St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-20
NIGHT GLOVES REVIVED.

Modern Beauties said to be Return
ing 10 Fashions Of the Last Com
tury.
The remarkable discovery has recently
been made that white hands are coming
into fashion again." says London Queen.
1t would seem that hands have been grow
ing less white than they used to be, and
have suffered from too great attachment in
ladies to lawn tennis and boat ng and other
masculine accomplishments. Chapped and
red hands are never pretty. and these of
course, invariably follow on outdoor exer-
cises. The evil is, happily, not without
remedy, and to offset this purpose 1.-The
daughters of fashion," as many of them
will learn with surprise. now have dishes
of hot water shaped like flower leaf on
their toilet tables. in which they steep their
hands for awhile before going to bed. then
annoint them with vaseline and put on
gloves lined with a preparation of cold
cream. These gloves should be of wash
leather and several sizes too large for the
hand.
ClBefOre the paragraph has gone its tardy
round in print these night gloves surely
are made an instance of the amazing luxury
of our degenerated days, and point. we
may be sure very doleful moral. In the
absence of any general knowledge on this
point the ladies of fashion will be looked
upon as having originated pernciouS
practice which. taken together with the
toilet masks of which we recently heard so
much and saw so little, might indicate a
lamentable degree of Over-reiinement. such,
as we should certainly be reminded. has in
yariably preceded the decay of empires.
A
Take amber grease dram. civet the like
quantity, orange flower butter quarter of
an ounce, and with these well mixed and
ordered daub them gently with fine cotton
wool and so press the perfume into them.
Other devices for making them ''richly
redOlent" point generally to the use of oils
or fats as being the best available and most
largely employed means to secure good
and lasting perfume. AS for such gloves
being considered excellent for night use
we have the lines in Swift's poem on the
Lady's Dressing ROOM" showing on the
table:
There night gloves made of Tripsey's hide,
DeQueathed by Tripsey when she died.
Where a lady's maid is reaSSuring her
mistress. in poem of 1890. as to her own
superiority over rival, the maid says:
1 know the arts she labors to disguise.
] know whence all her boosted graces rise;
Those charms which gained the creature such
renown
Are culled from every quarter of the town;
She buys her beauties at price immense,
Her breath from Warren and her teeth from
Spence;
Each night her face is wrapped in greasy
bands, =
And Chinese gloves enfold her arms and
hands:
If such made-up thing can rival thee,
Let park canals strive with the foaming sea;
Let Oxford hacks with Pegasus compare,
And broad st. Giles vie with Portmau square.
There would be some suspicion of chem
zeal treatment about such gloves. Although
French philosopher some time ago as
serted that glovers of all artisans were the
most mild and amiabe. owing to the soOth-
ing influence of leather upon temperament,
this discovery had not meen made when
Chinese gloves were in vogue, and more
direct agencies acting upon the outer man
or woman were all that were sought after.
"Medicated" gloves are used by DR.. John
sons born beauty in the 120th Rambler, the
doctor probably not knowing much of toilet
mysteries. This young lady is represented
as always most carefully tended and put
under rigid cosmetic discipline at night,
never permitted to sleep until thoroughly
anointed with ''bean flower water and May
dew" her hair perfumed and oiled, and the
softness of her hands secured by medicated
gloves