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Show Page SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1931 TIIE JOURNAL 10 WOMAN'S WORLD Correct Techniques for Hand, Nail Care By Ertta Haley BUSY hands, whether they work home, office, garden or club, Keep Cool! need care to keep them looking lovely, feeling comfortable and able to do their various jobs efficiently. Hand or nail beauty, just as facial or figure beauty, doesnt just happen. Because hands are busy, they need just as much, if not more, care than hair, figure or clothing. They are almost constantly in use during your waking hours. If your hands and nails happen to look nice without much care, chances are that youre pretty lucky, or that youve adopted correct techinques in caring for them without much thought. If they dont look as lovely as you want them to be, then its a relatively simple matter to get them into proper shape as most hands yield quickly to some attention. Certain jobs and conditions peculiar to the hot weather demand that you give extra attention to the hands to keep them at the peak of condition. If youre gardening, for example, hands can easily become coarse and rough, with nails broken and uneven. Then, too, if youre active in sports, you may develop certain lovely at the same time with n this dressy bright silk organza plaided with a thin line of black. This New York dress is designed over an underslip of green crepe, fastened in jet in double-breaste- d effect and belted in black blue-gree- patent. sore fingers or even bumps on some of the digits that are not only uncomfortable but also unhappy looking. Canning, cleaning, laundry jobs around the house as well as grimy office jobs may well take their toll of both hands and nails. Given streneven for such proper care, uous activities, hands can continue to look beautiful in spite of all they have to do. Give Hands Protection With Creams, Lotions One of the most important things to learn about hand care is to prevent damage before its done. If youre about to plunge into work which is guaranteed to take its toll on hand beauty, dont wait until the hands look bad before doing something about it. Take precautions to prevent whatever damage you can. Lotions or creams applied to the hands before doing office work such as filing, gardening, canning, laundry or cleaning, act as protective agents and prevent a great deal of damage to the actual skin and nails. Naturally these should be applied again after the task is over. If hands are dry, use the more gentle of the creams and lotions available. If theyre too oily, they should be washed as frequently as possible. Hands which have already become rough and coarse, should have frequent applications of hand cream and enough massage to stimulate the circulation, thus helping to rejuvenate the skin more quickly. Gloving the hands is another good way of protecting them, not only for the rough tasks which they must perform, but also when going out. For gardening, use canvas gloves after a generous massage and application of cream or lotion. For dish washing, laundry and other such tasks about the house a pair of rubber or plastic gloves will give nice protection. by massage with hand cream or lotion. Afater the cuticle has been properly softened, push it back very gently with an orange stick. When soft, the cuticle does not break, so it should be pushed only after an oiling or creaming. Hangnails can also be prevented by shaping the comers of the nails no closer than 116 of an inch from the skin. Nails that split and break easily should be treated internally as well as externally. The diet should contain plenty of calcium, vitamin C and D. This means sufficient orange juice and milk daily. The hands should be oiled (with cuticle oils) especially at the cuticle to prevent dryness. Avoid shaping the nails too sharply or too closely at the corners. If they are shaped short, and to a neat oval, they will fare better. Several coats of nail polish, either colorless or colored can prevent any of the splits from catching as you work with the hands. Those who do much work with their hands can increase the life of their manicures by keeping the nails a short oval shape. Picking up things with the balls of the fingers rather than the nails helps avoid snagging them. You can keep cool and look Eliminate Stains On Hands, Fingers Its poor practice to let hands become stained when gloves can be worn to protect them, but there are some tasks that cannot be done with gloves, such as many types of office work. Harsh stain removers and bleaches will clean the hands, but they may also roughen them. First step toward keeping the hands and fingers from becoming too stained is to apply a cream or lotion which is but which will coat the hands lightly. Then, as soon as youre finished working, wash the hands thorougly in lather and water. Difficult stains left after washing can usually be removed by rubbing the hands lightly with oily polish remover on cotton balls or pads, kept conveniently near the wash stand. Polish remover is an excellent solvent for most types of stains, and its not harsh. If youve been picking Jjerries or doing some dyeing and the hands" are stained badly, try lemon juice and water, or a mild bleach made of hydrogen peroxide and water. Follow either treatment by thoroughly washing and rinsing the hands, then an application of lotion or cream. Certain kitchen tasks leave the hands with odors on them, such as cutting onion or garlic. In this case, rub the finger tips with salt, and the hands with a slice of lemon. Lather the hands under cold running water. A deodorant soap is also good for eliminating odors from the hands. If rings leave stains on the fingers, as often happens with costume jewelry, its a good idea to treat the ring rather than the finWash the ring thoroughly, gers. then coat it with colorless nail polish. This keeps the acids of the fingers from acting on the metal of the ring which causes the stains. non-greas- Special Hand Problems Need Attention Those who have jobs which require the use of a pencil for most of their working hours frequently find they develop a bump on their finger. These are not only painful but unsightly. If a finger guard doesnt help, its a smart idea to get in the habit of massaging the affected finger deeply. If more strenuous measures are required, gentle rubbing with a pumice stone will help keep the bump down. ; Cool Sun Dress young daughter will be delighted with this cool sun dress thats cut on simple princess lines. Trim waist top and pocket with eyelet. For cover up theres a tiny bolero. 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Box No. State City British Production British automobile makers announced recently that they produced 522,515 cars and 262,702 commercial vehicles in 1950 to top their 1949 figure by 25 percent. y, apply polish to protect nails. My, What Ears . . . A geneticist with the Roscoe B. Jackson Memorial Laboratory has If theres a great discrepancy cat with developed a Siamese between hand and face color, this ears. orange-colore- d little problem is easily solved by the use of hand make-up- . This is The Sangdong tungsten mine similar to facial make-up- , and will TTot'come off until washed. There near Yongwol in south Korea is are several shades from which to one of the most important tungsten choose, so they can match individ- deposits in the world. ual skin tones. Soap Substitutes History reveals that ancient soap substitutes wrere olive oil and earth and plant ashes. Sand and pumice scrapers were also considered good cleansing agents. 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Going out to celebrate of an eveSilk organdy over taffeta ning? makes a good combination for the dress, while deep tucks at the hem give a feeling of luxury and sense You Care Requires Proper Technique Nail troubles are common when the hands are required to take abuse, but many of them can be avoided. Take hang nails, for example, which can be avoided with sufficient care to the cuticle. The cuticle should be kept soft of smartness. 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