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Updated: May 9, 2025
She had spread a towel on the window-sill and now hung her hair out of the window that sun and wind might play upon her auburn locks. "I always heard it was better to dry the hair by the sun than by a fire; hot air dries up the natural oils," she observed to Nance in a muffled voice. Nance was engaged in the meditative occupation of manicuring her nails.
Claire was curled on the embroidered linen counterpane of her bed, thinking about chocolates and Brooklyn and driving through Yellowstone Park and corn fritters and satin petticoats versus crêpe de chine and Mount Rainier and Milt and spiritualism and manicuring, when Mrs. Gilson prowled into her room and demanded "Busy?" so casually that Claire was suspicious. "No. Not very. Something up?"
She taught Sylvia how to arrange her hair in the latest fashion promulgated by "Vogue"; she instructed her in the refined art of manicuring according to the method of the best shop in Indianapolis; and it was amazing how wonderfully Marian could improve a hat by the slightest readjustments of ribbon and feather.
Instead of learning the latitude and longitude of Madagascar, Chattahoochee, and Kamchatka, I might have received high grades in geography by abstaining from the chewing of gum, by not wearing my hands in my trousers-pockets, by walking instead of ambling or slouching, by wiping the mud from my shoes before entering the house, by a personally conducted tour through the realms of manicuring, and by learning the position and use of the hat-rack.
The fathers of the republic and the founders of the constitution, which was founded first and has been foundering ever since if you can believe what a lot of people in Congress say they knew nothing of manicuring. Speaking by and large, they only got their thumbs wet when doing one of three things taking a bath, going in swimming or turning a page in a book.
As for Grace Ferrall, she lost no time in tears, but took Agatha publicly to her bosom, turned furiously on Quarrier in private, and for the first time in her life permitted herself the luxury of telling him exactly what she thought of him. "You had your chance," she said; "but you are all surface! There's nothing to you but soft beard and manicuring, and the reticence of stupidity!
Perhaps three hours out of all her days were spent in some such occupation; between bathing, manicuring, hair-dressing, and intervals with her dressmaker and her corset woman it is improbable that the subject of her appearance was long out of the lady's mind. Yet she was not vain, nor was she particularly well satisfied with herself when it was done.
I have to work my passage, you see, and Providence, on the eve of sailing, robbed Mrs. Wilhammer of her maid. 'Oh! he murmured in relief. His red-haired muse was going back to her social pedestal. 'But you must have found it humiliating, he said. 'Humiliating? She laughed cheerfully. 'Why more than manicuring her? The muse shivered again on the pedestal. 'Manicuring? he echoed in dismay.
When he had had his hair cut previously, for instance, had people made faces behind his back? Had young ladies ceased from tempting offers that seemed to include more than manicuring? He got up to pay. "Well," she demanded, sotto voce, "what of the arrangement? She could do him easily at any..." He cut her short. No; it was really impossible. His wife was coming up that afternoon.
There wasn't a girl under forty in the second class on that voyage, the young men resentfully pointed out to each other, except these two kids who were too much under it, and a young lady of thirty who sat manicuring her nails most of the day with her back supported by a life-boat, and polishing them with red stuff till they flashed rosily in the sun.
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