Fite ath : tzgerald,. the American Girl Who from the Torture Temple of he Lamas, ere No Other White , Yoman Had Ever Penetrated, What Happened to the Daring Girl Globe- Trotter When She Ventured Alone Into the Forbidden | ~ Holy of Holies of theDread Lama Priests of the City of Pekin. cape! Alone In a place whence legend said no woman, yel- low or white, came out alive! Trapped! 1 stood fascinated, transfixed Xp. before the terrible god ' . of the Lamas. Again the crashing discords began-in the distance, - the narcotic odors of incense filled my nos- trils and my senses reeled. 1 was living in a nightmare likn some preposterous tale of the Arabian Nigh In my heart was a slutehing dread; all the ghas! stories of white women held in vile capti rushed through my tind. th a ere was a rustling e pert ominous, sinister in its deadly Ne font I Prked around wildly and pressed my hands hard against my cold cheeks. tanding before me was a mon- strous figure, robed in the Jon vestments of a priest, but with the face of a demon. e wore the DeviPs Mask, the Symbol of Jar : : yi ¥ i ture, a frightful conception of one large ferocious RAPPED by the savage priests of i J 14 "Desperately I seized face framed by the bodies of ser eRt2 and human in ii i 58 ; a ! 1 | skulls. He stood menacing, and in his clenche Pekin ia. the mysterious Temple j \ A Jug Jhevrd wis, «hand; half. hidden beneath the folds of his robe, of the Lamas where no white 4 | stzuel something skarp and metallic gleamed in the flare . repeatedly and of the tapers. wo lan had ever penetrated ; Surrounded Rh ; screaticd 10 frends" Se uber od hysterical 1 spiatig. forward had by devil dancers in hideous masks; a Ho oR, A 53 ; " tore the Devil's«Mask from his face. As it ¢ er . S thudded to the fl knife at her throat; skinny, jeweled, yel ; I saw the dark, oy ; is The Barbaric Devil Dance Perf. by Thibeta 7 FJ : \ . \ low hands clawing at' her madly--this Ne Prev ance | srfoamed Sr hibetan f \ 0 : - gry eyes » of 2 high was the terrible experience of Miss the "First Moon" of Each Year, 1 Photograph from | WLR outside. Helen Fitzgerald, young and pretty world ilar % anal > hh | i Fiixgefaidy \ \ : ; American girl, just returned from China Pressed Un'me was; |. "mention im- gl i : : the Ta ph to her home, No. 16 West Sixty-eighth "Do not go to the Lama Temple! No white ; A \ 2 ; to vision of ~~ street, New York City. woman dares to trust herself there alone! a : 4 x = : . Isawa To Miss Fitzgerald, globe-trotter and au- I would mean . death--or thor, has traveled in every country on My curlostty was piqued. earth and witnessed many strange rit- What were the terrors that uals, among them the sacred ceremonial ~~ caused even the Oriental "- cheek to blanch at mention of the Sun Dance of the Blackfeet In- of a name? I Withes obo dians, where she was initiated into the all things to see the unholy tribal mysteries after the warriors had shrine of the infamous Yung given her the name, "Muchanicha." Ho Rung. No, gre would go : w me so 8 ou e But none of her experiences was as the house one morning and ghastly as when she pierced, alone, the "called my rickshaw boy. gruesome Thibetan sanctuary, narrowly "The Lama Temple," 1 escaping with her life by a headlong ordered. w : flight down the evil corridors of the in NO Sn 20" Je explained temple. She tells here, in her own Then he drew a trembl- words, the thrilling story of her battle ing yellow finger for liberty with the dreaded Lamas. sharply across his throat By HELEN FITZGERALD A Savers a knife. % Bs ch SRR NA Pe E y . pr : Ki | . With cells whence issued strange muffled claw-like hand approae my face, the : N the city of Pekin, near the Hata Men, or Hot a pees J i \ é 4 wy sounds as of human beings moaning in ing nails ml Lg 1 thing i hos a ~~ Gate of Sublime Learning, stands the evil I smiled, and insisted. No . § agony ; was like a person shrine of the Devil Dancers, or Yellow Lamas A few moments later = oe OH k eeling of Jetiur 3s shreptly em- Then, as the fi of Thibet. It is known to the Chinese as Yung I stepped. from the fi h ; : She Jud oy treble of i Ho Kung, to the foreign population a the Lama rickshaw and confident- oh . tes, the vage drums. Quickly enough to keep the 'emple, e etans an i : N ! . i knowi rose filet whose Holy of Holies it is, as the Garr 3 Y, i ; 4 : y k ad -- b #0! ace. :. 7 temple of terrors. those This latter name describes it well, as it broods ; . yt al, ot had SStsible hy ' Spare under the shadow of great walls and an- : . 3 . "te ent tress, ita led foots sPbeating in upward curving lines, from nd dense, overhanging panche Noruerly She home of the Chancha or Living incarnate, ac- Jording. to Lama faith, the temple has always ; carefully guarded from the profane, except upon the occasion. of the Devil Dance. This hid- eously barbaric rite is Jerfomisd by the priests, ; ¢ thirtieth day of "the first 4 ear. Wearing masks like By Jaatity head, with tic beaks, and serpents Y a ¢ priests issue forth dancing to the Uncanny tales are told of pefsons ve usly within the labyrinthine nner court where 1,500 monks pursue base ' and pay tribute to the red gods of Chinese and. foreign residents of Pekin er ie TO eouiin. residents of Pekin When I reached the Forbidden City on my &»" w fi stretched before 1 looked down and knuckl es of my hand 'were bleedi H i 2