St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-07
HANDS TO Be HELD.
The Ends Of Arms as They
Are Observed in st.
Paul.
Hands Ornamentednby Nails
That May Be Used
Variously.
Hands That Indicate Char
aeter, According to
Palmistry.
Hands That Are Invineible
and Hands All Over
Knobs.

The first hand of which history gives
any account was that which had hold Of
Adam. BY it the first sin of humanity
was committed; but this is not setting
forth that the devil had anything to do
in designing it. 1t is presumed, OF
course, that Adam plucked the forbid
den fruit in the garden of Eden, with
his hand: at least there is no history
which sold is III st. Paul bookstores
these days which tells US that
he used his feet. If he had
he would probably have spoiled
the apple. In those days, before towels
were used, and before the Republicans
used Democratic campaign dodgers for
shaving pads, and the game of base ball
was only designed, but never executed,
the ladies and gentlemen then living in
primitive habits and culture, rather
wild and rugged, like
A DAKOTA COUNTY MINISTER,
were very simple in the care of so i'm
portant and indispensable members of
the human body. When washing either
the hands or the feet, instead of rub
bing them down with Turkish bath tow
els, channels skin saturated with eX-
tract of squash, or powdered
cloths, they used to hang them
up in the Sun-So tradition
has it. When there was yet good deal
of strife and misunderstanding about
how things should be done, those who
kept boarding houses and grub found
rieS used to wear their nails as matter
of protection and defense. Nowadays,
the nails are worn as an ornament,
some men, and even women, too, con-
sidering it requisite to high breeding
and pure culture to allow their nails to
become sort of moss agate on the tips.
This moss agate business is all very
we'll for Minneapolis or ShakOpee, but
St. Paul society has lately issuedan edict
which compelS its devoteeS to discard the
unsightly feature of the toilet. There
is nothing more useful than one of those
hands. You can sign notes with them
and steal rhubarb out OF your neigh
boris garden; you can hold stakes
between two amateur base ball clubs,
or you can rock the baby or poison your
neighbours cat. Some peoples hands
are light, that is they have weakness
for lighting on any thing the eye might
see, while others have hands so heavy
they cannot keep them off. Then,
some persons have shapely and really
beautiful hands, while others have
hands characteristic of the camefs back.
Those who have very large, healthy
hands, which look as though they had
been raised with the board of directors
of fertilizing company, or out in the
asparagus orchard, where the sun fell
thick, hot and fast, are always abashed
when they Internationally stumble into
the elite department of our good mid
dle-clasS society. Men who are unWlll-
ing attached to such hands,
FREQENTLY SIT ON THEM
to hide their awkward eXtremities,
while they are introduced to the hostess
at whose house SOiree is merrily rag
ing. Such roughly handled men are
usually numbered on the entree regis
ter as "subs" in case of the death
of society swell, who knew
better than to practice such barbariSm.
A good, honest hand, open to all en-
gagements, from meeting friend at
the union depot on the Fourth to draw
ing your stepbrother's salary, need not
be gloved, and should be worn nude.
Besides, nude hands were the first, and
have been the most fashionable and
popular ever since-eSpecially in a
laundry. There is sometimes a good
deal to the hand, often more than one
has any idea of when his vis-a-vis raises
him $40 and You hold deuce high. The
hand which most men are bound to re-
Spect when raised or cornered is: