The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1873-07-17


! Language and Expression or Oh
HaRds-The Poetry OF the Feet
The American Women the Mos
Beautiful.
In the varied phases Of life all Tia.
graceful and pleasing attitudes aSsum
ed by women are characterized by th,
movement of the hands. Many ges.
lures of the fingers only have Ian
I guage so true that it appears express
i've. We know that a hand held OF
given has expressed g greater emo
ton than could have been made in 8
Hong discourse. The primitive quail.
ty of beauty is of comparative small.
mess. a lady's hand IS considered
more graceful If under the usual size.
II it has soft form and pure outlines,
fingers long, delicate, flexible, round,
and tapering toward the ends il the
dimples over the joints are marked by
faint reliefs and shadows, aud the
wrist softly rounded and jOlnted to a
moderately long and tspering arm, il
is more delicate.and feminine. Slen-
der, nervous, white, slightly veined
with blue, with the hollow rosy and
delicate, the nails transparent, they
belong to the patrieians.
Hands are infinitely varied. Their
shape, tint, the nails, length. width,
! roundness, are as different as individ-
uals. There are hands that seem in-
tellectual in theit symmetry, beauti-
ful in fiexibility and grace of motion.
Some are soft and vOluptuous, and
4 others precise, striking, and brilliant.
! The form of the hand often expresses
the capabilities of the person to whom
| It belongs. The strong palms, ooni-
cal fingers, and small thumb Indicate
I in woman Incidence, fancy and feel.
ling. The square hands belong to the
/ intellectual and ambitions, and those
Who love influence and rule. The
small, soft, almost heshless hands, but
rosy and with kHOtted fingers, are
brilliant and witty. Fingers delicate
ly squared at the ends, like those. of
English women, love domestic life.
The small thumb and fingers, broad
ening at the ends, desire activity and
practical knowledge of the world.
There are smooth and knotted hands
to the firstlbelongs grace; to the sec
ond reason. .Conical hands with
pointed fingers obey Inspiration and
worship the beautiful in painting, po-
etfy, romance and nature. There are
soft hands, more capable of tender
ness than of love, and delicate fin
gers that are formed for sensitiveness
and sym pathy Of touch and made to
minister to pain and grief" hard
hands that know not tenderness, but
are ignorant Of love; and "rnugh
hands that Tie heart teacnes, and
guides, and sOftsns.n
Listen to what palmistry reveals OF
the female hand: Women may be ar
ranged under two principal banners
under the one those with a large
thumb, and those with a small thumb
under the other. Fhe first uOre in-
telligent than feeling wise from his
tory; the other more feeling wise than
! intelligent from romance. A woman
with large thumb loves with refiec-
tion-less with the heart than the
senses, but adds to her passion con-
stancy and every mental charm. WO-
men with small thumbs are not en-
dowed with so high principle of sa-
gaeity. So love with them IS all their
thought; but such is the charm at
taehed to that powerful passion that
there is no seduction equal to it, Or
der, arrangement, symmetry, and
puRetuality reign without tyranny ia
those dwellings governed by tie gen
tie economists with the square pha-
lange and small thumb. Are you pay
ing court to beautiful young lady
with square phalanges ? Equip your
self with good sense and steadiness,
reject all captivating airs, and con-
found not singularity with distine-
ton. In the number Of her 9xiOms
are these-silehce is a power, mystery
an ornament. With women of q
strongspalm, conical fingers, and lit
tie thumb,s paint your language in
glowing eOlOrs. They hove that which
dazzIes, and theory has more power
over them than logic.
Three things govern them-indo-
lence, fancy, and feeling. They have
in their hearts the prayer that the Co
rinthians addressed every morning
to Venus: 20 goddess, grant that to-
day may do nothing unpleasing,
and that 1 may say nothing which
may not be agreeabIe;p for to please
Is their chief care. and they love as
muchbeing beloved and admired as
esteemed. Such were doubtless the
hands of the beautiful and trium-
phant amaZons of which the flying
squadron of Catherine de Medieis was
composed. A high priest of palmis-
try tells us Madame Roland had
beautiful large hands, indicating a
head full of poetieal ideas aud feelings
and soul inclined to the ideal She
understood the beauty Of passion and
the self-sacriiice it imposed. At once
stOieal and impassiOnate, imperative
and enthusiastic, tender and austere,
she loved three things with All in
tense love country, liberty, and uni
ty. By nature bold and eourageOus,
like the majority of women OF her
type, she did not belle herself in pow.
erty, in greatness, or OF. the scaffoId.
Queen Elizabeth was proud of the
beauty of her hands. 1t is written
that during a public procession to
prayers she pulled her glove off of her
right hand, sparkling with jewels,
aud gave it to kiss, as a mark of par
ticular favor, to a Bohemian baron
who had letters to present to her. Di-
ana of POietiers' features were regu-
lar and classical, her complexion
faultless, her hair of a rich purple
blxek, which took golden tint in the
sunshine; while her teeth, her ankles,
her hands, her arms, her bust, were
each the theme III turn of the court
poets. The hand of George Sand is
narrow, with pointed fingers, delicate,
smooth, and elastic, without softness.
/ "ParisienHe is synonymous with
slender feet, narrow ankles, arehed
instep. We learn every day that the
small arehed foot is a sign OF nobility
"a rule that admits of many excep-
tions. Generally, the aristocratic foot
is fine, slender, nervous, delicate; the
foot plebeian short and gross. The
English have the fiat foot the Rus
slams have enormous feet, as heavily
attached as those Of an elephant. For
this reason, 1t is said, a Russian prin-
cess invented trained robes. The
American women are acknowledged
to have the most beautiful feet of any
nation in the world. The fascinating
forms and manners of the ladies Of
CadiZ,i the theme of old ballads re-
tain all their famous celebrity. Ev-
cry one has heard eftheir dark, glanc-
ing eyes; their pretty hands skilled
in the nice conduct of the FAM their
feet, dainty and fairy-like, 'of which
q glimpse is one of the last precious
-favors accorded to a lovers sighs and
tears;' and more than all, their walk.
The charm is that il is natural, and in
being the true, ,unsophiStieated ,daugh-
ter of Eve and mature, the Spanish
woman has few riYals.'D e.Ille1 l-il
Many persons ernoneousiy esteem
the feet of women beautiful in proper
ton to their smallness. The beauty
of the6eet consists IN their symmetry
and grace of outline, andOn their be-
ing short or extremely small. The
feet Of the Venus de s8ledicis excite
the admiration of every one who
looks IT the beautiful statue. In the
outline of their extremity they ap-I
pFOach the elegant form of the clip
SIS, and are founded from the proper
tions Of nature, that of six TO one be-
tween the foot and the body, the