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Show FINGERNAILS DENOTE HABITS Owner Either Is a Sloven or Is a Very Hard Worker. Although the eyes may be the windows win-dows of the soul, the fingernails constitute con-stitute the front porch, and when one enters a neighbor's home he generally gener-ally pays more attention to the porch than he does to the windows, during his brief wait upon the threshold, says the Omaha World-Herald. Dirty fingernails indicate one of two conditions-Mhat the wearer is a sloven or a mighty hard-working person. per-son. There should be sympathy for the laborer who has to work around with a lot of dirt and gTease and other oth-er disagreeable stuff that gets beneath be-neath his fingernails and pretty nearly near-ly baffles eradication, but the ordinary ordi-nary business man or housewife whose nails are not clean is likely to suffer a reverse in estimation at the hands of his or her acquaintances. As breeding places for germs the fingernails are delightfully equipped. Hence it is well that in the public schools the teachers see to it that the youngsters are compelled to keep themselves clean in this respect, if their parents have been negligent therein. |