The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-09-23

DON'T FIDGET, THE ADVICE FOR
NERVOUS WOMEN.

That OF Itself VIII Tend 20 Max the Hands
Plunp-F Making the Hands white
Plenty O6 Soap and water ID Effective
The HOusewOrker's Coed Hands.
sd give q thousand dollars for q nics
pair of hands" said a business oman
IF ! had mice hands / would be rich In .
little while.
Hands do a great deal for q person.
You can wear q veil over your face, and
shade YOU complexion with o hat.
You canpartially cover your bad features
with your hair, and you can drapo this and
arrange that 20 that your face IL not brou ght
out into the broad, clear light Of day, With
your hands it Is different.
"A woman can wear gloves In the street,
but even in gloves ones hands show. A
woman cannot put her hands behind her,
no matter how stubby her nails may be.
and she can't sit on them or wrap them in
her apron or got them out OF sight In any
way.
"A good pair Of hands wins the day many
q time for a business woman. II she can
lay her hand upon her desk. we'll shaped
and perfectly cared for, II is worth good
money to her, There is something prepos-
sessing In a good hand.
The woman whose hand Is short and
thick Inc whose nails look a. though they
were chopped OF Is handicapped.
The sight Of her hands makes people
warlike. They can zee at a glance that she
Is tho heroine Of many q battle.
IF her hands, on the contrary, are nice
and soft, white and we'll shaped, and II the
nails are long and tapering and pink TO the
very tips, then people like her. They want
to be gentle with her. 1t Is entirely different
with the woman with a warlike hand.
Hands are sometimes deceptive and It
often happens that people who have done
no hard work at all are the owners Of hands
that are SCARED rs IL from battle. Bad
hands mean bad management.
"A typewriter does my writing for mo
and an ocHce assistant handles the mail.
l scarcely soil my hands from morning
until night. My business lies in walking
well and looking pretty. / buy and sell
real estate.
From morning until night I I'M we'll
dressed. But the trouble is with my hands.
They look as though / were one hundred
years old and had done hard work all my
life.
in the first place I have ten terrible
knuCktet. Inch Il uhNC u IoL VI CIOOhCO
fingers, lean as a bone. And my hend
are colored every color in the world except
the right color. l hide them all l can, but
il isn't much use.
1T isn't a case OF hard work with me.
1t is more like natural d~epravity Of the
hands. They are simply contrary and l
don't know how to explain IL.
Il went the other day to a hand specialist
and, after holding one Of my hands in hers
for a while, she said;
THE trouble with you is that you are
nervous. Nervousness takes on the flesh
very rapidly.
my advice to you is to let your hands
rest. Don't always be fdgeting with
something. Learn the repose of the hands.
Lay your hands down in your lap and keep
can do this, but l hope you will be The
millionth woman.
Letting the hands rest is accomplished
only by easy stages. You can't do 1t all
at once. 1t takes lots of time and plenty
Lay your hands down upon the arms
Of the chair, or let them drop in your lap.
Hold them m~otionless while you count
100. See what a rest it will be to you.
-'You will quiet down without knowing
why. Your nerves will get a rest. You are
giving your hands the rest cure.
The effect of the rest cure upon the
hands is quick, sure and perfectly APP
parent. In a very few days your hands
will begin to grow plumper. You will
feel as though the blood we're tiDgling in
your fingers once more.
If you are wise during this transition
stage you will give your hands a bath In
hesh food every day. You will treat them
to some kind OF Pumping cream and you
will feed the pores and tho %cuticle. the
muscles and the nerves, all at the same
time.
'Houseworkers generally have plump,
pretty hands, and the reason is plain.
They spend part Of the time with the fingers
immersed Ia warm, greasy soapsuds.
Soap Is good for the hands because
1t takes out the CRIME and grease; is good
for the skin because IL plumps the pores.
And SO the houseworker has hands Of which
she has no reason to be ashamed.
women would have nicer hands II
they washed them oRtener and washed
them more, The women OF Pittsburg rave
p~rettier hands than the women OF other
ojties, simply because the smoke Oompels
them to use more soap and TO use 1t
~oftener.
There is something funny about the