YOUR LITTLE FINGER.

Northland Age, Volume 4, Issue 3, 3 September 1907, Page 6

YOUR LITTLE FINGER.

IT CAM POINT BACK TO YOUfi GRANDFATHER’S STATION IN LIFE _ .u '

The fact that the hand looks shapelier and more graceful when the middle and third fingers are slightly curved in and away from the index and little finger fa shown by the models in the glove store and white it is affectation to hold the hand in such a position, yet thie exercise, to make the pose natural, should be practiced. Someone has said somewhere that! the number of cultivated generations' back of an individual may be judged by the degree of curve in the little finger. Observation will prove this more or less true. When one sees aJ person holding a glass or cup with* the little finger thrust out and curved 1 until it resembles a hook, a little inj vfcstigation will almost invariably] show that the desire for culture has ! only just awakened in that particular I family, and in its newness is some- | what overstepping the mark. Affec-i | tation is a sign of lack of breeding.' Some of the old painters understood hands to perfection. Long, rounded hands with slightly curved fingers and gently bent wrists, are characteristic of the women whose beauty they have made Sometimes, perhaps, the beautifulhands were those of some other model than the pictured one ; but 1 the painters knew that beautiful hands were as necessary as beautiful faces in order to make a harmonious picture. The hands which make no superfluous movements, which appear to obey readily and easily their owner’s will, whose movements are free, rhythmic, and gentle, are the really, graceful ones.