The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-01-25

Fanny Davenport. in Cleopatra" used her
/ hands most expressively: and in one scene
the one where she listened 70 Marc Antony
while he made love to his Wife-her hands
1 told the story of her emotions as well as did
her face. You knew that the long slender
fingers were aching 10 choke him as he
said each loving word You knew that
they opened and pressed each other with
/ delight as she heard him defend her You
/ knew that as they we're drawn up they
/ meant war, fierce war, and as she clutched
the side Of the couch that IL was 10 aid her
/ IN keeping quiet when her anger
grew too great At times she
although a curtain was between them, and
at others those beautiful, cruel white hands
fell despairingly, ana you knew how she
suffered There are hands, long, slender,
nervous ones that nature meant to hold the
brush or the pen; there are Others n little
shorter, but with very slender tips that can
touch the keys Of pia 20 or do anything
that requires quickness OF motion. There Is
the fat, dimpled hand that is expresslonless,
though it may be affectionate, and there is
the short, square one that bespsaks deter
miuation OF will, a faint Of coarseness and
temper that will shoulder like dull fire
and break out and rage some day.
HOW TO TELL AN HONEST WOMAN.
Trust a woman who sits with her thumbs
up; she may be determined, but she is not
LA. The one who conceals her thumbs is
apt TO be deceitful aud untruthfuL Look at
the thumb il you want TO judge Of peoples
intellectual strength, for the longer it is,
proportionately, the stronger the brain.
We forget the individuality of the thumb;
we forget that in days gone by, when men
did not write, they made their marks by
imprinting their thumbs in soft sealing wax
that was man sign manual. Aud just
remember, too, that Sir Isaac Newton said:
"If any one ever doubted the existence of a
God he has only to watch the action of the
thumb of man.
HANDS OF wELL-KNowN ACTRESSES.
Mrs. Kendall and Mrs. Langtry have
hands very much alike, large, firm, we'll
shaped, and betokening strong wills. Ada
Rehan has an ugly, Uniformed, decidedly
coarse looking hand. Lillian Russell has a
white, slender, small hand that effects you
first as essentially the baud OF a woman,
and Afterward as the hand of a musician.
Mrs. Brown-Potter has slender nervous
hands that seem to be certain Of everything,
but never suggest success in anything.
INTERESTING FEMININE HANDS.
II you want to see a collection Of curious
hands, interesting hands, you should see
those belonging to the members Of the
Woman's Press Club-hands made to hold
pens, nands tnat nave taught themselves to
hold pens. hands trimming over with
mentality, and hands that have gathered
mental strength wherever they went. You
need only sit and look at them 30 get at the
brain histories of the women, and | can
assure you some Of them are very interest
ing.
HANDS WHICH MAKE THE WORLD HAPPY.
But, after all. the hands that interest us
most are the hands that we love.
That is a good hand which is put out to
help some one who has fallen by the way
side.
That is a good hand which knows how to
make pain easier and headaches vanish.
That is a good hand which knows how to
give heartily and freely.
That is a good hand which is put out to
help you or me as we walk along In life,
when we feel that we need somebody to pro-
tect us.
That is a good hand which never wrote
anything of which it was ashamed, and
which never put its name to fraud or dis
honesty.
That is a good hand which helps along
the sick and the weak, the helpless and the
poor.
That is a good hand which does its work
well; whatever it may be, wherever it may
be, 1t doth not grow weary, and il does its
work 50 that 1t is worth its wage.
That is good hand which, after having
gossiped and babbled, suddenly discovers
that IL is time to say good-by and sign its
chatter by the name of the writer thereof,
RAN