El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-17
The Manicure Lady
She Reads an Interesting Book and
Exchanges Comments on Life
With the Head Barber.
-Hy W m. II. Kirk

bL"HAT must be some interesting
that novel you are reading
there" remarked the Head
Barber You amt had your nose out
Of it all the forenoon"
1T is a beautiful story, George
almost cry in some parts Of il, and
when the laughs come they are sure
great / didn't skip a line of ii. either,
and have lust finished the last page
The title of il is 'Starflower, and II was
wrote by Mrs Eleanor Shirley Dew
flicker. And then they say that women
can't Write2 Maybe some women writes
stories that is kind of punk and then
gets made fun OF by the crlLlcs' oul
this woman that wrote 'SIarIloWer -
some queen of writer Gee there y
some love passages that IS Simply su-
perfluOus and almost subl1maJe- star
flower is the name Of the heroine a
little girl that always lived In the
northern part of Pennsylvania she IS
so pretty and sweet that she mas low
ers come from everywhere 10 Try 10
win her hand, but she loves only one,
a young man VINO is DONG sclehl4LlC
farming near her fathers home OF
course science is a great thing, George,
and I suppose If it helps raise pig crops
il must help a man to make love. too
Anyhow. she loves him and some day
they are to wed Just listen TO TINS
part. where they are engaged;
&c 'Starflower,' whispered Robert, plac-
ing her little trembling palm In his
strong right hand. Little girl, am
know / can't write poetry Tor you,
little girl. like the Byron poems you
read to me out in the orchard, and 1
amt no TennysOn- but am man
with a mans heart and two willing
hands. I love you.
And 1 love you. Bob murmured
StarflOwer. bewildered by the wonder
full rush of happiness that swept over
her 1.-the form and suffused her cheeks
with the first flush Of girlSh love
An OriOle flashed brightly through
the crimson sumac and the brook rip
pied along like some soft accompanl-
ment to the Oldest sweetest story in
Gee. George: amt that some writ
"Did ne marry her and make a lot
of kale2' asked the practical Head
Barber.
NO, George" replied the Manicure
LADY That is the pitiful part of It,
\ young bridge builder named Walter
! orr came to the little town where star
flower dwelt. and he kind of daZzled
her with his fine English and his Won
derful piano playing He was a col
I lege man. and her Robert didn't know
nothing about Virgil or Horace by
Rameses or any of them Oldtimers- orr
! knew all about them all. and he could
change his voice until IL got as soIJ
as the rustling of the breeze through
the autumn leaves When he was
+ talking to his men ne spoke kind or
commanding. but when he spoke to her
he always spoke with the soft pedal
One night, George, she agreed to run
away with him, and the next morning
I they were gone. Just after they eloped
{ Orr got fired. and had to take posi-
I ton that paid him about one-quarter
as much money as her former sweet
heart made every week out of his reg
istered milk from his registered cows
1t Sounds All Right
when she saw poverty staring her
1 in the face she took some kind of a
powder and they found her stlu IN
death with note to Robert pinned on
{ her nightrObe. Then Robert heard
about it. and went so insane that he
called all his COWS StarflOwer-
1T sounds all right said the Head
Barber, but 7 wouldn't go nuts over
no girl that threw me dOwn.