The Waterbury Democrat., 1941-08-21
GlOritdng Yourself
By Alicia Hart
'EA Service Stan Wrlter)

(NEA Service Stan Wrlter)
 This is Juliette's story of her ten long nails and how they grew.
 Juliette Is no Capulet, blushng on a balcony, though her fingers would reach around 8 good many railings. There's about three inches of nail. Juliette Is q Hollywood hand stylist. She tells the stars and soon will tell American women in many cities how to have nails any length starting from scratch.
 saThat's how started" Juliette swore to me. Twas born with practically no nails at all. What came later, I used to eat, until about fifteen yeards ago"
 But what can she do with those. now that she has them2
 "I play poker" juliette said. T rake, in with my right elbow. And If my luck changes, believe you me, I deall NEAR TRAGEDIES
 AND BIG BREAKS
 'sNo, never wake up with my nails sunk in my flesh. just sleep with my fists doubled. That's the way swim too. And ride horse- back. Once at Victor McLagler's horse club, I got thrown. I passed right out, and came to screaming, My flngernailsl' Not one was broken.
 "The scaredest I ever was2 Well, once when I was playing in the surf big breaker caught me. It rolled me over and over. But would you believe it, I scarne up fists flrBtl"
 Juliette has had one unlucky break-a real blow-up. Everybody was there, shooting firecrackers. I decided to light one ,ard-Pocofl-- my right nail went off. Everybody got down on. hands and knees to look for it. Jean Parker found 1t, thank goodness, at least she found what was left of 1t, and pitched 1t right back on." ~..
 Sure enough, the only trace that could see of the accident was that Juliette's right thumb-nail is stiu half an inch shorter than her left. These nails re curved. The last inch of them turns right. They grew that way, Juliette says, because she keeps her hands closed 50 much. AVERAGE WOMAN
 CAN TAKE A TIP
 There's an appealing story to Juliette's acquiring these nails, and she told it with all her ready warmth. She speaks with dramatic accent-French, guessed-and she admits there's 6 vast difference be- tween the thought that she gives to hers and the ease with which the average woman can take care of hers. She learned that by expe- rience.
 All her life, she says, she wor- ried about her flngertipS. She went to doctors, she went to laboratories, trying to find something to make them Sprout. Then she went to work herself as manicurist in Holly wood, and she tried every massage cream and oil imaginable. After g while she was allowed to study her nails under the microscope, and found, she thinks, one reason why nails break: it is that air gets in between the layers of the tip. So she began to seal them, literally. with various kinds of things. And -behoId-her nails thickened. Not from the sealing alone. of course. but that is what Juliette believes was most important. She has de- voloped brand new kind of Sealer. which she thinks enough of to put on the market.
 "Sometimes," said Juliette, 1T do not remember that I have something unusual until a crowd or line ap- pears to march by me and I hear remarks made about me. For that resaon I seldom go to a public res. taurant."