The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-23

i spent Sunday morning WIN MISS
Lusk in her cell at Waukesha She is
thoroughly agreeable woman who
talked we'll and readily on every sub
ject that happened TO crop up. II was
fortunate her counsel. ]. X. Lowry ar
ranged for our meeting in her cell
rather than in the courtroom during
recess, as he at first intended. In
court she looks and appears as any
other well-brcl woman only more
tailor made than the average-but in
her cell there were hundred little
touches that brought the real woman
10 the surface.
She had taken the most dark and
dreary surroundings possible to imag
ine~bleak whitewashed walls and iron
barred windowS-and with the magic
touch OF woman who loves beautiful
things she had turned her prison cell
into an attractive boudoir.
No Time to Set the Scene.
The visit was wholly unexpected.
There wasn't second to set the
scene" or make things attractive for
visitors. ,Ir Lowry had changed his
mind about letting me talk to her dur
ing the court recess when ! pointed out
that her friends always claimed her
then
II was a typical Sunday in the rural
town. The first church bells had be
gun to ring and lilacs and apple bios
SONS boomed in door Yards OF the
pretty Wisconsin town
There was a flowered chintz curtain
at the window through which the sun
light poured. There were pots OF
blooming flowers along the window
there was Bouicelli Madonna pinned
beside her bed. There was an old
fashioned mahogany bureau-full OF
women's toilet things-there were
books, and lastly there was an old
fashioned "nosegay" in a paper fril lon
low table near the bed
Pleads Strain OF Trial.
She apologized for not being up and
about, pleading that the strain OF the
trial the last week had worn her out
and she was gong to spend the fore
noon in bed
She made very charming picture
propped up with pillows and wearing
the dantiest OF hand embroidered neg
lgees. 1t was open at the throat and
sleeves and caught together with knots
Of blue ribbon. The sleeves fell away
from the arms, which were really beau
tliul-slender, but with no suggestion
of angularity. The hands are ex-
pressive and highly psychic in type
Heavy brown hair fell about her shoul-
ders and from time to time as she
talked she would push aside a stray
'ock.
In street attire Miss Lusk is well
set up dainty woman. In .negligee she
is much more-she is strikingly pretty.
There was some talk about "Mor-
gan" a trusty and quite a character
about the town of Waukcsha Morgan
has a weakness He loves the cup that
cheers and always inebriates him. Then
they put him in jail and he runs the
furnace and catches the mice.
He took excellent care of Miss LuSk
last winter, doing any chores she re-
quited. and when his sentence was up,
a couple of months ago, he worried,
fearing his successor would not keep
up the furnace He heard, too, that
the mice were bad again
Today he is back again but whether
II was weakness or chivalry that again
landed him in jail is a question.
She Loves Children.
We talked of a delightful little girl
whom | had noticed in court a day or
two ago. She is a friend OF Miss Lusk
and her mother had brought her to see
the prisoner.
isn't she delightful little thing ?"
said Miss Lusk. ut has been strange
having no children about this long year.
I'm so used to them. Some OF the pa
pers have called me a typical school
teacher Well-perhapS | am |
taught school because | love children,
love to have them about me, and young
people too
She showed back a stray lock and her
eyes grew soft
They have been very good to me. my
old pupils" she said "Onc wrote me
the other day that she was sending me
helpful thoughts every day She is a
Christian Scientist
Then, OF course, ! asked her about
Ellen Key and the effect that the ia
NOUS Norwegian'S doctrines had on her
life, and Grace Lusk threw up her
hands, laughed heartily and buried her
head among the pillows.
Let me see there IS Ellen Key and
Freud-O dozen OF two more that
the papers have had me uprooting and
changing my life TO iit their various
codes"
Then you are not disciple Of Ellen
Key?"
Would Be Scenario Writer.
Again she laughed II seemed a
beautiful Joke.
do you want to know the book that
has helped me to get through this long
winter II is over there on that shelf
"a little book of instructions about
how to write scenarios for the movies.
"Like 90 percent of the white popu-
iation, I've been trying to write for the
screen, and it has helped me to get
through so many long days III al
ways be grateful to that little book"
Then we talked about two women
writers who came from Wisconsin,
Elizabeth Jordan and Zona Gale
"Miss Jordan knows all about girls,
she said Il read all her Nal 1veson
stories. They are exactly ike nice
girls I've taught And Zona Gales
stories have wonderful quality all