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Show IMMERSED IN ICY WATERS Woman More Than Ninety Years ; Old -Snbmits to : Chiiirjiaptlsm. : ; CAMDEN, N., J., an. 23. Of . three women wnp have Just been immersed in the ice-clad Delaware one Is Mrs. Jane , Shorts'. 92 years "old,- of Philadeiphia. The ceremony was performed by Bishop Croudy of the Church of GOd and Saints of Christ - of that- lty," many of whose . . . . . uui4 cttiiic serves in me Diung cota 10 participate. ... The" aged woman Was carried from a little, fl rel ess- cabin near the river to a hole which had been cut in the eight-inch eight-inch ice on the stream. and into this she was Idwered hy the barefooted bishop-One bishop-One immersion was deemed sufficient, And the aged woman was carried, gasping, gasp-ing, back to the cabin, where her partly frozen garments were substituted for warm clothing. ... :. : |