The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1883-08-21
New York Letter.
HANDSOME HANDS, SOME IN
TERESTING FACTS On THE
SIB.BElE.

"Small hands" said one of the sales
ladies at Twenty-third street store, care
plentiful in New York, but there are.
many fashionable ladies who have never
done days work in their lives who have
large hands, although they may be
shapely and white'
"What lady among your customers
has the smallest hands ?" queried the re-
porter.
well, l don't know that can tell ex-
actly. There is one lady who comes here
regularly twice a month for gloves. She
can wear a easily, but she always in
sists on squeezing her hand into a No 5,
which makes them look mis-shapen."
"What is considered a small hand?"
swell, hand that wears a No.
glove, or a 81, is considered small No
81 or 81 are fair sized; but any larger
sized glove is-well, isn't desirable Pto-
pie wearing smaller gloves than No
are as unusual as ladies who wear No. 10
shoes"
"Does a thin or fat hand look best wher.
gloved 2"
Oh, thin hand, by all means Why,
a hand that is positively repulsive when
ungloved looks ever so much smaller and
very shapely in tight-ftting kid. You
know that undrcssed kid gloves fit more
perfectly than the dressed kid They
cling to the hand, and the tips of tie
fingers fit smoothly. Another thing abo,l.
gloves which is of interest to the ladies is
this: If lady has very long fingers, let
her never get a glove with fingers as long
as her own, or the hands will look very
large. 1t is curious, but true Long fin.
gers look beautiful on the ungloved hand,
but not pretty at all in gloves"
" Is there any other way of making the
hand appear small %
Yes. several. One way is to wrinkle
the glove about the wrist. Another, to
have the sleeves ruffied. A tight, plain
sleeve is very trying to large hand, you
know, like low heels to long foot"
The reporter visited an artist to learn
wha: was artistically considered beau
tiful hand The artist, an N. A. d., was
seated in his studio contemplating a
sketch of the bridge.
"Mr. S." said the reporter" what do
you consider beautiful hand ?''
"Well," he replied, without turning his
eyes from the sketch, "you know the
Greeks are considered to be the most per.
tectly formed of any of the human race,
and all their statues are modelled after 81
certain measure-plan, which you may not
believe, but if you measure nine people
out Of ten you will find the measures
pretty nearly correct. Now, I'll tell YOU
about it if you want to hear"
"All right" said the reporter, sinking
into French chair with a Madonn;t
painted on the back"
"Well, first off," began Mr.. s.. "thc
measurement from the tip of the middie
fingers across from hand to hand when the
arms are held horizontally should be ex-
actly the same of the height of the person;
the waist twice as far around as the neck;
the neck twice as large as the wrist, and
the wrist twice as large as the thumb.
Then the face should be exactly as long
as the hand, measuring from the wrist,
bone to the tip of the centre finger. So
you can find out if your hand is rightly
proportioned. The face should be divided
into three equal parts, one division coru-
ing to the eyebrow, and the second to the
nostrlls. and the third to the end of the
chin'
But are all beautiful hands of the same
width ?"
"No. You know there are two kinds
of hands--the soldier hand, which is
shapely but broad, and the clerical hand.
which is long and slender" !
The reporter sauntered into a chiropo-
dist's on Fourteenth street to get his i;leas
on hands "Finger-nails," he said, ! arc
the greatest give-away on people who pre-
tend to true blood. In every case eau
warrant you the hand is strong index Of