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Show PRETTY MANICURE GIRLS. rhey Fascinate Now More Than the Typewriter Type-writer Onco Did. The manicure operator i3 fast taking the place once held 6olely by the prettj typewriter that i3 to say, it is a par of her business to have a gift for flirt lng, for sly glances, for sighs and giggles gig-gles at unfunny jokes and 6tories, her? cot 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 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 whioh che 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 arc proverbial, but the opportunities are numberless, and the young women who take it up are generally good looking, well dressed and have a superficial kind of style pick ed up from the swell demimondaines who frequent the manicures religiously ence 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 as 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 a the best iriena we nave, no takes one of us out every evening, and he's a perfect gentleman. Married? Oh, yes; his wifo comes here, a lovely woman wo-man I He likes Miss A best, though. She's such a popular girll On Saturday afternoons she always has a line of gentlemen gen-tlemen waiting their turn. She really has more invitations than she can accept. ac-cept. She's so popular! Miss B is going ou the stage this winter, you know. She's had a magnificent offer from Manager G of the 'Bar of poap' company!" Though the hours of the manicure girl are long and the salaries small, is it any wonder that there 1 always a waiting list of applicants for the vacancies vacan-cies which sometimes occur? New-York New-York Letter in Boston Journal. |