Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-12-26

in the Least-The Value of Soap
 of Good Quality-Tight Gloves Ex-
 aggerate the Size of the Hand
 How to Use the Manicure Set
 How to Remove stains-Avoid the
 Fashionable Hand-Shake" - The Cordial Hand-Cle p Better Than 1.-the Kiss.
 @ssBY MARGARET E. SANGSTER.
 (Copyright, 1905, by Joseph B. Bowles.)
 X pretty hand is desired by every girl
 What is a pretty hand? l suppose He shall agree that it is one which is white and dimpled, with rosy Anger tips, nice nails and small joints. Lafge. obtrusive knuckles, hands that are too thick and pudgy, or too tnlE ana scrawny to be symmetrical, are not precisely beautiful. But so far as the size and shape of our hands are concerned, we have to take them asithey come. We are born with the hands of our ancestry, but the care oTsthe hands is our own, and has far more to do with keeping them beau disposed 10 the opinion that our hands SON chara.t almost as unerringly fiful than some people think. l am as our faces do, and I think the man lner of using them and the general 4Eeatness or slovenliness which their owners impose upon them, are apt tc be revelations of the inward life.
 J For instance, there is Amy, rest less, nervous and excitable girl whose hands are never still minute when she is awake. She is always clasp ing and unclasping them, taking up books and laying them down, fussing wi.E her hair or her dress, and show Ing in unmistakable ways that she has no basis of quietude in her own nature. There is Lucy, who cannot sit beside friend without possessing herself of the friends hand squeez- .ng it and fondling it as one strokes "a kitten, and near Lucy sits Fannie, with a yet more objectionable habit of handling everything she sees; ob- jects of art, curios, fans, or other dell cate things in other peoples houses, or in the shops. articles meant to be looked at but not intended to be touched. Fannie's way is, sure to rem der her persona non grata wherever she goes. 7-1 l5 5a355
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 George Eliot, describing Dorothea In Middlemarch, says: Her hand and wrist were so finely formed that she could wear sleeves not less bare of style than those in which the blessed Virgin appeared to Italian painters. -
 If you look at some favorite pie ture of the Madonna, by Raphael, you will see the sort of hand that Dor othea had Such hands can lie peace fully crossed in ones lap, or, if busy with the pen or the needle; they retain their feeling of calmness.
 Tt was all very we'll for Dorothea .o have had those statuesque hands" sxclaims Marjorie, but just fancy that she had been in my case, and had dishes to wash, beds to make, and sometimes pieces to iron. Although I am a schoolgirl I have to help my mother with the housework, and kitch- .n work spells a pretty hand" l am aware that many girls think just as :SiarJorie does abouIthis l have even known girls who shirked household lasks and allowed tired mothers to yrow more tired instead of trying 10 ease their burdens. simply because khey feared to ruin hands of which they were vain. You would never do lhis. I am sure, you girls who are reading this talk.
 It is possible that hard daily labor without intervals of rest may eoarsen ana enlarge a girls hands. but few of us are exposed 10 this danger. With little care. a girl may work in the garden. may sweep. dust. or, if neei be. scrub. and may wash dishes three times a day, and not in1ure her hands in the least Gloves may be worh n the garden. India rubber gloves. fitting tightly to the skin, are a good protection against hot suds, and dainty dish washing. which is preeml- gently a lady's work, is greatly helped by the use of a mop. For pots and rans there is an iron dish washer .Ehich is more radical and thorough than a cloth in ones hand. If you are troubled with rough, red or caI- ious hands. if they crack in frosty weather. or the skin peels of. be e%- .tremely fastidiOus about your toile- soap. Wash the hands very thor oughiy with soap of good quality. rinse them in tepid water. and be sure 'c wipe them dry. If hands are al- Eays wiped until all the moisture is gone and absorbed by the towel. they nriIi seldom crack. The use of cod c.rsam. well rubbed into the skin at night. especially around the finger ,si;s. softens and whitens the hands lns Q good plan for a girl is to slip rfucb bands into a loose pair of gloves Ar ole pair of her fathers or broth Csr-s gloves answers admirably.
 While I am about it, let me eau for you not tO wear dress gloves too susl for you. or that fit too tightly Instead of making your hand look smslier. tight gloves exaggerate its size. Gloves should be long enough to it the fingers comfortably. and