THE SPORT GIRL’S HANDS.

Gisborne Times, Volume XXXIII, Issue 3705, 14 December 1912, Page 4

THE SPORT GIRL’S HANDS.

Sport of all kind offers so many advantages to girls that they generally sneer at their more fastidious friends who refuse to play hockey, golf, tennis, etc., because “it spoils their hands.” In this the sport-loving girl makes a great mistake. There is no doubt that all strenuous outdoor games do slightly increase the size of the hands, but there is not the slightest need for the coarse, red, and rough examples that are, unfortunately, so often seen nowadays. All that i« necessary is a little I extra care, hut this, apparently, is j what the average "girl is too lazy or j too careless of her appearance to I trouble about. She will spend the j whole.day playing golf, without even | troubling- to take golves with Her, ! and in the evening she will rush home to dinner, hastily wash her hands in ] hard (and probably cold) water, dry | them quickly and carelessly, and then he surprised that they look as red and coarse as the hands of a charwoman. No hands,. however beautiful, will stand such treatment for long. But, if a few simple rules are regularly carried out, no sports girl need ever feel ashamed of her hands. First, she must always wash in warm soft water, and be careful to dry them thoroughly. Before drying a few drops of glycerine and lemon juice (mixed in equal proportions) should j be gently rubbed in. Every night on going to bed the hands should be well ! massaged with a good skin cream or"[ alrmnd oil, and loose, ventilated glov- I es should he worn. If the skin of ; the hands becomes very mottled-look- I ing, a refining paste made of six 1 ounces ground barley, two ounces of ; strained honey, and the whites of two ! egge should occasionally he spread i over the hands, and left on all night. |