The San Francisco call., 1913-11-12
The
Manicure
Lady
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

GUESS will have to be a suf-
~ fragette after ALL" said the
Manicure Lady Ever since
that Mrs. Pankhurst has come
to our shores have gave the matter
great deal OF deep thought. and +
have made up my mind that us girls
has been overlooking lot of bets"
My wife is suffragette," said the
Head Barber, "and 1 never knew until
she got in the game how many rights
women have. or ought to have. / al
ways believed In going $3.50 with the
Missus. and maybe gave her even a
few moro rights than I took for my
self. but now it's a good thing that I
don't need many rights to get along
on. To hear he rtalk. guess the fair
sex has got the unfair sex on the run"
II wouldn't be stern with my hus-
band IL was married suffragette,"
declared the Manicure Lady. but I
would insist on lot OF the laws that
we have got being changed. Good
ness knows, some of our laws is
awful joke. and some of the lawyers
that practices them amt much better.
One of them sued Wilfred yesterday
for a tailor bill He can't be much of
lawyer or he wouldn't have took
the case. because suing my poor
brother and getting anything out of
him would be about as easy as dig
ging canal with one of these orange
sticks. When Wilfred got the letter
he said something in Latin-like sic
semper tyrannus. which means you
can't get no blood out of q turnip, or
something like that"
ABOUT TIME
But was l talking about the suf-
fragettes? Oh. yes. I have came to
the conclusion. George, that 1t is time
for the women OF the country to rise
UP and desert themselves a little. AS
one of them sufrragettes said at a
meeting the other night, men has al
ways refused to believe that women
is their mental equals. which Is dead
wrong. the way ! look at it. Honest
to goodness. George. IL 1 ain't the
mental equal or even the mental su-
perior of them slant heads that comes
in here to have their nails did, want
to croak before another glorious sun
has rose in the east"
There has been more great men
than great women" declared the Head
Barber.
That's what you read in a book
somewhere" said the Manicure Lady.
How do you know that there hasn't
been thousands of really great women
in this world IL the men had gave
them chance to be great and cele-
brated? The few great women that
did manage to get famous had aw-
full scramble getting listened to, and
goodness knows. they got a raw deal
even after they was famous. Didn't
Miss Jones OF Arkansas get burned at
the stake after she had captured New
Orleans. and didn't the Romans get
after Cleopatra till she had to wait
for rainy day and commit suicide?
Don't tell me, George, that women has
ever got an even break. Well, they
are going to get it before many more
years. and some of these days we will
have a governess instead of a COVER
nor, and she won't be impeached.
either!''
NO KICK
'Oh. we'll, you don't need to go up
in the air over It," said the Head
Barber. Il amt got no kick against
women voting, II they register right
and tell their ages as their conscience
dictates. / amt one of the men that
believes in men hogging all the glory
and money. I amt got enough of
either to put on exhibition under a
microscope. Go on and be suffra-
gette If you want to, and I will like
you just as much"
Thank you. George" said the Man
icure Lady. "I knew you was a broad
man the minute I first seen YOU"