Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1865-05-27
HANDS AND JEwELRY.

a prominent feature in the personal ap'
pearance Of oil men and women 10 The
hand. is, also, one of the most neglect.
ID. In fact, The only two classe. Of men
l know Of who invariably care for tbsir
hands properly, are the gamblers and the
chiropodis.s. The Inherent good taste Of
the other sex shows up brilliantly in this
particular.
But people generally hack of their nails
with dull knives, and scrape the roots 80
that they are rough and one sided and
fluffy. A very little care, even when ono
is engaged in manual occupations, will
suffice TO keep the nails smooth, regular
and rosy and that is great deal.
have seen many hands that were ubso.
lusely an indecent exposure.
The amount Of uncleanIiness that ono
encounters, even among otherwise sespec.
table people, is appalling.
The average morning ablution am eng a
majority of men, is merely superficial
| rinse, in cold water of the face-from the
ears focwarl-and the hands, from the
wrist downward. Once week, it NAV Se.
they a:e more thorough. but it would take
purer man than l ever saw 10 keen reas.
onabIy clean on one bath a week
In the matter Of dress, We are naturally
somewhat hampcrcd by pecunary crcum.
stances. A cheap tailor can hardly take
as much time to devise an elegant garment
as should be bestowed upon it and cheap
c'o'h IS not so agreeable to the eye as a
finer fabric.
There are so;ne peer devils who never
can 'ook well dressed. We have al, known
such. They may 60 to the most Fashionable
tail rs and pay the most inspiring prices:
4. but somehow, when fully rugged, with Gil
tie care that they are capable of, they
have an unden.able air Of having slept in
their clothes. These we can only pray
for. There is no help for them.
Others again have g happy faculty Of
looking best in ancient habilimeuts. I
know man who can take hat a year
old, brush it and SO forth to be salu;ed BY
his in,ima!cs as the wearer OF new one.
III he hangs up Il classic coat for two
months. and then wears it again. the
more porous Of his friends insist upon his
'we,,ing'' it q. the nearest bar-room.
lhe truth of the matter is, as croney
Of mine enunciates it. when one feels we'll.
dressed, one looks SO, and only then.
1t is not difficult matter for O man
whose costume is proachable, to spoil
all BY single piece of jewelry.
Our dimonds are the precious rocks on
which we are apt to split. The cluster
o'amond-e!.her as a pin or a ring -sLo d
be left sacred to the Ethiopian delineator.
It belongs to him l wouldn't give elk.
pence for him without it; and for any OF
else TO pirate it is a cruel imposition At
tho least
The purple smethys. seal'ring is very
admissible. So is any other seal save that
cheap looking white one with masonic
emblem on it dom. object to emblems
at oil, but that is not the way to wear
them. Neither do love the seats en-
graved with mysterious and occult hero.
glyphi's. They sugges. nothing, except,
perhaps, that other learned seal at Bar.
nun 8 Museum.
After rhe seal ring, wear single stone
only diamond in the brightest and best
of its race. need not say that large
one is to be preferred.
If eternal vigilance is the price Of lib.
ersy. it is also the price Of good looks By
unremittinG attention only, can VIC arrive
a: the ful6!lment Of that part Of the whole
duty Of man, which demands that We shall!
present agreeable emotions to the optic
nerve Of our neishbor.
A farmer, who had employed green
Emeraldtr, ordered him to give the mule
some corn in the ear. On his coming in
the farmer asked:
"Well, Pat, did you give the corn -
''To be sure did, "iIow did YOU give
it' "An' sure rs yez told me, in the
ear.' "But how much did you give p
""e''. ycz see, tho creytur would 'nt
hold still, and switching his ears about so,
could mt give above fs. iull in both ears.
A man passing through the gateway in
the dark, hit his nose against the post
Il wish that pos, was in HE'LL" said he
"Ret,er TO wish it was somewhere else"
said by s,ander, "you might run against
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