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Show WHAT TO DO WITH HANDS. Here In a NeirWyof Learning How to Madge Them In Company. "Few people are thoroughly at ease about the disposition of their hands iu company," 8aid a teacher of the art of gesture. "And yet there is a very simple thing that may ba done to get rid of that disagreeable consciousness of the members which give rise to the difficulty. You see, the hands are far more highly edneated in this age of mechanical civilization civil-ization than they have ever been before. It may almost bo said that the brain has found its way to the ends of the fingers that these extrometies have come to possess pos-sess an inherent intelligence. For this reason tho attention is so fixed by habit upon the hands that thoy foci awkward, just as any other part of the body will do if you think particularly about it "You have only to fix your attention on your little toe in order to have it become be-come within a minute positively painful. pain-ful. It has often occurred to me that those monks of the Middle Ages who devoted de-voted their minds devoutly to the steadfast stead-fast contemplation of their Btoinachs, for the purpose of bringing on a trance condition, must have felt a grievous need of tTamaic ginger. "So, in order to be graceful in the disposal dis-posal of your bands, it is only necessary to get rid of consciousness about them, and you may accomplish this to a surprising sur-prising extent by a very simple gymnastic gymnas-tic process. Let them hang limply and wring them as violently as possible for five minutes, say. This will render them unconscious to a great extent, so that yon will not be disturbed for some time after by the excess of feeling in them. Consequently, while the effect lasts, yon will find yourself at ease about your hands and will have no trouble about their management. 'You will bo astonished, if you try it, to find how admirably it works. I have recommended it to hundreds of peoplo, and they have uniformly found it successful. suc-cessful. Do it once every day for a month and you will discover that, by the mere practice of the habit, yonr .embarrassment .em-barrassment in this regard has been greatly diminished. Tho time to perform the operation, obviously, is just before you enter a room full of company, though it will not do very woll to be found wringing your hands in the vestibulo of a house to which you have been invited, of engaged in what may appear to lie a frantic exhibition of grief in the reception recep-tion room." Washington Post. |