The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1907-08-31
HANDS THAT CATCH HEARTS.

burned nose, land l attribute it all
to my hands"
AS she spoke she drew off her
chamois gloves and displayed pair
of hands that were simply perfection.
They were rather big, but very white,
and of such Plumpness that they
caught the eye and fascinated it.
''It pays me to take care of my
hands," said she, because in the
summer time it is impossible to take
care of my face.
"My hands go through bleaching
process once week. The bleaching
of the hands is French process. 1t
is in three parts.
"The first is the soaking and laun.
dering of the hands. The second is
in the application of a bleaching paste.
And the third is the removal of Incl.
dental spots and stains.
"The fashionable shape of the
hands has changed lately and my
hands have changed their shape along
with the fashion. Fingers should
now be long and tapering, and it is a
mistake to have blunt, short fingers.
The fingers can be shaped largely by
shaping the nails. The main point
is to let them grow.
''It is fad now to wear a bit OF
court plaster upon ones wrist. This
is to bring out the whiteness of the
back of the hands. If one has bony
wrist the court plaster can be placed
upon the back of the hand near the
little finger, where every hand has
more or less beauty.
"There is another hand fad, and
this is wearing band of black velvet
around the wrist. The place to wear
it is just back of the wrist bone. The
black velvet shows up the arm in all
its delicacy and beauty.
1T is necessary to have white
hands these days. One way of get
ting them is to wear at night pair
of gloves, which act as bleachers for
the hands. These gloves are of heavy
leather. A pair of mems winter
gloves two sizes too large will answer
the purpose nicely.
"With scissors one must cut the
back open and then spread the backs
and palms with the bleaching paste,
which is made of boiled oatmeal, al
mond oil, soap and bleaching COM
pound. Then the gloves are put
upon the hands and sewed up. In
the morning, when the stitches are
cut, the hands come forth white as
pigeon wings.
1.-THE trouble with the hands is that
women do not know how to use them.
Here are some hand rules:
"Don't sit with your thumbs
doubled up; it makes the thumb
joints large.
"Don't put your thumbs in your
mouth, for it makes the tip of the
thumb big.
"Don't use your teeth upon your
fingers, for it loosens the flesh at the
sides of the nail and makes the fingers
stubby.
"Don't use your fingers as drum
sticks, unless you want to make the
ends of your fingers as round and as
big as marbles.
"Don't strain your hands by driv.
ing in pins or tacks or by using them
roughly; you will surely spoil their
shape.
"Don't pull your fingers.
"Don't bend your fingers back
ward.
"Don't distort your knuckles OF
your muscles keep them in as nor.
NAL shape as possible.
1.-The French woman, when she
finds her hands getting old, puts on
long, lacy sleeves, coming to her
knuckles. Then she devotes her leis.
ure to lengthening her finger nails
and letting the tips grow.
"The Russian woman, when she
finds her hands getting scanned and
old looking, puts them through the
cold water cure. She dips them in
cold water and she rubs them vigor'
ously to bring back the circulation.
"With a lime brought from the
Mediterranean she goes over them oc-
casionally. dipping the lime in salt tc
give it tooth. And finally she treats
them to a wonderful bath of Russian
goat milk. The bath is whitening
and soothing, and it leaves the hands
creamy and young.
when the Spanish belle finds hel
hands getting old she makes for her
self some lace mitts and she tries tc
cover them up. She lets her nail:
grow very long, and she makes then
very glossy with benzoin. At might
she puts her hands in gloves, lest she
break the nails. She is the mos
fastidious of women concerning the
length of her nails. But she wear:
them too long.
"The Italian woman uses the pure
fruit of the grape upon her hands
and that is the reason why the hands
| of the Italian woman are so beautl
fully supple. Her hands, all drapet
in lace OF bare, are her pride. Sh'
keeps them white with grape juice
and scented with rose leaves.
| Hands should be cool hot hand
are an abomination and often it is
good thing to keep rose upon whicl
to cool ones hands. The woman toy
ing with a big red rose is often merel.
keeping her hands cool upon its dew.
petals. And she scents her fingers a
The same time while she cools them.