Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-10-03

The Manicure
Lady
BY WILLIAM F. KIRK

I.CTSTER MAYME and
y tainly have wiIfred's o.,
now" said the Mani.
Lady. You ought to see The H..
raphy OF his life that the noo-
wrote. Some trade paper tba.
wrote some poems for wrote
asked him for his biography tb,,.11
goodness knows what they tb-y
It would amount 10. NV Door IS
sr nearly lost his mind with 6s1,-,
when he got their letter. arc -
shut up all day before yests. d
writing the story of his jjfs ~
pen name is WILDER WiiberforcA ..s
this Is the biography he wrote ~ -
me swtped 1t and made 3. COW 80.
on the typewriter. Listen to fb,s.
'Wilfred Wilberforce. posf a..
writer and essayist, was born m ~.
2stn day OF March, 1885, in ths ~. ias
of Eau Claire, Wisconsin. III. ~. ~
eDts were poor, but honest, ara r.
gave young Wilfred the best sdvo .3
ton possible under the ci~crSs
stances. He went through ms ~.
school and showed rennsrlrsS,.
grasp in all his studies. He was ~,
ticularly fond OF Latin, and surnsssas
his teachers in that interesting Ia,
guage, although they, too, were sv
ceptionally intelligent.
Mr.. Wherefore wrote his e,,,
famous poem when he was hut AZ
teen years Of age. II was called "Ts,
Dying Horse" and contained so1.
lines OF wonderful beauty. Prom H..
time on hts poems came thick sn5
fast, and now they are a housshojs
word in every land.
Mr. Wilberforce lie also an esg,v
ist of rare ability, SONS Of hIs -.
says having been pronounced as bsi.
ter than Ruskin's best efforts and 4,
least as meritorlous as those Of I'm.
erson. He is now but 20 yesrs IN
and his friends and admirers thlnI
there is no limit to his future gre,,-
ness. He does not drink or smoke
though his father does both to ex.
cess
There was a lot more 10 ~ an
about on the same order" said M.
Manicure Lady, and when me ana
Wayne kidded him about n rs
burned IT up. never seen him n
mad. I amt got a bit OF sympgt5r
for him, either, II was a fool thing
for him to write, and II he had sen.
1t to that trade paper and had #
printed the old gent would have wen.
to the mat with him about What n.
said about father. I don't think "a
son should print anything about his
dads habits, even IL the old gent does
like his tea and smokes, DO you
George ?"
Certainly not" said the Head Bar
Der. "A man gets enough SLAMS
when he is running for office wlthou.
having his own son print stun abou.
him that sounds like a knock Your
brother must think pretty well G,
himself. too. don't see how nobody
could write anything beautiful about
q dying horse"
ut wasn't beautiful at all" said III,
Manicure Lady. IAN Of the neigh.
bors kidded the life out of him The
time It came out IN the school paper.
but Wilfred just said that they diont
understand poetry, and to this day
he thinks 1t IS one OF his best poems
Part Of It went:
Thou dying steed, I can not Scar
To see thee suffering as thou arr
only wish that I could dare
To send a bullet crashing Ghroua
thy heart.
Then would thy soul have liberty
And thou would be out OF ths
misery"
II don't see how he can think mat
one OF his best pieces" said the Hst5
Barber.
II guess he's right ut that saiS
the Manicure Lady. '0The others 5ep"
seem to sound much better"