Woman's chronicle. (Little Rock, Ark.) 1888-1???, 1888-11-24
there is gold, and here .
My bluest veins to kiss. hand that kings
Have lipp'd, and trembled kissing


Romeo speaks of "the white wonder of Juliet's
hand' and in all the ages poets have written and
musicians sung of woman's hand There IS moth
ing that so appeals to man galantry and chivalry
as a woman's hand if it be fair and well kept. The
hand of a sweetheart or wife is very dear to the
lover or husband, and | fancy many man who
reads this may remember other hands-hands per-
haps wrinkled, faded and lined with care and toll
for him, hands lying still and cold it may be over
dead breast-the hands of his mother.
The hand of your sweetheart, gentlemen, white
and soft and kissable-do you remember it? How
itused to appeal to you as it lay on your arm or
slipped into yours warm and beating You loved
it in its dainty Suede glove as you held it when you
were Waiting with her. What an electric thrill it
shot through you as you CHANGED to touch it. What
stealthy caresses you gave it when you were alone
-ah then how you kissed the soft palm until it
was as rosy as the blushing face above it.
The hand of your wife, gentlemen. DO you
ever kiss it? That perhaps is an impertinent ques-
ton. do not wish 10 penetrate domestic privacy.
AT all events you have great respect for the hand
that has helped you work. the hand that guides
the helm of your household the hand that can
dress fowl Or make a plum pudding; that can
run over the piano keys and play something sweet
and low when yeu are tired that can light your
cigar, or battle your head if you are ill.
Then there is the hand that rocks the cradle
well, we all know that it rules the world. So, then,
woman's hand is powerful factor as lots of small
boys can testify, in the social body. Let as con-
slider it bit. 1t is only within the last few years
that American ladies have begun to pay great at
tention to the care of the hand. AT the best they
were occasionally rubbed with glycerine or Indian
meal and vinegar, and the nails were kept cut down
close, in many cases bitten to the quick-a vile
habit.
With manicuring, which is now fine art and
with the science of palmistry, there has come an
era of revolution in the care of the hands. Ma
DANES hand is a delicious study now with its pink
nails and perfumed palm; small wonder if the
amateur male expounder of palmstry loves to
lnger over the dainty piece of flesh and blood.
Still often find women with wealth and plenty
of leisure who Go not pay the proper amount of
attention to their hands, and my eyes are often
offended by the ncongruity of fingers flashing with
jewels and tipped with unelean or bitten nails.
A year or two since | was spending some timen
a large country town. The ladies of that place
were stylish, fond of handsome gown and other
fnery. But they regarded my implements of
manicuring with contemplate utterly useless.
"The idea of spending so much time on your nails, }"
said one who wore no less than four handsome dia-
mond rings, and whose nails formed part of her
daily diet. "Why don't you bite them off as do?
It's lovely fun biting your nails"
Many women who spend all their spare money
buying remarkable bargains which they are no
more sure of ever using than Mrs. Toodles was Of
her doorpate, cry out that it's great waste of
money going to the Turkish bath, the shampooer
or manicure. Were l obliged to choose between
fine clothes and toilet Injuries, should decidedly
select the latter Edith Sessions Upper, in Chi
cago Herald.