Show LONG FINGER NAILS A chinaman raised one six mx in length to allow the nails to grow to an inordinate length is common in china as an indication that the owner follows a sedentary occupation or leads a life of leisure long nails malls on the right hand would inter interfere fero with the use of the brush corresponding with our pen and would therefore reflect unfavorably on the person concerned as tending to show that he did not demote himself to 0 composition and literary exercises the pride of every educated chinese they are almost always confined to the left hand therefore and are at times very long delicately chased silver cases being worn to protect them some years ago I 1 met a chinese gentleman who had bad carefully guarded the growth of the nails on the third and fourth fingers fingl a tm the former for ten years the latter for twenty five the nail on the fourth finger when the silver protector was removed was some six inches or more long and twisted like a corkscrew some se few months later this gentleman owing to an accident broke the nall nail his grief was waa AS aa great aa if he be had los ioa a near relative |