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Show Making Hands Beautiful By Lina Cavaliert, The Most Famous Living Beauty. OF all the feminine charms there is none more desirable desir-able than a smooth Well cared for hand. Every woman can have such a hand if she will only make the necessary effort. Even housework is no excuse for coarse, chapped and reddened hands when rubber gloves are so easily obtainable. If I were to summarize my ev-perience ev-perience and the advice I would like to give about the care of the hands in one single sentence, I would say: "Never let the hands get cold." The advice is very comprehensive and in a sense sufficient. If you are careful never to let your hands get cojd. you will find that they will always be soft and white and will retain their natural shape and size. Very few women know how to wash their hands. Some do it too frequently and some not often enough. One of the first commandments command-ments I would issue is that you must "Always wash "your hands in tepid or hot water." If you are forced to use what is known as "hard water" then it should be softened with a little borax, say one teaspoonful to a quart of wa ter. Then dip Into the water a cake of the best soap. Ypu must try various kinds until you find one that agrees well with your hands. When I have dipped the soap into the water Jong enough to make a dainty lather I plunge-.my hands fhto it. After this, they should be dried, but only partly upon a soft loosely woven towel. Before they are thoroughly dry I take trom my medicine cabinet, a bottle of my iavorite softening and whitening lotion for the hands. - It is made . up of two parts of rose water to one part of glycerine. The addition addi-tion of one-fourth of an ounce of tincture of benzoin and ten drops of carbolic acid make it wonder-1 fully effective. Rub the hands thoroughly with this and allow five minutes more for them to dry. Observe how soft and white your hands are after such a bath and you will be surprised and delighted with this treatment. The hands should be washed in this fashion at least twice a day and even oftener, if your hands have been exposed to any soiling process. But one think I must 'impress on your mind and that is that the hands must be thoroughly dried before going out into the open air. Failure to comply with this precaution precau-tion will give your hands the chapped uncared-for appearanc that every dainty woman dreads. If the hands are dry and thin-looking thin-looking I should advise rubblnsj them three times a week with oliv oil. , But to assure beautiful hands, and that in the shortest possible time, you should massage them with a simple cold cream and wear rubber gloves at night. But the .gloves should be at least two sizes larger than the kid ones you use for day-time wear, and they should be punctured as freely as the top of a pepper box to allow of proper ventilation. Now as to how to massage th hands. A rotary motion is best for the face, but for the hands you should use a lengthwise one. I can best describe the massage for the hands by asking you to fancy you are wearing a pair of gloves for the first time. You must stroke the back of each hand firmly ,at least twenty times. Then lightly pinch the end of each finger, pressing press-ing the sides of the fingers between be-tween the thumb and second finger. You will find simple lemon juic of great assistance in keeping ths hands white and free from blem-isbes. blem-isbes. It will quickly remove dirt and stains from the skin and Dails ' and should be on every woman's dressing table. The nails must also be kept in a presentable state if the hand is to be considered a pretty one. Manicure them carefully at least minutes every day to pushing back once a week. Then give up five the cuticle from the nail, filing off the rough edges and keeping them clean. Hands that are tqo pudgy or thin usually reflect your general physical physi-cal condition: Get your bodily weight to its normal standard and you will have no difficulty in keeping keep-ing your hands In their natural shape. |