NO FLIRTING

Southland Times, Issue 18839, 4 June 1920, Page 7

NO FLIRTING

COLLEGE GIRL PUNISHED. One of the rules made by the students of the Washington square College of New York University reads: “Thou shalt not converse with members of the male sex in the corridors, halls, or class rooms.” This rule did not meet with the approval of Elsie Kanowitz, a pretty studen 1 , who was popular with the men, and who was generally to be seen with a masculine escort in contravention of the rules. Remonstrance had no effect, so the remainder of the students decided upon direct action. They sent a fictitious message to Elsie Kanowitz that she was wanted in the dean's office. As the victim entered the room she was seized by the girls, handkerchiefs were rammed into her mouth, bandages put round her eyes, and she was hustled into a waiting taxi-cab. Eventually she found herself in a strange bedroom surrounded by masked girls, who very ungently substituted a bathrobe for her clothes. Then her hair was loosened ami put up into two long braids and th - numerals of her class painted in iodine on her forehead. She was then locked in, and her tormentors departed to inform her mother of her situation, hut not where she was. Her mother appealed to the college authorities, who could do nothing, every s-Midenr called before them denying any knowledge of the affair. finally, after about elghieen hours detention. Miss Kanowirz was released with the admonition that she obev the rules in future.