The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1913-06-25
The Manicure! ]! Lady

Brother Wilfred got the first real
piece OF change yesterday that he
ever got from his writings" said the
Manicure Lady, He used to come
home with a five-dollar check once in
while that he got from the editor OF
the Flour and Feed Gazette or the
Bronx Monitor, but yesterday he come
hcme and flashed hundred.dollar
note that he had just got for song
nj which he wrote the words OF. Even
father warmed up 10 the poor boy
when he sen the yellow In VIII,
fred's trembling mitt, and you can be,
the old gent wasn't in no mood to
worm up until the money got in front
OF his eagle glance"
WAS 1; a rag;ime song?' asked the
Head Barber. 1T must be, though.
That's the only kind OF songs that are
getting the dough now" ~
A Sad Ballad.
mo. II amt a ragtime sons" re-
piled the Manicure Lady. Its a sad
ballad, George. / was sure that /,
was going to be liked the minute vii
fred showed Il 10 me, before DC
showed Il 10 anybody else. l wish he
hadn't made 1t quite so sad, though
Goodness knows there is enough weep
ing in this world without making dI
new songs with soEs In them. Still.
suppose what the public wants nova
days Is extreme in songs. either
something so comic that 1t would
make snail smoker or something
sad and pensivc like dreary rain fall,
ing on weeping willows. That's the
kind Of a song Wilired has wrote
George. and III bet you that when NJ
Is sang with slides the folks will take
on something terrible. This Is the
way 1t goes. wish could remem.
Der the tune, but 1t sounds something
like this:
"GONE BEYOND RECALL.
"a handsome married couple in a
city far away,
Was setting in their partor at the
close OF one sad day.
The couple had been scrapping for
the first time in their life.
And each hard word they uttered cut
the other like a knife.
At last the wife could stand no more,
and just as six o'clock,
She broke china platter on her hus.
bands noble block,
Her husbarS saw the shattered dish
and felt his battered head,
Then facing his impetuous wife, these
sad words he hen'said:
CHORUS:
THE dish is gone beyond recall; we
Ht VI SUdii See IL HlulGs
We cannot get one like IT at the
five and ten cent store.
| little dreamed OF such coarse work
when vowing Id be true.
The dish is gone beyond recall-so is
my love for you!'''
A Second Verse.
"Alnt mere second verse;" ash
ed the Head Barber after a brief
RaHce. "A ballad ought to have TWO
verses and tell some kind of a story.
That's what Charley Harris always
said anyhow"
There is second verse, all right,
said the Manicure Lady. 81 don't
know Just how 1t gees. but it tells
lev the husband went crazy from
the blow on his head and was ali
IhC time wanting TO play Spin the
Platter with the keepers at the In.
sane asylum. The wife died of 4
broken heart, just like she broke the
china platter. and just before she died
she hear her husband. in dream.
saying them sad words that | told
yCu in the chorus"
1T ought to be good seller II they
want sad songs now" said the Head
Barber. Its certainly sad enough"
1T seems kind of improbable.
though" declared the Manicure Lady
no lady ought to bean Il gent with II
platter when dishes is so high."
WILLIAM +. KIRK.