The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-11
Your Kid Gloves.


they undoubtedly grew on the back of a
colt.
don't know as that's anything against
them. don't see why the skin of a lamb
isn't as pretty as the skin of kid and
colts, for all know, have as good skins as
either of them. TAlENl f. 4
You see there are not kids enough in the
whole world to supply the glove-makers,
and that's why they make war on lambs
and colts.
Pm afraid there would't be many colt
skin gloves, if they come to America for
skins. We are too fond of horses to kill
colts for their skins. But they get them
easily from Tartary, for the people of that
country eat their colts, as we do lambs.
Besides kids, lambs and colts, sheepskins
are made into gloves in Germany and Italy,
and sold in America for kid. They have
the advantage for being cheap, so that
as well at little distance as yours that
cost three dollars.
But whether sheep, kid, lamb, or colt,
the skins have to go through the several
operations before they are put in snug
packages of one dozen pairs of gloves.
In the first place they are collected from
the ends of the earth and sent to the
glove-maker, we'll say in Paris, since all
gloves profess to come from that city.
The first operation in this factory, is to
remove the hair. If it was common skin
for shoes, it would be taken off with lime,
but delicate skins require different meth
cd. So it is soaked in water and Indian
meal What it does to it Pm sure don't
know, but when the meal is we'll beaten
out, the hair comes off with perfect ease.
The skin has next to be cut down a little
thinner, and is then ready to be colored.
For this operation it is laid right side up
on large, flat stone, while the color is put
on with brush, painted as you may say.
That's why gloves of whatever color, are
always white inside.
When the color is dry the skin is ready
to cut out, and that is very funny oper-
alton.
The glove-cutter has steel frame, shaped
like pair of open hands, and all around
the outside of the frame is a sharp edge.
Having laid the prepared skin on the frame,
he takes up club-a drOll club it is too,
all stuffed and padded so as to be soft-and
wish it he gives the stretched-out skin one
blow. The sharp edges of course cut, and
the glove is ready for the sewer. The
strips for the inside of the fingers are cut
from the edges of the skin. Then they are
tied up in bundles of a dozen pairs, and
sent out to be sewed. .t.. .fs a.,.tt
This is done in the country, at their own
homes. Perhaps you have noticed--you
girls mean-that when your glove rips,
! you can never sew it so nicely as it was at
first. That Is because the woman who
first sewed it had very ingenious little
machine to help her. This machine is
sort of clamp, that holds the edges of the
seams together, with little notches for every
stitch. The sewer puts her needle in every
notch, and she can't get it uneven and
clumsy. H att a.IIaiu. }
After being sewed they go back to the
dealer, who puts them up in the packages
you've seen in the shops, dozen different
colors in a package. auiffas
There are-for ladies-ten different sizes
made. The smallest is five and three
eights, and the largest is eight and one
quarter, though the larger numbers are not
sent to America In fact, we use the
smallest gloves made. ii' i9
Do you know how to tell what size Of
glove you need? Take tape-measure and
measure your hand around the knuclle.
The number of inches and quarters of an
inch that it measures, is exactly the she Of
the glove. That is, If it is five inches and
three-quarters around, you want gloves
No. 81.
There's one little thing want to tell
you girls, privately, and that is, nothing
makes n young lady's hand look worse
than glove too small. When the palm of
the hand is squeezed double, and the first
button don't come down fairly on the wrist,
it looks like-well, you,l think it's vul-
gar-but 1t does look like stuffed sausage,
and the wearer looks like weak-minded
girl.