The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-09-07
The Care or the Hands.

10 make the ingernails strong and
long, take the yelk ola hard boiled egg
and two drachms Of pure white wax;
melt the wax and add a few drops Of
almond oil to it, then mix in the yelk of
the egg until Tho paste is made. Pc. the
paste, and rub the nails every night
with it, of course wearing gloves. This
will make the nails strong and pliable at
the same time. To make them soft, if
they are too brittle, rub them with cold
cream and YEA gloves. For chilplaius
on the hands or feet, here is y most ex-
Gel ent receipt from the pen Of a cele-
brated Partisan doctor, which will be
found to succeed af er a few applications;
Take a piece OF alum, about the size Of a
nut, and melt itin enough hot water to
cover the hands. When the alrm is
melted, soak your hands in the LIQUID
for nearly a quarter Of an hour; then
cover your hands at once with gloves,
which you keep on all night, and as
long as you can dnriug the day. Repeat
this morning and night. The best SOAP
for the hands is almond soap. Always
select a white soap. as colors are some
times dangerous. You may make your
almond soap by melting a piece of
curd soap, adding the same quantity of
powdered almonds to it; and if you also
put a teas poonful of Dismuth, mixing
the whole we'll together. you have a
soap and cosmetic all in one. Another
excellent hand soap may be made by
melting a piece of white curd soap, adj
ding the same quantity OF glvcerine.
quantity of powdered almonds, honey
and almond oil.-An,erican Queen.
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Evolution by Corsets.
Many women entertain theories as to
how their figure may be improved, but
few care to record their methods in a
public newspaper. The deplorable re-
suit is that many hundreds grow up just
as nature fashioned them, with waists as
monstrous in size as that of the Venus
de Medici. 1t is therefore a matter of
congratulation that quite a number of
mothers have unbosomed themselves in
the columns of the Toronto Mail. One
mother defends the use of stays, stoutly
holding that nothing is crushed or
broken" She says: +
At most, some ofthe organs are slight
ly displaced, and the stomach is prevent
ed d~istending, as it does in 9 out of 20
Of those who do not lace. From the
time was seven years of age until now
q! am 26) ! have been constantly in
1ightly laced stays, aridI have not suf-
tered a weeks illnessin my life. I have
10 good bust and shoulders, but l only
wear l9-inch corsets, and do you think
when my little girl is old enough 1 will
be deferred bv theories from putting
her in corsets? Indeed, L will not. On
har CO 1,nrtb hirtllnr T rr,n -.
and in addition to whatever charms she
may possess of feature, 1 am determined
she shall have the charm Of q good fig
ure. 1l# -
But her mother, inspired with visions
ola perfect form for her daughter, met
with the most absurd and unexpected
obstacles, her child's mind evidently
having been poisoned by vicious litera-
ture. The chronicle Of the parents
is truly touching and such as might we'll
cause hearts of stone to melt and run:
have had a great deal of trouble
with my daughter, of Is. She had read
al q ss against corsets and refused to be
lacrd. | punished her severely several
times, but she still persisted in cutting
the aces at night. 1 finally encased her
IN . 'tight-fitting, heavily bound pair of
stays. Its no use, mamma" she said;
'Sh tney pun me tO'nlsut IL nave
TO cut the laces.V When undressed 1
fastened her wrists behind her back and
10 kept them att day except at meal
tsn'es and while at the piano, and so for
o. attire week I kept ner in bondage
She has not removed the stays since.
We could have no better evidence of
growth Of the insubordinate spirit among
the young. Time was when children
dld not presume to override authority,
but to-day the essence of nihilism has
sunk down to the very corset strings Of
the schoolgirl, and unless the heroic
work now being done by some of the
mothers of Canada is continued, stays
will be q thing of the past, and the
very lsrge busts and very small waists a