Perth Amboy evening news., 1911-07-12
The Evening Chit Chat
By RUTH CAMERON
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EONOLOGUES Of a Shampoo Lady.
Ne (My shampoo lady is as first-cl
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AAoNoLoGUEs of a Shampoo Lady.
I'VE (y shampoo lady is as frstclass a philosopher as she is a sham
w pooist-an that means much. Almost every time he comes to
give me- a massage or a shampoo, she also gives me some viewpoint
o n life. T1sw yesterdays
"Do I ever gee blue, Miss Ruth? Mercy, no. I don't have time to No
Npne would If they had four or five heads n two or three faces and a
6ody IT two, to do in a day.
Besides, Miss Ruth Gust hold your head a little farther re the
pease), besides, how could I when 1 have such n interesting life.
&now omy sister is a school teacher and she thinks it's terrible for
Ndo this work and she's always saying, 1 should think, Anne, that
your family, and your bringing p would van to d o sol more
y and elevatng work than just washing peoples heads. Really,
: q n t understand how O can endure sue a unintenectual life
you know 1 never had a chance to study when a young, Miss
- Ruth. because 1 had to take care of my invalid mother until I was owe
thirty SO I couldn't yer well be a teacher Chat isn't too hot is tt) and
ehe thinks Hya disgrace for m to make money as a shampooist instead
of starving over clerical work in IN Office.
But as for a more stimulating ife-wel let me tell you, Miss Ruth,
last night a neighbor of mine asked ne if had read one of these novels
and said. Goodness, no; I don't have time to read ut m book
WHATS that, she said, The Btble?'
"And l aid, No, / didn't mean that although I do manage to read
II that pretty regularly too. But the book l mean is people
Eyes, people are my book. The people 1 visit, 1 mean would you
i rather l famed it Or shook it. Some, he n md some anothe ma Ia
forgotten which you liked. Why, they're just like a book of Dickens
you know with a lot Of little plots in it. Every house 1 visit is chapter.
There's Mrs. Marvin, you know with her w Dig boys. n AWAY as
something to tell me a put what they're doing And then there's Mrs.
Whttemore that little hineteenyear-od mother, it's great fun hearing all
about her experiences with that baby N men h eres Ns dmmons
the charity worker I just love to go there and hear about what she's DO
ing. And then when I go to the Alfred Potters I get a chapter on high
life (ou tell m If pull too hard. Your haairc certainly does get terribly
snarly. l suppose because ts cury):
people seem to get real confidential somehow when they're being
y worked oyer Why one LADY, guess It's III right to tell you If l don't
- Tho it is You don't know her from Adam, anyway-told me how
T .aaseT-SSout a divorce The lawyer turned ot 20 o. an oo over OF
hers who hadn't V e married and-wel 1t seems IS if couldn't wait for
the next treatmentt to read sol more In that chapter and find ut what
("There, Miss Ruth. you let that hang loose for a few minutes to air
y before you do it up)
-"Blue, well 1 should think not. And talk about stimulating lives. I
don't see low anyone could have a more interesting and stimulating life
zee that lear little baby again and find out what that child has been do
ing with her nw plaything. Goodbye, Miss Ruth, three weeks from o.
And the shampoo philosopher, having gathered up her washes and
implements. departed, a radiant smile o n her fine plain face and the
secret of happiness IN lei beautiful heart.
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