Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-11
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healthily let them grow bit longer, but
never wear long nails or pointed ones.
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"After filing, rub the nail and ends of the
fingers with little vaseline till it is well
soaked up, then dip the polisher in the
powder and burnish the nails gently. It
takes five minutes or more to polish the
nails properly. Then take the nail brush
and scrub your hands till all the pink pow
water and wipe them dry. Never use the
scissors to cut the cuticle yourself. You
Will botch 1t sure. The powder will wear
the skin off. That is all there is to it, Once
There are some things you must remember.
thoueh. You have your hands in soapy
water quite often, and that takes the nat
ural moisture out of the skin, and causes
the hands to chap and roughen. On the
other hand, If you do not wash them clean
and wipe them dry, they will roughen.
Always rinse the soap off your hands
Before wiping them; never wash in cold
water, and wear gloves of some description
outdoors. A lady never appears on the
street without gloves, you know, but the
gloves must not be tight. Somebody said
once that tight gloves made wrinkles on
the lace, and l am not sure that he isn't
right. A tight glove is worse torture than
the toothache, and Injuries the hand be-
sides The woman who wants to have a
white hand must not draw her corset
strings tight, either, for scientists say that
ngatures or structure about the waist will
make the hands red by restricting the cir
culation Homework will not hurt the
handS that are carefully manicured. Large
old gloves should be used when sweeping,
and at all other times when it is possible
one OF the simplest and safest ointments
for the hands is made of equal parts of
bay rum and slycerine. Glycerine is seldom
to be recommended for the face, but moth
ing equals this mixture for the hands. Use
at ~ night rubbing it well into the skin
Il use VaSellne On mine" said Jennie
lard it doesn't help them in the least"
No, and it never will. Vaseline is good
Tor the face, and l particularly like it for
a dressing Tor the scalp, but on the hands
II seems TO be OF no benefit whatever"
Just then Dorothy came lmping in, and
declared much to my secret pleasure, that
she couid not go one inch out of the house
that night because of aching feet But my
pleasure was short-lived, for Elaine prompt
~ assured her that she could soon fix up
her feet for her, and carried her off to eX-
pertinent upon them. When Elaine came
back l asked her how she went about re-
lieVing Dorothy's suffering.
About Fashionable Shoes.
well, in the first place, l made her
promise not to put on those new pointed
toed patent leather boots again this sea-
son. and never to be foolish, with her
tender feet, as to buy another pair of that
style. 1 think sometimes I'd like TO be
supreme lawma!ler long enough to imprison
the inventors of fool fads in shoes. High
heels, pointed toes and narrow soles are
responsible for a great deal of domestic
unhappiness. a woman whose feet are al
ways aching is next thing to fiend after
she mas been on them all day, and yet she
Will wear the fashionable Shoes though she
knows that they will leave her on the verge
OF Mysteries when she takes them off at
night. All the bad feelings that afflict a
woman make themselves felt in her feet
4 really believe that ill-made shoes and
aching feet have caused thousands of cases
of incompatbility of temper and conse-
quent divorce, and if / couldn't take care
of my feet and nails alike, 1 would let my
hands go and take care of my feet. l
manicure my feet exactly as do my finger
nails, and do both ONCE a week. l gave
Dorothy's feet treatment. and then put
her in an easy chijr and her feet in a
bath of hot water made quite strong with
salt. That will rest them and take out the
soreness quicker thap anything l know of.
If ones feet perspire great deal, a hot
bath in which a little alcohol or alum has
been put is very good SENORA SARA.