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Show PRETTY MANICURE GIRLS. They Fascinate Now More Than the Typo, writer Once Did. The manicure "operator ia fast taking the plaoe once held solely by the pretty typewriter that is to say, it is a part of her business to have a gift for flirting, flirt-ing, for sly glances, for sighs and giggles gig-gles at unfunny jokes and stories, hers not to question why, or to have anything any-thing to say, but simply to listen and to applaud with her smiles. Upon her general gen-eral good nature and her responsiveness depends the 6ize of the tip which she receives, re-ceives, for these magnificent creatures do take tips, and the number of invitations invita-tions to tho theater and to dinner which she gets in a week is legion. The 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 tho opportunities are numberless, and the young women who take it up are generally good looking, well dressed and have a superficial kind of style picked pick-ed up from the swell demimondaines who frequent the 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 blackened 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 very much fun in this business?" I asked a happy looking girl aa she "treated" my nails the other day. "Fun? Well, I should say so, "she replied enthusiastically. "I am going out to dinner tonight with Mr. , president of the company. I tell you, he's tho best friend we have. He takes one of us out every evening, and he's a perfect gentleman. Married? Oh, yes; his wife comes here, a lovely woman wo-man 1 He likes Miss A best, though. She's such a popular girll On Saturday afternoons sho always has a line of gentlemen gen-tlemen waiting their turn. She really has more invitations than sho can accept. ac-cept. She's so popular I Miss B is going on the stage this winter, you know. She's "had a magnificent offer from Manager G of the 'Bar of Boap' company 1" Though tho hours of the manicure girl aro long and the salaries small, is it any wonder that there t always a waiting list of applicants for the vacancies vacan-cies which sometimes occur? New York Letter in Boston Journal. |
