The Iowa plain dealer. [volume] (New Oregon, Howard County, Iowa) 1867-1895, 1883-08-23
HANDSOME HANDS,
Small HanGs ana How to Display
T',cm--Irov Squeezing Injuries the

Small HANDS and How to Display
T',cm--IEow Squeezing Injuries tn.
Mnuckies.
Chicago Tribune.
"Small hands, said ono Of the salesladiea
at Twenth-thrl street stora, ARE plentiful
IN New York, but there are many fashion
able ladies' who hayo never done dayi
work In their lives who have large hands, al
though they may be shapely and whitc.n
What lady among Your customers has
the smallest hanls.a anaricd the reporter.
Well don't know that Gun tell exactly.
There is one lady who comes here regularly
twice month for gloves She can wear q
81 easily, but size always insists on squeezing
Der hands into No 5, which makes then
lock YiShapcn."
.Wiiat il considered . small hanlw
well, q hani that wears Il No. glove or
a I'd - considered small. No. g., or ca are
fair sized;hut any larger sized glove is-wcll.
isn't desirable. People wearing smaller
gloves than Nd. 6 are as unusual as ladies
who wear No. II shoes"
docs q thin or fat hand look best wker
gioseif
"Oh, thin hani, by all moans. Why, d
iaani that is positively repulsive when I'M
g'oted looks ever 50 much smaller and YER,
shapo!y in a tight-fitting kill. Yor know tia.
nntrsssed Kid gloves lit more perfectly than
tne dressed kid. They cling t. The haaa ar9
the tips If the fingers fit smoothly. Another
thing about gloves which is of interest to the
Indies is this: Ii a lady has very long fingers,
let hor never get glove with fingers as long
rs her own. Of the nanls will look very large
u Il curious, but tru,. Long fingers iool
beantifnl on tho nagloyci hand, but not
pretty at all in gloves"
as there any other way of making tile
hands appear s.nii,'
Eyes, several. Ono way is to wrinkle the
glove about the wrist. 4 tight plain sleeve
Is very trying to large hand, you know,
like low heels t. 4 long foot
The reporter saunterea into ehiropodists
Oh Fourteenth street TO get his ideas or
hands. Finger nails,n said he, "ara the
greatest giveaway on people who pretend K
true blood In every case can warrant 70,
the hand is a true index to character. Why
the electricity IN peoples hands is remark
able. Some ladies whose nails beantify TO,
81 you know. why, they send shocks right
through me; reg uiar electric batteries, CIR
tell you. E1lt u como down to solid fact,
hansc'y rail spoi's The Ia nd, no matter how
beautiful it may lie otherwise"
Naat do You consider perfect nailn
asked Tic reporter
Just this, sir. A long. oval-shaped mil
coming half way down between the top q.
tho finger and tho first joint: anl to BE cui
properly the TOP eni should 10 exactly tin
same shape As the upper pat If the naii--s
Perfect Oval; and il should grow no lonecr OF
s.ostsr than just to come to the tip Of thu
finger"
s.Rut notice, sad the reporter. s'that
many ladies' and geatleme wear their naiis
very long and chi - 4 narrow 2eint.n
Rarharaas, sir, s;.a.iy bar.arous. Il
they Only knew Low inueh Ike birds claws
such nails looked they would stop it. Bct i,
Is useless 70 fight against fashion. Ono might
Is we'll try IT, coax tn sun t. stop rising
a prominent doctor Ill this city toll the re-
porter that great many women, and rner
too, poisoned Themselves by using powder fol
their hands, or similar mixtures.
The hest thing in the worli' said he
"sna also tho simplest for making the han.ii
Wits i Ial:an meal III / glycereiae. II the
hills are washed il the ,aeaI twice Il t.aY
and then glycerinai, it is almost impossible
for them not to be white and smooth
\ fashionable girl said to tho reporter:
You can say if you want to, and ii You
promise faithfully not to give even an idea
Of my name, that it is dangerous to Let any
one siucez" y~ur hand too often or too hard
rs 1t enlarges the knacklas more than yoa
would imagine. Just look az my right hand
Now at this pretty left one.n
The reporter was canvinc cd.