London.-A London morning paper
prints a remarkable story of a mani
cure establishment maintained by so
ciety women with a leaning toward the
high church doctrine, which has been
opened in a fashionable street off Picca
dilly. Outwardly the shop does not dif
fer from the ordinary establishments
of its kind, but inside it is to be found
a private chapel where the fair mani
curists are encouraged to perform their
daily devotions.
The clientele includes many women of
title, but only a privileged few are ever
allowed to penetrate the recesses of the
chapel. Fresh cut flowers and lighted
candies bedeck the altar, and the light
falls on the kneeling group of manicur
ists through windows of stained glass.
In solemn procession the manicur
ists, clad in perfectly fitting black
gowns and white embroidered collars,
pass into the chapel each morning before
manicuring the fair fingers of a single
patron.
The manicurists' assistants are all
girls of good birth. All of them have
made a solemn vow never, under any
circumstances, to manicure a man. The
girls who belong to this saintly select
band of beauty doctors may not even
beautify the hands of their brothers. A
forfeiture of £500 is mentioned as one
of the penalties for disobedience to this
eleventh commandment of the mani
curists.
A VILLAGE SHOCKED
OVER FOOT SOCIAL.
Fad in a Charity Entertainment Leads
to Wrangle Among Norristown,
Pa., Church Folk.
