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WOMAN'S PAGE (CONTD.)
BOTTICELLI HANDS.
ADVICE OF A PORTRAIT PAINTER AND A BEAUTY
SPECIALIST.
"In a portrait, I consider the The long, slender angers of Botti
are closer to the hands to be of equal importance to Gelli's women the head," said Miss Flors Lion, hands themselves are rounded, not modern type, but even there the
the well-known portrait-painter.muscular. Certainly those great The hands of modern women are indies of the Renainratice · never just as beautiful as those portrayed drove cars or played games; nor by the old masters.
did they suffer from servant prob Yet the intriguing history of cosmetics tells that they were careful to treat those already soft hands with elaborate oils and un- guents. How infinitely more dif
enlt it is to keep the active hand young:
We forget that the 18th centurylems. Italians often bail models for the hands aloue. Now-a-daya the artist does not chooke special models for the hands, but painta the whole portrait or study from one in dividual. The fact that painters do not require "to" seek an extra models to portray a beautiful hand
All-Important Nails
The first item to which atten- is encouraging. It shows that. tion should be paid is the nails, for beautiful bands are, no rarity they can be shaped to accentuate to-day.
or alter the shape of the hands. Short, stubby Angers acquire elegance when the nails are" nar- rowed by cutting down the sides as far as possible, and elongated
Artist's Commentɛ On Some Modern Hands. "The well kept hand of to-day ia every bit as beautiful, and graceful
as that of the Botticelli Madonna into a point This should be round- of the Pomegranate, though come off, not sharp. Sharp nails give parisons are always odious Take the hand a claw-like, rapacious as an example the hands of June, appearance, Long, tapering fingers which are typical of the slender, require nails of natural breadth, so well-kept modern type.
they are cut very slightly down the sides and led to a flat arch.
." The hands of Miss Edith Evans, whose portrait I am paint- ing, are, beautifully shaped and exceptionally expressive.
The expression of the hands makes or mars a portrait. Two photographs which I have of Mme. Techernicheva, of the Russian Ballet. in The Good-Humoured Ladies' and The Three-Cornered Hatia- cidentally one of my most interest ing sitters might portray the hands of two separate people; so great is the effect of changed angles and attitures. Pore of the hands is, accordingly, worthy of study..
Mins Laura Cowie's lovely hands are enhanced by small and exquisitely moulded wrists, which one might expect to be rare in these days of athletics. How beautiful yet strong a capable hand can be is shown in those of Miss Madge Titheradge"
I need hardly add that a well- arched half-moon' adds grace to the hand, and should be enitivated by the regular but not to energetic use of a thin orange stick with a little cuticle, cream.
When Varnish Should Not Be Used.
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"A special lotion can be had for colouring, to be applied before the varnish, by the women who like pink nails. Varnish, by the way, should never be used by sufferers from rheumatism. Otherwise there will be brittleness of the nail, A good polish, however, is harmless in such cases. ———-
Exercises and massage play an important part in "hand, as in facial, treatments, not only for banishing fat and wrinkles but for cosening those tight muscles that give a scraggy' look. In a lesson treatment I advise clients to work usually lean and muscular," said all the finger-joints in a rotary Dover-street beauty specialist.
"Modern woman's hards ате
Instead of folding them, de corously gloved, in her lap, she is continually using them to drive a car or play tennis. In my experi ence fat hands in women are com- paratively rare to-day.
Betraying Old Age. "Nothing betrays old age, more obviously than the hand, and it is the thin, active hand that ages first, showing tightened muscles, swelling veins and wrinkles. Possibly it is this fact that is possitively driving women to pay almost as mach attention to hand-treatment as they do to facial treatment. I have noticed that during the last ten years hand-grooming has become more and more. & popular cult. Women who do manual work take
motion sight and morning. Mass- age should be done upwards, to wards the heart.
Feeding The Tissues.
"The liberal use of a nourishing ing cream keeps the tissues healthy and prevents unsightly sagging. I never advian clients to wear gloves at night as I am never sure they will wear those that are sufficiently loose, Gloves, if they are not big, are apt to stop free circulation, and counteract the benefit of driving the cream into the skin. A few minutes' massage should be auf- ficient to rub in the cream. During the day, to prevent roughness, a little day-cream should be applied before and after washing,
WHAT IT MEANS TO BE PRESENTED.
OPINIONS FROM WOMEN OF FIVE COUNTRIES WHO HAVE BEEN TO COURT.
King's birthday party is really more like a Court, for the Viceroy's wife is present and the women make; a curtsy,"
The Wife of a State Official in India.
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Because each year the number of women and girls who want to be presented increases by leaps and bounds; because the competition of American girls to be included in the limited number the American Ambassador's wife may present be
An Australian Expects It. comes more and more keen; because
Everyone expects that an Aus- girls from the overseas Dominions: now think a visit to England in-tralian girl who is well connected complete without being presented. will be presented when she comes to the question arises:--
England. They do not ask if she is going to Court; they expect it. It is part of the programme-you see England and the Continent, and go to Court. Of course, A great many girls want to be presented! • who do not manage it. The High Commissioner's wife can only pre- sent a certain number, and some girls may arrive too late. It takes about six months to arrange.
Evening Make-up For The Hands.
"For hands which have already the greatest pains to prevent any become surburned there is a bleach- roughness in their hands. I know several who come to me to asking cream, which is necessary in for special softening creams and there out-of-door days when gloves. lotions. Women with badly groom- do not always protect the hands. ed hands are becoming the excep- by day and never conceal their blemishes in the "evening. Even tion rather than the rule.
when these is no sunbara a slight A Changed Ideal...
redness is often visible.
A new "The shape of the hand often hand and arm lotion makes a fine follows that of the figure. The creamy film over the skin, and as rather full figure was the ideal of it is not a powder it does not rub Many Renaissance painters, and the off. Some such evening 'make-up' soft, rounded hands of the famous is often necessary, even for the best. Mona Lisa' are scldom seen to-day.' groomed hand."
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What does it mean to a girl socially or professionally-to be presented i
What does it mean, not only in this country, but in other coup- tries?
Here is the answer of those who have had the experience.
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What It Means In England. It does not mean so much, now that society has grown so big and so mixed, as it did in Queen Vic-] toria's day, "when people who were received were the old aristocracy and the Drawing Rooms much smaller-how much smaller can be judged from the fact that débutantes had to curtsy to all the Royalties present, which meant 6 or 8 curtsies. They had also to kiss the Queen's hand and then to walk backwards out of the Throne Room:
A girl who has been to Court is asked to the Government House parties. The Governor-General dees not hold a Drawing Room, but there are garden parties and other func tions at Government House. It is good for a girl who has a pro fessional career to be presented, for, if she is a singer, the Aus tralian public is more interested in her. She is also invited to sing at Government House parties and
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There is no time for this amount at all the private parties. The big of ceremony to-day, with 400 or so attraction to us, however, is seeing presentations to be made; the the King and Queen at home! débutante curtsies to the King and Queen and pusses on.
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An Australian Débutante.
American Competition. There is great rivalry among the American girls who want to be pre- sented. Mrs. Houghton sometimes has 600 applications. I know a girl who went over to Paris to find Mrs. Houghton so that she could be Grat!
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Our mental attitude is different That girl had been to yours. brought up in a country where she knew she had a chance of every thing if she could get it.
Because of the numbers of people preseated, there are now very few Court functions to which, as in the old days, a débutante might have looked forward Though there have been State balls in honours of visit ing foreign monarchs, I do not think there has been a Court ball eince the war, while King Edward generally held two during the sea- son. There have been some dances at the palace, but only for the immediate friends of the young Princes. There used also to be State concerts, to which only girls come over from the States It is the people who had been presented were just to be presented. invited. The Queen, on the other" thing to do Although we ap hand, usually holds two afternoon preciate the honour, it is really of parties, as she has done this season, but they are more or less private gatherings. Far more people of course, go to the garden parties at Buckingham Palace than are pre sented at Court.
Where it does make a difference is in going abroad.or in marrying a man who has an important posi tion abroad. To have been present- ed at Court is to a foreigner a sign of being well-born.
An English Débutante.
In India It Brings Many Invitations, A girl who has been presented at home is invited everywhere; it is known at once. She goes to the functions at the Vice-Regn! Lodge and at any of the Governor's houses There is nothing to equal the Eng. lish Court, at Delhi. People above a certain rank or in a certain poei. tion are summoned to what is really
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no social importance in our coun- try. We are interested also in social form, and in participating in it, particularly as we have no- thing like it in our country,
The idea of being presented at the Court of St. James's bas deve loped very much in recent years.
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Keen Canadian Girls.
To be presented in England is a great thing in Canada. All our girls are wild about it. The papers are full of it, and they all have the Canadian débutantes photographs in their Court gowns. The Draw. ing Room which our Governor- General holds seems but a mimiery after the colour and pageantry at Buckingham Palace. I am a singer, and after I had given a recital in London" and the High Commissioner became interested because I am.
a Leved. The wife of the Viceroy doing serious music, it was sug
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