Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1893-12-01
BEAUTIFUL FINGERS.
Every Dainty Woman NAV Have
Attractive Hands-How to Whit.
en- Mold and Improve Fingers.

en- Mold and Improve Fingers.
Any woman can have pretty hands
who is willing to go to the least
trouble with them. The hand is easi-
ly nodded and can be shaped or
whitened, or the texture changed al
most at the will OF the owner.
In the first place the hand has a
rounded palm and five graceful fingers
that are bound to be pretty, no matter
how treated. The only things to be
done are to make the flesh soft, the
skin white and the nails an oval which
shall be becoming to the style OF the
hand. Strange to say, these are the
most difficnlt things to accomplish
unless one knows exactly how; and
the easiest of the secret has been
learned. But of ultimate success
there need be no doubt.
Who ever knew society woman
who puts herself daily in the hands OF
a professional beautifier to be the pos
SCISSOR OF homely hand? And who ever
saw the carefully groomed" women
OF the stage other than charming with
their gloves off? This goes to show
that pretty hands are merely a matter
of knowledge and treatment instead OF
heaven sent gift.
Ladies who do great OF fancy work
and much Of the home sewing usually
have hands Of which they are ashamed
because they are rough and thin and
often red, often having a dried look.
If at each washing they were to be
rubbed lightly with speck of cucum-
Der cream or some mutton tallow pre-
pared in an eggshell, as our grand
mothers knew how to prepare it, the
would soon disappear and
they would become very soft and
pleasant to touch.
Redness is sometimes caused by the
roughness and goes away when the
hands become smooth. But is more
often made by tight cuffs, tight arm
holes and tight lacing. 1t will disap-
pear within week after the cause is
removed. Sometimes it is the sign of
poor circulation and indigestion, and
in this case the doctor must prescribe
and the hand will slowly improve in
color.
But il none OF these things can be
the matter and the hands are still red
and unpleasant to look upon, then
must come the process OF bleaching,
which can be fully carried out without
inconvenience Of trouble of any kind.
The best hand bleach is pure soap.
Get enough to fill a teacup when
shaved finely-castile is very good for
this-snd melt with a pint of water
until it is q thin soft soap. Add a
little cologne and set away to cool in q
big jar. Now. when washing the
the hands, lather thickly with this
soft soap and hold them in water
which is only warm. Wash off the
soap with hot water and after shaking
the hands well, dry them in a box of
oatmeal. Rub softly until thoroughly
dry and then dust them lightly with q
towel, and if in one week the hands
are not beautifully white they may be |
given up as the only hands in the
world that are wholly incorrigible. |
Bony hands even can be improved. |
The skin of the hands is very suscepti-
BILE to oils and if mutton tallow cream
or quantity of good almond oil is
rubbed in twice q day for
ten minutes at time, in a month the
hands will be given to be plump and
pretty, Vaseline is not 80 good for
This, as on some skins is apt to pro-
duce a light though undesirable
growth of hair,