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About Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922 | View Entire Issue (April 4, 1915)
TIIIJ 0MA1IA (SUNDAY BEE: APRIL 4, 1915. FIND HOW TOSECURE A WIFE Manicure Lady at Merchanti Hotel rhiloiophirei on Human Nature and Men in General. ART OF THE HEW HOSTELRY Rlnkl) nctrl.- Palrsnaoka and Jlorothy Snlx. have held forth In th ipub'.te prints for many yars, at con siderable length and In vast variMy upon ith Important question of how to fret h'ishsnd. In spit of Carlyl's famous rlictum that "any woman, no she be not an actual hunchback, ran marry any man he seta her mini upon." many maidens wem to lack the knowledge or the con fidence in themselves. Misses Rlnklcy, Fair-snacks and Snlx have put forth many wise words and concocted numerous Ingenuous schemes to Insure each mnld one man to have for, her very own. "IOttle" Is exhorted to be cold and distant for a, season in hopes that this wiH brine- her dilatory awaln to time. "Mildred" la advised to tell her beau that ah la exporting a proposal from his rival and thus frightening him Into proposal through fear of losing her. And thus the list goes day after day with no "testimonials" at hand to show just how the prescriptions worked. But the lore counsellors above men tioned have failed to find the one sure hey to the heart of a man. LAk most things, when It Is discovered It la very simple. Why didn't we think of that tofore, one asks. 80 here Is the secret, which was Un earthed by an Interviewer with the maul-V-urlst In the new barber shop of the Merchants'. Tl Real Way. How to get a husband Become a mani curist. There's the whole tiling in a nutshell, cr on a,, fingernail, aa one might say. "A husband!" ' Hiss Daisy Wldener, the manicurist. , laughed a lilting laugh that had In It (something of amusement, something al most of contegipt. "Ia. husband!" "v Iter laugh was like theNlaffsh. of, a man la Newcastle .to whom the ques tion waa propounded, (tor to get a lump of coal or a gentleman "hv, Athena, of ivhom Inquiry was made how -to. get an owl. 1 ' , . ' ' "Why, I get two or, three proposal's average . every week here," on laughed Miss Palsy Wldener. "The worst part of it Is to keep them . iram getting too serious," she continued, earnestly. "That's one of the hard things In this business. You don't like -to hurt a man's feelings and yet some ' times you lust hsve to laugh at them, ' they're so funny. "But I always try to paas It off tor a Joke. I tell them not to kid me and all that sort of thing and It usually : works out all rlht" : Miss Wldener Is decidedly pleasing to look upon peachy complexion, dark hair worn close to the head a la Cleo de ' M erode, you know, soft, laughing, haxel i .vs, and all that. No wonder, ah gets I 'proposals. The Interview took, place in the sumpt- uous new barber shop of the Merchants, !i;while the seven tonsortaltsU "ere busy with customers In the seven sumptuous illfbalra. . " , ' t Miss Wldener is the only manicurist at , 'present, but, she says. If business keeps crushing In at It haa jlatoly, they wtll ;-'surely have to add another. : She looks on her profession or art, as ' more than merely a catering to the van ' ity of men. , , There la Heaaoa. ' "Preponderance of evidence Inducted Jrom aclontiric investigations haa milt .tated toward the Inevitable conclusion," i said Miss Daisy, "tlmt the microbe, iutthyraxlacolomenebus, finds its most ' prolix domicile beneath the human f rhger nail." . This la Miss Daisy's scientific speech. : ' "You gotta keep your nails clean," says : Mist Daloy, the manicurist. "What'll 'I folks think if you don't T And besides it's ', aanltary. You gotta do It to be sanitary." '; The young woman, blushing at the nov- city of being interviewed, but anxious and capable to rk to the occasion, be 'tween earnestness and glRPUng. told what 'she has observed ot the advance of her art, science and profession throughout America. "Now in the east," she said, "you find more manicuring than you do here In the :im!dd!e nest. Lois o' Johnnies back there, ;'you know, that aren't good for anything J)Ut getting manicured and bar be red and :hoe yhlnd all the time. That's all they .got brains for. . . "il Helps Me m Kaalaesa. ' "Now, out hre in the west, the men tliat net manicured are men that know how valuable it Is to have a good ap . pearam-e; - It helps them In tl)clr bual. ness. Now out In 'Frisco and Los Angeles ! mere are more manicurists than there 'are h-re in the middle west. I got my ! training at the Waldorf In New York." j' M(as DiUy, who ought to be an adver :.1iMng manager, then mentioned that some f her Omaha custumers had made trips ;eat and had returned declaring that thry I Couldn't KM mm ermd a tnanlrnre mhn gives In Omaha. At the rik of giving the young woman a fr sd this U re corded. Inquiry wan made by the diffident Inter view er regarding flirts. Hid they bothor mueht "Why, how should I know?" Inquire, 1 Daisy, with I hat sidelong glance which probably come from the Mood of her mother, which was from the vlvaolous French nation. And then h became serious and de clared that Iqr flirts are something of a Test, but that "If a girl knows Ikw, she can get rid of them." And Daisy knows how. fhe nays the remedy Is Jimt to ln:ith at them. This Is a much better method than the rrnss crude method of calling a policeman or summoning big brother or heavy-tod father to deal with the undesirable. It alwavs works. Attitude of Pablir. Deprecating the attitude of the public toward manicurists or whit fi -tM.iirvea the public attitude to le toward the members of her "j.rofesslon, the young woman warmly declared that' It Is ev.rv bit as respectable and eminently proper and correct and en regie and a la mode for a girl to make her living polishing up the nails of men as beating their typewriters or keeping their1 books. "I don't know why they should look en manicurists like they do," she-said. Oh." but they don't," the Interviewer protested. , "They don't look on them like thee dor Inquired Miss. Wldener, with 'inno cent eyes. . i "That ' Is." floundered the Interviewer, they don't look on them like you think they'do." 'But how do you 'know how I think they do look on them?" This young person should not have been a manicurist. Bhe should have been a lawyer a corporation lawyer. The question having, been straightened out, she vehemently declared that it is quite as respectabls to be a manicurist. ss to be a typewriter operator and that, perhaps,7 It Is quite possible, manicurists do more' to help men along la the world than certain typewriter operators, ex f mplea of whose skill, or rather lack of skill, she has seen., ' This ought to settle this malicious a-oa. tip. . ; Tip ' for Msnlrare Ut, The next' subject taken -up was tips. Who are the best tippers? Unhesitatingly crime the answer. "The ralddln-rlaas nun." '. ' . "I've manicured some awfully rich fel. lows." said ahe, "and they'd wait for a nickel change and take It and put It down In a deep nurse and tie a string arnunri it and atow It away In the bottom of their inside, pockets. Its the truth. But the middle-class fellow Is generally free with his money. "But I don't blame them if they're not. If a young fellow spends SO cents for a manicure you don't expect he'll tip you besides that. It's good enough that he Is willing to pay that ' much for the work and I'm perfectly satisfied. ' "You can generally give em the 'once over,' you know, when they come In and nearly always tell. But I alsed up a man once for a tight wsd-of course, I mani cure them Just as well If they're not go ing to tip aa If they wore; that' part of my business turn out good work. But this fellow I s'sed up for a tightwad and he was quiet and grouchy all the time I was working on him. And when I got through he gave me a 13 tip. lie dldnH smile. elther-Just shoved It m my face." woiiicj jrou rather he'd smiled anuNiot ippedry ... ,, W. L. MASTERMAN & CO. "The Coffee Mi en (18th and St Mary't Ave.) Are Supplying the Tea and Coffee for Merchants Hotel Lobby is Always Crowded tipped?" , . , , t Better a Tl Thai a Smile. "Oh, no." laughed Daisy; "you ran get plenty of smiles, but $2 tip are scarce and far between." On tlie subject of marriage the' young manicurist became serious. She could have given a lecture before a dub of : ' - v i , 'J. XT' r v. t its I warn a anxious , mother t with marriageable daughters. Hhe does not believe in marriage for motley, she declared. ' ' "Bacause, Just look, what have you got If you. marry a man with money and you don't love him. Money can't buy love, and anyone that thinks it can Is making a mighty big mistake. "But If you start off with the love, why the ' money , may come end even If It don't ' If ' you've got somebody you love and that loves you, and can make a fair living, why, I don't "see tliat ' anything else matters very much. That's the way I think about It, and I wouldn't marry a man with a thousand million dollar if I didn't love hiss." Forty-Five-Year-Old Whisky Found in Fixing Up Merchants Remodeling work In the basement of the Merchants hotel brought to light a barrel of whlaky forty-five years of a pa and 1B0 per cent proof. It is stated that a thimbleful ot thle liquor will warm the cockle of the saddest heart. Ous Anderson, who has been connected with the Merchant bar for nearly twenty year. ma)e this important dis covery. The barrel had been placed In an obscure corner of the basement, with the evident purpose of concealment Mr. Anderson believes the barrel Was part of the late Bill Paxton' private stock. It is Anderson county rye and of superior quality. v. Proprietor Gaines of the hotel was quite interested when he heard of this find. He Intends to reserve this' barrel for spe cial occasions, slthough he lets his friends have a sip occasionally. WE I SUPPLY..... '1 Meats, Groceries, Fruits, Vegetables For the Merchants Hotel PUBLIC and EMPRESS MARKETS Macaroni Products SldnnerMfg.Co. OatAJtA, am. Large acaearont rectory la America. TILE FLOORS AND A MARBLE VJ01M ( Installed by us under the general direction or . MR. B. J. JOBST, . CONTRACTOR and MR. 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