El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-09-01
''The Manicure Lady,
She Tells the Head Barber an In
teresting Love Story Story
About the Aztecs.
~ ANrrn- Il. Kirk -
. By VIM. +. Kirk
WAS reading awful interest

ccrWAS reading a awful interest
ing short story last night"
said the Manicure Lady. 1T
was about them Aztecs, that used to
have splendid palaces and everything
fixed up in big league style down in
MexicO The story said that was
many centuries ago, long before there
was even any Irish came to this coun-
try, and it said they was a splendid
race. the men all tall and fair and
handsome and the women regular
cuties The hero of the story must
have been about eight feet tall, be-
cause it said that he doomed head
and shoulders above Ne tallest war
riOrs of their army, an they WASH
none of them Shortles
Il never seen any very tail Next
cans" said the Head Barber. That
Mexican porter we had here wasn't
any taller than Frank Daniels, and he
wasn't fair, either. He was nearly as
black as Sam LangfOrd."
"Oh, but these people was long be-
fore the MeXicans we see nowadays,
said the Manicure Lady They was
only bigger and I guess brainier.
They used to worship the sun, and 1
think that showed they was a fine
race, because anybody that Worsh1ps
the sun amt worshiping no minol
I always thought if had to Eor-
ship anything except my family and
my future husband 1 would worship
the. sun The sun is SO big, and nice
and warm But l must tell you the
story. The name of the hero was 10.
1t is a jerky sort of a name, 10, but
all you have to do to remember II is
to think Of Iowa or an / O. ..
We'll, this 10 is in love with the
niece of Aztec priest. Her name
is lila which you can remember by
thinking of Illinois. That's how I
keep the two names so plain. The
priest is a cruSty old piece Of work.
and he doesn't want 10 TO get Ma be-
cause she has lot of gold and precious
stones which he has his eyes on He
says that the gelt belongs to the sun
and that he is the suns agent, which
the sun doesn't deny.
There is some beautiful lines In the
story When the priest tells lila thai
she cannot marry 10 she says to him:
Know this oh priest of the SUM-
and when thou passest beyond the
purple horizon there viii be many
more priests to worship that orb OF
fire and beauty upon which we now
fix our puny mortal gaze Ny 10 is my
all, SO handsome and so strong No
man like him in all this country dWells-
When in the morning he kneels before
the shrine, still is he taller than the
is written upon the waves that roll
eternally, written with the rays Of the
sun itself. that I be los bride
But 10 I like not the priest an
swered- I owe 10 a lot Of money, and
he presses me sore. Tell him to cancel
that debt and his bride you shall be
upon the day when owe 10 nothing
THE way the story end, 10 makes
the sacrifice, and he lives happily with
lila until they both croak. Gee, George.
I wish had been living then It was
all so romantic and different then
Imagine the average young man pass
ing up a lot Of money to get the girl
he loves. Not a chancei He is too busy
finding out If his brides father is there
with the fat bankrolL They didn't
think Of money in them days, George"
That young guy that Just went out
doesn't think much of money, either"
said the Head Barber. He didn't
think to give me a tip"