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Show Keyboard Is Key to Hand-Beauty 'fii . ,-. 1L iZZ3 f V-'j '-Bd Graceful and expressive hands are two of a woman's most potent po-tent assets. An index to your character and grooming, they are constantly in the social spotlight and should receive as much consideration con-sideration in your beauty schedule sched-ule as your face and figure. Not only should your hands be scrupulously clean and well tended, but there should also be a suppleness and deftness about their movements that will attract and please the eye of the beholder. be-holder. Avoid forced or affected hand - manerisms and seek to develop a natural and easy grace. One way to do this, according to Virginia Carrington Thomas, director di-rector of the Hammond Organ School, is to practice simple five-finger exercises on your electric elec-tric organ or piano just as you used to when you first took music lessons; In performing the simple five-finger five-finger manoeuvres the stiff, rarely used tendorts in your hands receive re-ceive a thorough limbering-up. Then try this little exercise: span as many notes as you can, feeling feel-ing the stretch through your entire en-tire hand. For a final routine, strike a series of chords up and down the keyboard using a loose wrist action. If this daily routine, in addition addi-tion to being beneficial for your hands and your social poise, should also reawaken your interest inter-est in playing the piano and electric elec-tric organ, so much the better! |