Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1872-07-31
Your Kid Gloves.


nice three button gloves, from Paris, they
undoubtedly grew on the back Of colt.
| don't know as that's anything against
them. | don't see why the skin of
lamb isn't as pretty as the skin Of a kid
and colts, for all l know, have as good
skins as either of them.
You see there are not kids enough in
the whole world to supply the glove ms
kers, and that's why they make war on
lambs and colts
I'm afraid there wouldn't be many colt
skin gloves, if they came to America for
skin. We are to- fond of horses to kill
colts for their skins. But they get them
easily from Tartary tor the people of
that country eat their colts, a. we do
lambs.
B sides kids, lambs, and colts, sheep
skins are made into gloves in Germany
and Italy, aud sold in America for kid
They have the advantage of being cheap,
so that B,ddy can have gloves for dollar,
that look as we'll at a little distance as
yours that cost three dollars.
But whether sheep kid, lamb or colt
the skins have to 90 through several oper-
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ages 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, Wen say Paris, since all
gloves profess to come from that city.
The first operation in the factory is to
remove the hair II it was a common
skin for shoes, 1t would be taken off with
lime, but delicate skins require a different
method So it Is soaked in water and In
ian meal What that does to it. I'm sure
Il don't know, bat when the meal Is well
beaten out, the hair comes off with perfect
ease.
The skin has next to be cut down lit
tie thinner, and is ready 10 be coIorei.
For this operation it is laid right side up
on a large fiat stone, while the color Is put
on with brush, painted a. you may say.
That's why gloves OF whatever color arc
always white inside
When the color is dry the slin is ready
to cut out. ani that Is a very funny oper-
alton.
The glove cutter has steel frame
shaped like a pair OF open hands, and all
around the outside OF the frame is a sharp
edge Having laid the prepared skin on
this frame he takes up a club-a drol
club it Is too, all stuffed and padded so as
to be soft-and with 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 bun
dies of a dozen pairs, and sent out to be
sewed
This is done in the country, by women
at their own homes. Perhaps you have
noticed-you girls, l mean-that when
your glove rips, you can not sew it so nice
ly as it was at first. That is because the
woman who first sewed it had a very in
genious little machine to help her This
machine is a sort of a clamp, that holds
the edges of the seams together. with lit
tie notches for every stitch. The sewer
puts her needle in every notch, aud she
can't get it uneven and clumsy.
After being sewed they 90 back to the
dealer, who puts them up in packages you
have seen in the shops, dozen different
colors in a package.
There are-for ladies-ten different
sizes made, The smallest is five and three
Fights, and the largest eight, though the
larger numbers are not sent to America
In fact we use the smallest gloves made.
Do you know how to tell what size of
glove you need ? Take tape.measure
and measure your hand around the knuck-
les. The number of inches and quarters
of an inch that it measures, is exactly the
glove. That is. if it is FIVE and three
quarters around, you want gloves No.
) "a.
There's one little thing l want to tell
you girls, privately, and that is, nothing
makes young ladys hand look worse than
a glove too small. When the palm of
hand is squeezed doubled, and the first
button don't come down fairly on the wrist,
1t looks like-well, you'll think its vulgar
but is looks like a stuffed saugage, and
the wearer looks like weak-minded girl.
-OLiUs Thorn.