The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-11-21
SECRET OF LOVELY WRISTS
AND TAPERING FINGERS

marion Martineau in Chicago Tribune,
The girl who wants to play pat-a'
cake these winter evenings, or who
enjoys a game of peas porridge hot
must have pretty hands.
Ugly hands are disagreeable to gazt
upon, thrice disagreeable to touch, ant
many times more disagreeable to pos.
sess. They are ugly to the eye, clam
my to the feel, and source of discon'
tent all around
Hands that are not clammy are
sometimes too dry and they have a hot
feeling which makes one uncomfort-
able. Such hands are apt to resemble
parchment in being crinkled and out OF
all semblance to flesh and blood.
Hands that are neither too moist nor
too dry. hands that are pink and white,
hands that show the proper tones 81
flesh color and which are of the right
shape, should be the undisputed por-
ton Of every woman; and when they
are not such, it is sure to De the iauIt
of the woman herself, for there is moth
ing in the world easy to control as
the hands and their shape.
Physical Culture Keeps Hands Nice.
Physical culture Will keep the hands
nice and viii prevent them from grow
ing out of shape. Give your hands
physical culture treatment every day
and at the end Of a month you will
notice the change. They will have be-
gun to plump out little, and you will
notice that the skin which was yellow
is now bleached white: the nails have
changed from their brittle estate and
no longer crack. You will see that the
veins are disappearing under a pad
inc NJ loci nd T1an hay rlc. fxr
again.
Even at the age of 20 a great deal can
be done for the hands; though it is adj
Vised that a woman begin long before
she is 20 years old to make her hands
attractive. If she will start out while
she is young and will keep them pretty
she will be sure to have them nice when
she grows old.
Bleach the Hands First.
The first step in the treatment might
be the bleaching of the skin, and while
this is going on the hands can be
pumped out a little.
The skin of the hands can be
bleached by the mittin which is worn
nightly. This mitten is filled with a
bleaching paste and is slipped on the
hands and worn until morning The
paste whitens the skin and softens It,
and makes it fresher to behold.
Oatmeal is a great whitener of the
skin and enough oatmeal to make the
water milky can be used as a rinsing
water every morning. Bran is also a
whitener and all the meals act as
cleansers and softeners.
A little piece of pumice stone, tied to
The dressing table with ribbon; a soft
nail brush, a sitter brush for the
palms of the hands. and a good soap
are among the essentials for pair of
pretty hands. Of course there is the
dish Of bran; and there should be the
bottle Of perfume to give the hands
that final scent which makes them so
sweetly charming.
The whitening of the hands is a thing
which might keep a woman constantly
employed. It cannot be done today.
10 last all the season. but each morning
the hands should be treated with the
mealy mixture and the soap and the
softened water; and each morning they
should be rinsed and rinsed and rinsed
again, until the skin is soft and white.
Naselire is good for the hands, if one
has no other creamy mixture, but
good soft cold cream is much better. 1t
can be so well rubbed into the flesh
that the hands viii feel like down.
Olive Oil Softens Flesh and Nails.
Those who are troubled with hard fin
ger tips and whose nails have flesh
growing UP around then and whose
moons" will not show, can remedy this
defect or this Illness of the nails by
dosing them with the pure oil of sweet
olives. Fill bowl half full of olive
OIL and soak the finger tips fifteen min
utes in it, night and morning, or only
at night, until the nails are soft and
plable.
Soft nails arc r1SI1q l1x- considered
poor feature of the hands, for it is sup
posed they will break easily. But this
Is not the case. Nails that are properly
shaped do not break at all; and, if ones
occupation is of a nature which breaks
the nails, they should be kept short
But if properly shaped, curved as they
should be curved, and properly treated,
they can be kept nice and long. d.
great many persons prefer the
closely clipped nail, the nail that is so
short that only q little white rim is
visible. But there are others that like
the long nail the fashionable nail, and
who think the longer the nail he bet
ter.
To keep the nails long is one Of the
finest of the fine arts of physical Gull
ture. You must not only let the nail
grow, but you must know how to taper
IT, 1t must point, yet it must not have
a sharp tip, and never urder any con-
dition must it be sharp enough to
scratch. Its point is a rounding one,
something like the tip of an almond
nut.
The business woman and the athletic
girl alike are inclined to favor the
round nail Particularly is this true of
The golf girl, who cannot play with long
nails She cuts them rounding aud a
lriiie short, yet long enough to support
the finger tips.
Fingers thar are too fat on the ENDS
are almost always made SO by some
fault or eccenricity of the owner. Per
haps the habit of biting or fussing with
the finger tips has become inherent and
cannot be broken. Perhaps there is the
habit Of clipping the nails at the cor
ners which causes the finger to fall and
makes the finger tip pudgy.
The nails should be allowed to grow
at the corners and it is not desira BILE
to touch them with the scissors until
they are long enough to support the
finger tips.
The arms and the hands are associ-
ated closely together and must be treat
ed together. Good wrists are necessary
to the proper showing off of the hands,
and ii is so impossible to see the hands
without considering the wrists that the
woman who goes in for pretty hands
must not forget to treat her wrists also.
Exercise Makes the Hands Supple.
The hands and wrists should have
ttnelr physical culture movements. The
lands should be opened wide and then