The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1892-10-26
DO MEN PATRoNIZE THE MANlcURES7
A Dainty ManipuIator of the Scissors, File
and Polisher Answers for Herself.

It was dainty little room, a perfect
oasis of loveliness and coziness in bic
Office building full 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, 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 analyzed
trembled in the air, and in the center
stood the chief ornament, little wo.
man with blue eyes and a 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 few general remarks
about the weather, that inexhaustible
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 manicure
20, yes," she said with a CHEEKY lit
tie laugh, gentlemen are my best
customers. Don't you want something
doneP"
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 patrons. Of course the majority
of them are society men, men OF
wealth and leisure, for other men
won't take the time or trou BILE 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 manicure looks like and to
learn what manicuring is. Then the
process so pleases them and makes
their hands so much more presentable
that they come regularly afterward.
0Io 1Ou 0NOI U1Su Hd1lS! 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 a pernicious practice, almost as bad
as biting the nails. Altogether a
mans finger-nails are far from being
things of beauty. 1t is no worse for q
man to have his nails manicured than
for woman to do. so. Men are par.
ticular about their boards and hair
why not their nails? The one is nc
more feminine than the other But
men are such awful creatures" with
an arch smile, "that I suppose it will
be many years before manicuring 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.