The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1900-03-25
A MANICURE GIRLS TALES.
ROMANCES THAT TIGHTEN 4 NAIL
CLIPPING CAREER.

Condolences That Customers Insist Upon
Making A Reconciliation 80 The False
Teeth of the Chorus Girl-rhe Gambler,
the Bank President and the EnGlishman.
The manicure girl pushed the polisher yigor
ously over the nails Of the new customer.
Il know She said, that IL is Il great joke to
tell about the BARRIERS talking their customers
TO death, but if | may Judge by my own experience,
quite the contrary IL the case. 1t Is the customers
who do all the talking. | honestly think that
lots Of them come here just to listen TO their own
voices. Do you want them round or pointed
Round, please said the new customer
the only way 10 have EN- said the manicure
girl Pointed nails have no style TO them he.
sides that they always go with a certain sort Of
disposition. Talk Of palm reading us an ART!
The palm never told the stories that one can easily
read In the nails. Professions, habits, character
istics, state Of health and station in lie are all
written in tie nails
Really said the new customer
"Oh, yes. have lots OF fun when a girl comes
In and begins to tell me about Pas horses and
brothers yacht and Mas diamonds and all the
time | can see plainly that She is a dressndher
or a seamsucss By her needle thumb and her
thimble finger. It's altogether different from
embroidery fingers Tho woman who cmhroiders
has what We call lazy hands, fine, Soit-Skinucd
and dehcately fingered. with exquisite nails, and
the marks on the thumb are different altogether
from those made by thu regular sewing needle,
Do you like q high POLISH
Just a little
Then they talk about Wall Street brokers
having coupon thumbs It's Il Joke, you know.
But cashiers in banks, any one who counts money
hahitually, gets a hard ridge on 'he outside Of
the right thumb and sometimes the nail wears
away lust = bit The minute | detect that | cX-
pect q story about stocks. Sometimes | get tips
on which / could make a fortune il | had nerve
enough But usually | have To listen Ia hard
luck stories and b. sympathetic. You have 10
be intensely synphthouc and you must always
side with the customer. | often wonder what
would happen If were 10 take sides against The
person who j. telling the story. u. they all
cans bo ON 'Ms right side Tho lovers quarrels
especially make mo tired They cone IN and
pour out the whole story # their live, Just rs
though they were tie only prD. ' on earth Then
they ask me what / would do IN such q case We
are expected To know q lot besides mauicurinr,
| can tell you And tina, rgmtnIs Ne Of a funny
story. Oth'r hand please.
4 had og- customer, u good looking, veil,
dressed Chap Who used to come in regularly every
S,turd,, at n, was very good Aumorpd and
nleasnnt Int he had a san sort OF A look snLlr-
tunes in his eye and used to gaze al a calendar
that hung IN the wall with a picture Of a lttlo
,h,ld nm !, I,ucw there Wa, a st.ry coming
In, 7 until r,,,o.ly I, d,,sn't ID, =, burry
,hor pcs,f.s ,,,,r.s ,lu,ys the t,porr that
,hav NAV linking far advice and whom il, c,mcs
e. such Questions as divorces and elupcments
and such things, it's too bl; an ur.sr FOR you
r,Iar.o,,d ,u, d,r't r,,llv feel syrrsi1ntic
/, I'LL ~, iu,,o.l,A. Ia keen ,b,, nm for TON
h,urs - doy. And WHOM i, c,r,.s f., odyi,c-
wbv 7 oIv,ys try 20 And out VIVA, they wan,
+, do h,p.,.Iy,, That's the kind 81 ,dvi,o
they ore ~I,.,inp lr
~rbis man rr,rlv ,oId m. how ne had married
. OR. tho, he tbou5Lt III, world A. and ,h,, lh,y
bod boon Gu houDy and there bot hr,p , lobv
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naN a QudI'' """u' '""' ''"'l -H" a'd my
separated. and ,h' refused tr "" tim l-giu. and
,,a, tho b,by died and ia., hal ddn.l ,ai,rrIy