Show I Useful Hands Are f 3 The F Fairest airest Of All C I IBY BY JANE DIXON t tIn In Inasmuch as they are useful so m much t tare are they beautiful beautiful- hands 1 The most perfectly modelled the whit whit est est the softest the hand with sl Jn In the prece precepts ts of art lying idly the th e. e J lap of Its owner is more thin than a J j 1 lump of clay The lovelies hand h In all creation Is the mother hand hana S i Why 1 Because if it is a real mother hand deserving the name tt It t Is a hand 61 Of t. t JovIn loving lov- lov In fog ing Arond r service V G its tender fingers twine the Curls t- t of or brushed smooth for the day of youth o x s' s sin In olho the palm i m of ot it is the p panacea for that bruise Freckles collected on n hla hw knee when he be tride to tp make maka first firs base lse r 0 rit It knows the secret of the mince pie pla steaming on the Christmas table and It ft v knows the secret of the mending basket calling to darn the holes in the heels of o time and tide i As an iron to smooth out the furrows of or o of trouble of ot sorrow the mother hand has no peer Whenever I see a pair of If f fragile d' d hands glittering beneath their load ioa of ot gems I wonder that vanity can be so o blind v bl Women men of the savage sange trIbes wroe rings in irs their noses thereby increasing their desirability in the eyes eIS of cannibal men Invariably I recall the tie of a a I song that has touched the heart Of Or humanity hu- hu manity L I Love the Dear f manity I love the dear fingers so toll toU worn for me I c i There is nothing in the lyric to i suggest sug- sug f gest Mother Machree wore p. p t three thre r I carat blue white diamond i in In Ina a a platinum 1 setting on the third finger of her left lefthand h S SIt hand It narrows down then to what t emo- emo f fl tion we are desirous of inspiring in those thosa to whom we would be dear None else matters 5 r 1 Gemmed hands bands evoke admiration at the most o Quite u as often f n they are propagators I- I I 1 I of envy v Envy like all emotional fo poisons i i. i is destructive e Hands wearing the badge of service be beget love Love i is creative fl and d see everlasting ever ever- lasting When before the bar of eternal Justice the supreme Judge asks us what we have done with our hands there is bound to ta tobe be an embarrassing moment for tor any number of prideful persons 1 I X used my hands for the display 0 of beautiful Jewels Not a very satisfactory accounting In Cleveland 0 O. is a man of ot medicine by name Austin whose hands resemble nothing so much as a pair o ot of oke hands Hands with eyes Is the the- name v given to them by brother surgeons thid nd those who have known the magic of their theIr touch The hands of Gutzon Borglum the sculptor of exquisite dreams are arc built hunt d s in the same mould as those of a a. longshoreman long long- 4 One hundred per cent use equals on ons one hundred per cent beauty v This is and can be the only correct t V equation of hands |