Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
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The Manicure
Lady
SGCIsTER MAYME is going to b.
y married next month";" said the
Manicure Lady .@ thnn,

SsNIsTER MAYME is going to n.
y married next MONTH" said fra
Manicure Lady. 'S though,
for awhile that I was going to bAa.
her to the altar. but after gave t,0
playwright the gate Maym.e pas.ed
me on the homestretch. and soon
she'll be bride"
who's she going to marry? asksa
the Head Barber.
He's kind of nice young fellow"
said the Manicure Lady, land I epas.
he will make Mayme a good husband
but his work is kind of danaerou.
He is locomotive engineer. and he
makes good money. but Mayme saws
she Is afraid some day he Will Pc,
killed at his post"
81 don't think it makes anv 9ssa,
ence where man works" said the
Head Barber. III he is going to ga,
1t, he Is going to, and there amt ,o
changing that. My dad used tn ,eu
about a old sea captain that was
thirty years sailing the high seas and
came home and got drowned in his
bathtub. It's all on the chart and
when our time comes to 60. good
night! Tell your sister 1 said So"
L don't think anything you said
could differ Mayme none" said the
manicure Lady, because she is head
over heels in love with her gentIeroa,
friend and can't bear to think what
lie would be without him. I told bar
SHE better not start worrying until
ALTER they had come from the altar
because. goodness knows, there Il
MANY a slip between the cup and the
lip, as in my case with the man that
wrote the fine plays.
"l1ayme is a worrying kind ANYHOW
remember one time she was going to
marry head pressman that is on one
or the big papers here in town. and
when she heard that the pressmen
and the printers used to play poker
in the little mill around the corner
she began TO stew and fret. Wilfrej
told her it was better to marry q
FRESHMAN that played poker than To
marry a college boy that thought he
played poker; but 1T didn't do no
good. so that match was off and the
pressiulan has been a bachelor to thi,
day"
She amt married the engineer
yet" said the Head Barber.
THAT'S what Wilfred says, George
My brcGher don't want to see Mayme
get married at all, because since 1
have c,st him or my loan list Mayme
Is his only meal ticket when hi
poems admit meeting with no sale. S,
he is doing everything he can to dis
courage the match. Ever since h,
found out that she is nervous about
her engaged gents calling he has
been clipp ing out head lines of train
wrecks aiad putting them under her
plate at the table, and last night he
read her poem called The Wreck on
the Monon Road He has got that
pool Siil no uuHSTNeu tndI Sne uOn
eat anything to speak of, and l guess
he would have kept up his bum COM
edy only the old gent put the crusher
on 1T last might at dinner.
Dear me, George. this life is a
peeler to dnpe out. amt 1t? Folks
gets married and lives happy for
year or so, and then they drift apart
Folks gets Engaged, and worry them
selves sick for fear something is 60
ing to happen to break up the happy
home they STINT sure yet they are
going to have. The way the world is
now. folks will have to commence
using hair dyt or all go gray headed
long before OLD age. It's stew. fret
worry, nag anti sweat blood from one
days end to the other"
That's the way it is in the big
town. said the Head Barber, but you
don't see much of 1t in the country
I've been thinking of starting a little
shop of my own in the country some
where. OF courte, I'd miss you, but
would get cha noe to rest my nerves
IL l could be away from your chatter
You'll be right next. sir"