Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-02-25
THE QUEST OF BEAUTY
How to Care for the Handsin
Cold Weather.
A WINTER STRUGGLE
BUT LOVELY WOMAN MAY BE
SUCCESSFUL AT 1T.
A Home Gymnasium Treatment May
Cure First Attacks of
Rheumatism.

Written for The Evening Star by Katherine Morton.
1t is a winter struggle for every woman
to keep her hands pretty. Some of you
give up In despair and let them grow req
and rough, let black cracks appear at the
tips of the fingers, let the nails split and
nick. If YOU are past girlhood you often
suffer not only from these annoyances' but
from aching and stiff fingers as well. II
you could only make up your minds that
these troubles need not be. and that no
remedy is a failure because 1t does not
cure in one night in one week even, YOU
would pass the winter much more comfort
ably.
Exercise alone will not always cure a
case of acute rheumatism, but it has been
known to do SO. 1t is quite enough to nip
a mild case in the bud. If your wrists and
fingers begin to ache and lose their supple
ness, don't waste a minute in getting to
work at the matter Take five, ten. even
fifteen minutes three times a day to put
your hands through a little course of home
gymnasium work and you will be repaid for
the effort ten times over
First and foremost your aios in this
work stand Indian clubs. Extensive work
with clubs is of benefit to the entire BODY.
but the mere wrist work is all that you
need for your hands. Purchase light pair
of clubs, take lessons IN the art of swing
ing them from an instructor or BOOK.
then persist in the effort Those sum
Joints will fairly creak at first like rusty
hinge, but they viii soon grow supple. NO
matter how difficult the swinging Is for
them, force them into it, gently at hrst,
then more vigorously Modern physicians
never allow rheumatic patient to go with
out exercise. Just as walking and gymna-
SUM dancing are good for rheumatic legs,
so this work is good for the hands.
There are other movements besides those
with the clubs. Piano pracucing Is good
the more rapid the better.
Close and open the fists rapidly Do this
first with the forearms resting on the hips'
| then with the arms extended forward hor-
izontally. Stretch the fingers with force AT
opening; close very tightly.
The Wrist Muscles.
Lay the hands upon the chest. elbows
drawn against the sides. Throw out the
right hand. return it to chest. When it re-
turns to chest the left should be thrown
outward and so on, as the picture shows.
Continue rapidly shaking tapping the
hands from side to side. You will notice
how the wrist muscles are worked by this.
At the end OF the bedtime exercising give
the hands a vigorous rubbing with alcohol
or spirits of camphor.
Now, as to the grooming of the hand
beautiful: Probably l sound like a brute
when l say wash the hands a great deal
less in warm water and a great deal more
in cold. You cherish a false notion if you
believe the cold water chaps your hands.
On the contrary, it prevents the wind and
cold air from chappng them, and they
should always be rinsed in it the last thing
before going out of doors.
OF course, cold water will not thoroughly
cleanse grimy hands. For these use warm
water, bowl full OF it, and plenty of soap.
CASTLE is always a safe standby but some
find that vaseline soap or glycerine soap
are more healing.
Plunge the hands into the water, rub a
plentiful lather from the cake, and scrub.
Wet the nail brush, pass it over the soap