Evening star., 1901-12-07
THE BEAUTY QUEST
Ir1-
A Woman Needs Fair Hands if She
Will Charm.
HOW TO KEEP THEM In GOOD FORM
Comparisons With Greek Casts
Show Feet Have Not Changed.
V L U A B E RECIP PES
How TO KEEP THEM in GOOD FORM
V LU ABLE RECIP PES
Copyright, 1901, by r. Smith,

Copyright 1901 by +. Smith.)
Written for The Evening Star.
A beautiful hand Is one that is not only
white and shapely, but supple and express
sive, full of strength and character Such
a hand may be even more fascinating than
a beautiful face, and nothing more strongly
marks the person of birth and breeding.
The fashion of ungloved hands for men,
some years ago, is said to have arisen
from the fact that certain arstocrats de-
cided that nothing showed their possession
of blue blood and differentiated them from
the new rich like the hands, therefore a
showing of these members was decreed, in
order that on social occasions the true aris-
tocrat might enjoy the advantage of all his
privileges.
The ideal hand is in color a clean, health
full white, with a tender, firm surface, "as
though it were of fine silk or softest cot
TOM the hollow beauty of the palms sug-
gest seashells, rare petals or whatever else
is delicate of tint; the fingers are flexible
and tapering, with nails clear, thin, yet
firm; the wrist round, white and delicately
veined. In regard to the shape, the most
beautiful hand is one held SO that the eye.
scans the outer edge of the little finger and
of the palm, appears wedge shaped, the
thickest end being, of course, at the wrist
and the wedge tapering out to the finger
ends. The whole hand should be thin when
it shows this wedge shape, and the effect
will be marred if the joints are swollen so
as to interrupt the regularity of the slope
to the finger ends.
Hand Rotation.
The hands require their own proper ex-
ercise, and should be well manipulated at
the joints to promote both frmness and
supple movement. The symmetry of the
hand may be vastly increased by hand ro-
tation. This is the method of procedure:
Extend both arms at right angles to the
body, the backs of the hands turned ,ip-
ward then with even and constant move
ment each hand is bent upward, downward
and sideways without moving the arm For
the upward motion bend the hand from
the wrist as far as possible in the direction
of the backs of the hands, then return to
the original position. Bend the hand down.
wards as far as possible. For the sideways
movement bend alternately toward the
thumb side and the little finger side Dur
ing these movements the fingers are first
held together and then extended Slowly
bend the fingers enough TO form fist, and
then quickly and forcibly open them; re-
peat several times. This is good five finger
exercise and shapeliness of hand and sup
pleneSs of wrist are coaXed by these meth
DDS. 'r.ES
Often pinching the ends does a good deal
toward making the fingers taper, and there
is more than one case on record of girls
with thick, Stumpy fingers who have been
made to wear thimbles at night on each
finger to produce the tapering effect. Ten
little thimble-shaped caps of silver, which
kept her fingers finely taperng, were al
ways worn at night by Madame Patterson
Bonaparte, whose great beauty were her
hands and arms, a beauty preserved to ex-
treme old age. 1t is also recorded of her
that she wore gloves continuously day and
night. Another celebrated character, Mad
anne Recamier preferred dinners to any
other form of entertainment, not for the
sake of the pleasures of the table, but be-
cause her feet, which were not pretty
were hidden, and her exquisite hands and
arms were well displayed
A poets description of pretty nail is
"a rose leaf with a crescent in it, or
transparent, like pale ruby among pink
roses.' Less poetical but more practical, is
this old recipe that nails should be not long
not round, nor altogether square, but of a
fair shape, and with very little boss, un-
covered clean and well kept, 50 that at the
base the white crescent is visible. The art
of caring for the nails requires some expo
rience and experimenting. In the first place
it must be remembered that no two sets of
finger nails can be treated quite alike, not
alone because of their texture, but of their
formation. To trim some nails overmuch