Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-25
The Manicure
Lady
young simp going down

HTTNflAI young slmp gong down
the street was in here yes
terday to have his nails did"
said the Manicure Lady. He don't
know his heart is beating, George"
ne don't look like no Gladstone,
SAID the Head Barber. peering out OF
the window.
lie looks just right" declared the
Manicure Lady. Yesterday was ths
first time that he ever came in have
and before 1 had his nails did he haa
tod me the story of his life. l bet Won
can't guess what he is going to do in
New York"
Is he another playwright? asked
the Head Barber.
YOU oon't need to spill no Sarcasm
this a. m.' George" snapped the Mani
cure Lady. Il wish you would LET
that playwright stuff drop. No, this
young man has came to New York,
not TO carve his way to no fame or
fortune, but TO get into the proper SO.
cial spear where he belongs; ANYHOW.
"'t he toiu me. L don't know
what social spear is but that's what
FREDDIE Is aiming for He told me
that he was an F. F. V. thought
uFst that 1t was some kind of a lodge
IKE the L. o. o. F. or the B. P. o, E.,
nut II amt. F. F. v. means First
FAMILIES OF Virginia, and it seems
mat when one of them meets another
'hey are drawn together by a society
'ono' or however it was the young
seezer put it. He told me that in fhe
small town where he lived it was i'm
possible to spread out, so here he is
IN the big town, in his pinfeathers,
waiting to play the social game. He
said that any young man who was
good looking and fairly we'll educated
and that knew enough to dress right,
sould break int society IL he was
patient.
guess that is right, George, be-
cause even my brother Wilfred broke
IN once. He was kind of proud of his
achievement and said that it was as
easy as breaking into Jail and easier
10 break out. He waited till the old
gent had bought him two new suits
OF clothes, and with his good looks
sho ms poetry he didn't have no
Fouole getting invited to a small but
select circle. He was out to dinners
most or the time for a few weeks
after that, and it didn't cost him a
cent, because he got invited, and dur
ing that time he didn't have to pay
no board at home. Them was what
the poets call hallucination DAYS for
my brother, but, like everything else
mat is soft and fine in this world,
they had to determinate at last, and
Nilfred got through,
1t seems that the people that en-
teFta.ned bachelors expected the
bachelors TO entertain back by giving
sheatFe parties and dinners at cafes
and the like of that. Wilfred wasn't
on to that phrase of the matter. and
l don't think he would have been
there with the bankroll if he had
known the right thing to do. In any
event, he began to notice that the
invitations didn't come in so regular,
ana aTter week OF so more he was
ElSht back at home, eating good home
COOKING and digging up his five a
week to mother. You see, George.
the small, select circle was so small
that 1t didn't take them long to get
a fellows number, and now the circle
Is one smaller than when Wilfred
vas being lionized"
II never cared much for society"
said the Head Barber. That's WHY
| never tried to break in"
Il amt tried yet myself" said the
Manicure Lady, but if l ever do
break into society. George, you can
bet your last bean that society will
know l am there"
WILLIAM F.. KIRK.