Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-22
The Manicure
Lady
SsC1sTER MAYME is going to \.
y married next month" said n.
Manicure Lady. ar 49,

ssC1sTER MAYME is going to b,
married next month" said ~.
Manicure Lady. 81 though,
for awhile that I was going to h.,,
her to the altar, but after I gav. ~.
playwright the gate Mayme nas~s
me on the homestretch, and so,,
she'll be bride"
Who's she going to marryY ash.
the Head Barber
He's a kind of nice young fslloru,
said the Manicure Lady. land 7 gpa..
he will make Mayme a good hush..,
but his work is kind of danraror.
He is a locomotive engineer and \.
makes good money, but Maynns x.,,
she is afraid some day he will ga
killed at his post"
II don't think It makes anv 49,.
ence where a man works" sa,S ~.
Head Barber. IF he is going IN -.
1T, he is going to. and there amt M
changing that. My dad used Ia fall
about old sea captain that ma,
thirty years sailing the high sea. a..
came home and got drowned in HI,
bathtub. It's all on the chart and
when our time comes to go soos.
night! Tell your sister I said sop
don't think anything Won sat,
could differ Wayne none" said N.
Manicure Lady, because she i. head
over heels in love with her sentl.mo,
friend and can't bear to think vb,,
life would be without him. 7 told he,
she better not start worrying un,n
after they had come from the altar
because. goodness knows, there :,
many slip between the cup and tina
lip, as in my case with the man th,,
wrote the fine plays.
Mayme is a worrying kind snvbo,
! remember one time she was going +,
marry head pressman that is on an.
of the big papers here in town and
when she heard that the PRESSING,
and the printers used to plav mike,
in the little mill around the corner
she began to stew and fret. Wilfre3
told her it was better to marry a,
pressman that played poker than ia
marry a college boy that thought he
played poker; but it didn't do M
good, so that match was off and the
pressman has been a bachelor to th,
day"
She ain't married the engineer
yet said the Head Barber.
That's what Wilfred says, George
My brother don't want to see Maym.
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.
eeerege the match. Ever since he
found out that she Is 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 a poem called The Wreck on
the Monon Road He has got thai
poor girl so unnerved that she don't
eat anything to speak of, and 1 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 it? Folks
gets married and lives happy for a
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 ain't sure yet they are
going to have. The way the world Is
now, folks will have to commences
using hair dye or all go 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 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 could be away from your chatter
You'll be right next, sir"
WILLIAM p. KIRh.