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Show Boston. Millionaires nre won by beautiful hands, and thero novor wns a millionaire who3o wlfo had ugly fingers. fin-gers. When a man has a million dollars dol-lars he looks for a nice pair of hands and ho will not bo hnppy till ho gets them. A hundred Instances can bo pointed out to provo this assertion and a slnglo case to tho contrary Is not known. Women who havo caught millionaires havo In every caso had the most charming of hands. Somo-tlmca Somo-tlmca tho hands havo been almost their solo claim to beauty. Hands that have won millionaires havo been plump, expresslvo handB. The thin, wiry hand has few admirers. admir-ers. Tho practical hand Is tho ono that wins out In the raco of life. Tho ideal hand for a mllllonalro is tho capablo hand; It Is tho hand that can hnndlo a million as well as win a million. It should bo of medium size, In full proportion to the figure, nnd It Bhould bo well shaped. Tho fingers necessarily need not taper, but tho nails should bo long and filbert shaped. This hand tho plump, whlto hand, with Its pretty plnlc nails Is the hand that captivates. A man Is willing to -Ibs It, nnd ho generally loses no tlmo doing eo. Then thero Is tho Ideal childish hand, and It must bo admitted thnt this Is tho hand that is most deslrnblo. for it Is so feminine. It is a trlfio small In proportion to tho body It looks small on account of Its shape and It Is perfection. Tho fingers nro fat and thoy taper to a point whero thoy aro tipped with nails all pink, with silvery moons nt tho base. And tho back of tho hand 1b fat, with a row of dimples along tho tops. Thero aro no knuckles. In plnco of knuckles thero is a lino of dimples. This hand Is lovely, particularly partic-ularly If It bo soft and whlto. But It Is not an intellectual hand. Seek Women of Brains. Tho millionaire, wtien ho goes wlfo hunting, wants a woman of brains. Sho need, not wear them in her common com-mon seiifiu shoes and she need not display them In a pair of nggrcsslvo bonnet string, hut sho must have them Just tho samo. Millionaires want brains more thnn any other class of men. It has tnken brains to mnko a million, and now thero must bo bratns to shnro tho million! And tho hand must Bhow some Intellect as well as tho faco. Tho hand of Mrs, Clnrenco Mackay Is ono of thoso hands you read nbout In novels. It Is absolutely perfect In shapo nnd Its outline shows Intellect. It U tho even whlto hnnd of a Minerva. Miner-va. Mrs. Mackay's hand reminds you of a mnrblo baud, It Is so whlto nnd so perfect,. It is not small, but It Is shaped In tho most classic manner. It would bo Impossible for tho ownor of that hnnd to be commonplnco or tamo. Mrs. Mackay's hand Is historic. It was described years ago by a historian his-torian who wroto up her nncestrcss, Mrs. Kitty Dur, a belle of Washington's Washing-ton's day. When Mrs. W. K. Vanderbllt, Jr., caught a mllllonalro with almost ns many millions ns her own tho comment com-ment was: "Ho fell In lovo with her hands." Thoy nro of tho llttlo, pathetic pa-thetic typo, whlto nnd helpless looking, look-ing, Hko tho hnnds of a baby, nnd almost as plump. Thoy aro groomod exquisitely alwnys, nnd malicious persons per-sons havo accusod Mrs. Vanderbllt of wearing gloves at night. "In no other way could sho keep their roloi so perfect," they say. Her hnnds would bo useless hands wero It not for tho shnpo of tho fingers, which aro heavy whero they Join tho hands. When tho fingers aro heavy It denotes force of character nnd also a good disposition. Tho girl with beautiful hands should display them. They are hor most off fcctlve weapon. Sho should show them off all that Is possible, nnd if she be a wise girl sho will cultivate tho trick of having a llttlo tablo or stand or something convenient upon which to rest her nrms. It gives ono such a chanco to show tho flngors. Tho wlso woman wears ono ring upon each finger, but nover two. Ono ring sets off tho finger and preserves Its shape and general appearance. Will Use Hands for Conquest. Thero Is a girl In this town Who loves n man of millions. Sho is a shrewd glrl and sho loves him for himself, not for his money. But sho knows that tho road will bo a hard one. So she Is studying up tho band mattor. Sho la going to catch him with her hands and sho la willing that ho should keep hla eyes wldo open. When ho talks sho listens. To do this sho leans her head upon her hands. Sho haa cultivated this until sho knows how to make them frame her faco. Sho docs not spoil hor chin by any means, but sho rests hor hend upon her finger tips. It Is effective Sometimes, In a pathetic moment, sho rests her hand upon her bosom with Ita llttlo naked flngora spread out, and this suggesta many things to tho millionaire. Among other things ho notes how fine a diamond ring would look upon thnt hand nnd what a chanco thero ia for a solltalro upon tho third finger. Perhnps ho likes to talk and ho en-Joys en-Joys being told a thing or two. In that caso tho pretty girl with tho pretty pret-ty hands will make a study of using her hands. Sho will know how to talk with thorn, and you catch glimpses of hor explaining a thing or two to tho millionaire. Of courso Bho novor argues; Bho knows better than to argue ar-gue And sho nover discusses, she novor' takes sides, and Bho nevor has views. But sho chats, and sho gossips, gos-sips, and sho bnntors, nnd sho smiles, and sho teases. And sho does It all with her hands. Lady Mary Curzon has tho prettiest hnnds In England; they used, to bo tho prottlcBt hnnds In America 'and for nwhllo they wero tho prettiest bands In India. Sho could havo "caught" a hundred millionaires. But she caught JtiBt ono n man of mllllonalro brains. Her hnnds aro of tho artistic order long, slender, smooth, and without n bono showing tn them. They nre hands to bo worshiped. Fnsclnntcd by Hands. "I wonder if Bho would lot mo hold her hand a mlnuto?" brenthed nn artist at ono of tho exhibitions. "I would rnthcr touch her hnnd thnn gazo upon tho hnndsomcnt mnrblo In theso halls. I must know If thoy nro cold Hko marble or warm and huma.T" Tho duchess of Marlborough has a professional manlcuro to tnko caro of her hands. Sho cherishes them far too highly to lot them bo handled by ordinary persons. Tho flesh Is pulled back with bits of cotton wrapped around n tiny stick to keep tho whlto Bears from appearing; and thoro nro lotions and polishes, perfumes and unguonts, prepared expressly for theso hands. And tho end Justifies tho meanB. Thoy aro pink, soft and perfect. per-fect. No hands were over as oxquls-Ito oxquls-Ito to fue upon from a color standpoint, stand-point, for they nre Just red enough In tho palms to bo beautiful, and tho flesh Is a perfect flesh tono, while tho nails almost aro ruddy. Mine. Yvetto Oullbert has tho mot oxprosslve hands In tho world. Ono has to seo hor to appreclnto It. But onco hr.?lng seen her, thero Is llttlo room for (Snibt. Mmo. Gullbort has a wny of making her hands distinctive. When everybody every-body woro short gloves sho appeared In long and wrinkled elbow gloves. Now thnt tho elbow glovo Is common Bho wears a pair of whlto gloves, two button, with an oxpnnso of plump arm showing above tho .glove Hor hands nro wiry, tapering, nnd beautifully expressive ex-pressive Sho need not "saya word. Her handn Speak for her. - Mrs. Jolin Jacob Astor has tho Philadelphia Phil-adelphia typo of hnnds tho Quakerish, Quaker-ish, 8ubmlsslvo hands. They havo boon In her family for 200 years, and i hor father was famous for them. Tier , HH aro royal hands. They aro largo and tho nails aro wldo, but tho hand Itself ,H Is folded meekly upon tho lap. It Is H not a fidgety hnnd and It la not a hand H that picks at things. It la an oco- J nomlcal hand, and It ia tho hand that millionaires llko to marry. It Is a Cl hand that will not spend too freely. Tho millionaire's fortune Is safo in each hands. J Tho hnnds that win millionaires', nsldo from special, rases, are the hands that can poso prettily. If you., know how to fold your hands In your lap, If you know how to rest them upon tho arm of your chair, lf youtknow how to pick; up this and that, and how' to Use your fingers nicely, then you may ff col certain that you 1iav hands that can woo an ft win a mil- Pouring ten Is the favorlto way' "to show tho hands. Lady Brooke, now the countess of Warwick, won.. her name and hor fnmo hy the beauty of J her hands, which wero "Hko whlto pigeon wings" hovering over tho tea-cups. tea-cups. Thoy were bo pretty that ypu asked for another cup Just to seo 'her pour ,tlo tea. Lily Langtry has Jpst such hands, nnd It takes a masseuso IB minutes each night to rub nnc-sago nnc-sago cream Into them. They must, bo kept young nnd whlto. Hands, sboyr ago m quickly and easily, Constant caro and nttcntlon la ncccs-snry. ncccs-snry. Without thof most watchful caro tho hands nro certain to d.ctcri-orate. d.ctcri-orate. No part of tho human body must endurn tho strain nnd wear that falls upon tho hnnds, nnd no part.de-tcrloratcs part.de-tcrloratcs so rapldty when neglected. A few dayn of no'glect and thd 1inlln, tho complexion qf tho hands, cypn bo shape of the hnnds, show tho ravages of wear and use. ' ' .Tho nandsiago moro rapidly than tho face Glovea .may conceal, part of ,lio sips, but tho contour, tho flexibility, tho beauty of the hands' revcal' them-solves them-solves ovon through gloves. 'Yot, da- splto tho fact that thoyaga so rapid; ly, no part of the body la so ensUy rcs'torcd at least to partial beauty and HH no part, certainly, repays tho tlmo nnd labor so woll as do tho bands. Mas-sage, Mas-sage, n careful manicuring, a few' hours of steady rubbing with triassago cream,, will work woudcrs even td ugly hands, Ccrtnln It Is that the hands have almost as great' a power to charm' the masculino animal as the face Tha soft, firm, tender handclasp, tho vcj-voty vcj-voty feel of tho perfect band perfect-ly perfect-ly ,kopt, win men and often millions. |
