About the Hand. Hints and Suggestions.

Otago Witness, Issue 2758, 23 January 1907, Page 73

About the Hand. Hints and Suggestions.

"I'd give a thousand dollars for a nice pair of bands," said a business woman. "If I had nice hands I would be rich in a little while.

"Hands do a great d^al for a person. You can wear a veil over your face, and shade your complexion with a hat. "You can partially cover your bad features with \our hair, and you can drape 'this and arrange that so that your face is not brought out into the broad, dear light of day. With your hands it is different.

"A woman can wear gloves in the street, but even in gloves one's hands show. A woman cannot* put her hands behind her. no matter how stubby her n.iilfc may be, and she can't sit on them or wrap them in her apron or get them out of sight in any way.

*"A good pair of hands wins the day many » time for a business woman. If she can lay her hanxt upon her desk, well shaped and perfectly cared* for, it is worth good money to her. There is something prepossessing in a "good hand. "The woman v. hose hand is short and thick, and whose nails look as though they were chopped off. is handicapped. "The sight of her hands makes people warlike. They can see at a- glance that she is the "heroine- of many a battle. "If her Hands, on the "contrary, are nice and soft, white and well shaped, and if the nails are long and tapering -and pink to the very tips, then people like her. They want to be gentle with her. It is entirely different with the woman with a warlike hand.

"HEmd& are sometimes deceptive, and it often happens that people who have done no hard work at all are the owners of hands that are 6carred as if fiom battle. Bad hands mean bad management. "—New York Sun.