Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1902-12-25
THE N IN WINTER.
IL Il Not Dimcuit to Keep Them soh
and Free from Redness and
Chapping.

Most women whose hands are now
occasionally exposed TO the weather
in winter suffer from chapping, OF,
what is almost equally as bad, the
hands become red and swollen. The
chief reason for these annoying but
common accompaniment of cold
weather is that the skin, losing its elias
ITCHY because of a lack of natural Sc
erection at a time that atmospheric con-
ditions do not induce perspiration, be-
m unduly dry and contracted, and
so is liable to crack. 1t is q tender skin
that will do this, because tender skins
are thin and delicate and cannot stand
what rougher ones will, says an au-
thority on such things.
Another cause is carelessnoss in
drying the skin after washing it, par
ticularly if it is washed Immediately
before going out into the open air or
directly after coming in.
Very many persons in cold weather
dare not wash their hands either be-
fore going out or Immediately after
coming in, for if they do, even though
the water they use be warm, their skin
will burn SO as to be painful, and it
will red besides.
They may avoid such an annoyance
If they will rub on the hands n little
cold cream or camphor ice, allow it to
remove it with a soft, old handker-
chief, either of silk or cambria.
Another delightful emollient for the
hands, arms and neck is fine oatmeal.
Put it into a flannel bag, boil it and
then place it in the water intended
for additions, or it may be kept dry in
a jar on the toilet table and some
rubbed on the hands whenever they
are washed. Honey rubbed into the
skin still wet, drying it in as the skin is
dried, is also a preventive of chapping.
If hands were dried more carefully
there would be less roughness of the
skin. A good plan is to dry the hands
well, after using the towel, with an
old, soft silk handkerchief, which will
absorb any moisture left.
Glycerin is an old friend, but as alone
it is irritating to moist skins it should
be diluted with rose water or pure wa
ter-one part of glycerin to three
parts of rose water. If about one dram
of acetic acid is used to one n of
glycerin it helps to remove almost any
stains from the hands.
If a woman is wise she will take the
precaution to wear gloves when dust
ing a Dom or doing any kind of work
that will soil her hands.
Not every woman can have a perfect
hand, but every woman can have a
beautifully kept hand. The perfect
hand, according to Firenzuola, an ltal-
ian author of the sixteenth century,
who wrote a Dialogue on the Beauty
of Women" has fingers long, slender,
tapering somewhat toward the tip.
The nails should be transparent, like
pale ,rubies among pink roses and
leaves of pomegranate flower, not
long, not round nor altogether square,
but of a fair shape and with a very
slight boss, uncovered, clean and well
kept, so that at the base the little white
crescent is visible.
Above, beyond the flesh of the finger,
an edge should be seen as wide as a
small knife is thick, without the small
est suspicion of black at the tip. And
the whole hand must be of a tender,
firm surface, as though it were of fine
silk or of the softest cotton.