A Woman Initiated
A woman disguised herself as a man and clerked in a store for a year and then applied for membership in the Knights of Pythias and was initiated. During the work of the third rank her sex was discovered. It seems that in the third rank they have an india-rubber rat and celluloid snake, which seem very natural indeed. The idea is to let them run at the candidate to see if he will flinch. When the snake ran at the girl she kept her nerve all right, but when the rat tried to run up her trouser legs she grabbed imaginary skirts in both hands ad jumped into a refrigerator that was standing near (which is used in the work of the fourth degree), and screamed bloody murder. The girl is a member of the lodge and there is no help for it. This may open the eyes of secret societies and cause them to investigate.
The Grand Ledge lodge, we understand, takes precautions against the admission of women by carefully examining the feet of an applicant. If the feet are cold enough to freeze ice cream then the candidate is blackballed.
