The Osceola times., 1880-01-03
THE FINGER NAILS.
A Visit TO the Operating Room of q Man
icure--Iicr Methods and Patrons.

tcuft--btT htliohs
n. Y. sun.
The person who, alone in New York,
makes a specially of attcn ling to the
finger nails, lives IN handsome quarters,
on Twenty-third street, near Booths
Theater
''My principal customers are ladies Of
wealth and 'nement. Az Of the
members of four of the wcalthicst fami-
lies in New York, from the children IN
to grandparents, como TO H,e once Il
week. Oac O. ~ 9 f,tmihcs has been
very unfortunate with its nails. ! have
had 70 cure hem of almost every blem-
ish, deceit 'd bad habit possible bat
at last, AN happy TO say, have got them
in beauti II condition"
"What do you mean 10y blemishcs, de-
fees ana bad habits?"
II emishes include discolorations,
white spots and opacity; brittle and bad
growing ai @ defective, and among the
many bad habits are punching at the
matrix at the base of the nail until 1t IS
rough and raised III an unsightly and
often painful manner, rs that practice Is
prolific cause OF hang nails; biting the
nails, which caused them TO have rough
edges and an ugly shape; tearing and
clipping the thicker cuticlc at the sides
of the nails, and cleaning underneath
the nails with sharp instruments, which
should never be useG fer that purposc.
All these things l cure. and no matter
how unsightly the nails may be, can
guarantee giving them, in Il reasonable
time, beauty of form and. co or. Ailer
they se once put in good co ldition, 1t
is not difficult to keep them so. The
services of the manicure are not neccs-
sary ofener nan once n week, thougf
some tdies come to me regularly twice
wee. As a rule those who are most
careful of their nails nd come TO me
the oitenest are the very ones TO un-
blusllingly rob me of The credit OF my
work by claiming it for themselves.
what beautiful nails you have; you
must have been to the manicure, says
one lady TO another who has just left my
house. 'Oh, dear, no, have no occasion
TO TIC manicure. My nails grow natur-
ally that way replies the dear artless
creature But have my consolation IN
my service of the beat utilul-and my dol
lar and nalf 1t is not true, you know,
that nails grow perfect apd beautiful
naturally. At least ! have never seen
any that did. Nature is not TO be trust
ell implicitly for the iashioning OF the
human form divine, as you may have
suspc eted if You ever contemplated Il
lot of sea bathers."
"Do fashions in nails change, like
those in bo nets, for instance?"
Certainly not. There is standard
of the beau iful and artistic, which can
1g Oh lao
almond shaped, pink nj the base, white
at the poin,s, free FROM spots, perfectly
smooth, ard highly polished. Where
one cannot grow long nails. round oval
ones must be accepted. Abroad it is re-
gar led rs mark of high breeding to
have long pointed nails, the assumption
being that the plebians who have to earn
liv ny cannot cherish and preserve
such brittle badges of rank. In China
that idea is carried 20 such an extremity
that mandarins often grow nails three
or four inches long, whieh they protect
ordinarily by gold shcaths.
Come, sit down here, and let me
show YOU what improvement your nails
are susceptible of and rs | operate on
| them YOU can see what my processes are.
First. the fingers are soaked in bath
| of pcriumcd medicated water and dried.
Then with this file give the finger the
! desired almond shape, so. Now with
these delicate curved scissors / trim of
| the superhuous cuticle about the nails
and hang nails. At This point | would
remove the discOloratiOns and hlcmlshes
in tat Next TO POLISH, | spread this
| nail powder on the chamois skin polish
or and apply it briskly. See how the
nails shine now. almost like diamonds.
But we want little deeper tint, one that
will resemble. the exquisite roscate
flush on the inside OF "a sca-shell. This
pink cosmetic viii bestow ", aid AT the
same time will give pliablity to the
nails, and heal the clipped edges of the
! cuticlc Once more the fingers 90 into
a bath of periumcd water. and then the
nails are r,-polishcd- and if you thought
| they shone before, wat do you think
of them nov? Beautiful, OF course they
arr thanks not to nature, but the mani
cure Last Of all-the finishing touch
the customer must be periumcd. And
you see that | must keep. busy to get
through il all in three quarters of an
hour
Are you not afraid that process so
simple rs this seems To bc, VIII be taken
out Of your nands by your customers
for themselves, or 10y rivals who will
learn il from you''
"No. at III. All | could teach them
would not harm my business. No, one
person in 10000 could use the left hand
so lightly, steadily and effectively rs
would be required to put the nails of
the right hand in order. Two hands
are needed for the jcb; and as for edu-
eating other manicuros have no fear.
Indeed, l would be pleased to see more,
as they would tend 60 cultivate the put
lie appreciation Of the Importance of
the art practice, and | have no reason
TO dread doompc!i,ion Nobodycan shape
the nails as / can. II is not SO simple
thing as people generally imagine.
There is something 10 in the knowledge
of my recipes. DO | use bitter things
on the fingers 20 break the habit of bit
ing the nailsP No, not at all. | simply
make tre nails so beautiful that even a
thoueltlcss child wiz have sufficient
70 ce of will TO refrain from spelling
them. Look at yodf nails now, sir, and
bite OF ; of them if you can lind the
heart 20 do so. j defy you TO do it,"
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