Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-08-31


 ous woman to worry about the looks of her hands when she is so placed that she must do hard and dirty work. The hand that shows the signs of domestic drudgery does not add to a woman's charm, while tbe one that looks as if 1t was lain in pink cotton all it's life does. Yet the working hand can show deal more character than the soft, pink-tipped. unused one, and the energetic housewife, with a mini- mum of daily care, can keep her hands in better shape.
 Much of the beauty of the hands will depend upon the quality of the soap used for the toilet, and as to that the housekeeper's hands would re- spond far more quickly to her little moments of daily care if she used fairly good soap for her housecleaning. The cheap soaps supplied for house keeping are strong with alkali, and their constant use will ruin the best skin. To preserve and promote the wiliteness and delicacy of the hand skin, mild emollient soap containing much oil is needed, at least for the toilet. A cake of old castle soap, shaved to powder and then boiled to a jelly, makes a very gentle and thorough cleanser for the hands A finer soap is made of the best white curd soap and old castillo, in the pro- portion of one-seventh of the latter to six-sevenths of the former This can be perfumed and made further helpful with the addition af one ounce of essential oil of almonds to four and half pounds of the soap.
 The dish pan must answer for many sins, for through constant immersion in hot, greasy water hands once pretty are ruined every day. When the house. keeper goes from hot water to cold, too, she does her hands a still greater injury, for the sudden change of tenn perature is very baleful in its effect. Rheumatism is caused in this way as we'll as salt rheum and score of other hand annoyances. The skin hardens and discolors and the hands soon look weather-beaten and old. AS to dish washing with the bare hands, it is sheer nonsense, and the house. keeper who washes up" in this man. ner deserves pretty much all she gets. The drug store and the other shops have rubber gloves for this very pur- pose, dish mops are cheap and by making little pad for the necessary holding of the dish while it is being mopped the hands can come through a dish washing spree without the least injury. Have two pans of water, one for washing and one for rinsing, and then let the dishes, drip dry in one of the metal racks sold so cheaply. They will be cleaner than if wiped and the hands will get little extra rest. Save them all you can-it is your duty.
 For this dishwashing with gloves, for dusting and all other "redding up," the hands are helped if they are greased before the gloves are donned. When putting up fruits they are saved a lot of staining if they are first an- nointed in this way, for the emollient used sinks into the skin and so keeps lAO 0Idlu 1IOlu UCCOullll6 OCCp OCdtCu
 When a party is imminent and the housekeeper feels that she must give her hands an extra beautifying so that she will look we'll in her short-sleeved frock, after giving her hands and arms thorough scrubbing let her rinse them off in bowl of fresh water con- taining teaspoonful of benzoin, which bleaches the skin to some ex- tent almost instantaneously. If the hands are browner than the arms, pay more attention to them, rubbing the benzoin water well into the skin, but seeing, too, that it is not strong enough to bite. Then go over the hands with the skin of freshly-cut cucumber, rinse of the juice, dry the hands partly and then rub in deli. cate hand lotion such as is made by six parts of rosewater to dne of glyc. erin. The lotion will plump the skin and add to its whiteness It will also help to keep on the powder, if that is