The Marble times and Crystal silver lance., 1900-09-28
MISS LUCILLE MULHALL.

because of her mammals refined views
on the up-bringing of girls this was
probably her last appearance in pub
lie. Let it be said that she covered
herself with glory.
She has already spent one term at
convent in st. Louis studying the gen
tie art with which women are equipped
for welding power in the great world.
By this step her mother, while rejoic-
ing in the bodily vigor which Lucille
had derived from her open-air life,
hoped to wean her from the bolster
GUS pursuits of the ranch.
Lucille, having as great a thirst for
knowledge as she had for adventure,
applied herself to her studies with
great industry and returned home
highly polished young lady. But
she was homesick for the plains, and
glad to mount a fiery COW pony, with a
lariat coiled at her pommel. And the
cowboys welcomed Miss Lucille as if
she had been one of themselves. Mrs.
Mulhall smiled as she sighed.
All the territory was talking about
the approaching Rough Riders re-
union. Delegations came to invite
Miss Lucille to give an exhibition of
her frontier accomplishments and en-
ter the competitions. Mrs. Mulhall was
distressed. This was the very sort
Of thing she was striving to guard
against. To decline, pointed out the
visitors, would be ungracious not alone
to the territory, but to it's most distin-
guished guest. Governor Roosevelt's
visit was an event of the highest i'm
portance. The festival was patriotic
pne. 1t celebrated the country's vic
Mulhall, Oklahoma's peerless cowgirl,
1t would be inadequate.
! This appeal to her patriotism con-
quered Mrs. Mulhall, and she consent
ed to her daughters appearance for
this occasion only. Lucille, overjoyed,
went into training and was delighted
to 1nd that her term in the scholarly
shades of the convent had not lessened
her skill with the lariat and rifle. 1t
was her last chance and she meant to
make the most of it. In the fall she
will return to the convent in st. Louis
and in course of time if her mothers
hopes be fulfilled, she will be too dig
nifled young lady to engage in any
more boisterous diversions than a CO.
tillion.
But she will never forget the proud
moment when, flushed with victory
she was presented to Governor .Roose-
welt, who bowed to her ceremoniously
and told her that not a Rough Rider
in his famous troop could have done
better than she.
| The Mulhall ranch is on Beaver
creek. fifty miles from Oklahoma City.
Its owners are of Southern family
and have imported with them into the
,olitudes most of the refinements of
civilization. In the drawing room of
the homestead, for example, is a baby
grand piano on which the mother and
daughters play classical music. They
are environed with books and period
icals and their conversation shows
that exile on the prairie does not pre-
vent them from taking lively inter-
est in the thought and culture of the
day.
Mr.. Zack Mulhall, the father Of the
family, is the general live stock agent
of the st. Louis and San Francisco
railroad, but the ranch is his own and
little Miss Lucille is his mainstay in
its management.
In earlier years 1t was her privilege
to claim every yearling calf that she
had without assistance roped and
branded with her initials IL. M
This system worked very well for q
time, but Lucille's ambition incrcssed