Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03

The Manicure
Lady
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

tICISTER MAYME and .
tainly have Wrfreds -,
now" said the Msn;c.s
Lady. You ought to see the ~
raphy Of his life that the Door -.
wrote. Some trade paper thu.
wrote some poems for wrote ~:
asked him for his biography. +b,- ~.
goodness knows what thew +S.,,-i.
il would amount to. MY Door brassEE.
er nearly lost his MIND with dr.
when he got their letter. ana -.
shut up all day before vAsFa-s.I'
writing the story Of his life "a.
pen name is WILDER Wilberforcs a., -
this is the biography he wrote. Ma
me Swiped it and made g. coYv 81,
on the typewriter. Listen to thts.
'Wilfred Wherefore, poet -.
writer and essayist, was born on ~
2sth day Of March, 1888, in tbs cJt
Of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. 9is ~.
ents we're poor, but honest, and fSs,
gave young Wilfred the best educ,
ton possible under the circrr1
stances. He went through this bir-
school and showed a remsrk.S-
grasp in all his studies. He was 1s-
ticularly fond Of Latin, and surDs sal
his teachers in that interesting Iso-
guage, although they, too, were Az
Ceptionally intelligent
Mr.. Wherefore wrote h9a Sr.,
famous poem when ne wss INIT a.
teen years Of age. It was called 'aTE,
Dying Horse" and contained som.
lines Of wonderful beauty. From fb,;
time on his poems came thick and
fast, and now they are q househoiG
word in every land.
Mr.. Wherefore Is also an esp,v
ist Of rare ability, some Of his 81.
says having been pronounced as bel
ter than Ruskin's best efforts ana a.
least as meritOriOus as those of En-
eTson. He is now but % years an
and his friends and admirers think
there is no limit to his future srea.-
ness. He does not drink or smoke
though his father does both to eY.
cess.
There was a lot more to IL, all
about on the same order" said he
Manicure Lady, "and when me and
Mayme kidded him about il he
burned it up. I never seen him 81
mad. 7 amt got a bit Of sympatAv
for him, either. II was a fool tlt.y
for him to write, and If he had Sci.
D. ~ Alkai ltaNc paper anu -HhL '.
printed The old gent would have War.
TO the mat with him about what ~
said about father, | don't thjuk l.
son should print anything ab1u. a.s
dads habits even if the old gem de.
Ike his tea and smokes, do yo.
GeOrge?''
Certainly not" said the Head b..
Der "A man gets enough slam.
when he is running for office with8-.
having his own son print stuff ao1u.
him that sounds like knock You
brother must think pretty well q
himself, too. / don't see how nobody
could write anything beautiful about
a dying horse"
at wasn't beautiful at all" said the
Manicure Lady. "All Of the neigh
bors kidded the life out OF him the
time il came out in the school papes
but Wilfred just said that they didn
, understand poetry, and to this ia
he thinks 1t is one OF his best poems
Part of It went:
Thou dying steed, can not bear
To see thee suffering as thou art
I only wish that ! could dare
To send a bullet crashing througa
thy heart.
Then would thy soul have liberty
And thou would be out Of thy
misery"
II don't see how he can think thu.
one Of his best pieces" said the Heat
Barber.
q guess he's right at that" ssii
/ the Manicure Lady THE others 6on.'
/ seem TO sound much better"