Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1905-02-09
Care of The Hands.

You can't have pretty hands without
the most careful manicuring of the nails
and taking some care OF the skin i'm cold
weather or where any homework il ne
cessary. Just because your hands are
small and dinpled is no reason for neglect
ing them. Nearly all American girls have
small hands, and pretty hands are the
rule not the exception; but both of these
facts can be lost sight of II skin is not
smooth ard Iine texrured, il the nails are
a well trimmed oval and the cuticle in
shape about the nails. In other words
40 hand shows to it's best advantage
that ID not well grooined. And the pref
test dressing loses some OF It's artistic
value If the hands are not well kept and
da4ntily attractive. and it 10 also quite
true that large hand or a bOny hand
can lose its ugiiness and become attrac-
tive If it is regularly and carefuliy groom
ed. The first step grooming the hands is
that they should beexquisitely clean, and
the second is manicuring. 1t is absolu-
tely necessary that they should be wash
ed in soft water, and best of ali, waite,
made soft with borax. 1t not only
whitens the hands, but keeps the nails Of
nervous women from getting brittle.
The water should be tepid, never hot.
and pure CASTLE soap should be used.
To whiten the hands use a wash of three
ounces OF rosewater, two ounces of ben
ZONE, half an ounce Of glycerine and half
an ounce Of Borax.
Before manicuring, the nails should be
soaked at least Eve minutes in strong
CASTLE suds. Then the nails should be
filed, never cut with scissors, into share.
Alter the filing theedges should be smooth
cd with fine sand paper, and the nails
cleaned with an orange wood stick. Last
they should bepowdered and rubbed yerv
gently with a polisher. Nails are eut |
slightly oval to iit the shape of the end of
the finger, and never highly polished. II
the hands are at all inclined TO roughen
with exposure to cold or the plungingin- |
10 water necessary in homework they
should be softened with cream every |
night. Before rubbing in cream. scruh |
the hands, even il chapped, in warm wa
ter and soap with brush. Brush each
oint, then the nails, until every bit of soil |
and CRIME isremoved, then dry thorough
y and rub with some tested cold cream.
An excellent emolient is the following
otion rubbed in near the heat and left ON
over night.
Fresh cucumber Juice. eight ounces; oil of
weet almonds. two ounces: powdered white
,astiie soap. one-fourth OF an ounce; essence
II cucumbers. three ounces: tincture of han.
oiue. twenty drops; boric acid, fifteen grains
Wash. slice. but do not peel. two large green /
'ueumberss boil In q porcelain kettle with a
cant cup OF water until the cucumber ara
oft and PUPPY; cool and strain through nina
In Measure on one and half ounces and l
I'D an equal amount Of alcohol. Let this
cucumber essence stand ever night; In the /
morning add powdered soap. then eight ounces
" cucumber juice and the oil very slowly. last /
the oenzoioe. Shake thoroughly for fifteen |
minutes, pouriu the boric acid and shake again /
a nve minutes. IL not TOO heating, wear soft /
do gloves ef night to keep the cream from
'otlins the linen and to give an added moisture /
70 too dry skin. The nails should not be mar.
cured more than once . week. Too much
rubbing and polishing will make the nails
brittle. and too much soaking viii ruin the !
solor. " they grow very swiftly, Gle every
Iour days and smooth with emery paper. Itis
Ia excellent ran where there 10 Laundry work
'r aash washing to be done, to keep q lar or /
'resh ir tne Kitchen and rub the hands with
y always before drying. then pat dry and they /
VIII oesnooeh without feeling greasy. Hands |