Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1884-09-16
A PRETTY HAND.
How 1t Can lie Formed and How Ii
should Be Taken Care Of. .

should BE Taken Care Of. ;,
A writer in Denorcsfs Aioahiy says:
The time to form the hand, We are told,
is in youth. ANY mother may give her
daughter tapering fingers II she chooses to
take the trouble if she insists that there
shall be daily pinching Of the finger Ups,
slight, of course, while the flesh is soft and
Welding, and a nightly wearing OF steel
thimbles. The latter is rather heroic
treatment. and possibly to save us from this
barbarous torture have been introduced in
this country all the artistic devices Of the
Partisan manicure in the management,
DEVELOPMENT and cultivation of the fingers
and nails. The finger tips are first put to
soak in delicately colored finger bowls half
full of tepid water, slightly perfumed
After twenty minutes Of patient waiting,
the operator takes one hand, and with an
ivory blade CT dull-pointed steel one, he
loosens and pushes back the cuticle from
the nail the object being to expose the
halt-moon at the base, which is usually
covered. When the flesh is well loosened,
all the superHuous part is cut away with
rair of scissors, curved expressly for the
purpose. The nails are then trimmed
fine oval shape, a little longer than and
about the shape of the finger After
filing, a channels poiisher and powder are
used until the nails shine The polishing
ia followed by thorough washing and
brushing in warm water. and then again
the nails are rubbed, this time by the
manicure's bare hand For this process,
which lasts about an hour, you pay dollar
or dollar and a half. A visit twice a week
to manicure viii keep the nails in
high state Of polish and beauty; but this is
hardly necessary, for with due care at
home with a file, i chamOi5 po!ishor, and
powder which comes put up in a dainty
case, one may take very good care Of her
nails. The number Of these toilet prepa-
rations under seductive names which the
mani2ureS have prepared is hewildering.
A case complete in It's appointments would
contain lockwood nail-poiisher, nail
file and scissors, powder, cosmetic for
tinting the nails zantic for bleaching
them and to remove fruit and ink-stains,
panza "a cream to soften and whiten the
hands,, and a preparation warranted to
cure biting the nails. But we do not find
any recipe fer making taPering fingers, 80,
perhaps, we shall be obliged 70 resort to
the old-fashioned mode of wearing hard
thirlbles, and if we cannot have the " ro-
fessional powders and cosmetics for our
hands, there are various simple methods
for making the hands soft, smooth and
white Cold cream or glycerinc well
rubbed in and protected ty pair Of old
gloves, worn over night, are the usual rem
edies buJ elycerine il poison for some
hands, making them more rough and
chapped than they were before It's Use In
this case the following Is preparation
which might be used to advantage: The
yelks OF two fresh ergs beaten with two
tesspooniuls OF the oil of sweet almonds,
one ounce Of roaewater and thirty-six drops
OF tiucture Of henzoin. Make a paste Of
this and either anoint the inside surface Of
4 pair Of gloves with it, or spread it freely
on the hands and draw the gloves on after
ward. In most eases all that Is needed to
soften the hands is to rub sweet almond
oil INTO the akin two or three days in sue
ce~s0n The hands are always improved
by wearing at night gloves that fit tightly,
especially If the gloves are of soft castor or
do4sliu Following il a European recipe
for whitcniu- the hands: Take one-haif
pound OF soft soap, o gill of salad oil, IN
ounce OF mutton t.iIow, and boil together;
after the boiling ceases add one gill of al
oohol and 4 scruple Of ambergris. Take
psir Of gloves three sizes too large, open
them and spread the inner surface with
paste, then seH them up and they can he
worn at night Rubbing the hands well
with almond oil each night, and pIastering
them with as much me 1hal. Is they can
take. viii usually Written them IN three
DAYS time # they are not past all hope