El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-05-29
The Manicure Lady
She Tells the Head Barber About
the German Shoemaker, a
Real PhiIOsOpher.
By Vim. +. Kirk -

EEWW THATS the matter now,
NJ George?" asked the Mani
cure Lady, as she glanced
at the Head BARRIERS long face. You
look as though you had just dreamed
that there would never be no more
racing at all Is the folks sick or
amt the tips coming regular, or What2'
Everything is breaking bad for me,
replied the Head Barber. There was
an old gambler that used to say when
he was losing at poker Sometimes the
cards run that way for weeks-and
then they turn around and run WOrsef
Well that's the way things are with
me The rent is due tomorrow and
I'm SO shy on that The grocer looks
at me kind Of north policy when L drop
in to give him an order nowadays, and
the butcher has lost his Dutch smile
and seems TO be growing peaked think
ing about my little bill know every
thing IS going TO turn out all right,
but ii makes me feel blue sometimes
TO think that 7 haven't got a nice, fat
bank account instead Of all the time
skating on thin ice"
so YOU think you are in hard luck
do your said the Manicure Lady You
poor thing, you What If YOU should
go into @ slow decllne2 George, US
people that is all the time complain
ing and whining about being up against
il don't know half Of the 1000 reasons
we have for being thankful wish
YOU had been with me yesterday after
noon If you had been there and saw
what / seen, guess I wouldn't be
hearing no more hard luck talk from
you.
Broke a Heel.
Il broke part OF one Of my high heels
off yesterday when I was coming uD
the subway stairs and stopped in TO
see a cObbler and have the silt fixed.
1t was a dingy little dump, about as
poverty-struck place as I have ever
saw
ssr71a oo.br1e- --ss , 7f++7o C,o.
teller and the first thing noticed was
that he was paralyzed in both legs
dis little boy had to do all the fetching
and carrying for him When I asked
him how lOnE he had been that way
ne said three years He said he could
remember that IL was three years be-
cause 1t happened about the time that
ne lost his oldest boy He told me all
he had left was the little fellow in the
shop and his invalid wife out in the
back room. She hadn't been able to
move from her bed for over a year
and would never be able to move again.
lie didn't tell me all this complaining
IKE either he said If kind Of patient,
because he seen that I wanted to know,
not because he was looking for char
Ity- He wouldn't have took none. be-
cause he wasn't that kind OF a little
Say, George, what do you think?
mat little shoemaker was working
away on my shoes and he began whist
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or It. George-he was Whistling at his
7 don't see nothing remarkable about
tnals remarked the Head Barber
A Wonderful Sight.
on don't see nothing remarkable /
about anything except the third horse
race snapped the Manicure Iadv.
ny man, think Of it, There was q
human being with as little to be thank
IuL Tor as blind dog, and as much To
De sad about as one of the 1Tau0HaeFe-
marryrs-and he was Whfstlfnal He
seen that / noticed him. and explained
mat ne always Whistled a little to make
MN cheer up and remember that he
Sould WORK de charges me Is cents
for the job and wouldn't take no more
put managed to slip his little kid a
Qollar on the way out Why don't YOU
try Whistling a little, George2 Heav-
ems knows, you amt IN no hard luckr'
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