El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-06-04
The Manicure Lady"
She Goes to the Country With
Brother Wilfred and Watches
Him Make a Fool OF Himself.

By W m. Il. Kirk

- rE and brother Wnfred spent
- M a week end up in the eoqn-
AZ try. and I have just came
back" said the Manicure Lady
would rather than not spend all my
week ends in the country, George, De
cause the air is so restful up there, but
T Guess. yVufred don't want to go back
no more to the town where we was
~You see. George, my poor, deluded
brother had an idea that he could san
into the little town where we was go
inc and inst tell them that he was from
New York. He thought that Wou-4
make him an idol in said town.
didn't think so, for minute Geo-sSSi;
because I know how people Is IN sllle-L-
towns. They mind their own business
ana everybody else's. but they ooh
care a rap where they find out you
came from. You might as Wen Try 70
make a gorilla kiss your hand as 10
make a small tOwner respect you pc
simply don't care where you are from,
and the way they treated my poor
6rother. I guess the bigger the town
YOU came from the less they care
They Go to Europe.
'T don't blame them" said the He2sd
Barber. Il don't see why a man should
figure himself a favOrlte Just because
he lives in a little New YORK nat
How IS that going to make man WISE
Most of the fellows that was born IN
the shadow of the Brooklyn bridge
the kind that comes in here some
times to get shaVed-alh SOY NUN It--
idea of the great country they are nv
ing in. If they save up a little dough,
thev don't go out TO the wonderful Pa
cific coast. No they go to Europe ana
get bunked- They pay guloe d Iot
of dough to show them some place
where an English king had his nephews
chokei to death in tower, and then
they come back and tell about their
IT hone YOU amt doing a monolog.
George" said the Manicure Lady u
was trying to tell you something about
this week end party, If you are enough
of a gent TO listen Well wired ana
me reached the town all right, and the
minute we got TO the hotel and were
seated with our country friends around
the tlb9e. poor brother pulls the very
phrase that I asked him not to- This
is fair. he says TO the company. DuL
little old New York for mine I knew
right off that he mad made a bonehead
Dlav because I seen the folks look at
each other kind Of funny, but ne
doesn't get wise, not Wil1red- The
reason I like Manhattan he babies
right on. is because Manhattan is the
market for brains. ] write, as per-
haps some Of You people know says
door brother. and the brains OF the
country, in literature all flock to New
York If ] were a farmer, I would
like il up here, but being writer
have 20 be ia the heart Of the literary
world, little OLD New York.
A Quiet Fellow.
There was a nice, quiet looking
fellow in the party, George, that /
seen looking over my fool brother kind
of sly and unObstructive like He was
dressed rough. because he was on a
fishing trip, but I seen right away from
his calm, well bred misd emeanOr that
ne was q gent He listened a long time
while WIfred was telling them what
a terrible strain il is on a writer to
keep writing. and he even stood for
my brothers reciting some of his own
poems right at the tabN with his
mouthful of chow chow and new bread.
Then ne got up and went out with a
smile at me. I seen then and there
tha- him and me would be good friends
because we both knew Wilfred through
and through.
Honest to goodness. George, do YOU
know who he was2 7 asked one Of the
Ladies. and sheatold me. The gent that
has Ecen listening to Wilfred's hot
air about writing and writers was
George AIDE. who wrote Fabrics in
Slang and 'HOratius at the Bridge
and David COpperfield' and a lot OF
other books and plays"
did WilfTed find out who he vase
asked the Head Barber.
.'Sure he did. but it didn't feaZe him
He said that the time would go swift
for the party with two clever writer's
at the same table"