Pretty Manicure Girls

The manicure operator is fast taking the place once held solely by the pretty typowriter - that is to say, it is a part of her business to have a gift for flirting, for sly glauces, for sighs and giggles at unfunny jokes and stories, hers not to question why, or to have anything to say, but simply to listen andto applaud with hersruiles. Uponhergeneral good nature and her responsiveness depends the size of the tip which she receives, for these magnificent creatures do take tips, aud the number of iuvitations to the theater and to dinner which she gets in a week is legión. The fact is, she works for this kind of favor far more earnestly than for a legitímate success. The small salaries paid ia this business are 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 stylepicked up froni the swell demimondaines who frequent the manicures religiously once a week. I have seen a iiuniber of innocent looking, pretty girls, new to the bnsiuess, develop into gorgeously appareled creatures with blackened eyebrows and chemical hair. Then fhey gradúate from the profession, and novitiates take their places. They have learned the lesson. "Do you havo very rauch fun in this bnsiuess?" I asked a happy looking girl as she "treatod" my uails theother day. "Fun'J Well, I should say so, " she replied enthusiastically. "I am going out to dinuer tonight with Mr. , president of the coinpany. I teil you, ho's the best friend we have. fie takes oue of us out every evening, and he's a perfect gentleman. Married' Oh, yes; his wife comes here, a lovely woniau' Helikes Miss A best, thongh She's such a popular girí! On Saturday afternoons she always has a line of gentlemen waitiug their turn She really has more invitations than she can accept. Sho's so popular I Miss B is going on the stage this winter, you know. She's had a magnificent offer trom Manager G of the 'Bar of Soap' company'" Taough the hours of the manicure girl are long aud the salaries small, is it any wonder tbat there is always a waitiug list of applicants for the