Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-05
The Manicure
Lady
By WILLIAM r. KIRK,

SsTWAS reading a funny sounding
saying in a magazine las;
night" said the Manicure
Lady. AT first l thought it must bs
mistake in the print, but after
read it over / guess 1 understand II
The sentence said: There are lots
of things that we know that we don't
know that we know"
1T does sound kind of balled nm"
said the Head Barber 81 can't mako
anything of it,
1t took me about ten minutes"
said the Manicure Lady 81 wouldn',
expect you to understand it for half
day or SO, so cheer up, George. It
VIII come to you after a while maybe
Or II you want me to explain It 7
will do that little thing for you"
Il guess you'd better explain it,"
said the Head Barber.
We'll" said the Manicure Lady. .4t
means that we know a lot of things
that we have forgot or that we neve,
really knew we understood. Thece
must be a lot of things that Won
learned at school, George, that YOU
have forgot all about"
Il guess l forgot it all" said the
Head Barber. Il was adding up orr
butcher bill last night, and added IT
up different every time. The Missus
never went to school any more than
l did, but she got it right every time
she added It, OF course we ain't maid
it yet, but it is nice to know how
much you owe"
Il know lot of things that / have
forgot" said the Manicure Iadv.
Goodness knows l wasn't no dummy
all the years l was setting at nv
little desk in school, and | must have
learned lot, though none of it has
ever came back to me lately. The
Old gent even went 80 far the other
night as to correct me in my Ems
lish, and for once / had to confess
that l was wrong, though that didut
happen none too often. | said he.
tween her and me- and father re-
minded me that | should have said
| between she and l. I was glad Il.
| was father who corrected me, though.
and not brother Wilfred. 1t seemed
| to please the old gent to know that
| he had been able to pick a flaw in tn
usually good grammar of his wOrG.r
daughter.
There must be a lot of truth IN
that sentence you was telling about
| said the Head Barber. Il guess there
is lot of people that know lots o.
| things they don't know they know.
Some of the guys that come in here
to ret shaved certainly act as if the,
| didn't know that they knew anythins
l am glad you told me about it, too
because after this when anybody tells
me l am dumb l will come right bacS
at them and tell them about all the
things l know that l don't happen to
know l know. That ought to be some
! alib for any fellow that is a little
dusty in his upper story
THE only trouble with that kind OF
stall" said the Manicure Lady, SIS
that employers usually pays only for
| the things people know they know,
l know how to manicure nails, and
| get the money for knowing how. But
! if 1 knew how and didn't know that
l knew how l might just as well go
| and get poke bonnet and a tam
BOURNE. l wouldn't be no use around
here
when you know thing and know
you know it, like knowing that you
| know enough to get in out of the rain.
| that is some use to you; but if YOU
| didn't know you knew enough, you
would get soaked. Gee, George, here
| it is lunch time. We certainly can
| talk a long time about nothing, cant
we?"
There's something that you know
you know" said the Head Barber
land you said it."