Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
The Manicure
Lady
ISTER MAYME Is going 20 be
y married next month" said the
= Manicure LADY 'T< fhou0ht

SSC1sTER MAYME is going 70 be
married next month" said the
Manicure Lady. IT thought
for awhile that was going to beat
her to the altar, but after I>gave the
playwright the gate Wayne passed
me on the homestretch and soon
she'll be bride"
Who's she going to marryr asked
the Head Barber
He's a kind of nice young fellow"
said the Manicure Lady, land I guess
he will make Wayne a good husband,
but his work is kind Of dangerous.
He is locomotive engineer, and he
makes good money. but Mayme says
she is afraid some day he will get
killed at his post"
II don't think it makes. any differ
ence where man works" said the
Head. Barber. IF he is going to get
1t, he is going to. and there amt no
changing that, My dad used to tell
about old sea captain. that was
thirty years sailing the high seas and
came home and got drowned In his
pathtub. It's all on the chart, and
when our time comes to go. good
night. Tell your sister said So"
i don't think anything you said
could differ Mayme none" said thu
Manicure Lady. because she is head
over heels in love with her gentleman
friend and can't bear to think what
lite would be without him. / told her
she better not start worrying until
after they had come from the altar,
because. goodness knows, there IL
many slip between the cup and this
lip as In my case with the man that
wrote the fine plays,
Wayne is worrying kind anyhow.
remember one time she was going to
marry a head pressnaan that is on ons
Of the big papers here In town. and
"nen she heard that tho pressfuen
and the printers used to play poker
in the little mill around the corner
she hogan to stew and fret Wilfrsd
told her it was better to marry a
pressman that played poker than t.
marry college boy that thought he
played poker; but It didn't do no
good. SO that match was off and the
pressman has been bachelor to this
day" ...,..
~. Shs ain't narried the engineer
yst,y., said thsHead Barber.
That's what Wilfred saws. Ceorrs
My brother don't want to see Mayms
get married at all. because since I
have cut him off my loan list Mayms
Is his only meal ticket when hi,
poems amt meeting with no sale. So
he is doing everything he can to dis.
courage the match. Ever since hs
1found out that she is nervous about
her engaged gents calling he has
been clipping out head lines of train
wrecks and putting them under her
plate at the table. and last night he
read her a poem called The Wreck on
the Monon Road He has got that
poor girl SO unnerved that she don't
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 night at dinner.
Dear me. George, this life is a
peeler to dope out amt it? Folks
gets married and lives happy for a
year or so. and then they drift apart.
Folks gets engaged and worry them
selves sick for fear something is go-
ing to happen to break up the happy
home they amt sure yet they arc
going to have. The way the world is
FOL
using hair dye or all go gray-headed
long before old age. It's stew, fret,
worry, nag and sweat blood from one
days end to the other"
That's the wsy 1t 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
whore. or course, I'd miss you. bat
would got chance to rest my nerves
IL l could be away from your chatter.
You'll hA right air"