Los Angeles herald., 1906-08-20
GOSSIP OF HOT WEATHER DOlNGS
In AND AROUND OLD NEW YORK
Correspondent of The Herald

Special Correspondent of The Herald
NEW YORK, Aug. 14.-Itinerate
manicurists who beautify your hands
at 10 cents a throw are cutting big in
roads into the business of the fair
young thing with the Marcel wave
and winning ways who, in sotto-Voice,
while holding hands, tells you your
"moons are just perfect" The new
beauty doctors who perform the nail
trimming trick for less than the price
of a shave are professors" some of
whom picked up manicuring while jol-
lying the girls with the Marcel wave
at some of the larger hotels, where
they charge four bits for job. The
professor travels from corner to cor
ner, and while you stand in doorway
he will turn the trick in ten minutes.
Near Dead Mans Curve on Fourteenth
street is the open air shop of a pro-
fessor who is an adept at putting the
artistic touches to the mits. He wears
an old faded straw hat, a seerSucker
coat, whose age suggests that it's an
heirloom, and patriarchal whiskers.
Notwithstanding his makeup the pro
feSsor" is there with the goods. He
does not sit behind a mahogany table
covered with rich cut glassware and
silver Instruments of torture. He
keeps on his feet all day long behind
a peddlers table containing two per-
fectly manicured wax hands, a bottle
of bleach, bottle of polish and file.
He does not whisper sweet nothings-
he bawls out to the listening multi
tude. He worries and tauntS the
passersby until they are forced to
place their hands in their pockets You
feel small when he cries out "polish
your nails, sir? Make 'em nice and
white" the same as bootback drums
UP trade. And people do not hesitate
to patronize him. He has just as
large clientele as he can take care
of. Every Saturday afternoon he is
busy polishing the nails of the beaux
living in the vicinity of Fourteenth
street, preparatory to their appear
ance in society. The professor
doesn't waste much time in the pro-
cess either. With a few remarkable
curves he has your nails cut and filed
to Just the proper anglican angle as
sharp as toothpick Now. dip your
fingers into the mouth of a bottle, sir.
All, that will do. Thank you" Now
just a little bit of rubbing with the
of that hangnail, and then, begosh!
out comes tiny brush. The manicure
| man whisks open another bottle, dips
the brush quickly into the mouth and
! daubs your thumb nail. Presto! What
a beautiful, glowing, scintilating pol
| 1Sh! Your nnger looks as though II
had been soaked in rouge and dipped in
butter and behold! you are manicured,
and all for 10 cents!
SchWartzenhauser' Lunch
A young woman with a white dress
and a peachblow complexion who
looked as If she had just stepped out of
a millinery-dres dressing
manicure shop took her seat in an old
crosstown car the other day. In a
minute she began to sniff, and then
called the conductor. "Mr. Conductor,
1 think there is a dead mouse in this
car" said she.
"Where?" asked the conductor.
Fright over there" rhe answered,
pointing to corner.
The conductor raised the seat and
reached down. "Oh!" he said in dis
gust, that's the motorman's lunch,
His name is Schwartzenhauser."
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Washers and Monkeys
Something gone wrong with aged
mashers who stroll through Central
park. They all seem to be going TO the
monkey house. There they get into
trouble. 1t must be the heat, or since