Omaha daily bee., 1888-04-01

in the issue OF General Grants memoirs,
will be able and willing to outbid their
RIVALS. Nevertheless when Ulysses S.
Grant, jr., wen into the Cosmopolitan
Magazine as vice president and stock"
holder, it "a thought in literary cir
cles that Mrs. Grant would help him by
putting her "reminiscences into that
periodical. Colonel Grant denies siren
uously that his brother is being backed
in any other way than by a loan of
money from his mother, and the author
lzed assertion is that, although shares
of the stock stand in young Ulysses
name, he is trustee for her. That is q
legal technicality to protect him as a
bankrupt from the Grant & Ward fail
ure. My careful prediction is that Mrs.
Grant will publish something within
the year.
The gentleman upon whose wife |
called, yesterday afternoon, would be
displeased by the printing Of his name
here, although it is SO famous that | am
tempted to give it, and there was moth
ing wicked, after all, in the thing | am
going to describe. He is Il dignitied
man of so, and on a dead level with
CAESARS wife, above reproach. Besides
his wife is a highly respected matron,
who loves him devotedly, and she was
present all the time. He was seated
comfortably in an easy chair la2ily read
ing a newspaper which he held in Il
hand, while the other hand was in the
possession of II notably pretty girl OF
20. She had come by appointment and
was giving to his hands IA dollars worth
of treatment. In short, she was one of
the numerous professional manicures,
who make calls on rich and luxurious
men and women TO improve the appear
,.,.,n az tl,.,, Ia nd. A At,,,,,f l,1fAH I,,Tn.
for years employed these deft and skill
fulnail clippers, polishers and hang-nail-
eradicators. OF late men have taken
the idea, too, but it isn't customary for
the stale old fellows to go to the manicure
Offices. The usage is for he and his wife
to engage the manicure to come to their
house once a week. So it Is all right
and proper; and yet you can't make me
believe that the male customers are
really solicitOus about the identification
of their hands, for that could not be ac-
complished, anyhow, or that elderly or
scraGgy mGnicurcs would be ablo to get
work from them. | an willing to on
cede that the operator in this particular
instance was above the average in good
looks, but | haven't observed any ugli-
ness ON the part of any of them.
What did she do? Well, she opened
n neat case of instruments, something
like n surgeon outfit on n small scale,
and set them out on a table by which the
patient sat. Then she pu; his hands
into a bowl OF warm suds, and gave
gave them a thorough washing, after
which she dried them with u
soft towel. Then
SHE TRIMMED HIS NAILS
with sharp little scissors, also
!! clipping OF ali the little hang
nails, Next, she pushed down the
skin at the base of each nail,
using a steel implement, and removing
some Of il wish a tiny scalpal. A fine
file was the peNt instrument, and with
il she smoothed the edges OF the nails.
Thorough polishing, first by means Of a
chamOise covered polishor, then with
an ivory stick, md finally with the
palm Of her own hand. The climax was
Il dabbling Of perfumed lotion.
The operation lasted Just an hour.
During that time | coTertly yet criti-
caliy studied the girl. She was busi-
ness-li he, iyith 10 visible admixtirc OF
nonsense. She was silent, save in briefly
answering several questions reletiag to
the Job. She was Constantly halaling
his hands, OF course, and the contrast
between his aig, cld, eeurse ones and