The San Francisco call., 1913-09-10
The
Manicure
Lady
ktTHAr was a brillIant youne

6CT HAT was a brilliant young
man for you. George said the
Manicure Lady, that young
fellow that was just in here having
his nails did He has just came back
from the country, and all the time
was working on his paddles he was
telling me about his summer fiirta-
tions at the lake. The way he talked
about throwing his spell over the fair
sex. he must be kind of modern
LORD Byron. though he don't shape up
much for looks or brains If you COM
pare him with that champion
I got no time for them young warts
like him" declared the Head Barber.
Neither have L" declared the Mani
cure Lady, but I always like TO listen
to Joes like him. because it Is about
all the amusement get outside of
!. talking to a intellectual gent like you.
This young fellow told me. in per-
fecf confidence, OF course. that mar
.ried lady in the boarding house
where he got his eggs was kind OF in
terested in him, and that she admired
? him because he rowed her three times
around the lake without getting tired.
He was showing me what strong
forearms he had, and I suppose they
was fairly strong arms for book
keeper, but not up to the village
! blacksmith brand. He said that she
had invited him to call some time
when he got back to the city, and that
i. was why he was in having his nails
did
"a feel kind of sorry for the poor
young simp, at that know just
about what the game was. because /
seen 1T played more than once at the
summer resorts at which have been
at Some middle aged married lady
gets tired Of setting on the porch, and
when she sees that all the giggling
girlies gets chances 10 go rowing on
the lake. she looks kind Of languish-
ing at some husky young swimmer
that she knows can row and swim
wen enough to get her back safe to
shore Then he begins to think that
he has won somebody's huttering
heart with his fatal beauty, and hires
q rowboat by the week. which saves
. tie married lady quite a little pin
money and guarantees her an escort
that she can boss around. or course,
there is always a little scandal but
she doesn't care for that as long as
she can be out on the water. and the
young man. Of course. just glories in
the scandal That kind of fellow al
ways does. When his vacation is over
he finds that he is out quite little
for boat hire, but his arms is tanned
hne, and he has a invitation to call
some time and meet the family.
Brother Wilfred got stung that
way once. He was UP TO a lake in
the Catskills. and a beautiful mar
fled woman that was there with her
two children seemed kind of alone,
SO she beamed on Wnfred. You
know them poets. George. Every
time a good locker beams on them
the beans is spilled. Ny poor brother
wrote about 10 poems 10 her eyes,
and rowed her and the two kids
around the lake until his hands was
all pufed UP and his poeketbook all
fat He had awful crush on her,
and some of the lines he wrote to her
was almost real literature, she said.
I remember four of them lines:
.a'The moonlight nestles in your glori-
Gus hair;
Where could it find a more enchant-
ing lair?
The bee casts longing giances at
your lips;
Where could it find more sweetly
saccharine sips?1
That fall he called on her in the
city. and her husband was awful nice
IS Wilfred. Her husband was a big
prince of a fellow, and wilfred seen
at a glance that she loved her hus-
band only"
"But it amt always that way said
The Head Barber.