Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-05-11

| the curious roreign-looking ring that she
were which first attracted their attention
and then the strong, firm hand, with its
| slender, well-kept fingers, came under in
| spection.
How can you tell that?" asked the other
man, with an amused smile. Does good
blood show in the hand as well as the
| foot?"
| Indeed it does" was the quick re-
| Spouse. Il never knew it to fail. If you
want to know whether boosted blue blood
has run out or not, look at the hands,
man or woman, you can read their hands
| like a book. The women in the family
| that those hands belong to have been
| gently bred for generations. You can see
| for yourself that the hand is well formed,
with gracefully tarering fingers, which she
has not permitted the hard work she has
evidently done to hinder the care of. Her
nails perfectly shaped and well kept,
| and her hand is not hardened by undue ex-
posure. See that glove the seat? 1t is
| mended and patched, but it was good
glove to start with, and she is so jealous
of the appearance of her hands that she
submits to wearing disreputable-looking
gloves rather than go bare-handed. Only
hands that way. l would be willing to
wager that. poor she is, she is wearing
a good shoe and that it fits
Just then third man Joined them, and
discussion about politics, but l began to
look at hands and TO wish that the wo-
man with the hands would get off so
that l could get a glimpse of her feet and
see If the analogy was borne out. l rode
and rode and rode, far beyond my destna-
ton The men all got off at the treasury
building. and l began to think that the
woman was never going to get off, but
she did at last, and l did see her boots.
The man knew what he was talking about.
Her shoes were pathetically patched and
hopeiessly broken outside of the patches,
but they were fine and fitted as only good
shoe can, as long enough of it remains
to button. Since then I have been study
ing hands and feet till I've nearly got
nervous proStration, and l have made up
my mind that it is a singular fact that
shapely feet and hands go together, and
that neglect of one is almost sure
evidence of neglect of the other. I asked
Elalne what she thought of the theory
ana her views quite conceded with those
OF the man, but she would not go quite as
far as he did.
The Care of the Hands.
"A truly refined woman Is jealousy care
full of her hands, because they are so much
in evidence. and the details of a hand
some toilet bring out defects in ones
hands in most lamentable manner but
l have known women of refined tastes who
had dreadful looking hands just because
they had not the slightest idea how to
correct the results of carelessness that had
gone on since childhood. Mothers are to
blame for most of. the ugly hands, Elaine
asserted with much emphasis. She is
nearly as hard on mothers as L am.
In the first place, they do not teach
children how to wash their hands, They
dabble them in basin of cold water
ly enemies-and half dry them, and go out
to play in the wind and sun. Soon the
mother begins to wonder why Toms hands
are so rough and how it Is that she can
ha dc - h.
daughter to look like anything. The fact
of the matter is that all they need is
plenty OF soap and water at the proper time,
nail brush, a clean soft towel and a lit
tie common sense in using the utensils OF
course, you can't actually reshape an
ugly hand or an ugly foot, but you can
care for and dress both so that they will
look quite presentable If you have pa
tence and perseverance"
But how?" asked Bobbe, cuddling up to
her on hassock See those?" holding
up l.t her own small hands, well shaped. but
cultivate them so that they will impress
the best man at Bess' wedding as being
the hands of woman of gentle breed
ing l hear that he has title in prospect,
and there is no knowing what might hap
pen. If l only had money, now. l have a
very sizeable foot, you know but they
won't walk me into titled home, l fear,
from London that she really believed that
one cause of the stringency in the American
money market was the transfer to Europe
of so many millions of gold along with
American girls who exchange the yellow
coins for titles. Isn't it just awful?''
Nv Mich? The diSfigured hands or the
lack of titled honors?" asked Elaine as she
applied her knife file to Boobies nails
'Oh. BOTH was the quick response But
the nails can be mended and the title bust
ness can't, so we will cure the ills we have
Ouch! Oh! you made the blood come and
Their is nasty old hang nail," and Bobbie
impatiently snatched her fingers away and
popped the hurt one in her mouth, woman
like.
When Well GrOOmed.
Il am so sorry cried Elaine regretfully.
Il knew better than to touch your nails