Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 216, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1916 — GIVE AWAY PERSON’S AGE [ARTICLE]

GIVE AWAY PERSON’S AGE

Hands Are Treacherous in That Way and Must Therefore Be Given the Greatest Care. The hands, being used more than any other parts of the body, age first. That is the reason a woman who does manual labor has older hands than has a woman of the leisure class. The first signs of age appear in the hands. The hands are the greatest telltales of age. Take good care of them. Your age is in your hands. Aging hands are starved hands. The skin becomes dry and withered like a faded rose leaf. When a woman has passed the thlrty-year milestone she should give especial attention to keeping the hands well fed. The backs of the hands need the greater part of the nutriment, for it is there that the infallible signs of age first manifest themselves. At least once a day cold cream or olive oil should be well rubbed in. To prevent the yellowing effect of the oil, two drops of tincture of benzoin in every teaspoonful of olive oil used will be efficacious, for tincture of benzoin is a bleaching agent. For the same purpose a half dozen drdps of lemon juice in a teaspoonful of olive oil may be used.