Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1911-10-08
THE MANICURE LADY
stT1HBM aviators takes aWtui
chances, don't they, GeorgeP"
i said tho Manicure Lady, cuff

,-HHEM aviators takes aWtu
chances, don't they, George?"
said tho Manicure Lady, cuff
ing a puff into place and powdering her
srrb nose ever so much and her red
cheeks ever so little. II can hardly sleep
nights thinking about the awful risks
them men take. Brother Wilfred says he
can't sleep nights, either, but he is think
ing about them big purses that they
draw down. That's the only thing that
bothers my dear brother. Risks is moth
ing to him, so long as somebody else
takes them-money is everything to that
kid.
"He was beefing around the house the
other night like a miser who had lost
his gold. Just think OF it! Just Inn
.pinel he groans. Look at the photo OF
this guy here. He stands chance to
get hfty thousand dollars, AMI ali that
he has got to do to earn it Is to ride
across the continent in one OF them safe.
modern airships. It's crime
.SThen the old gent looks at poor Will
fred kind of clinical. and he says: Well,
we'll, why don't YOU try it?' That kind
Of stuInped brother for awhile. but final
iy he pulls himself together and says:
why, father. surely you wouldn't want
to see me ny over three thousand miles
away from yous sure would the OLD
gent comes back, and wouldn't care.
for that matter. whether you few three
thousand miles away or took a freight
Don't be sitting around here all the time
ike a loon, the old gent finishes up.
telling how you begrudge some regular
man a piece OF change that he is likely
70 earn with his brain and his nerve"
"This Awaiting may be all right" re-
marked the Head Barber. who was get
ting tired OF family prattle. But as
Eve said to Adam, when she handed
him the apple. This is fine, guess. but
you can have It. don't want none OF
that eagle stun in mine. It's hard
enough these times, the way things is
breaking, for a man to keep his feet on
the ground, let alone keeping them in
the air, right side down."
But it's all in the interest OF science"
explained the Manicure Lady. what
would this world be. George, If 1t wasn't
for some OF them noble martyrs which
has walked through a sea of ire and
water In order that the principles for
which we stand for shall hutter at the
highest nagpole OF the national honor
which is our civic pride and destiny?"
Maybe you're right" admitted the
Head Barber, without the faintest idea
In the world OF what his fair companion
was driving at. But what / said goes
the way II lays. l don't want no hy-
ing in mine. and nothing you could say
would ever make me change my mind
Don't you fret. little one" said the
Manicure Lady. There Amt nothing
that i am going to say You must un-
derstand. George, that it takes nerve, and
a lot OF It. 10 say nothing OF a good
clear brain, 10 drive a aeroplane. II
couldn't hardly be expected that a man
OF your calibre. who can't hardly get M
nerve enough to shave the first man IN
the morning, could ever be expected e
become a daredevil OF the skies. There
amt speed enough about you, George, fol-
anything like that Besides you are toe
fat"
The Head Barber became moOdiiy ST.
lent, and the Manicure Lady. seeing tina
she had his number. put on her new
ponyskin coat and went out 20 lunct
With friend