Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1912-12-17

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1t Is perfectly natural for fastidi
GUS woman to worry about the lookf
of her hands when she is SO place
that she must do hard and Dirt
work. The hand that shows the signs
of domestic drudgery does not add te
a womans charm, while the one thai
looks as il 1t was lain in pink cottoI
all It's life does. Yet the working hant
can now deal more character thar
the soft, pink-tipped, unused one, and
the energetic housewife, with 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 thai
the housekeeper's hands would re
spond far more quickly to her littl,
moments of daily care If she used s
fairly good soap for her housekeeping
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
Wilderness and delicacy Of the hand
skin, a mild emollient soap containing
much oil is needed, at least for the
toilet. A cake of old CASTLE soap
shaved to a powder and then boiled
to jelly, makes a very gentle ant
thorough cleanser for the hands. A
finer soap is made of the best white
curd soap and old CASTLE, in the pro
portion of one-seventh of the lattel
to six-sevenths of the former. Thii
can be perfumed and made further
helpful with the addition of 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 still greater
injury, for the sudden change of tenn
perature is very baleful in its effect
Rheumatism is caused in this way al
well as salt rheum and a score OF
other hand annoyances. The ski
hardens and discolors and the handi
soon look weather-beaten and old. Al
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 shop.
have rubber gloves for this very pur
pose. dish mops are cheap and by
making a little pad for the necessary
holding Of the dish while 1t is being
mopped the hands can come through
dish washing spree without the leas'
injury. Have two pans of water, on,
for washing and one for rinsing, ant
then let the dishes drip dry in one O
the metal racks sold so cheaply. TheJ
will be cleaner than if wiped and tn!
hands will get little extra rest. Save
them all you can't is your duty.
For this dishwashing with gloves
for busting and all other "reddine
up" the hands are helped if they are
creased 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
the stain from becoming deep seated.
When a party is imminent and the
housekeeper feels that she must give
her hands an extra identifying so that
she will look well in her short-sleeved
frock, after giving her hands and arms
thorough scrubbing let her rinse
them off in bowl of fresh water con-
tanning 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 off the juice, dry the
hands partly and then rub in deli
cate hand lotion such as is made by
six parts of rosewater to one of glyc-
erin. The lotion will plump the skin
and add to Its Wilderness. 1t will also
help to keep on the powder. If that is
to be used on the hands and arms.