Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-01-16
II FIryOER-NAILS.
What tho king Girl with
Bangs and Blue Eyes Said.

w AA@S e4N &NASO AL VaS
Bangs and Blue Eyes Said.
A ~nice-looking young lady with
brown bangs and blue eyes sat in q
pleasant Penn avenue parlor yester-
day afternoon, says the Pittsburg Dis
patch, holding tho hand of a we'll
known society man. Before her stood
a colored boy in brass buttons with a
number of MISUNDERSTANDING ins.ru-
ments. The lady was a New York
manicure who recently opened BUSH
ness in this city. When the young
mans finger-tips had been pared and
polished and his elegant presence re-
moved a reporter asked:
"Do you have many gentlemen
among your customersP"
"Oh. yes. | have had about twenty
in the few weeks / have been here, and
fully Il dozen of these now como regu-
larly. A funny thing, though, is that
they don't wish Il known that they en-
ploy the service of a manicure. They
seom to think it is cffeminate. | sup
pose il is because there has never been
a manicure here before. In eastern
cities we have almost as many gentle
men as ladies among our customers,
and nothing is thought of it,"
"Do you find much work here?"
"a great deal. l have only boon
here about five weeks. and / have
nearly ali l can do, My trade SO far
is almost entirely from the east end.
.DJ ,p, tnly shnk 4 aa. ,Ln G.,% 1900.
cure in P~iitsburg, and that the service
OF one has long been needed. ! have
twenty-five or thirty ladies who come
to mo regularly once # week now"
"Do the hands need that much at
tontion from q m~anicure?"
Indeed they do. ! prefer that my
regular customers do nothing with
their nails 1t all. Few understand how
to cut thoir naiit in the first place. A
knife or Il scissors sheuld never be
used. | trim and shape the nail with a
small file, and then carefully smooth
down and bevel the ~rorghened edges
with emery board, which keeps them
from breaking and trains them in SYM
metricai growth. Another important
point when people neglect their nails
les in allowing the skin TO grow out on
the base of tho nail. This should be
carefully pushed back with a blunt in
strunent at least once g week. | soak
the hands OF my customers in tepid
water g few minutes before l do this,
so as to soften the cut;culo. This is
necessary as otherwise it is liable to
break. 1t requires great care, as the
base of the nail, which is very sensi-
tive, may be bruised, or the delicate
edge OF the skin broken. Another
place where care is needed is at the
sides Of the nail, where it leaves the
fingers. Lack OF attention to this
either bardens the end of the finger or
produces the untidy and painful hang
nails which disf.eure so many hands.
Ia fling the nails the file should always
be drawn from the finger and toward
the end Of tho nail"
"What are TIE hardest things TO
overcome In operating on hands that
have been neglected."
There are several things. Mothers
sometimes mako n practice OF cutting
their children's nails almost square
with IA pair of scissors. That bardens
the end Of the finger, producing "A mis-
shepea n&il. IL can be overcome, how
ever. in time. By fling the nail from,
the side it M be narrowed by degrees
To that filtert-shape which is consid-
cred the height OF beauty. The finger
will still Do blunt, but even that win be
remedieG TO some extent. Then we
have the people who bite their finger
nails of close. They are hard custom
ers 10 deal with. G'he hail is def0rmed
ana brittle, ard care has te be taken in
dealing with it. Manicaros use g
preparation To stop the biting. AND
then correct tho other detects by de-
grees.'
with whom do you have your best
tradeo"
well, here, so far. il mas been most
" with society ladies; have had very
few customers from the working classes
| yet. Suppose that as because,they have
not learned that there is a manicure in
the city. In2Jew York. however, we
treated fully as many working girls
that is, those who did work hard and
wearing upon the hsnds-as acy other.
The hands of such persons must of ne
| cessity be hard to keep in order, but
there is no one who appreciates the
| beauty CT a nice hand and pretty nails
more than they. That makes them
| good customers, too, for they az preci-
| ate how much YOU do for them"