Fort Worth daily gazette. (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1882-1891, 1890-05-18

ern practice is to pierce the warts with
long needles and connect these with an
electric battery. A crop of warts calls
for course OF internal medicine.
The best way to treat agnails is to cut
them close with fine sharp scissors, soak
The first joint OF the finger in very hot
soap suds for Eve or ten minutes, keep
ing it hot as can be borne, and touching
when dry with cold cream. So far
| from being Injurious to cut or pare the
.aselvage, - as the French call the rim
of the skin next the nail, when they are
| imperfect the best way is to trim them
close with sharp slender pointed scissors,
| first cutting the skin free of the nail
without bleeding. The nails can be
| trimmed to a fine oval on almost any
fingers, by pressing the flesh away at the
| corners, and pairing them closer day by
day till they lose unsightly breadth.
Then the fingers by frequent pressure at
the sides of the upper joint will take
taper instead of q spreading tip. 1t is
useless to develop taper finger till the
nail is in oval shape.
Thick joints are by nc means incurable
| defects, the only trouble being that few
people will take the trouble of treating
| them as frequently as they need. They
must not be snapped or worked at the
! joints, which is pretty certain to increase
| their size The skillful manicure will
rub each joint round and round or up
ward between thumb and finger, to re-
| ducs the joints and supple them. Two
or three tablespoonfuls of lemon juice
taken diluted with little clear water
before each meal will reduce large joints
and equity excreoenoes in time, but q
speedler way is treatment with iodide of
| potassium in connection with electric
baths, which works maryels with large
joints and long deformities.
To keep the nails thin, polished ana
firm, keep them trimmed, never allow
ing them to project beyond the finger
ends, a rim OF white two lines beyond
the flesh being the most beautiful way OF
wearing them. The pointed long nails,
however fashionable with the few, are
oruel-looking and suggest useless
ness, accidents and breakage any
how Imagine an artist or
statue with long, pointed nails:
When we grow three corner finger enaA'
the pointed nail will be in keeping, mot
till then You will not see the talon
cur'' of nails on the hand 81 OF
any court beauties photographed
to-day. The files used by ofai-
nary mauicures are much too coarse Tor
finger nails. The "sitt'' practice uses
only the finest, appropriately called yef1
vet files. Scraping the nails or filing
their surface thickens them; they should
only be rubbed down with the fine en-
ery and cinnabar powder, which is used
for polishing shell and ivory. The nails
are an index of the health. When they
thicken, grow ridged or brittle the sys-
TEN is out OF order, to which careful diet
and few Turkish baths will usually re-
store il. The effect of the bath is seen at
once on the finger nails, which seem
thinner, more delicate and firm for a
week after. The Slit method forbids the
use of acid or sharp metal points about
the finger nails, which are cleaned with
pointed orange wood sticks, also used for
pressing back the selvage OF skin at the
base of the nails.
The Slit method Of manicure soaks one
hand in warm soapsuds few minutes to
soften the skin aud nails, when they are
dried and the nails cut at once. No acid
is applied to the nails, as the manicure
urgently protests, from experience, that
it makes them Opaque and brittle, de-
stroying the gelatine which gives their
clearness and tenaoity. No sharp metal,
blade or screper ia ever allowed for
cleaning the nails, as digging and scrap
ing roughens the under side OF the nall
and prepares it to collect the dust.
| Well polished nails and well kept finger
tips no more hold the dust than so much
smooth she'll A file of marvellous fine
ness IS used sometimes to smooth the
corners and broken edges of the nall {,
but they are required as seldom as may
be. Next the fnger-tips are touched
with amandine, a delightful toilet 1ell y
compounded of eggs, almond OIL, pista-
| o4,a oI,0 I'M A
trifie of this ia applied under the nail
and to the sewage, after which the
pointed orange wood pencil clears the
nails perfectly, and 10 used to press
the 'sbinding'' of the nails back. The
Slit manicures say the selvage is never
to be cut any more than the edge
of the eyelid. Exception may be
made when by Ill use this Dor
der is broken and rough, when
it may be trimmed and grow
. again. But the harsh practice of COM
mon manicures who leave this rim sore
, and bleeding is reprehenNble. Polish
, ing with the pink emery powder follows,
, using a buffer OF channels the usual
shape. but twice or three times longer,
! which Is much more surely and easily
. used. Care must be taken always to rub
the nail toward the edge, not downward,
? TO WOunu Ine selNdSo anu MI AZ VIII
!. powder. A rim of vermilion round q
fresh-trlmmed nail is most careless and
, unsightly. The nails receive theiI
. final polish by the palm OF
, the operator, after which the
: hand is busted and wiped with a square
: of fine linen cambria, and all the red
that will brush of Is removed from the
! nails, leaving natural pink tint, and Q
touch of amadine rubbed over the back
of the hand and wiped of leaves it pill.
ant, fresh and scented; when, If not the
. tsnow-white hand of the most beauteou
Rosalind, - it is at least fit for any gen
tie deed or kiss of courtesy, an old salute
coming in fashion. Indeed, when has i
been quite out?
Iconclude with an English receipt fo
keeping hands smooth which is two table
) spoonfuls of lemon juice, one of glycer-
3 inc and the same OF almond oll--colorles
t oil By the way, for experience lends rea'
9 sonto the idea that mos t oils and vaselin'
e disoolor and darken the hands. Ell
9 PEASANT, hot foot baths nightly, aud pur
[ gatives with coarse bread are the bes
( regime to secure white hands.
9 Honey balsam is nice preparation
> English ladies' maids compound &c
r whiten and soften banda. 1t is made o