Your Fortune's In Your Hands

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 226, 24 September 1938, Page 4 (Supplement)

Your Fortune's In Your Hands

By Sylvia Blythe

For Women

HANDS are second only to faces in importance, in the opinion of John Powers, famous for his beautiful models. And there are Powers models who have won fame for their hands alone.

On© of thet?e m Helen Keller, with t\e "most photographed hands in America." ITor lovely hands are in demand for t iio artistic effects she achieves with them.

\our hands, too, can be beautiful whether they are long and thin, plump and dimpled, brown and tripper-quick, exotic and glamorous, or ample and sinewy. Remember that your hands are most graceful in curved movements. Think in circle.*. Practise at your desk; at your dinner table when you pass the plates or pour the tea. These rounded gestures will become automatic, once you acquire the mental imaye of your hand moving in small circles.

Calm hands reveal serenity and poise. If you feel that your hands do not achieve the proper repose, relax them.

Then fokl them in your lap, as Miss Ressler does, one hand with palm up. the other held over it in a loose clasp with palm down. If you are inclined toward nervous hahits. such as toy.ng with your jewellery or sash, or waving \ our hands when you talk, practise economy of motion. Move your hands in soft, curved gestures—and onlv when

tliey make a charming punctuation of your speech. Do you have tense muscles which keep your hands from relaxing? Try the exerrise Miss Ressler uses between long periods of posin<r. Extend your arms up from the shoulders and. using your wrists as pivots, flap your hands for a few minutes over vour head.

If -vour hands lack suppleness, theie is another exercise which this mode, finds valuable. Moke fists, alternately digging vour fingers into your palm>; and then opening the hands, and stretching the fingers as wide apart as they will spread. Contract and open the hand quickly to give the muscles play. Message with a rich skin cream a few minutes each night. But first soak them in warm water to open the pores. With the fingers of one hand, rub the cream into the other, starting at the finger tijw and pressing firmly toward the wrists, as if you were putting on new kid gloves. Leaving the cream on overnight and sleeping in a ]»iir of oversized cotton gloves, well ventilated in the lingers, are beautifiers.

Frequent washing tends to rob your skin of its nntural oils, to injure it* fine texture, and to weaken the firm cushions of underlying tissues. But you can cope with these tendencies. Wash your hands with a so«p as pure as the one you use for your face. Also make it a rule to apply a hand lotion every time, oven if you havo to carry a small bottle in your purse. Avoid exposing your hand* to extremes of hot and cold.

Your hsurl is a compact, five fin pre red summary of your body, mind and capacities. It is invariably an open letter telling of its owner's habits.