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Show Your Hands' Best Jewels The Most Famous Living Beauty. DAINTY finger nails are Nature's finishing touch for a heauti-' fill woman. They have always seemed to me to be the natural jewels of the hands, and if they are in good order, that other jewels are unnecessary, if not. superfluous. The color of the nails should he pink, like the deep, fresh heart of a blush rose. In shape they arc nearly like the filbert, nut. In. size, thev should be neither too large nor too small. They are more like, the petals of a half-blown rose, or the lining of a sea-shell than anything else in Nature. At their base must be a crescent tiny in proportion to the size of the nail, but as clear cut and silvery as a young moon on the night of its debut in the sky- Is there any need to say that the other end of the nail must bu as spotless and as utterly beyond suspicion as the character of Caesar's wife? There must never be the lightest rim or shadow to darken the fair pinkness of the nails. The skin about them must . also be discouraged from any intimacy with the nails. It fahould serve merely as a protector. If the nails are in good condition, normally, the morning hand-bath hand-bath should be. supplemented by soaking the nails themselves for five miuutes in warm soap-suds or a lather made of castile soap. This should be followed by a careful pressing back, with the towel, of the skin about the nails, until each portion of the skin is detached. de-tached. Next wrap around the pointed end of an orange-wood stick a bit of antiseptic cotton. Moisten this with a few drops of peroxide of hydrogen. "Willi this carefully remove the dust that may remain between the nail and the skin. File the nail into any shape you wish. A slightly pointed effect is admissablc. and is becoming to nearly all hands. Dip the buffer into the powder and rub the nail until my figure of their being "natural jewels of the hands'' becomes readily apparent, , |