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Show The manicure operator Is fast raKmg the place once hold solely by the prettj pewriter that is to say, it is a part cf her business to have a gift for flirt Ing, for sly glances, for eighs and giggles gig-gles at snfnnny jokes and stories, he not Us question why, or to have anything any-thing to say, bnt simply to listen and tc applaud with her smiles. Upon her general gen-eral good nature and her responsiveness depends the size of the tip which she receives, re-ceives, for these magnificent creatures do take tips, and the number of invitations invita-tions to the theater and to dinner which he gets in a woek is legion. Th8 fact is. she works for this kind of favor far more earnestly than for a legitimate success. The small salaries paid in this business are proverbial, but the opportunities are numberless, and the young women who take it np ar generally good looking, well dressed and have a superficial kind of stvla nick ed np from the swell demimondainrs who frequent tho manicures religiously once a week. I have seen a number of Innocent looking, pretty girls, new to the business, develop into gorgeously appareled ap-pareled creatures with blaokened eyebrows eye-brows and chemical hair. Then they graduate from the profession, and novitiates no-vitiates take their places. They have learned the lesson. "Do you have Tery much fun in thin business?" I asked a happy looking girl 63 6he "treated" my nails the other day. "Fun? Well, I should say so,." she replied enthusiastically. "I am going out to dinner touichtwith Mr. . president of the company. I tell you, he's the best friend wo have. He takes one of us out every evening, and bo's a perfect gentleman. Married? Oh. j-es; his wifo comes here, a lovolv woman wo-man 1 Ho likes Miss A best, though. She's such a popular girl! On Saturday afternoons sho always has a line of gentlemen gen-tlemen waiting their turn. Sho really has more invitations than she can accept ac-cept She's so popular 1 Miss E i going on the stage this winter, you know. She's had a magnificent offer from Manager G of the 'Bar of Boap' company!" Though the hours of tho manioure girl aro long and tho salaries small, if It any wonder that there 1. always a waiting list of applicants for tho vacancies vacan-cies which somotimes occur? Nov 7ork letter ip Boston Journal. |