The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1897-06-04
ideas for JMorneu.


We sat at the open windo az TIA
warm June breezes poured II: ana Is SIC
m~anicured my nails. she fold mo mans
lungs that the amateur should know
the summer weather finds her away
from professional help.
IS 50 easy to make nails beauti-
lul' she said sif people would only be
sss.ematic about 1t. No that / want to
e reaeved Of any customers, but I am
speaAihs Tor the many who would not
come TO us anyway, yet who do not
40 the right thing by their nails by Civ
ing them attention every day. 1t would
auu mucn refinement to the hand"
but 1t takes time,ss I added, land
most women are so busy during the day.
ana IN ones leisure, one has other
thing to do more pleasant
II does not take 10 much time as you
imagine. Five minutes every morning,
or even less. just after the bath. would
do wonders. That with a good half
Aours work two or three times a month
would put your nails in fine shape.n
What could one do in four minutes? pr
skeptically asked.
This much. The bathing has softened
the cuticle about the nails. Push it.down
and around. Don't use a stiff, crash
tower TO DO this, for rle skin is tender
ana must be treated with gentleness to
give any good results. Don't use a steel
instrument, and push the skin down,
either. This is too vigorous. The round
ed end of an ran wood stick, or even
the end of the other finger is used to
press it down and around. Remember
that last word. Always use a circular
movement with the cuticle, otherwise
you will break it. and a bleeding cuticle
is a hard thing to cure.
Use your nail brush-a very soft one
for a minute over and Under the nails.
Make the movement up and down, and
not across. This also is to save the cuti-
cle.'
You are tender with the cuticle,' I
suggested.
IF you are not, you will never have
good looking nails" she answered. 7
proceed with our five minutes work.
dry the nails with a soft towel, dip an
orange wood stick in some good nail
cleaning fluid. that a manicure recon-
mends. and run it under each nail.
S0Vh l SNSA use SlGGl uuueF the nall.
If you have a steel file, you may use
that. but never touch the soft flesh I'M
der your nail With the point of it. (
You see this flesh is very tender. The
least h~arshness breaks it. The dust
gathers in the break and you will find
your nails become harder and harder to
clean"
That. then, is what's the matter with
NJ f-a 30 -osI sT 171. 80,
end of the file"
"Ahi that explains the dark rim about
the skin line under your nails" she
answered, examining them. steel al
ways brings hat. Buy an orange or
box wood stick for 10 cents and use that. |
You will find a great Improvement. To
return to that mornings work, however, |
when you have cleaned them dip your |
large chamois polisher into a box of pink
powder. rub it across them and there you
arei I'll wager you won't spend five |
MINUTES in doing it and it will keep your
in excellent condition all day"
-.
return to that dark rim under the
nails; you say the use of metal gives
that?.
Yes. In this way. That it breaks the
SKIN and causes the dust to settle there
sbeyond getting out. Never use pointed
instruments of any kind under the nails.
The more cleaning you do with the nail
brush the better it is
VIII ammonia crack the nails?" III
asked.
Certainly it will" she said. UNLESS
you have been doing some very soiling !
work you had better not use it,
And one more thing I asked, has
tinting the nails really gone out of
fashion,"
1t never win with women who nave
very pale nails. A slight roseate tint is
always attractive
It's a fad of the up-to-date woman
to be, or to affect to be, tremendously
busy. to have every moment of the wax
ing hours filled in, to rush from one
engagement to another, and to condens
in twenty-four hours the work of twice
thai number.
What is the object of all this? Heaven
knows, unless it is that no one woman
shall boast that her social engagements |
exceed in number those of amy other, for
to confess that one is not in a mad rush
from day to day is to acknowledge that
one is not in the swim-a humiliating
admission for the progressive woman of
the end of the century.
AND who pays the piper for this contin-
nous round of Occupations n preoccu-
pations? Why, the woman herself and
her family. Who. does not know the oft
repeated story. the tired-out wife and
mother. the irritable, fault7finding mis-
tress and the hypercritical friend-the re-
suit of the effort ITO accomplish a multi
plicity of trifes in a given time or period.
And then the air of martyrdom which the
over-fatigued woman assumes is not the
least trying part gof the ordeal which the
family of the too energetic one must
bear. She rides, for instance, twenty
miles on her bicycle when common sense
should limit her to half that number. She
comes home physically exhausted, and for
the remainder of the day her expression
of patient fatigue rivals that Of an early
martyr.
Or during the housekeeping period she
condenses the labor Of two days into one,
and at night is so worn out and assumes
SO palpable an air of accomplishing res
~ignation tina the very sight of her is
irritating to the last degree, and instead
of sympathy she usually gets what she
deserves, d wholesome letting
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