Omaha daily bee., 1910-03-13
HANDS BIC, PLUMP ANDWHITE
Busy City Manicure Now Finds Her
Model in England.
SOME POINTS ON HER WORK
NervOusness Great Fault of the
American Hnnd-TreRtment that
Gives strength and Vim
and PIumoness.

and Plumoness.
I NEW YORK. March 12.-'1i mitts would
only come in!" sighed manicure. "Mitts
would be to the manicure what change
OF sleeve is to the dressmaker To have
silk mitts take the place of silk gloves
would mean plenty Of work and lots Of new
Inventions and sales.
with mitts a woman must have long
pink nails. Then the mitt would mean u
chance to reshap and recoor the nails for
every woman knows that the bare hand
must be deliciously kept.
There was time when we srovc 20
make the hands tiny. Now the effort is
to make them big and efficient looking.
We aim at the big healthy English hand.
We plump them, whiten them, strengthen
them and add nerve to them. We trans
form little weak hands into firm hands
tlat can reach out and grasp yours with
a vim. At the same time we. must pre-
serve their shape and their feminine.
quality.
III you were to ask French manicure
to whten and change your hands she
would advise hand skinning. This process
is practlced abroad, but in this country we
hesitate to attempt it for the reason that
it leaves the hands red for several weeks.
with capable French manicure there
is much to be undergone by the woman who
submits her hands to this process. There
are electric treatments followed by lemon
juice hand baths. There are spongings with
peroxide Of hydrogen And then there
comes day when the hand is bathed with
solution of carbolic acid and water. OF
course it is all done under the direction of
person who understands just how many
drops of carbolic to add to a basin of
water, and finally there comes the cream
| ing and the hand sleeping.
Hand sleeping is the term applied to
the process Of putting the hands to rest in
leather gloves. The gloves are two sizes
too large Each glove is slit down the
back, and on the inside is spread a glove
paste made OF bran stirred with oil and
! bit Of soap Then the gloves are put on
the hands of the patient and sewed up the
back.
Sleeping in gloves Of this kind is good
for the hands, but for thorough course
Of hand sleeping it is necessary not only
to sleep in them, but to rest the hands
during the day in these gloves. During
the afternoon the hands have a long, rest
full nap in the paste-lined gloves and at
night the sleep is renewed.
I'VE have much success in pumping out
or the best OF almond sallow, but after
thorough scrubbing and the use Of some
good clear cream or milk the hand gets
very white again.
I'VE advise customers to use the hands
as much as possible. The English woman
with her riding. her driving. her golf and
her tennis has big. capable hands, and,
as she devotes large part of her time
to the care of them, she also has beautiful
hands.
THE great fault Of the American hand is
its tendency to worry. Perhaps 1t has
never occurred to you that the hand can
worry. But it really can.
Mote the next pair of hands you see.
Study them a minute and watch them as
they move. DO you fidget; are they rest
less and ever moving or are they hands
that lie quiet? Take note OF each pair of
hands that comes under your observation
and you will find that the worrying hand
is thin and shapeless. Its nails are
crooked and its finger tips sprawling 1t
has veins that stand out like whipcords
and the flesh is dark and often Of SAT-
from hue.
THE hand that lies quiet in the lap is
the COOL firm hand. The nails are even
and the moons are silvery. The veins are
covered with firm flesh and the skin is
not wrinkled. Fidgetting makes the hand
old and fleshTess. Serenity makes for a
hand that is shapely and youthful.
THE new almond nail is of the broad
or Georgia type 1t Is not the long, slen-
der French variety, but the wide almond
shape. To get this nail you push the
flesh at each side, then at the base, then
at the side and again at the base
Many women suffer from cold hands
find that meats make the hands chilly.
The woman who dimes on roast beef will
have cold hands. The same is true of the
woman who eats too many sweets. Both
foods reduce the temperature of the hands
and feet
II find that nice feeling hands belong
to women who eat soup, vegetables, very
little meat and plenty of fruit. I also find
that there are some pastries that are good
for the skin.
THE southern women have lovely hands,
and why? They eat hot bread; they love
honey and syrups; they take warm drinks
with their food and they eat the white
meat OF chicken and oranges by the dozen
The result is a hand of the texture of vel
vet and the temperature of a cool-skinned
apple, delicious to the touch. Northern
, women who eat too much pie too much
meat tco much candy and too much pre-
serves will have hands that either burn or
chill
Il believe that the hands can be whitened