Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1914-01-30
The Manicure
Lady
By WILLIAM F. KIRK.

CID RoTHER WILFRED brought a
n college professor up to the
house last night said the
Manicure Lady. THE poor smp had
the nerve to tell me and sister Mayme
10 be careful of our grammer while his
swell friend was there, just as if her
and me was careless about our Eng
fish. Goodness knows, George, that l
amt boastful, but l don't think every
college professor that comes along can
learn me things about how to speak
grammatical"
II suppose the professor started right
in correcting you on your speech" said
the Head Barber.
No. he didn't" replied the Manicure
Lady. Il will give him credit for that.
don't suppose we made no breaks, but
even II we had, don't think that chap
would have called u.s. He seemed like
regular gent, about the only natural
human being that poor Wilfred ever
had for chum. He wasn't no Bohe-
milan with gun-metal collar. and he
wasn't no long-haired poet. He was a
nice, smooth gent, and he talked so in
teresting that l almost fell in love with
him. He reminded me Of that play
wright that was going to marry until
1 found out my mistake, and I'll bet he
Is lots nicer every way than the play
wright"
II often wished I had a better edu-
cation" said the Head Barber
You wouldn't know what to do with
II II you had one," said the Manicure
Lady. Goodness knows, George, you
don't need no college education to read
the dope sheets and pick a horse to win
and find out that the horse finished
last. But what I was going to tell
you about this friend Of Wilfred's was
some of the things he told us about
them ancients Did you know, George.
that them old Romans and Greeks and
Egyptians knew as much about swell
buildings and libraries and rooms with
bath as we do?"
II never read none about them" said
the Head Barber.
TT is a fact, though, George" said
the Manicure Lady. "Why, this old
pal of Wilfred's told us that in Babylon,
many, many centuries ago, they had
hanging gardens that was never equaled
in modern days. Think of it. George,
beautiful big gardens that was all sus-
pended like the Brooklyn bridge, gar
dens swinging back and forth in them
evening breezes with the smell of a
million flowers to steal away your
senses!'
ut must have been grand for some
of them old-timers to go out in hang
ing garden in the morning. when they
had a hangover observed the Head
Barber.
ut would have been a grand place
for father to recuperate mornings" said
the Manicure Lady. And Wilfred's
friend told US that the old Greeks over
two thousand years ago had sculptors
that could sculp finer statues and paint
finer pictures than the men that is get
ting the dough for drawing magazine
covers now. He said that there Is
nothing now that they didn't have then
except the late triumphs in science, like
moving pictures and taxicabs and ticket
SPECTATORS He said that the women IN
them days made their own robes ana
dresses and that they looked sWeller
than the latest Paris gowns. Needle
work has kind of went out of existence
George, except the kind them rats Is
practicing around in the theaters and
street cars"
Il suppose the old timers was just as
wise as we are now" said the Head
Barber. "but as long as we are living
now instead of then I suppose we nave
got to stub along somehow. Here comes
a customer for you. Tell your history
dope to him."