THE ALLIANCE HERALD, TUESDAY, FEliUUARY 1. 1021
rMRS. MTU I AN EY
TELLS AliOUT HER
LIFE IN PRISON
(Continued from Tape 1)
vnothing to her. They passed groups of
carefree co-eds on the street corners
virls no older nor younger than she.
'They were looking forward to Satur
day night dates while she
Every large building caught her eye.
. "Was it "it?" Rut the taxi did not
-top. They passed them all up. And
presently there' were no more "big"
buildings. Just houses. Then not
even those.
As the car crested the top of the
Fourteenth street hill, he got her
tfirst glimpse of "the place." It seemed
like is was so lonesome way out in
the country like that. There wouMn't
be much to watch from the windows.
But would they let her look out of
'the windows?
The taxi drew up in front of the
massive door. She caught her breath
and her girl-woman heart contracted.
iShe, who had experienced so much,
was full of child curiosity to see it, the
new home and its people. She who
was no young in years had the woman
embarrassment In facing those very
people.
"Everyone will look at me and say:
"There goes that awful woman,'" ishe
'whispered.
Styles Meant Nothing.
Her French heel clung to the turf be
tween the pavement and sidewalk, re
luctant to let go, perhaps. It might be
the last lime her foot would rest upon
the heaven-spread earth carpet for
over a quarter 0f a century. Those
Tieels might never carry their mistress
Ijeyond the walls again. One could
.scarcely expect those stubby toes, and
beaded straps to stay in style for
thirty years.
Style
Would Evelyn be able to keep in
ouch with the styles of the world
vhile youth tingled her longings for
.vood-looking clothes? If she had to
stay in thirty years she would be
Sifty and tottering when she came
i'orth. Fifty why women were old
and white-haired at fifty.
The big door closed behind her.
Closed! The word never meant so
Tnuch before in all probability. Closed!
That meant shut. She had become a
.shut-in.
She climbed a short flight of steps.
Perhaps she did not notice that the
Srst door on the left bore the simple
inscription,- "Warden." Across the
hall was a reception room.
But right straight in front
A big gaping doorway with great
S?ray bars.
Everyone seemed to be looking. A
wan appeared magically on the spot.
They told her it was Deputy Warden
Harmon. And without more to do, they
were mounting, mounting two long
flights of green carpeted steps. They
were broad stairs, not the crooked
twisty ones of fiction. But maybe the
twisty ones would come later.
The matron met them at the head
of the stairs Mrs. Frank Lockard.
Evelyn had been told that she would
treat hrr square. But many things
already had not turned out as she had
been told. She sized her up as the
hud sized up Harmon and as she later
did the warden.
Mrs. Ixckard took the girl at once
to the ward. As the great gray door
swung open and showed the inner bars,
Evelyn took a look about her new
apartments.
They were not a bit as she had ex
pected. A long wide hall spread be
fore her, but thei-e were no visible
cells little windowless holes in the
wall where one must stay eternally
curled up. It wasn't half bad on first
glimpse.
Searched Her First.
The matron took her at once to a
room at the rear. Theie the was
searched.
Evelyn smiles when she looks back
upon that. They must have thought
her to be desperate when they did
that. Searched her like she was nn
ordinary
Mrs. I.ockhard told her to go in and
bathe. The water felt good after the
dirty trip across the s-tate. One docs
get so grimy traveling.
They let her w?ar her own aprons
with the warden's permission. She
had a number of them. The state
would find that it had a long time to
clothe her at that. And it made the
beginning seem easier.
'then came the filling out of the
record the act that makes an in
mate's private qualities, his identifica
tion marks, property of the state.
Ami while the room that was to
house the girl from Alliance was being
warmed, Mrs. Lockhard talked to
Evelyn. None but the two know just
what was said. Mrs. Lockard ex
plained the rules of the ward, the
discipline, the things that would be
expected of the newcomer, her rela
tionship to the other girls there. She
found that she could write a letter
once in two weeks, and that she could
receive visitors on the second Thurs
day of each month.
That is, she could if she obeyed the
rules.
Room lo Herself.
Evelvn has a room by herself. So
have the three other women housed in
the same quarters, one colored girl and
two white girls. Evelyn learned that
two were in from one to seven years,
with one of them re-serving after a
violation of a parole. The other is
there for from one to twenty years on
forgery.
The parole matter does not concern
Evelyn. The little brown book on
rules that govern inmates of the Ne
braska penitentiary says that those
confined for treason, murder, rape, or
kidnapping are not eligible to paroles.
When the room gat warm, Evelyn
had until the evening supper hour to
tiiinV thosp thinsrs over. Her room
was large, with three beds in it. At
i present, it is not necessary that she
share it with another. The colls are
white. There is but one window and
it is barred. But it has white curtains
and that helps a lot.
Not so bad as a cell.
I Supper was brought up from the big
'Boys and Girls
Ask Yourself These
Questions
And Then Answer Them
What are you going to do when you grow up?
Are you going to be your own boss or work
for someone else? .
Will you be independent and have your own
home, or will you be one of the many who just
scrape and manage to make both ends meet?
It all depends on you.
Nearly all of the great men of this country
began to prepare for success when they were
young like you. 1 ,
The first step is to save what you earn and
are given. The folks at home will be glad to
help you. . &i1SUtmJfo'i3
Then, when the time comes for you to go to
college, or start out for yourself, you will be
equipped for the fight.
Every penny you save now puts you that much
ahead of the boy or girl who does not save.
Children's accounts are always welcome at this
bank, no matter how small they may be.
kitchens in a pail and carried by a
"trusty." No fulls. Just plain meat,
potatoes and cabbage. But there was
plenty.
the four of them sat down to one
table. The white and colored eirls do
not have to eat tonether. There are
two dining rooms. But why not? No
one cares.
No One Cures.
That is the funnv nart about iL No
one seems to care about anything.
If .1 i - -!. A- 1 "l
ii uiPiT is a joo 10 io, anu one geis
through with her share first, she lets
the others work out their own salva-.
tions.
"We don't get paid for extras. So,
what's the use."
Sometimes the girls even stoop to
1 ! r tr i r rvnf rwt r v rt V "in liml '
II l f" 1 ). 'IIV l I It' l 1 1 I III I'lUI,
One day Mrs. Fenton sent in a par
ticularly nice tiblecloth to le laun
dered. She did not care t. have this
fine a piece go into the general prison
laundry.
Someone had it "in" for the girl who
was assigned the task. She sprinkled
some reu stun on me nnen ami u
never came out.
Another time, a b'g square was torn
out of a niece of muslin iriven to a
certain girl to "shrink."
But even at that, Evelyn is wor
ried for fear the time will come when
clio im11 tirt laft Hnn tVirn nil nlnno "
Thirty years is such a long time.
.
At nome now, someone was always
running in for a chat. There were
thirteen children in the ramny and
eleven, six girls and five boys, still
living.
No Right (o a Mother.
Of couse there is visitor's day.
That comes but once a month. Evelyn's
mother and a sister came down the
January day. She. enjoyed them so
much. ' And when the mother left at
3 o'clock, Evelyn stood at the window
to watch until they had melted from
sight.
"Aw kid you ain't got no right to a
mother, now' some one spit out. "1
lost mine."
But that first night, she was not
thinking so much of visitor's day, as
the countless number of solitary days
.. . . . . 1 I - 1" I
that stretcneu oui aneuu iu nn.
Evelyn asked Mrs. tcnton once now
long she had lived there.
"Eight years.
ir;. ..-. - r Mw flint spems like
a long time to stay in one place. I
don't believe I could stand to "
Eight years. That is only a little
less than' a fourth of thirty years.
"I am going to be as good as 1 can,
i,-. .. i.nrr,lnl tn the matron, after a
bit o"f figuring. "According to the good
time law. I can reouce my actum umi-
o i;t'o nvcr twpntv-one veai'S. 1
L W u i I - l ' v. -' " " .-
can do that if I never disobey a rule.
"Besides I don t see how heing mean
;. .; r tn crpt mp anvw hcrp. The
warden looks like he could be good
natured as long as I am good. But I
figure out that he can be mean if I do
something 1 hadn't ovrht to. You look
like that too," naively.
The Same Koutine.
IpiI and assured
jvi.ihi -
her she would be happier if she was
a good girl.
The women pru oners give the day
time hours to the state. They do the
. i ii i a-!a...a:a.
fine laundry wgik ior ne inHiiuumi
4 l-i ran i i mpa n week. The rest of the
time they sew and do fancy work.
Evelvn had never seweu ihmuic, iwi
crocheted. She does now. She has
made enough lace and insertion ior
come sheets for one of the official s
beds. And when the factory is run
ning, the women make the cretonne
linings for the lamps.
Every day is alike. C.et up at seven.
Clean the room, eat breakfast, sew or
wash until noon. Dinner. Continue
the morning work until five. Supper,
and then the evenings are spent in
making things for one's self. Bed at
9 o'clock sharp. .
EveJvn s bed nour, ior uic incn
ears at least has not hovered about
the 9 p. m. hour. Nor have her eve
nings been spent with a flitting needle.
And when one is twenty-one
The only excitement is the mice.
They got to be pretty bad for a while.
And then someone sent a cat up.
The matron feared for a time, that
a caf could not be kept on the third
floor of a penitentiary. But tabby
1 ... m-v.- V,. u-anta nn
seems to line u. ;v" "V
airing, she crawfs through the bars
ami out on an adjacent buildm to
chase sparrows across the roof. JJhen
she gets nungry, sue
and chases mice. '
Evelyn envies the cat sometimes.
Take in a Movie.
tn a ...., 4Vi wnmpn are nermit-
ted to accompany their matron to the
mov e n the prison buhhim
. ... v,.f.., thtr own Sunday
wniie uiey ""' -
school in their own quarters, they at
tend the church services wu
1 .... .. (nnnv tn me. that
whenever anyone talks out here its
always to 'you men.'" Evelyn re
marked at one time, "They never say
anything to the women. I don't like
is u.-rd to being noticed.
But there is one thing she is thank
ful for. Visitors are never al'owed to
go through the women's ward.
"People cannot come and stare at us
like they do the men," she said. "Our
quarter arc not arranged so that they
could come through without being
right with us. am glad for that."
Thus goes the life of a woman whom
the Nebraska courts have pronounced
as guilty of violation of one of the
state's statutes. There is plenty of
substantial food, good beds, a chance
to read if one does not lose the privi
leges. The working hours are reason
able. The officials are considerate.
But what a prospect
Thirty years of the same thinir.
when one is twpntv-one.
7-2s-:.2, $1.0(1.
I. illie May Anderson and husband
to Edgar Hilton and H. H. Karsting,
northwest quarter of section 13-25-49,
$.1,200.00
II. Sheridan Keane and wife to K.
I Bierce and G. M. Jenkins, east half
of section 7, south half of section X,
northwest quarter of section 8-27-o2,
$.VS0.0O.
II. Sheridan Keane and wife to The
Purland Trust Co., east half of section
7, south half of section K-27-R2, $400.
Otto Matz and wife to U. E. Knight,
northeast quarter of section 2S-2C-47,
' $(i0 1.00.
I Erne-t Radenbaugh and Mrs. Ada
to T. K. (lilshannon, northeast qur
(ter of section (i-25-47, $1,000.00.
William H. Kiester and wife to
Keith E. Tierce, southwest quarter o.
section 1 1-27-4S, $2,400.00.
' Eugene C. Kendrick and wife to G.
I M. Jenkins, lot I and 2, block 21,
L'hrig' addition, $1,100.00.
' Fred C. Feck and wife to Keith L.
Fierce, northeast quarter of section 25-
20-51, $2,240.00.
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS
Filed for record for week endintr
February 11, 1921:
Anton L'hrig, widower to Eugene C.
Kendrick, lots 1 and 2, block 21, fli
ng's addition, $.100.00.
William M. Corey and wife to Si
meon A. Powell and wife, lot 10, block
34. Hemingford, $2,000.00.
Vadie Chandler, single, to Norman
G. Leishman, southwest quarter of
section 21-25-4S, $1.00.
Sadie C. Bennett and husband to
Robert F. Meece, west half of north
east quarter, northwest quarter of the
southeast quarter and northeast quar
ter of the southwest quarter of section
"I DIDN'T
REALIZE
how much good two weeks
of rest in the south would
do one at this season" said
a m a n who had just re
turned, after giving himself
a physical and mental over
hauling and toning up.
Many folks think of The
South (Texas, Florida, the
Gulf Coast states) as "way
off there." Rut that isn't
the cause. A few hours and
you're there.
You'll enjoy every mile of the
way if you take a Burlington
planned tour.
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