The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1903-07-04
HOW TO HAVE PRETTY HANDS
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generally content WIFI h66pluS lACh
clean and well groomed. When she
has done this she feels that her dut!
toward herself and her hands ha'
ceased. Now, there is no denying
that perfect cleanliness is a great ali
to beauty so far as the hands are con
cerned and that a gTimy hand is never
pretty. But there are few women II
the world who are neglectful so fal
as these points are concerned. AND
there is no gainsaying the fact thai
good grooming in many cases makes
A nice looking hand. But neither
washing nor grooming will do every
. thing for a pair of hands.
Hands that are too thin are not
aretty. Hands that are knotty as to
the Joints are not pretty. Hands that
are heavily veined upon the Dack are
not oretty. Hands that are too tnlck
are not pretty. Neither are hands
pretty that are red, speckled, tanned
on the back, knobby in the myers, OF
rough.
If is safe to say that physical cu1-
ture will do more for the hands tnan
any other one thing on earth. Hands
that are uneven in shape, hands that
seem to have gone astray as to their
taner qualities, and hands that have
a strained. painful look can all De
made lovely with the aid OF physical
culture It is a nice thing if woman
can begin with hands that are wen
sbaped by nature. II your palm is
nlump and pink and tapering httle
toward the wrist, with a dear little
cushion near the thumb, then you
have something TO start with.
If to this you can add that your
fingers are long and slender, taper
ing each toward the tip as thougn
thimble shaped, then you have some
thing else at which to rejoice. ana
If to this YOU can add covering OF
pretty. pinkish white flesh, then you
nav indeed be thankful, for you nave
the beginning of that which is a great
attraction to any woman-namely'
pretty hand.
But how many people have good
hands by nature? In the craoIe an
hands are pretty. But as soon as tue
girI is out of the cradle she begins 10
suck her thumb, and when the thumb
DAYS are over she takes to cutting
and hacking her finger tips. Often
she ruins them by pressing down upon
the cuticle, making great dents In lhe
base of the nail and causing the Same
70 grow crooked forever afterWaru.
The white spots upon the mai! are
scars caused by the cuticle' KNIFE OF
the orangewood stick.
Again. she abuses her fingers Dy
constant scraping underneath them'
utterly spelling the nail by pressing
4 outward and making it grow VIDE
If the finger. :.
If a girl has been guilty OF SUCH IN
discretion toward her hands as TINS
;he can only remedy the evil by cut !
ing the nails closely, way down INTO |
he flesh. and applying vasellne pro-
uselv to the finger tips. she must {
low put on gloves and not reInofe
bam any more than necessary, IN
il the nails have grown out. Inls
will result in a set OF nails tnat are
,inkish down to the tips instead OF
White and ragged.
,HAPE OF HAND IS IMPORTANT.
But it is more to the shape of the =
ands that this lesson has to do than
, the care of them. 4
And it begins with hands that are Il
The hands of most people Il
re awkward and the exception to -
lis is the hand of the piano player, n
hich is usually a graceful hand. An :,
her exception is the hand OF the II
niger, and another the hand Of the A
,tress and the hand Of the society II
oman. ALI of these people have "
lnds that are simply exquisite in 81
cir grace. w
The reason for the grace of the II
ano player and the grace Of the ~
tress and of the society woman is a.
at all of these people practice hand Al
ercises. The actress, too, takes her e.
ger exercises, as she calls them, q
ID with her it is a direct business,
e which she cannot neglect. She
IL open and close her hands and she m
II stretch each finger until 1t is w
parate from its fellow fingers. Then VI
e will open and close them with q ct
lwing motion. ST
The actress will take a series OF he
,lsarte movements which embrace IT
me vigorous movements for the al
nds and wrists, the arms and I'm
rs. The latter are exercised right ar
wn to the tips. st
The actress with the pretty hands
IL clasp them upon her forehead sh
tn the palms turne dout, the I'm sb
rs interlocked. She will stretch III
EN- backward to exercise the joints Ms
d she will make them supple by q
ening and closing them with a force tn
1t exerts each little muscle in them, or
Inns and backs. sio-
The hands should be exercised w,
cry day to make them graceful, for
: hands. like the rest of the body, sa
Ii not be graceful unless they are tia
lined in grace. tn
i'm HANDS CAN BE PUMPED. nc
Take the woman with hands that ~ ~
, thin. absolutely bony, skeleton b. 81
Tue, with knuckles that stick up -i'
d veins that stick out, and bones
It show inside and out. Such hands
q be pumped, but it will take
lat deal of massage and a great ha
Al of skin pumping foods and 1t sa
i take a special diet. Such hands tai
,uld be incased in cool, loose gloves GU
II lined with a fattening paste at he
st three nights a week, and their de
ner should keep the gospel OF colo CO