The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1877-07-26
what to Do with the Hands.

What shall you do with your hands
Trousers pockets are not the place for
them in company, and little girls have no
pockets for them. [ forgot, but does it
look well to see a girl always carrying
her hands in the pockets of her apron or
Jacket? It will do once in while,
among ones mates, but 1t is rather free
md easy for g regular habit. You don't
always want to fold them like cat cross
ng her paws Let me tell you some
hing that Will help in this puzzle
which troubles much better-bred per-
ons than you can be yet I've heard
gell-trained ladies, brought up very
arefully in good society, say, 81 can't
ak without a parasol or book. must
ave something to do with my hands"
One could not help feeling sorry they
ad not learned how to carry every part
[ themselves easily and gracefully,
ithout thinking about the matter. If
ley would Try a very simple thing,
ringing the hands together in front,
Glow the waist, at arms length, just as
ley sat down or started on walk, and
len let them fall apart as they would,
nd keep them as they fall, the position
tould be nice and easy in nearly every
ase. Keep your hands down, and your
rms pressed lightly against your sides
4 walking or sitting. You need not
)ok like trussed chicken, at all, but
little stiffness at first is less harm than
arelessness. Don't have slovenly MAN.
ers, whatever you are.
Don't think, in all this advice, that
on are to be little prigs and high
houldered small creatures. There is
time to lounge, and time to sit with
With ones head higher than ones heels,
nd to lie on the hearth-rug. These are
il changes of position that rest us by
hanging the weight from one muscle to
mother. It is good thing, sometimes,
o sit in chair tipped back, or put ones
eet on a window sill it takes the strain
off ones back. But we will take care to
10 this by ourselves, OF with those SO
friendly and close as to be like ourselves.
To sprawl before q stranger or visitor is
entirely too familiar. It says, CT don't
consider you of enough account to put
myself in a pleasing position before
you; don't care whether look awkward
or not in your presence.
1t isn't a comfortable feeling to give a
person, and it's no credit to you. None
IF us have such fine manners that we
need be saving of them, or be afraid Of
making too good an impression. We
were made to be pleasant to ourselves
and to others, and we ought TO look we'll
and act well for their sakes. Even in
the privileged time of home evening,
on in ones room with chum, there is
such thing as easy lounging quiet
enough to save the eyes of looker-on,
and there is loutish, wide-armed and
wide-legged sprawling, for which any
mortal deserves to be started out of his
chair with a rattan cane. I have seen
a young man just from college, not to
speak of men good many years from
it, who, i'll talking with a woman he did
not know very well, would curl up in
an easy chair, with his shoulders above
his collar, and one leg over the arm of a
chair, never knowing the rudeness he
was guilty Of. And I've seen woman
Of very good family indeed, who COM
posed III french ana painted III water
colors, sprawl between two seats before
two chance visitors, till she looked as if
she were just about to tip over; and
knew poetess who read blue and gold
books to young men in the back parlor,
Malt lying on an easy chair with her feet
on the sofa, both ladies having GOOD
health, and being in no way familiar
with their visitors.
But your mother wouldn't like tx
have you do so, and I want to help yor
with hints, so that you will never fal
into these bad habits. You have a bet
ter chance to grow wise and agreeable
than those who went before you, for thu
world is wiser, and you are getting thu
benefit of it. Make much of you
chance. = Wide AD0ke.
Toms Victory.
"That Ned Lane" said Tom Bixb7