Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1886-1890, 1889-11-22
9ai1g r. eagle
WOMAN REALM.
Matters of Interest in Her Do
MiniOn.
THE FAMILY CIRCLE
Little Things at Home That Go To
Make a Large Part of Life.
THE FAMILY CIRCLE.
TO PRESERVE BEAUTIFUL HANDS

The Way "sleep Slippers" Are Made.
What Constitutes True Wife The
Well Bred GirI-woman and Books.
The Ways of Women known to Fame.
Wherein Bixby FaiIed-Bleaching tho
Hair of the Little Ones-FIannel for
the Baby The Cooking Clock The
Chinese Girls and Matrimony.
A beautiful and faultless hand is more
rare and unusual gift than beautiful face
and now that the fashionable young woman
IS expected to display very mannish dis
regard of the delicacy and whiteness of her
fingers and to blister and burn them through
the summer months playing all manner Of
outdoor games guiltless of gloves, their ugli-
ness presents quite a formidable problem
when the return to the frivolities and fluff
of civilization demands sudden transforma-
ton from summer sunburn to winter snow
and softness. A pair of brown strong hands
ciasped about canoe paddle or welding
tennis racket with strength and skill as well,
present a more charming picture to the
masculine mind than those same brown
hands folded in idle grace over the frills of
dainty house dress and looking all the darker
and coarser in contrast; and the tender touch
Of woman's hand never could arouse any
Of the ecstatic thrills which the new school of
novelists delight in depicting if the hand was
hard with callouses, rough with half healed
blisters, and the impression conveyed strange
ly suggestive Of the caress of CRATER
No; wodnan's hand, to be the thing Of
beauty the Creator designed it to be, should
have delicacy of coloring, slenderness Of
outline and a touch like the sweep of a but
terfy's wing against the breast Of rose
Besides, an ungainly, i'll kept hand is like bad
grammar-hardly reconcilabe with the idea
Of gentiity. 1t is hardly possible TO materi-
ally change the shape Of our hand, but it is
said that, If small, tapering thimbles be put
upon a growing child's fingers each night and
held in place by tight gloves of kid, that it
will, if persisted in number of years, make
them slender and shapely. Few people, espe-
cially those young enough to be affected by
it, would submit to this treatment, and 1t is
hardly warrantable, as white, blue veined
band, with nicely polished nails, is a delight
10 the eye while its shape may be and is an
index TO the owners character which he who
runs may read
OF course every lady keeps her hands clean,
and it is hardly necessary to mention that
perfect cleanliness is the first requisite to a
soft and white hand This cleanliness is only
brought about by two or three daily scrub
bings with brush, and with the vigor usually
applied to remove the CRIME from the little
fist of the proverbially 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 and purest of
the pure in quality. There are several effica-
cious remedies for whitening the hands used
by their advocates and inventors. 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 removes stain and sunburn, and whose
oil is peculiarly beneficial in making the skin
soft and smooth. Any preparation used at
night is more efficacious if 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 crescent
throughout, are as much gift as the poets
genius or the artists skill, but one visit to
the manicure VIII enable you to see how even
the most ugly ones may be attractive and
pleasing if nice care is taken to trim away
the rough skin at the base, which should never
be done without first soaking them in warm
water, TO file the edges in a smooth curve,
following the outlines of the finger tip, and
30 polish the surface every day. Probably
an hour each week devoted TO the care of the
nails, with 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 saesladieS in glove stores that
a lady who can wear "a No. glove is as IN
usual as one who wears q No. II shoe, and
that a large hand looks better smaller gloved
in mousquetaire OF undressed kid, because
of the loose folds about the wrist, and that
tight sleeves are as unbecoming 10 a large
hand, whether gloved or ungloved, as low
heels TO a long foot.-New York Sun.