Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1884-07-03
and rosy, as, at the same time, it should
be STRONG Sunnle and useful


be strong, supple and useful.
4 soft hand is very comforting to the
sick: a sick child loves the soft. cool
hand of his mother on his fevered brow,
and as a constant poultice for his aches
and pains. As an object to kiss. q
white and well-kept hand was very i'm
portant. The kiss of mere respect was
formerly imprinted on the hand; it is a
Continental fashion still, and a very
pretty one, between a nephew and his
aunt, son to his grandmother, a young
friend who is grateful, gentleman who
has not seen lady for long time. OF
one who comes to comfort the afflicted.
The hand is, after all, the m, st natural
member to salute. The nerves of touch
are most highly developed on the fin
gers, and the charm of the hand is its
grasping power, which enables the
giver to denote every shade of cordial
ty, to vary the salute at pleasure. There
is everything in the hand. There is q
cunning free-masonry in all society," and
the mode of taking, grasping and shak-
ing the hand varies with every two hui
man beings. If only two fingers art
laid in the hand, and no prehersile
thumb completes the maneuver, fare
well to cordially. If a strong hant
catches weak one, and gives it EriE
which mashes the bones, farewell t.
friendship. Let the hand-shake bt
warm, cordial and gentle, the jastf
n:tiieu of salutation.
The etiquette OF Misunderstanding is i'm
pie. No man should assume to take 3
lady's hand until it is offered. A lady
extends her hand, and allows the gen.
tleman to take it. On introduction in 6
room a married lady generally shakes
hands; young ladies not often. In the
ballroom, where the introduction is for
dancing, not for friendship, never shake
hands. The more public the place O.:
introduction the less Misunderstanding
takes place. 1t is the privilege of SUI.
perior to offer the hand first.
The French rarely shake hands, and
only with intimate friends. They give
the left hand. which is nearest the
heart: la MAR du crur they call it..
The most cordial way of shaking hands
is to give both at once; but this is unu.
sual. There is no doubt that some O.:
the accomplishments are trying to the
beauty of tie hand. The harp, the
guitar and the either are all very Sc
we're on the fingers, and produce cal.
lous on each. But this can be overcome,
and will not after time make the hand
unlovely.
The Irish peasantry, who labor from
the cradle to the grave, almost univer
sally have shaped hands. Ii
is Milesiau trait. Whether potatoes,
poor living, togtrotting and damp eli
mate improve the hand we know not,
but the Irish lass has well-formed and
Il pretty hand. They are ll-hand.
ed people, no matter how much they
wash, iron, cook or dig. The English,
on the contrary, are people of big
knuckleS; so are the Scotch.
The American hand is not beautiful:
1t is too sinewy The trouble with the
American hand is, first, that there is too
much of it; it is too thick in the palm;
the veins stand out. The skin is tender,
easily chapped in winter, easily tanned
in summer, and does not grow well
about the nails. The American nail is
dry and chips easily. Here the English
man surpa ses us. perhaps by the care
he takes of his nails; they are always
in tirst-rate order, clipped and cleaned
and cared for in the most dainty fashion:
and, doubtless owing to the damp eli,
mate, they are of less brittle substance.
Travellers over the alkaline plains de-
clare that the dry air breaks the nails,
destroys their resistant power. Some
thing of that affiicts the American nail
everywhere.
There are exceptions to this rule.
There are well-formed, white, model
hands in America, but they are not COM
mon, and if our women do not take care
of the hand and study its beauty, there
will be fewer handsome hands in the
future. For this dryness of the skin,
and for the softening OF cuticle,. there
are various unguents, and the univer-
sal vaseline better than anything keeps
them from chapping and breaking the
skin. Some people in winter suffer SC
much from chapped haads that their
wounds perpetually bleed.
Men seem to take better care of their
hands than women do in this age of the
world. The Prince of Wales has
brought rings into fashion, and the pro-
pensity to uncover the hand at evening
parties seems to make the modern beau
very careful of his hands He drives,
rows, plays lawn tennis and Banmin.
ton, baseball and cricket, in thick dog.
skin gloves. He covers his hands from
the cold and from the sun, and then he
goes with them uncovered to bail.
heavily ornamented with rings, anG
with his nails fresh and rosy as the
morn, just from the manicure The
young woman, on the contrary, exposes
her hand to wind and sun and rain; she
hardens it with the reckiessness of q
rizehghter: she boasts of its leathern
tint, and then she covers it up when she
goes to ball.
This is not the way her predecessor
belle has done in any age of the world
Queens have taken care of their hands
(and curiously the hands of royal fam
lilies are generally very handsome in
shape and color.) 1.-The hand of 8
duchess has passed into pro erb.
The old novelists took care to give theil
heroines white hands to swear by. The
poets are de, oted to white hands, we'll
shaped and expressive hands.
But young girls, who are poetry and
romance combined. have elected to al
low their hands to grow brown ani