Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
The Manicure
Lady
SCNISTER MAYME Is going to be
married next MONTH said the

SeCISTER MAYME Is going to be
married next month" said the
Manicure Lady. ST thought
for awhile that was going to beat
her to the altar, but after gave the
playwright the gate Mayme passed
me on the homestrstch, and soon
she'll be a bride"
rs who's she going to martyr asked
the Head Barber.
He's kind OF nice young fellow
said the Manicure Lady, land I gueAs
he will make Wayne a good husband.
but his work Is kind OF dangerous
He Is a locomotive engineer. and he
makes good money. but Wayne says
she is afraid some day he will get
killed at his post"
II don't think it makes any differ
ence where a 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 a old sea captain that was
thirty years sailing the high seas and
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bathtub. It's all on the chart, and
when our time comes to go, good
night! Tell your sister 1 said so'
don't think anything you said
could differ Mayme none" said the
Manicure Lady, because she is head
over heels in love with her gentleman
friend and can't bear to think what
life would be without him. 1 told her
she better not start worrying until
after they had come from the altar
because, goodness knows, there Is
many a slip between the cup and the
lip. as in my case with the man that
wrote the fine plays.
Mayme is a worrying kind anyhow.
1 remember one time she was going To
marry head pressman that is on one
of the big papers mere in town. and
when she heard that the pressmen
and the. printers used to play poker
in the little mill around the corner
she began to stew and fret, Wilfred
told her 1t was better to marry
pressman that played poker than to
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played poker; but it didn't do no
good. so that match was off and the
pressman has been a bachelor to this
day"
She amt married the engineer
yet said the Head Barber.
e.. "Fhat's what Wilfred says, George.
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 his
poems amt meeting with no sale. So
he Ia doing everything he can to dis
! courage the match. Ever since he
found 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 thar
poor girl so unneryed that she don't
eat anything to speak Of and 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 it2 Folks
gets married and lives happy for q
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 are
going to have. The way the world Is
now. folks will have to commence
| using hair dye or all go greyheaded
! long before old age It's stew, fret,
| worry, nag and sweat blood from one
| days end to the other"
That's the wGy it is in the big
town." said the Head Barber, but you
don't sec much of 1t in the country.
I've been thinking of starting little
shop of my own in the country some
! where. OF course, I'd miss you, but I
would get a chance to rest my nerves
| II could be away from your chatter.
You'll be right next. sir"
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