The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1905-05-27
MANICURE has HER TROUBLES.

The manicure is not willing to adj
nit that her lot is SO easy as some of
her critics think.
Most of the girls l know Of ex- :,
cept those employed in the large
establishments" said a manicure,
suffer from indigestion. That is
because customers often prevent us
from going to lunch at the proper
time
"It is very easy to say that one
should make it rule to go to lunch
at a certain tip'e every day whether
customers are waiting or not. I'd
like to see woman who would ever
come back again if she were asked to
wait for manicure to go to lunch.
THAT would be the end Of her.
Women can be just as mean to one
another in a manicure's place as any
where else. They come here and
complain about the smell of smoke.
You shouldn't let men smoke in
here, they say. It's very disagreea-
BILE for ladies. Besides, nice girls
ought not to want to allow men to
smoke in their Offices
"Now it happens that very few
men will sit in manicure room and
not want to smoke. Perhaps it would
be best if they did not. But men are
much better customers than women.
"They come more regularly and
they are much more liberal in the
matter of tips. No woman could
make her place pay without taking
tips. So we just have to put up with
the scolding of the women.
Nothing gives a woman more
pleasure than to come and find a maui
cure out at lunch. You're never
here, they love to say. Every time
I come find the door locked and the
card that you are out at lunch. You
must have lot of customers to be
able to take SO much time.
"That always means that she has
been at the Office once and found me
out.
Men are just as mean sometimes.
The other day one of them used the
telephone. 1t is pay station and we
have to pay for every call. A Gus
toner talked so long, I told him that
he must have had two calls. He
asked the operator.
Only one,' he sang out to me.
Here's ten cents.
"As soon as he left the room 1
called up the operator and asked her
how it happened he could talk for so
long on one call. 1t was two calls
and she had told him so. The next
time he came into the place he tele-
phoned again.
"'You owe me ten cents from last
week, l told him. You had two
calls then.
"He declared it was impossible
and said he would give me ten cents
for the call he had just had to split
the difference. Can you think of any
thing meaner than that? OF course,
he got his manicuring just ten cents
cheaper, for I paid for the telephone.
"I'm not afraid of anybody that
comes into the Office so long as | am
not altogether alone. If any man
gets fresh l just call the other girl
over to the table to help me. That
usually lets him see that l intend to
crush him.
"Once was alone and one man did
really scare me. l had never seen
him before. He had such horrible
stare that he would have frightened
anybody. 1 started in to manicure
him and suddenly stopped when he
became annoying and walked out of
the room.
"I waited in the hallway with one
of the stenographers in the Office
across the hall for him to come out.
1t was long time before / realized
that the building would soon close
and that he must be got out.
| II called the janitor, who sent one
of his men to tell him that he must
90. He pretended for while that
he was waiting for me. But the jani-
tor knew better and succeeded in get
ting him out.
"But usually it is not so trouble
some as this. They quiet down with
out struggle when they once see
they cannot be funny"