El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-07-07
''The Manicure
She Has a Proposal and Discusses 1t
With the Head Barber, With
Side Remarks
Rw Wm- f Kirk
D !" M = NIX
THAT fellow OIdstein

XIV THAT fellow OIdstein proposed
w to me yesterday. right here
in the barber shop said the
Manicure Lady. Il guess he must
have figured that the honeymoon
would be cheaper If we started 1t in
the summer and went to some quiet
boarding house along the Maine
coast, but anyhow ne seemed to be
in an awful hurry to get his answer.
You bet, he got his answer in an awful
hurry, too L told him that 1 would
gladly marry him. and he asked mes
when, and ] said in some previous
existence He was too thick to see the
point until ] came out with the coarse
work and told him that I wouldn't
marry him TO save myself from the
guillOtine."
You didn't need to throw it into
him so hard" said the Head Barber.
1t is hard enough for a man to know
that he has lost girl like you, with
out making him feel worse Of
course, he isn't your kind Of fell
low, but you didn't need 10 throw the
hooks into him when you said No Be
gentle, kid, be gentle"
"A girl cant be gentle no more"
declared the Manicure Lady As
have often told you before, George,
the age Of shivarees is dead, and rO-
nance has went into the discard Gee,
in the old days girl got some kind
of classy proposal. believe me- 1t
would be out in the moonlight, near
some old castle, usually under one OF
them yew trees or hemlOck, or what
ever IL was that used 10 grow Wnen
knights was bold The moon would
shine down on q white. slim figure OF
a girl and on the broad shoulders Of
a strong, tall knight with a sword, a
cut on mis- pale temple and the foam
of battle on his wonderful mouth He
would hold her to him for wild,
sweet moment and then they would be
hot roll re.H# haH nd 10 q Ia u
knights any more, George. This Old
stein looks as much like a knight as
Cincinnati looks ike a penuanr win
ner, and the only scar on his brow IS
one time when he cutting down eN-
pCnses and shaving himself The
knights in the story books was always
Just going TO a battle or Just coming
back from winning one, and the only
fights that Oldstein knows about Is
fights with competitors. Gee, George
but there was regular men in them
days! Listen 20 this;
Sir LaunceIot swept full ten
aside with his great, flashing sword,
and plunged more flercely into the
fray for his Lady Ethelreda- YOnder
sEOne her golden hair, and the
swarthy fOemen would have spirited
her away but for the CLEAN of the
crimson sun in her wOndrOus tresses-
Faster and in ever-grOWing circles
flashed his sWOrd-till by her side
and holding her TO his painting breast
stood Sir LaunCelOt. than whom q
lordlier knight ne'er strewed a bat
tlefield with dead"
what kind of cuff is that2" asked
the Head Barber.
at is out of an old romance VIII
fred got at the library last night"
said the Manicure Lady. Just think
what would happen to me If was TO
marry Oldstein and get carried off by
a lot of swarthy fOemenl I would
have a swell chance Of ever being re-
took wouldn't 70 IMAGINE Oldstein
with a flashing sword carving his
way across a Battlefield A man can't
fight like this Mister Launcelot when
he hasen't got his mind on anything
except his samples or his expense &C
count. Anyhow. Oldstein is too fat to