baen conferred upon him these instructions given the right hand of fellowship was extended to the candidate date and be WM declared a duly initiated member of the order after offer which the other triem members beri crowded bout him and congratulated him aid wid the ceremony was at an end and now with this flood of light let in on the doings of the sublime order of there Is no reason why the wives of the devoted brethren who meet from time to time to counsel couo ael admonish and strengthen one another in the discharge of the duties devolving I 1 upon them as members of a most noble 1 order should not establish a sublime sisterhood with equally solemn rites ud u d ceremonies this Is the day for the emancipation of woman women let her stand upon her right let her have lodges of her own aad and let her braband stay at home lodge nights and sod mind the baby while she goes to participate in the work of initiating some stater into the sacred mysteries of an order within whose hali hal lowed confines no prying husband iball ever poke his meddlesome nose V ictor victorien ien bardou the playwright is antti jug his aar i in robust and v vio rotia health he has urb never be been ui 11 ir and attributes attribute a his IBI fm from disease to the fact that he lie takes eight ight houra hour to ale sleep e every night and is never ever bothered d b by y aphis bli digestion diesti oR |