Evening Republican, Volume 59, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1917 — British Manicure Lady. [ARTICLE]

British Manicure Lady.

“In English barber shops you do no' have to pay for mirrors, elaborately tiled floors and a manicure girl,’ writes Homer Croy in Everybody’s “Over there a manicurist is consist ered the last vocable in the way o 1 smartness. The manicure girl hasn’’ the run of the shop as she has here she has a little cage down in one cor ner, where she is bottled up as if sh» were a rare liquid. When a mar wants to have any light housewort done on his hands he thrusts one 01 them through the bars, While the pro prletor hurries up with a newspapei for him to read. In America we woulc he insulted if the owner of the shoj put something Into our; hand to rea< while the manicure girl was working on us. In England the art of jolly ing the manicurist is unknown."