The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1881-02-10
Fashionable. Fingers and Toes.


The idle, fashionable woman has
taken to anew Diversion, She pol
ishes her nails. sol She extends her
hand TO You sWith great frequency
nowadays, aud with tho back up
ward and o theiu fingers 4. straight
ened out. ThatAis because she
wishes you to observe the nails,
which shine hike glass and are OF a
delicate pink hue. Who knows
what started this mania? Nobody
can ever discover the origin of such
things. The distemper breaks out
somehow, and then extends from
person to person. The New York
woman of leisure, whether she be
left in the city or Is 10 be found at
some near seashore resort, now
spends about four hours day at
work on her nails. Her tool is an ar
tlcle somewhat like the wooden han
dies or holders for blotting- paper
a narrow strip of ebony, ivory or
or India-rubber, with a knob on
one side and a surface of chamois
skin on the other. Some of these
pohshers are fancifully made, and
$40 is not an unusual price; but
cheap ones do the work as well, and
a home made article answers the
purpose. The best of them have q
device for handily fastening in
fresh strips of channels skin, but
lacks will do. The essentials are a
polishing substance and plenty of
industry. The mixture is sold in
the stores at a pretty high price,
and it has a beautiful name and Ia
bel, but is e. simple compound of
rottenstone, oil and rouge. Any
body can mix it for herself. The
stuff is daubed on the rubber, and
assiduous friction does the rest.
rhe rotten-stone and oil smooth
and polish the nails, just as metal,
bone and ivory are made to shine
by the workmen, and the rouge i'm
pBrts a pinkish color. The enthu
siastic industry displayed by the
women in this amusement Is won
derful. They rub, rub, by the hour,
in parties, making this en-
ployment take the place of nee
die work. There was once an
Old woman who scrubbed her
kitchen floor until she fell through
into the cellar, breaking her
back. Something like that will
happen to those nail polisbers, for
nails cannot thicken as fast as they
are now being secured away. The
is not all done on finger
nails. Oh, no. The toe-nails of
the bellies are besutified, too. What
is the use of spending time and la
Dor in making their toe-nails pink
and glossy? Well, some of them
have husbands, bear in mind. Time
was when the female bather hid the
corn, bunioDs and little unshapeli-
ness of her teet in slippers, or stuck
them out of sight into the sand
when not in the water. The at
Of the FURNISHED nails
are deemed by her to more than
compensate for any blemishes, and
so she takes pains TO show her feet.
The change is q marked feature In
The surf scenes, where thousands of
women are in tina water every after
noon. Many of them have been
seen sitting on the sand with Their
.oe-nsils proudly glistening in the
sun.
The increased attention to nails
las naturally extended to their
shape, and the greatest care is be-
slowed upon the matter OF cutting
hem. Long and narrow nails are
considered prettiest, and to give
them the desired proportion they
are trimmed somewhat to q point,
while at the roots the skin is
pushed and cut back as much as
possible. Gloves are not worn at
all; even at the full dress balls.
Mitts of all colors. from white
through The whitest hues to plain
black, extended from the elbows to
the knpckles, leaving the fingers ex-
posed. There is all the more reas-