Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1885-08-09
ACTRESSES HANDS,
The Long and Short, the Lean and Fat,
the Muscular and the Dlmpled.
CbirdgO Nail

The Long and Short, the Lean and Fat,
the Muscular and the Dlmpled.
Chicago Mail.
Clara Morris has long, wlry, rheumatic
baud, the fingers slender and nervous, and,
though well formed, seem constantly reach
ing out for the unsttsinable; and, as might
De expected, are always stained with some
hing yellow, as iodine, but she has pretty
pink, shell-like nails and smallbonei wrists.
There is nothing beautiful about Mrs.
Langtry's hands, which are not as pretty as
might be expected, but they are pAtriciau,
each finger being well mooned
Rosa Coghlan has darling little dimpled
hands, such IS you might expect 10 fud on
l6.year-old dairy maid. They are brown
as a berry, and CHEEKY and hospitable.
Ellen Terry's are skinny, bony, and con-
sunptive. They are hungry looking, such
as one might imagine Oliver Twist possessed
of.
Adelina PATHS hands are the oldest part
# her body. They are however, shap9Iy
nd receive the utmost attention, and ar,
mall enough to be squeezed into No.
dove.
The Lord never sent bigger pair Of
hands 10 any woman on earth than those
belonging 10 Ada Rehan. They are as
large as ploughman's. and cover as much
space as the hand OF Providence. The
muscles are strong and prominent on the
hack and scanned with veins The palm Is
o definitely marked with lines that palm.
list would have no trouble in setting forth
her future. The Snuckles kuotted and
gnarled, like the Jumps on well-sroWn
grapevine, the fingers long, thick and strong
For all they are so masculine in compost
ZION, q winter pair it would be difficult to
find. The fuger nails are superbly kept,
and cultivated in the most artistic manner,
slistening like sea shells; every moon is
well defined and has polish eqlal to the
Uranium of a La Sale street commission
merchant. Strange as it may seem, she
handles them with superb grace. They
are never in the way.
Sarah Jewett has pretty, soft, doil-oaoy
hands, which are moro charming when be-
ing forced into fge-an8a-quarter kid
glove.
Modieskes hands wo1ld not be called
pretty, but they ore round, well formed, and
can keep still longer than the same anatomy
of any woman in or out of society. They
are like their mistress, always in q reVcrIe
of repose. 80
Scalchi has large, expressive, wellformed
hands that might give q warm, close grip, or
bury a sword to the hilt in the heart OF
toe.
The broad, plant, white appendage at
'ached TO Fanny Davenport hsnjsome arm
insinuates an unusual capacity for spanking
unruly infan.s, but does nothing more ardu-
GUS than smooth the silken coat OF her pet
'errier.
Materna has a great biz, good.natured
hand, as generous and open as thu day, and
xhich does your heart good. On the con.
trary Mary Anderson's cold, clammy hand
les on yours like bunch Of Jelly fish, only
without the string, it being like the posses
sor, too severely proper for that sort Of thing
It lies passive until you release II, which you
must do quickly.
Minnie Maddern's hands partake OF her
,wn impulsive earnest life, and seems al.
yays looking for something to do. When
he shakes hands she frankly gives her whole
,and with a pressure that is indicative o
incerity and confidence, and makes you
gsBt TO retain It.
Nine Gerster has fat uothcrly hands, but
Phen they claap you're you imagine she must
belong to free masonry.
SOPHIE Evre's hands are ample aud IA,
,hsh, flexible and shspely and though vel
cared for she has too much good taste to
.poil them By cultivating the long pointed
| finger nails so much in vogue among &C
,resses They are trimmed off in round,
oval form, and it is said that there are very
lew things that woman should do that these
hands do not.
Farsch. Mahdi has also large, strong hands
almost heroic in construction, and not only
graceful on the keys of piano, but equally
20 on a piece of embroidery, patchaork, or
| Knitting stockings used by her father.
Emma Abbots hands are very, very pref
~. dimpled at every joint and soft as piece
Of velvet. They get little tiresome, though,
for she has the very dissgreea5le habit OF
putting them on you during conversation.
MARGARET Mathers are slender and as
small and graceful as can be found on the
stage. and, more than that, she makes
study of effective gestures.
Aimee's seem foreshortened, are broad
,bick and hard. as though doing household
drudgery for thirteen children.
Theo's are not beautiful, but never I'M
graceful, their good behavior being due TO
he fact that she studies her glass BY the
hour, and her pretty gestures are the result
Of training.