The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1889-11-13
FINE FEMALE HANDS.
POINTS ON THE CARE OF NAILS
And FINGERS.

Something About Gloves, Too-Spirituai
Reparation - Famed Murderesses =
Women and Books.
A beautiful and faultless hand is a
more rare and unusual gift than a
beautiful face, and now that the fashion
able young woman is expected to display
q very mannish disregard OF the dellcacy
and whiteness of her fingers n to blister
and burn them through the summer
months playing all manner of outdoor
games guiltless of gloves, their ugliness
presents quite a FORMIDABLE problem when
the return to the frivolities n fluff OF
civilization demands a sudden trans
formation from summer to
| winter snow and sOftnesS. A pair OF
brown strong hands claSped about a canoe
paddle or welding q tennis racket with
strength and skill as well, presents q
more charming picture to the masculine
mind thar those same brown hands
folded in idle grace over the frills OF a
dainty house dress III looking all the
darker and coarser in contrast; and the
tender u OF a woman'S hand never
could arouse any of the ecstatic thrills
which the new school of noyelists delight
in depicting ii the hand was hard with
c~allouses, rough with half healed b~listers,
| and the impression conveyed strangely
| suggestive of the caress of a crater.
No; q woman's hand, to be the thing of
beauty the Creator designed it to be,
should have a delicacy of coloring. q slen-
derness of outline and a touch like the
sweep of a butterfy's wing against the
breast of a rose. Besides, al ungainly,
i'll kept hand is lk bad grammar-hard-
ly reconciliable with the idea of gentility.
It is hardly possible to materially change
the shape of our hand, but it is said that,
if small, tapering thimbles be put upon a
growing 1child's fingers each night and
held in place by tight gloves OF kid, that
it will, If persisted in a number of years,
make them slender and shapely. Few
people, especially those young enough to
be affected by it, would submit to this
| treatment, and it is hardly w~araantable,
as a white, blue veined hand, with nicely
polished nails, is a delight to the eye,
| while it's shape may be Il is an index to
the owners character which he who runs
may read.
OF course ever lady keeps her hands
clean. and it is hardly necessary to men
ton that perfect cleanliness is the first
| requisite to a soft and white hand. This
cleanliness is only brought about by two
or three daily scrubbings with a brush,
and with the vigor usual applied to re-
move the CRIME from the little fist of the
p~roverbially small boy. No matter how
dainty may be your occupation, the water
used should be warm, not hot, and the
soap be generous in quantity n purest
of the pure in quality. There are several
e1iicacious remedies for whitening the
hands used by their advocates and in
ventors. One is the use of lemon juice
and glycerine; another which is. very
highly recommended is Indian meal and
glycerine, and still another is the country
girls lotion, sour buttermilk, whose acid
ran,0uoc stain and GunhIJrn and whose
oil is peculiarly beneficial in making the
skin soft and smooth. Any preparation
used at night is more efficaciouS il kid
gloves are worn. and perhaps no wiser
and less harmful process can be suggested
than the careful cleansing through the
day with warm water and CASTLE soap,
and the application at night of rose
water and glycerine covered with kid or
rubber gloves.
Handsome nails, which display a cres-
cent of white at the base and a delicate
pint tint throughout, are as much q gift
as the poets genius or the artists skill,
but one visit to the manicure will enable
you to see how even the most ugly n e
may be attractive and pleasing If nice
care is taken to trim away the rough skin
at the base, which should never be don
without first soaking them in warm
water. to file the edges in a smooth curve,
following the outlines of the finger tip,
ana TO polish the SuTIdCc every Qdy. ITOD-
ably an hour each week devoted to the
care of the nails, with a little time spent
each day in polishing and cleaning them
carefully, will keep them in nice order,
and they should never be cleaned with
any kind of a sharp instrument, as that
roughens the surface so that they retain
the dust which drifts under them.
1t is said by salesladies in glove stores
that a lady who can wear a No. 5 glove is
as unusual as one who wears a No. 10
shoe, and that a large hand looks better
smaller gloyed in a mousquetaire of IN
dressed kid, because of the loose folds
about the wrist, and that tight sleeves are
as unbecoming to a large hand, whether
gloyed or %ungloved, as low heels to a long
foot.
+. Very GhostIy.
Tales of ghostly happenings, even al
though they be but the veriest coinci-
dence, are always attractive. A lady
who was a widow, and whose husband
loJ haoD dafrardn6 INV hic nnrtnop oamn