Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 159, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 July 1916 — FINGERNAILS DENOTE HABITS [ARTICLE]

FINGERNAILS DENOTE HABITS

Owner Either Is a Sloven or Is a Very Hard Worker. Although the eyes may be the windows of the soul, the fingernails constitute the front porch, and when one enters a neighbor’s home he generally pays more attention to the porch than he does to the windows, during his brief wait upon the threshold, says the Omaha World-Herald. Dirty fingernails indicate qne of two conditions—that the wearer Is a sloven or a mighty hard-working person. There should be sympathy for the laborer who has to work around with a lot of dirt and grease and other disagreeable stuff that gets beneath his fingernails and pretty nearly baffles eradication, but the. ordinary business man or housewife whose nails are not clean is likely to suffer a reverse in estimation at the hands of his or her acquaintances. As breeding places for germs the fingernails are delightfully equipped. Hence it is well that in the public schools the teachers see to it that the youngsters are compelled to keep themselves clean in this respect, if their parentß have been negligent therein.