[Jewelry making - Article 00952] - Re: [Orchid] Cracked Fingertips

[Marty]

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Merry Solsticial Sentiments to one and all.

    I have been reading through the fine assortment of remedies for
    cracked fingertips that has been accumulating. Just goes to show
    that there is something for every taste. After all these suggestions
    it's hard to believe there is yet another possibillity to be
    considered and yet, out of an old memory, one has surfaced in my
    mind. 

    In the small Cape Cod town where I spent many formative years, there
    was one rather crusty old fisherman, Frankie, whose remarkable
    success with women was clearly not due either to his looks or to
    blind luck. He had to have a secret. I won't keep you waiting for
    it, should any of you harbour hopes for similar successes. "Soft
    hands!" he said. That's what did it for him. That's what set him
    apart and miles ahead of his horny-handed peers. For those of you
    inlanders who haven't seen a typical fisherman's hands or been
    caressed by them, it might help to imagine being pawed over by a
    pair of small roto-tillers or disc harrows. Compared to these
    abrasive instruments of torture, a jeweller's hands, at their worst,
    are like rose petals. Likewise, Old Frankie's hands were like rose
    petals. All the girls said so. 

    And how did Frankie keep his hands so soft? He insisted on being the
    one to wash the dishes on the trawlers where he crewed, a job which
    other fishermen avoided altogether, if possible, or took turns at to
    minimize their exposure to the onerous task. Frankie, however, went
    out of his way to do it and was therefore welcome on any crew. The
    food was greasy in the extreme, the wash water was generally neither
    abundant nor very hot, and somehow this combination of cold water,
    grease, and whatever else, (maybe even a little bit of soap was
    involved,but I doubt it) did the trick. Now I know this is not, on
    the face of it, as appealing as some of the rose-scented balms and
    salves I have read about in this thread of late, but still, science
    has not been able to come up with a better explanation for Frankie's
    phenomenal string of delighted lovers. Worth considering? 

    Yours truly, 

    Marty in Victoria - in the 21st century where dishwashing machines
    have taken a lot of the romance out of our lives.

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