| Show working hands the best sightly cared cpr there is no need of having hands grow stumpy and thick with work they were made to work and some of the hardest working facea in the world have the finest hands and feet mark what mr stanley says of the african pygmies pigmies who hunt and grub for a living and yet have the most beautiful extremities as do many of the savage tribes the japanese the Hin doos italians and finns work and drudge yet their hands are more shapely and the skin finer than of those of some of our idle ladies if kept from injurious beat and alkali use really packs the cells of the skin together and in place of callous yon will find the palms of working bands a fine smooth incredibly tough membrane I 1 cant say tender but smooth and supple which a lifetime of work will not deface whether it holds the plow handle or the helm of housekeeping an application of the right sort will aid this refining and toughening of the tissues as every amateur pedestrian knows and one woman writes that been able for the first winter UL lia without cracked and roughened hands by grace of a clever cosmetic mittens of fine crash are indispensable for hands when housekeeping a yard making half a dozen pair which can be kept clean for daily use dirty gloves and mittens injure hands more than boap and water together sometimes I 1 am fain to believe from observation shirley dares letter |
