Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1903-12-12
TO HAVE PRETTY HANDS
Physical Culture VIII Keep the Hands
Nice and VIII Prevent I'm
shapeIiness.


Physical culture win keep the bands
nice and Will prevent them from growip
out of shape. Give your hands physic.'l
culture treatment every day, and, al tie
end of month, yod will notice u
| change.
Hands are particularly susceptible te
good treatment. The skin yields readily
10 applications that whiten them AMI
such thing as pair of red hands shoalA
be unknown The nails, TOO, are yer,
easily managed and can be shaped ~
suit the taste OF the person who Owls
them. They are victims of bad treat
ment or CT good, just according 10 tha
taste and the skill of the one who man
ages them.
The first step in the treatment might
be the bleaching of the skin. and while
his is going on the hands can be plnmne,i
out a little.
The skin of the hands can be bleacbed
| by the mitten which is worn nightly
| This mitten is flied with a bleaching
paste and is slipped on the hands ami
worn until morning. The paste Writers
the skin and softens it, and makes i
fresher to behold.
Oatmeal Is great whitener of tl,e
skin and enough oatmeal to make III.
water milky can be used as n rinsill..
water every morning. Bran is also 4
whItener and all the meals act as cleans
ers and softeners.
A little piece of pumice stone, tied 10
the dressing table with a ribbon, a soft
nail brush. 4 sitter brush for the palms
of the hands. and 4 gOoG soap are among
the essentials f3r a pair of pretty hands
OF course there is the dish of bran: ana
there should be the bottle of perfume
The whitening of the hands is thin-
which might keep woman constantly
employed. 1t cannot be done today. IL
last all the season, but each morning tn.
hands should be treated with the mealy
mixture and the soap and the softene,l
water: and each morning they should 3c
rinsed aud rinsed and rinsed again. until
the skin is very soft and white.
Women whose hands have begun "a
shrink should never go to bed without
treating them TO liberal allowance of
skin cream. This should be nassaspl
into the hands until the skin Is very
glossy. There is never any danger OF
greasy hands. for the skin of the hand il
peculiar in that it absorbs creams and
lotions very rapidly and, in few min
| utes, It will all have sunk into the flesh
Nasehnc is good for the hands, if one
has no other creamy. mixture, but very
good soft cold cream is much better I,
can be so we'll rubbed into the flesh that
the hands will feel like down.
Those who are troubled with hard
finger tips and whose nails have fesh
growing up around them and whose
moons" will not show, can remedy this
defect or this illness of the nails by dos
ing them with the pure oil of sweet
olives. Fill a bowl half full of olive OIL
and soak the finger tips fifteen minutes
IN it, night and morning, or only at
night until the nails are soft and pliable
The hands of those who have passed 30
are very rarely supple. Middle-agad
women do not exercise enough with the
fingers and the result is stiffness that
is very unattractive. Often the hands
will no longer be capable of opening
wide. but only half wide, in tense.
fiexed sort of way.
To remedy this the hands should be fire.
quently opened and closed again. To do
this, bare the arms, lift them over the
head and open and shut the hands as
many times as rapidly as possible. Do
beneficial not only to the hands but to the
wrist and to the whole arms and to tn
chest. Open and shut the hands, and
stretch the arms at the same time 1t is
splendid exercise.
Arms that are too fat must be reduced
by diet, for they are very susceptible to
foods. Fat will settle on the arms and
around the shoulders very soon in the gain
of adipose tissue. and the woman who
wants nice tapering shoulders will have
nothing but fieshy cushions.
The arm exercises are very simple. he
ing merely a lifting and lowering of The
arms, but they should be practiced half
an hour every day and great deal longer
if possible. Brooklyn Daily Eagle