The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1892-10-20
30 MEN PATRONIZ5 THE MANiCURESf
Dainty ManipuIator OF tae Scissors. File
and Polishcr Answers for Herself

It was dainty little room, perfect
oasis of loveliness and coziuess in big
Office building tull of rooms with bar
rem walls and rigid furniture. Easy
chairs. and cunning little dlvans. and
rOly-poly footreSts were at every hand
and at every foot. too. Little pieces
of fragile bric-a-brac,, some books OF
poems, a fashion magazine. articles OF
fancy work. photographs and etchings.
sweet-Singing bird, flowers and
plants added to the delightfulness OF
the little apartment. A delicate
fragrance which could not be analysed
trembled in the air, and in the center
stood the chief ornament, little wO-
man with blue eyes and pleasant
smile showing the edges of pretty
teeth.
1t was not at all as the reporter ex.
pected it to be, and he was embar-
rassed. A reassuring: "Will You sit
down?" and q few general remarks
about the weather, that iuexhaustible
topic, put him at his ease, and enabled
him to state the object of his call He
had often wondered if men patronized
her. for she was q manicure.
20, yes," she said with CHEEKY lit
tie laugh. gentlemen are my best
customers. Don't you want something
done?"
And she picked up the nervous hand
of the reporter in purely professional
way and examined the nails of his fin
gers. They were really in deplor-
able state, although he had not no
ticed it until he compared them with
the pink tips of her small, white hand.
This is too bad," she said, critically
examining his hand. "You have neg
lected them woefully." and at his re-
quest she began to put them in order
and while she did SO she chatted of her
business.
yes; | have many gentlemen among
my pa trops. OF course the majority
of them are society men, msa OF
wealth aad leisure, for other men
won's take the time Oh trou ble to visit q
manicure, although they ought to do
SO. | suppose most of them come in
the first place out of idle curiosity to
see what a manicure looks like and 80
learn what manicuring is. Then the
process so. pieases them and makes
their hands SO much more pre5entable
that they come regularly afterward.
Did you ever notice mems nails? As
a rule the edges are broken and torn,
they are trimmed with knife or large
shears, leaving an uneven, Jagged rim.
Then the skin at the base of the nail is
allowed to grow on the nail, causing
the sometimes painful hang-nails.
Some men trim their nails to the quick
and scrape them almost away. That
is pernicious practice, almost as bad
as biting the nails. Altogether a
mans iinger-nails are far from being
things of beauty. 1t is no worse for a
man to have his nails manicurcd than
for a woman to do so. Men are par
ticular about their boards and hair
why not their nails? The one is no
more feminine than the other. But
men are such awful creatures" with
an arch smile, that | suppose it will
be many years before manieuring is
popular with them"
By this time, many swift and dex-
ferrous manipulation of scissors, file,
and polisher, the reporters finger
nails had been manicured in the most
approved style. and he went forth feel
ing as if he had new pair of hands.