Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-11-09


ter they redden and roughen. If you
make cake you burn them. III YOU dust
you discoor the nails Ii you sew you
prick your fingers. II you do housework
you break the nails. If you work in your
garden you make them coarse and brown.
Whatever you do. your hands show the
results. Even IL YOU sit still and grow
fat. your hands get pudgy and unheauti-
full.
Eternal vigilance VIII keep the hands
in passable condition, however. And since
the hands are one of woman's most eX-
pressive belongings, eternal vigilance i'm
their care is worth while.
OF course, the most ordinary winter
dangers to the hands are redness, rough
ness and chaps" And If these dangers
cannot always be avoided, they usually
can be overcome
Poor health makes chapped hands prob
able, for poor health generally means
poor circulation. But even with poor
health you can keep the hands fairly free
from roughness.
To begin with. keep the hands as dry
as possible. Dry them thoroughly always
before going out of doors. Ii they are
especially sensitive. do not wash them
within fifteen minutes OF going out OF
doors Rub little of some sort of easily
absorbed. oily cream into them before
YOU put on your gloves A very little
vaseline thus rubbed in does not stain the
gloves, but as IL makes hair grow on
some skins. ii had better be avoided.
Some of the liquid creams can be safely
de-
II your hands perspire freely. dab them
softly with powder before putting on the
gloves The powder will absorb the per-
spiration and so keep both the hands and
the gloves in better condition.
Never overhead your hands IL they are
sensitive to chapp.ng. and IL they per-
spire 1t is a good plan to wear SILK or
cotton fabric gloves, even In the coolest
weather, if your hands perspire, when
you carry mum
Protect the hands every moment they
are out-of-d doors If they are sensitive
Don't even put them out Of the window
without covering them. They must DO
kept at an even temperature-neathe
oveTheated with thick gloves and a mum.
nor allowed to chill without any covering.
When the hands have become chapped
and Redeemed the quickest way TO get
agreeable sort of cream or ointment on
them and then put them in loose
gloves If by any unfortunate chance
the hands seem red or chapped In the
afternoon and you have dinner or
other engagement in the evening, you
can do wonders by glowing your
hands for an hour or so.
Put the ointment or cream on thickly.
and have the gloves loose. OF course.
If you are in no hurry, leave the gloves
on for several hours-all night when
YOU can conveniently do so.
This is recipe for good cream for
chapped HANDS: Melt two ounces Of
cocoa cutter in bowl over tea ket-
tie. Add the same amount of oil of
sweet almonds, and mix them thor
oughly with a wooden spatula. When
they are well mixed, add two drachms
of oxide of zinc and the same amount
of bordX Then add ten drops of some
oil for pertaining the mixture.
Put the cream In glass or crockery
dish and cover ii tightly. If you have
some of the small white Jars that jams
and sandwich pastes come in. use these
for homemade cold cream.
This is the way to max a good paste
to put on the hands at night, in order
to whiten and heal them:
Melt four ounces of yellow wax In a
bowl over hot water. Add two ounces
of powdered myrrh and take from the
fire. Beat the wax and myrrh to-
gether and add eight ounces of honey
and twelve ounces of rose water. Add
giycerin, unless IL disagrees with
your skin, until the paste is OF the
right consistency