The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-04-05
TIGHT LACING
 MAKES RED HANDS
From the Boston Herald.

From the Boston Herald.
 My hands are so red and ugly that they spoil the looks of all my dresses un- less l keep my gloves on every minute, ' walled certain pretty girl to the mani curist
 How tight are your corsets?' demand ed the hand specialist The girl looked a. little astonished, so she continued Half the women in Boston who are wailing about red hands could end their trouble in 10 minutes by untying their corset lac ings I might say the same of red noses, but noses are not in my line.''
 ''But if let out my corsets," said the girl of the red hands, my clothes wouldn't fit Can't you give me a skin bleach?
 Tt won't bleach your blood If I do," was the reply, ''and it's congested blood pure and simple that makes your hands red. By squeezing your waist line to make your princess gowns fit a little better you have checked your circu1a- tion, and the blood doesn't flow in and out of your hands as 1t should"
 So the girl departed with her red hands, which she must keep until another sea- son, unless she gets an entire new ward robe or gets so thin that she won't have to lace
 The next girl who came to the hand specialist wanted something to make her hands plump. One really couldn't blame her, for the hand she drew out of her smart capeskin glove looked more like d rooster's hand than that of q pretty girl.
 ''You need to drink more water" said the hand specialist. How can you expect plump hands when your whole body is as thin as hand spike" Then the girl con- fessed to having dieted and taken Turkish baths all for the sake of mo hips"
 Drink all the water that you can," commanded the hand specialist, "and go back to cereals, cream, butter and fats of all sorts Meantime I'll give you a. good skin food to help the cause along, but it won't do bit of good unless you go about getting some more fiesh.'
 Then she wrote out the following formula and told the girl to rub 1t into her hands every night and then slip on q pair of loose chamois skin gloves.
 Myrrh, one ounce; honey, four ounces; yellow wax, two ounces; rosewater, six ounces Melt the wax in a double boiler and while hot add the myrrh which should be used in powdered form. Beat these thoroughly together, then add the honey and rosewater, stirring constantly. Then add enough glyeerine, drop by drop, 10 make spreadable paste.
 Girls seem to think that their hands ale completely detached from the rest of the body she said as the girl of the scrawny fingers departed. They lace their waists, neglect their diet stay up late nights and ruin their health by trying to drop off hips that nature very evident ly intended them to have, and still they expect their hands to look as healthy as over Long experience shows me that a beautiful hand, like beautiful woman, must be healthy first Manicuring Is the latest part of the process of reformation.
 "Of course, there's certain amount of grooming that keeps the skin white and smooth, but any amount of care given to the mere, surface may be quite undone by poor circulation or indigestion.
 'Women expect me to give them whole drug store of preparations for their hands," she continued, "but I always find that if a thorough manicuring doesn' t put them into good condition the trouble goes deeper. and something more than a lotion is needed"