El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-24
''Ihe Manicure Lady,
She Has n Talk With the Head Bar
Der ever commencement Mat
tiers and GrnduatiOns.
BY VIM. F. Kirk
BY VIM. F. IIfrI
IT AN going to take afternoon

/ bfT AN going to take a afternoon
and evening off" declared the
Manicure Lady. Today is
/ commencement at the school where I
used TO go, and this evening there is
/ going TO be dance
The boss won't like it," said the
/ Head Barber. This is a busy day in
the shop"
Il don't care whether the boss likes
1t or not said the Manicure Lady.
II notice the rest of the help around
mere takes jump 10 the ocean any
time they feel that way He better
not act icy around me when tell him
am going to the commencement eZ-
ercises. Pm just going, that's all
i always like to go to q com
mencemenT George. The girls look so
young and innocent in their white
dresses. and the boys look so impOr-
1 tant when they stand up there on the
platform with their chests out and tell
about launching their banks on the
sea OF business life Goodness knows
they mostly find their level pretty
quick after they leave school, and
most Of them that talks about over
coming the obstacles that lie strewed
IN inc road TO Success and Fame has
to be cOntCnted with a good. every
day job, something on the shipping
clerk or bCokkeepcr order. Just the
same 7 like to see them up there tell
Ing how they plan TO set the world
"Of course girls don't take com
mencement quite so serious as the
boys. because most Of them is kind
Of figuring on matrimOny sooner or
later They think and dream at com
mencement time of a prince that viii
ride upon big white horse and carry
them away but "a few years later
they are glad enough to be married to
q SoOu, honest teamSter with two big
white horses and good credit at the
general store Few of them draws
princes nowadays I know mine never
has came as yet and here I am, whit
Jllng nails and waiting for the proper
sort Of sparring partner with which
to end my days with"
u was the smartest boy in the
class when I graduated" said the
Head Barber. Il had the valedictOry,
which goes to the scholar who has
the highest standing in everything
during the four years in the high
right then, [ guess. The old gent
wanted me to be a lawyer and mother
wanted me 10 be a preacher so /
compromised, and here / am, knight
Of the razor and hot towel, trying to
make old thOroughbreds look young
and handsome for three or four hours
while they are at a theater or a ban
quet I guess they call it commence
ment because. with a lot of young
chaps, it is about the beginning of the
end"
Gee. George, YOU should talk more
hopeful" said the Manicure LADY
You have did a whole lot with your
education. I think. I hear a lot of
fellows that comes in here say that
you are the best barber that ever
shaved them, and you've had the head
chair here for a long time. I guess
you can keep it till you die. for that
matter Think how much better off
YOU are than a lot of college gradu-
ates that never got nowhere except
up the river a fellow was telling
me the other day that quite a few
of our best young criminals speaks
now and then of their Alma Mater.
You wouldn't have got the valedic-
tory if YOU hadn't been bright and
] think it is a lot better to be a bright
barber than a dull president