The Meridian times. (Meridian, Idaho) 1909-1938, 1911-05-12

N1 hlsht she rented II for dap,as 49,
ouch' But the manicure enterrrjsa
was me most successful tbing arar
opened In Socorro, because annsrer+I,,
all coWpunchers on the rsnaa .ay
peeh IN great distress for mapjcurtng
before she came. IL 'Ns
Hone OF them were overly dis
tressed. skink Billings, when h. ers,
VISITED Socorro, had his nails a,tnrdat
10 nVe times in one afternoon Tba1
ne nau night with Kentucky Smith
on inc sand in front Of the place he
AUST the latter alleged an unfair deal
ana Sklnk reckoned "a Teller conrd civ
MS hands pruned just as soon and
J "S olIen as he could dig up the price
mary Brown separated tbaro +oar,
tnem inside, and an hour later sent
cnem forth arm in arm, the best of
iLienos' and each with pockets buI.
sing with hair-restorer at one dollar
per That was only mild example
Ihlngs got so bad that there weren,,
uoZen punchers in the district who
could tie hog-knot on a steer Their
nHsers were too sore from excessive
| nanlcuring; but they were psroa
lou. A mans hands might get too ter.
der Tor work, but it was never main
luI operation to have them held nv
| Mary, although she never clutcbsd
palms except professional She was
real artist, all right, and believed in
art Tor moneys sake. But there came
time when the quick of the range
began to be exposed, and to this ca
iamlty' also Mary was equal. She
opened a hair-dressing shop, and in
| vented Marching"
Long before it had ever been beard
! OF in the east there wasn't a coWnar,
IN that part Of Arizona who felt him
self equipped for a days work with
mere ordinary straight hair. A weary
rider would turn in from his hard Y
hours round, saddle fresh mustang,
and lope 40 miles by the light OF the
moon, explaining his departure to the
foreman by curt"Got ter go ter So
zorro ter git my ha'r and hooks
| fixed" and that settled it.
1t isn't commerce ana manufactur.
ing that makes a city. That was
proven by Socorro. It's manicurtng
and Marching. Before Mary Brown
came there were just three shacks in
Socorro. Befor. she had been there
six months there were 30. Most every
cattleman had his town cabin. and
once a sheepman tried to break in.
But he died
Within six months there were five
saloons, two general merchandise
stores, and an undertaking estab ish-
ment, in combination with a drug
store and doctors shop. The
railway put in stock-runs. because
there arose a unanimous petition that
this be made shipping-station.
Before Mary came, Mrs Hank VIII
liams, wife OF the section boss, had
been the natural social leader Of the
camp, but she lost her hammerlock on
mems hearts and adulations when
Mary came. Marcelling necessttates a
half-Nelson on the subject, much bet
ter than a mere handhold. and there
wasn't a man in the country whose
heart had not pslpitated beneath
Mary's gentle touch, while he was get
ting his hair waved. 1t was ad-
vantageous, too, because. as Tex said:
1T beats the devil how much hair will.
stand"
Mrs. Hank was Of jealous disEos:-
ton. She didn't know much about the
manicuring game, having been a farm.
hand before she Joined fates with VII
hams. But she was a mighty lucky
woman. Once she drew a prize card in
can of baking powder. and got {
three-by-four camera. And from that |
she waXed prosperous. but no tatter. |
She always was fat. anyhow. so that |
didn't matter. She opened what she !
called a High Art Gallery and Stu
do" The boys laughed at it. be
cause it wasn't so high after all, be
ing on the ground floor.
Mary acted kind Of mean about that
She never had her picture taken, and
when Turkey tried to act as a mission
airy in the cause she bucked outright;
said she'd be hanged If she would.
A bunch of people that want anything
bad enough get it, So the people in
this case bribed Mrs. Hank.
She snap-shotted Mary, and then
surreptitiously bartered the photo.
grahrs gained thereby. and added DOLBY
dollars to her sack. Nobody objected
to the price, because five is always
cheap for right strikin' likeness OF
a loved one, and these sure were
"strikin'."
Mary didn't know about this. but she
did know that the gallery was dong
business, BECAUSE nearly every Gus
toner presented her with his own pic
ture. Most of them were mounted on
brown paper, with an arrow-pierced |
heart. cut out of red tissue, pasted in
the lower left-hand corner. Some OF
the boys played the game strong, and
had two hearts pasted on the mount
ing. Mary didn't care. She ALWAYS
thanked them. But the price OF hair
restorer, Marching. or manicuriDg
never dropped.