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How To Be One's Own Manicure

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1895
Copyright
Public Domain
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Hot water is the first requisite, and a thorough washing or soaking of the hands. This is best attained by having the hot water poured into a basin continually for two or three minutes. The hands must be allowed to soak for f ully flve minutes, and it is well, instead of soap, to wash the hands very thoroughly in bran, which makes the skin soft and white. Af ter the hands have been thoroughly cleansed, the nails should then be attended to. With a piece of orange-wood stick sharpened to a point, and a hit of jeweler's cotton rolled around the point and wet with the acid that comes for this purpose, every partiële of dirt and stain should be removed. The hands must then again be washed, this time in warm, not hot, ■water. Scissors, very sharp and fine, must then be taken, and all loose flesh at the side of the nails carefully trimmed. The nails must be shaped in a pointed oval. All roughness must be filed away, and the flesh at the base of the nail pushed smoothly and firmly back, so that the half-moon, supposed inymiiwMiMfcEMtf uw "i mini ii''if to be a polnt of beauty, can be discerned. It is no longér considered good form to have so niuch pollsh on the nails that they look as though they had been buttered, as was the fashion two or three years ago. But a certain amount of polish is necessary. Rosaline put on over the entire nail and the end of the finger, then washed off again, and the nails polished briskly with a polisher, makes the hands look very trim and pretty. The first manicuring is by all odds the most difBcult. Af ter the nails and hands are once got into good condition, flfteen minutes each Monday morning will keep them in proper condition all the week through, if only ordinary care in washing the l.ands, with an occasional rub from the polisher, is given.

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Old News
Ann Arbor Courier