Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
The Manicure
Lady
rsrER MAyME :. st..

SsCIsTER MAYME is going /, \.
married next month" sais :.
Manicure. Lady. 81 tbor,A.
for awhile that I was going I, 49,.
her to the altar, but after I CAV. -.
playwright the gate Mayme mas.
me on the homestretch, and .,-
she'll be bride"
Who's she going to marryY sst.,
the Head Barber.
Hes kind of nice young f.lIou.
said the Manicure Lady, land qua.
he will make Wayne a good husho,.
but his work is kind of dangero,,
He is a locomotive engineer, and :.
makes good money, but Mavms ,,,.
she is afraid some day he will -,
killed at his post"
IT don't think it makes any d,n..
ence where man works" ss,a a.
Head Barber. IF he is going IA 50.
it. he Is going to. and there amt y,
changing that. My dad used Ia ,.r
about a old sea captain that VIA,
thirty years sailing the high sea-, Az.
came home and got drowned in hi,
bathtub. It's all on the chart md
when our time comes to 60 vooa
night! Tell your sister I said so.o
Il don't think anything Won .o,,
could differ Wayne none" said IN.
Manicure Lady. because she i, HAD
over heels in love with her gentlsm.,
friend and can't bear to tbi,t u,b..
lie would be without him. 7 told Ia,
she better not start worrying until
after they had come from the sl,,,
because, goodness knows, there =,
many slip between the cup and III.
lip, as in my case with the man thu,
wrote the fine plays.
'Msyme is a worrying kind anvho.
L remember one time she was going =,
marry head pressman that i. on ON.
of the big papers here in town and
when she heard that the pressman
and the printers used to play poke,
in the little mill around the corna,
she began to stew and fret. Wilfre6I
told her it was better to marry :
pressman that played poker than ia
marry a college boy that thought h.
played poker; but it didn't do y,
good, so that match was off and ths
pressman has been a bachelor to th,
day"
She amt married the engineer
yet" said the Head Barber.
That's what Wilfred saws. Georss
My brother don't want to see Mayme
get married at all, because since
have cut him off my loan list Mayms
Is his only meal ticket when hi,
poems amt meeting with no sale. 50
he is doing everything he can to dis.
secrage the match. Ever since he
found out that she lie nervous abou,
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 h.
READ her poem called The Wreck on
the Monon Road He has got tina!
poor girl so unnerved 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 erusher
on It last night at dinner.
Dear me, George, this life Is
peeler to dope out, ain't it? Folks
gets married and lives happy for
year or so, and then they drift apart,
Folks gets engaged and worry them
selves sick for fear something is 60
ing to happen to break up the happy
homo they amt sure yet they are
going to have. The way the world Is
now, folks will have to commsnos
using hair dye or all so gray-headed
long before old age. It's stew, fret
worry, nag and sweat blood from one
days end to the other"
That's the way it is In the big
town." said the Head Barber but you
don't see much of It in the country,
I've been thinking of starting a little
shop of my own In the country some
where. OF course, I'd miss you, bat
would get a chance to rest my nerves
if I could be away from your chatter
You'll be right next. sir"
WILLIAM p. BIRk'