The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1881-08-19

Handsome Hands.
All admire pretty hands, and yet how
few are the happy possessors of them.
The principal causes OF an imperfect
hand Is the abuse and neglect of them
while young. Neglecting the nails or
tipping them too closely gives the hands
q stubby look, that all the care in after
years cannot remedy. If children could
be taught while young that the hand was
of due Importance with the teeth, and
that the same care must be bestowed
upon them, there would be fewer homely
hands upon grown mp people. Many
people, who are fastidious in all other
parts of the toilet, often ignore the hand.
except by washing it and keeping the
nails clean. There are those who sleep
in gloves to keep the hands soft, bat
this is habit not conducive to health,
as the hands have breathing places as
well as the rest of the body.
To soften the hands, fill a wash basin
half full of fine white sand and soapsuds
as hot as can be borne. Wash the hands
In this five minutes at time, brushing
and rubbing them In the sand. The
best is flint sand, or the VIII te powdered
quartz sold for filters. 1t may be used
repeatedly by pouring the water out and
| adding fresh. To keep it from blowing
about rinse in warm lather of fine soap.
After drying the hands rub them with
dry bran or corn meal. Dust them, and
finish by rubbing cold cream well into
the skin. This effectually removes the
roughness caused ny Homework, and
should be used every day, first removing
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ways rub the spot with cold cream or
oil after using acid on the fingers. The
cream supplies the place of the natural
oil of the skin, which the acid removes
with the stain.
Many form their children's hands in
youth by keeping small taporing Thin
bleS on their fingers while asleep. This
| gives the fingers the tapering shape that
is deemed so necessary and that is looked
upon many as an evidence of aristocratic
birth. These are not painful, nor annoy
ing, and where is the maiden who would
not in after years be grateful to the
mother who had taken SO much pains to
have her possess beautiful hand.
Sweet almond oil rubbed into the skin
viii soften them, and plastering them
with as much fine chalk as they can take
on going to bed, three nights in sue
cesssion, will whiten the hands in three
days time. Rubbing the hands with a
slice of raw potato will remove vegeta-
BILE stains.
The avoidance OF placing the hands in
extreme temperatures of water will
quickly render them soft. Always wash
ing the hands in tepid-not warm
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three drops of glycerine over them
previous to drying with towel, will
prevent roughness and redness of the
skin. If the glycerine has little rose
water in it, it is better for some skins,
for, to many, pure glycerine only in
lures the skin. A free use of glycerine
in warm weather imparts yellow tinge
to the skin.
Be very careful OF the soaps used.
Cheap soaps are not fit for the toilet
they dry and crack the skin and are of.
ten dangerous If there is an abrasion OF
the skin. The pure white CASTLE soar
is said to be one of the best and purest
for the skin, and though somewhat ex.
pensive 1t lasts long time, much longer
than the cheaper soaps. Carbolic and
tar soaps are good for the skin but their
perfume is against them. Oatmeal
sand, palm-oil, glycerine, all are used
and by many much liked. Lettuce SOAP
is one of the finest made but very ex
pensive.
The shape of the nails is very signifi
cant. The slender, tapering nail of 9
rosy pink line, with shell-like, trans
parent edge, denotes refined nature
Broad, stubby nails indicate coarssness,
though often great good nature, aud the
slender, tapering nail is often the &C.
compartment of shrewish and quick
temper. The best appliance is mai
brush used In water softened by the
addition of little borax and really fine
toilet SOAP In well-brushed and we'll
cared-for nails the little curtain-like rim
which surrounds them is well pushe,
or rolled back, displaying generally
delicate little crescent at the root
The skin of the finger should never b,
allowed to grow up on the nail. In par
ing and thinning the shape given should
always be as long an oval as possible
The corners should be carefully anc
closely cut, and the center left rather
long, so as to give the long, oval shape. II
cleaning the knife should never scraps
off the inner substance of the nail, a
this render the edge Opaque and mudd,
in appearance, whereas il should l.,
transparent.
Paper for Dishes.
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