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February 1, 1939
Mrs. Sue a. White
Beauty School
10* E. Clayton St.
Athens, Georgia
Hornsby
Mtldred Lawson
The last step had been reached of the long flight of steps.
I paused in01.-the empty hall to get my breath before entering Mrs.
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Lawson's Beauty School. A plalgard was tacked on the door advertis-
ing tne price of her work.
/I opened the door and entered the lo ngue. It lq nicely fur-
nished and pictures of different styles of hair dress lined tne wall,
wnich is common in these establishments. The lounqte is ltitioned
off with a screen, and is used as a class room. Tnere is a long table
filled witn books, chairs around tne table and a large blackboard on
the wall. Mrs. Lawson is the instructor.
As I entered the lounle, I saw Mrs. Lawson sitting before a
large mirror in the practice room. "Hello:" she said, "come in and
have a chat by the window." 3he was wearing a white skirt, pink
sweater, tan oxfords and tamxtmat hq* to match. he 13 of medium
size and about five feet tall, she has blueglegesol One of her students
was b96y engaged in applying dye to her hair of some reesh shade.
This is a very large room and all the app,ratus tnat goes -ith a
beauty parlor is conveniently placed in the room.
"3o you want to know about the ways of a beauty parlor? Well
I have been in the game fifteen years. The reason I went into the
beauty parlor was because at that time I did it was a profttable
business. I was just a stenographer in a small towm, in a fertilizer
and peanut shelling plant in axamail South Georgia Immix I had a son
to put through school and I wanted him to have a good education
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selected Athens to live in so it would be cheaper to educate him
and now he wants to be a doctor. I am looking toward my beauty
school business to see him through.
"Don't let anybody fool you it is hard work, and we have
lotS of fun tob. I want you head tnese paragraphs like this.
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"WHAT I ALWAi3 WANTED TO SAY ABOUT MY CUSTOMERS AND NEVER DARED."
"There was a woman who came to my place every day. She was
a large and all out of shape. 3ne gave me the impression that ner
_husband stepped out on her for the more attractive people. She
was about forty-five or fifty, everytift she came tome for a Mani-
cure, facial and her hair fixed .she would say: 'Please make me
look pretty so my husband will think I look nice and won't run
around.)1I did my best,but there are some people you can't help
no matter how much pains you take with them.
"People come to the beauty parlor to gossip about their
neighbors., and stimetimes they talk about us. We often go to
them and say to 'ern we can hear t you say about us.)) It is
hard to please people in, my line of wort. There is a woman in
town who is a business woman.' She was the world's wors94 I was
at the Georgian Hotel .04,--that-ttme, we had an awful time with hot
water.. From three until five o'clock in tne afternoon the water
would get too cold for our use. One day she came in for a shampoo.
told hr the water was too cold, she said; II want a shampooland
began to get ready for it. Again I told her the water was cOld7
anyway she at down I told one of the operators to give her the
shampoo, when the cold water was turned on her head she jumped
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up and blessed us all out. I told the girl to dry her hair, she
said: 'I can't go out of here looking like this.' 5)1 told her,
you don't look any worse
the worst looking mop of' red hair you ever saw.
"One day last year
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perm,nont wave. 3he was a--494stry type of
turned up as if everything =exiled bd..
a orthern woman came to my shop
than you did when you came in,. he had
for a
person4 4.er nose was
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3he was large,
a white dress that had large pink flowersdn it, Her legs are
twice the size of mine, we -re gun metalpto hide the size
of them which made her look 4that much worse. .I did her work my-
self, she began to ask personal questions", 'Do you have many
customers;' she asked, I told her more than we can.manage some
days."' Oh, she replied 1.bipw can you do so much at your age.'
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"At my age I. ask?, Why I am only forty-one.".
that all.' That remark made me fighting mad,
know it. I meant to get even with her before
'Forty-one! is
however she didn't
she left my shop.
I worked on, she never stopped talking. After she had talked
about everything else, she asked met? Iti2ow do you like the new
matetials this year?' "Oh, I think beautiful, but I simp-
ly can't stand large prints on large womeniand I always did
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hate gun metal hose. I knew it was)eatty but I couldn't resist
the temtation, I gave her the wave but I must admit I wouldx
have given her a better job if she had been niwer.
"We had a woman to come in last week who is more or less a
crank, she wanted her hair fixed a certain way. Well, we did it.
Than she wanted it changed and done another way. We changed it
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for her. After we did that she decided she would have a shampoo,
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the operator in trying to please her accidently. got some of the
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rinse water in her eyes she jumped up, cursed -the operator out,
refused to pay for the work and left. Her niece wanted an
ap-
pointment and told one of the girls she was ashamed to comet her
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aunt had made it verY embarrasing for her. We told tke girl
that didn't made any differenpe,we were usito all kind of people.
The girl came and we gave her the wave.
"Do you know the best way to'lose a,customer it to credit them?
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Asedixpere after all lek is a luury. The only thing I ever lost on
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the university girls, ast before the ohristMas holidays of this
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yea;3 a soiity girl came to my shop for a rmpn t wave. After
I had finished with her she told, me td charge it and she would
pay me when she came back after Christmas. She went home and I
have never seen or heard -of her since.
"I have a friend who is a widow, she is septrated from her
husbands pe has
tell when she is
a nice car gets ajlice sum from alimony. I can
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ready to have work done, a time before she
springs it on me she can't be too nice. I know what she is
up to as it has happened too often. Then she comes to have
her work done. She thinks I do it for notning, but I don't \I
charge it each time she comes and some of these days I am going
to present her with a bill. .3he tells her friends I do the work
for her free. She is instrumental however, in sedding lots of
her friends to me.
er than I do women, therefore when I Atarted___,
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"I like men better than I do women, therefore when I started
•to work oh, just hated to touch a woman's hair the odor of their
oily heir made me sick often I have taken down A kncirof hair, maybe
handlt been washed in three months, in those days they didn't have
short hair, and when I smelled that ranpid odor of oil I have had
to stop my mar awr work and run to the rest room to burp. If
people knew what we saw when we start with their hair they would
be more generous with soap and water. Not so long ago a mother
brought her little girl to me for a permanent wave. I turned her
over to one of the girls. -After she had finished and they had
gone the operator told me that child's neck, and back of her ears)
also the edge of her hair was so filthy she took a scrub bru4h to
get the child clean. I mean a brush we have for scrubbing tne
scalp in a severe case of dandruff. That child was from a nice
family.
"I had a shop like this in South Carolina, it was during pro-
bition. You notice I don't have booth's in my shop.. The reason
for tnat is, i was born in the country and;I like (plenty of room
and wide open iv spaces.' To get bs.ck-to my sto13 a college girl
came in one day .for a wave. She was talking down, to the operator,
giving her the wave. I was doing a hall* dying. The sheriff in
that town was a handsome man and single, so Mrs. Brown and I were
talking about him. The over heard us and saia.,± 'oh, if you
Itaxtxraxzwa hink he is goodlo4ng you ought to see my bootleger,1-
"I said, yes ne is goodloliking isn't he Mrs. Brow4;/telling the
girl Mrs Brown was his wife. I said this so the girl wouldfai
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say nothing more about Mr. Brown. 3he was the smart type and
thought it was cute to let us know she drank as girls had just
started that and smoking. 'However, I must say Mr. Brown was a
nice man and from -a lovely, family. After he came back from the
war he couldn't find a job, and tAat was the only way he had of
-making. a living.
"In my time at,least since I have been running a beauty
Parlor of my own. I'ha,ve bought about, three bushels of end curlers
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and now I have about three dozen. ,One traitAmyucustomers have, is
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they go to the dime atore,and buy a com6-,whioll looks very much like
the ones used in beauty parlors. They will come here to have work
done. When our back is turned they swap combs with us. I pay
#1.26 each for my combs there is no reduction on the quanity bought
and to find someone has swa ed combs with me *makes me down right
Mad. I reckon I had better not tell you any more dirt, but What
I have said is all right, but there' are things that happen here
among the customers I had better not tell.
"Business men tell me since have been in business that women
are their best bet when it comes to paying their accounts. On the
other had the National Cash Register men say a woman cashirA.knocks
down more money than men. They find it out tnrough checking the
cash registers.
"I find that business women and girls also sor4ty girls are
my best customers. They have to be and want to look well groomed,
and the sordity girls tlyhorrto see which one can look the cutest.
You take the women who stay at home theyyhave more time to do
these things for themelves.
"Would you believe it if I'tell.you that married women with
responsibilities make the best operators." The girls who were
listening to Mrs. Lawson telling her story spoke up, 4why, you
know girls look fresher. Tale our mothers for iffs4,8411-611-they have
to work so hard at home I don't see why they would.11/ cevertheless
it is true." their teacher told the:141)she continued: "Don't you
think for a moment this kind of work isn't hard, it is much harder
than -office work, this is Magma physictal labor. i know for I
have done both and know. A woman who works in the courthouse told
,me one day she thought. girls would make better beauty operators,
because they. had more patience. I told her she was -mistaken be-
cause this type of work is harder. You onli have one boss to
please in a office and in this work you have to please everyone
who comes to you. You not only have to sell them on your personality
and work, but sell them on the idea of having things done zhey have
never had done before td -make them look better. You take a woman
with a colorless face. If you can sell her on the idea of having
her eyebrows and lashes dyed it makes the eyes look larger and the
face will seem to have more color and expression.
"We are trying to make a real profession out of beauty
operating. .We are trying to introduce- a bill into the legislature,
so that each operator gding out into the professional world after
course
they have completed their mummr, will have to pay a license to the
3tate of $100.005> before they can begin work. This Is. 'to protect
those 'who have made a study of beauty culture, and to keep those
out who are not professionals.. The operator's use to learn the
work or thought they knew it and started to work. It is not that
way now. They have to have a blood test made and have a physical
examination before tney can enter sbhool and the health certificate
has to be renewed each as long as they remain ip the service. This
is required by the State Board of Health.
"I have been doing tnis kind of work for fifteen years. I have
Ilan a beauty parlor excluslvely until a short time ago. I decided
to teach beauty culture and opened up a school in connection with
my parlor. The State Board Of Barbers and, Hair Dressers went al-
low both going on the same building so I gave up the parlor, How-
ever, they do allow us to nave customers and we charge a nominal
sum, not tne regular price as my students are not considered
'experts until they have completed their course which takes six
months or one thousand hours. Those are the requirements of the
State Board before they care take an examination.'
"I never select my xtii girls because they have nice hair tar
howevera pretty face and. figure goes a long wag ways in a
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beauty parloi. asy herejan operator who is paiiimi popular in ner
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work don't_natre time to keep her hair nails and, face jam up. And
you can't judge a,good operator by her personal appearence you
have to try them first. It is In this work like everything else
eve -ones I consider best gets the least to do.
"When I started to work, I worked in my sisters beauty parlab
in a small Georgia town. She learned the work in iiew York and
4kChicago. The only beauty clinic in Atlanta at that time was He'rn's,
I believe that was the only one. It doesn't take talent tO be .an.
operator.
"I have girls in training from all over Georgia. They board
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out in .town, when my lease expires I am going to get p large house
and have a dormitory on the top floor and a training school on the
taAnLn -s-eol on t- first floor. Then I am going to open up
anotner beauty parlor in some convenient location of the eity.
When I started to work, I was paid a Commisai6n, I have made as low
as $5.00 a week and as high as $65.00 lots of weeks. Most of the
beauty parlors pay their operators on a commission ta/only. I pay
my girls salaries because it imptxkle keeps down clonfusion. If I
had a popular operator and everyone who came in wanted that particular
person, than I would let tne ones not quite 30 popular help tnat one.
I worked along with my girls and drew my salary the same as they did
this kept down jealousy andomemMegmftin. 3alaries and commissions have
their advantage and d13 -advantages. A girl on a commission makes
a better operator than those on a salary. An operator on a commission
works harder, she finishes her work quicker and does a better job,
she will also call heTie ds and ask them to come to her, and tell
her to ask others. W 1e on a salary takes her work as a
matter of fact, knowing she will get her money as long as she pleases
.the customers and manager of the establishment.
"There is a greater profit made in shampoos and manicures, than
and
in any other type of work, such as per44t5maxaax finger waves,
facials and mass44es. The reason there is less expense attached
to the material used.
"The youngest customer I ever had was fourteen months old, a
docto24 child. Her mother brought her up here, and neld the child
in her arms while I gave her the perm4
pent wave. I have old women
come to my shop to have work done so old they use a cane formupport
to walk. Women that age are harder to please than younger people.
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"When I started to work in a beauty parlor guf-chewimg was
not allowed, you were fired as quick for that as for an other
offence. Now since girls smoke I think they are breath.conscious,
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and chew gyi to kill bad breath. Most all of our customers chew
gum and smoke- from n,ervou6ness while under the dryer. And most
all of them read during the entire time: Those who don't read
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like to gossip withA operator who aItend to- thy maehtne. However,
I nave always discouraged this sort of thing, for this reason.
There are always things said that shouldn't be passed on and
should that operator repeat the conversation there would be
trouble, because it a customer comes in and like her work she
will tell her -friends, you.know how women like to talk so this/
indulge4- e isn't allowed between customer and operator.
"I remember one inirdent that happened in my shop in 3outh
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Carolina. A very prominent woman and her husband seperated. It
was really -a very tragic sePlrationo livery woman who came in
71-.,.. had a different story to tell'. One of my operators repeated
what she nad heard and it caused an awful fuss. Of Course I
had to fire the girl. I had another girl who was bubbling
over with mischief. 3he would come in and4iiii) no matter
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llow many was in my shop, 'Oh, did you know there is to be a
grand parade, with floats and people all dressed up.' After
a while when everyone was busy, several home would sound from
cars on the street she would stop what she was doing and run
to the window; saying 'Oh, here vnatjthe parade is coming.'
Every one would run to the window. One day she had a water
pistol, filling it with water; she went to the window and shot
the water on a policeman. Was -he mad? he came up here and bl
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her out. It frightened her to death. I had to let her go,- be-
cause that sort of thing won't go when you
"I give all type of waves, manicures,
(eyebrows, lashes, ho1 oil treatments and shampoos. I have never
had any trouble in Otking the hair too much. I have automatic
out-off's on all my machines. There is no guess work about
permi4nt waving.
"I went into business for myself in 1929. I have been in
work with the
facials, dyill.ng the hair,
business in Athens 04/r years. I came here to go in business be-
cause I am a Georgiajpman and I wanted. my son to go to a Georgia
College and it cost me less to send him to send maxkarr him here.
The town I left in 3outh Carolina was a mill town and there wasn't
much business at that place. Now Zaleg I have given up my shop.
for the present, and. teaching girls to become beauty operators.
"My girls pay me $601000for "Mt -months course or one thousand
When I get Tour more students my price will be $9o.oe, the
average price for a Completeocourse is $135401. Each beauty parlor
school .fixes their own price. The girls work fromA,Mtgr o'clock in
the morning until o'clock in the afternoon, they have an hour
for lunch, and an hour of each day is devoted to study. I have
Triv-electric heaters, rtrms gas heaters tixtmt and 440-electrio
a
blower for drying hair after a perimptht wave. The money taken in
by the students from customers goes to me. I require my girls
to wear white unifor77 I think the operators appear much nicer.
Now, that_I have the training school I don't do any of the _work.
When I open my shop again I will work like the other operators.
"My students pay for their tlition in voirious'wegs. One girl
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bathing he burned all tne clotnes he was wearing even to his uniform,
he said his clothes were ragged and not worth saving. He was shot
in his hip and all the fingers on one hand were shot completely off.
He reared two sets of children, my mother was one of the younger
set. He had several children when he went to war, and when he came
back several mare were born to them. General Clement A.Evans was
my grandmothers brother, on my mother4 side.
"I believe in religion and am a member of the Baptist church,
but am asham4)to say I don't go like I should. I had religionz
craned down my throat until I married. My mother and father were
very strict and I was reared on the front seat in church so to speak.
I do want my boy to be a good christian man, and I feel its my duty
to talk to him and tell him the right from wrdng, by pointing out
my mistakes to him. I ha it‘ den;84ed myself every pleasure and the
better things in life that he might have a good education and make
a man of himself. After all it is a pleasure for me to help him
I am getting old now and his future is ahead of him.
"My husband and I are not living together. I met him in the
room I was borneWand reared in. My father owned a large tam,
they say people in South Georgii are land,poorl thElowas us. Any-
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way father decided to sell lud part of tile land and built another
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house. A friend of the family bought itx the land our first house
was on. One night one of tne girls gave an old Is shioned square
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dance and invited me. I went, she had the dance in the room that
was our bed room and there is wn-re I met my husband I never
worked a/ day before I married I never had to. After I married I
had to gq to work to help out.
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When I wao in South Carolina I had rey shops doR,
I had bugt40irery extulnelYik line et
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in blue bottles. The cabinet I. had built for my goods the Mick
cOlor didn't make those blue bottles stand out so I had the back
of the cabinet painted kjack. One. day an art teacher came in,
while I was doing her work she began to critize the color scheme of
my shop and the black background df my cabinet. I told her I liked
it, she said: 'That is because you don't have any taste.' When she
called for an appointment I wasn't busy that day, but I told her
I had all I could possibly do for tnatday. I have those things
said to me that hurt thanI have things.to balance them up.
"Once l made along aistance call to Gainosville, Georgia,
a rew (lays later that long -distance operaLor came in for a shampoo-
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and finger wave. 3ne told me tile reason she came to me was, wnen
sue was puuting tnat call tnrougn to Gainesville for me, sue liked
my voice and decided Lo come uo.my place for nor work. That re-
minds me or the time wnen I worked in a telepnone orfice.
Ferti-
lizei' and Lae peanut snelling season didn't last but a few months,
when I weren't working at tile) plant I -was a 'nello girl.' In unat
,own tney aad a radio station in.a drug store. I doubt wneLher 16
was ever neard out side of the town or not,. Anyway, one day a
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girl called the d,yug store/for tnem to play Gene Austin's 3t.
Infirmary Blues.- Tne. ()Aerator connected ner wita the laundry
Tne girls at tne laundry said we don't have any olues for Mr.
Austin.' "Wnat do you mean' asked tne girlOor 'We aon't nave Mr.
'Austin's laundry listed.' inan tne girl discovered sue nad the
wrong nUmper and ded we get blessed out.
Mnen J. moved my snop to this end of town everytning was on
the decline, tnere were several vacant suorez ouildings, soon after
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tnat Bul*flass tagaa began to pick up.
Now nere isn't a vacant
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6hrough scnool as 1 snould I would nave oaken journalism in collegc.p
ana nad I accomplished my aim 1 would like to pay Erskin Caldwell
oack for tne mud ne nas slung on tne 3outh. I have written several
stories and some day I am going to get sozieone to edit tnem for me
and nave them printed.
"Well bellinie i. have told you aoout all tnat would do to put
into print, and too I have been so busy since you came, I am wonder-
ing it you will ever get it straignt." One of tine spererwrs nad just
finisned combing a customers nair w cmisne had given a finger wave.
When she came to the snop, she fussed because one side or tar nead
nad more curl tnan tne ()trier, her nair was cut snorter in some
places than in otnersA Mrs. Lawson, said: "hut Miss black we
fixed ttolei. it exactly as you told us to." This made tne customer
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"Well", sue said, "i. don't life it and I want it done over."
The work was completed, Mrs. Lawson asked ner: "HOW do you like it
now?" "40141 it is mucn better now. How mucn is it?" Mrs. Lawson
told ner; "350"; Miss Black turned red in the face: "nut surely
you dont cnarge a customer when they are not pleased with your
wort, do you?" "NO, when it is our fault, out we fixed your nair
just as you direct -ea it, and we onerge 3oce for a ringer wave and
drying it." "Well," said Miss Black, "here is the money, and I
don't intend to come pack I was sure you wanted your customers
to be pleased." "I aM awfully sorry Miss Black, but it isn't
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out :Ealt." AL tills se snatenea on ner coat toor ner fiat in nvmd
f,nd wt out of tne scnool, 4.)ampih ue door_aluer her. LIrs. Law-
ttnxrictxtfxyaxmr7xxxotxxmtdx turned to me and said: "I have been in
uUSineSS lifteen years and wnen tnose tnings come up tney suill hurt."
I told her I must be going. "Do come bacK," ine inri%t; Hand
I hope you don't and my story too un-intersuin6." She followed
me to the door leaaing down the long fliEht of steps. Yhen 1 told
ner good Dye tne tears Were suill in ner eyes, sne was putting up
a hard f16_it to keeprthem:b-ack.
Hornsby
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I think it 13 permissible to chew a fresh piece of gum for a moment
or two to kill bad breath. Post of our customers chew gum or smoke
to relieve the tedium while under the dryer; The majority of them
read as they smoke and chew. I prefer the readers for the others
are apt to gossip with the operators. I've always discouraged that
sort of thing, for no matter how innocent the intention the conver,-
sation always progresses until things nre said that should not be
passed on, and should an operator repeat some of these personal
conversations there 13 apt to be serious trouble. The only kind
of talk I encourage about my shop is for the customers to tell her
friends how she likes our work and send them to us to prove it. But
gossip! No.
"Illustrative of the danger of common gossip, just let me tell
you of an occurrence that tool pince when was operating a shop in
another stpte. A very prominent woman and her husbnnd had separated.
It was really a tragic separation, nnd every woman who entered my
shop had a different tale to tell about it. One of my operators
repented something that had been told herby r, customer about this
case, and it cnused an awful fuss. Of course, I had to fire the
girl.
"Deliver me from these mischievous girls. I mean the ones that
are proud of their ability along that line. It was in tAat same
shop that I had the misfortune to engage a girl that proved to be
just bubbling over with so-called innocent mischief. no matter how
many customers were in my shop she would exclaim, 'Oh, did you know
it's nearly time for the grand parade' There'll be people all dress-
ed up marching, riding horseback and on floats.' and any other exeitd.
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"I give all types of 7niore3 manicures, facials, hot oil treat-
ments, and shampoos, and. I also dye hair, eyebrows, and lashes. No
I have never had any trouble about baking the hair too much, for all
my mac:Ames are equipped with automatic shut -offs. There's no guess
work about permanent waving in my stop.
"I went in business for myself in 1929, and 6 years ago I open-
ed my own shop in Athens. I came here because as a Geor:-Ia woman I
wanted my son to complete his education at the university of Georgia..
To come here, I left a mill town in another state. There wasn't
sufficient business ttere for me to clear enough money to sent my
boy to college. Now, I've given up my shop for the Present, to
teach Fir13 to become beauticians.
"My students pay me ^60 for a 6 months course, or a ttousand
hours. 'hen I have enrolled four more students I intend to raise
the
my price to 1:90 for/6 months course. My price for 6 months, or
a thousand hour course includes only tte subjects essential for
eligibility to stand the 3tate exanination, but I also teach other
and more advanced subjects in beauty culture, and my price for the
complete course is $135. k graduate who has mastered the complete
course has prospects of better earnings than the one who studied
only the primary essentials. My students are in training from
9 o'clock in the morning until 6 in the afternoon, and they have
an hour off at noon. lne hour of tte :wool day is devoted to
study. Each student is given regular practical experience in
all the subjects in her course. To Five you an idea of the amount
of equipment I provide for their use, just to mention heaters alone,
-:ornsby
'age 15
I hnve 5 electric heaters, 4
n3 leaters and 1 electric blower for
drying te air. I reuire n11 my stuccents to 7ear wAite uniforms.
I tir0:. ie unifomA rive the rirls n much nicer a:)T..)ear-nce. !Tow
t_-.nt I operate a training school I no longer do any of the actual
work myself.
10 y
stuents pay for their tuition in various ways. One girl
from t'ie country wanted to ta':e the course but told me she didn't
hnve the money, 30 agreed *.o accept c-ichens, hams, potatoes, and
fresh vegntnbles. Thnt ,elped her frIci re too. One man paid 15-3
dnuc.-.1t /3 tuition wit lul_ber, hich 1Fs used to remodel my apart
rent.
"I was born on a farm in the southern part of the 3tnte, and
when I was about our years old my )anmts moved to to -7n. Four years
later fa.ther's .:aealt.1 failed and the octors advised him to move
bach to t e country. Thther 77t3 P teacher and he built the inst
schoolhouse in that con: unity and t-ught in it. He nnd several
other men orranized the 13ptist church and built its house of
worship. He was a eacon in LYvAt church as long as he lived. One
thinc Aire, just a3 soon R3 I an plile I'm roing bach and buy that
little old pedal organ that I used to play ;undaysch.00l songs on in
old (3hurc'n :;:en I was a air?. 1.thourh I quit scool I
WP3 Only 1$ years old, I've -lways 11%.ed to .rad nnd study, and my
people were by no means illito2ate.
"Both of my Franr'45arents -ou:-ht in the ",ar BrA/een the ;tntes.
rother's father 1.93 b!-cily wounded. "lien he came home from the war
one of hi 3 slves saw him coming and ran to meet him. rlrandfatter
told he "egro not to let grandmother know he had. arrived until he