The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1886-11-17

NIGHT GLOVES REVIVED.
Modern Beauties Snid to Be Returning to Fash.
ions of the Last Century.

Modern Beauties Snid to Be Returning to FASH
ions of the Last Century.
The remarkable discovery has recent
y been made that "white hands are
coming into fashion again, % says London
Queen. It would seem that hands have
been growing less white than they used
to be, and have suffered from too great
attachment in ladies to lawn tennis and
boating and other masculine accomplish
ments. Chal d and red hands are
never pretty, ald these, Of course, mya-
riably follow on outdoor exercises. The
evil is, happily, not beyond remedy, and
to offset this purpose :'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 while before going to
bed, then anoint them with vaseline and
put on gloves lined with a preparation of
cold cream. These gloves should be of
wash leather ard several sizes too large
for the hand.
Before the paragraph has gone its tardy
round in print these night gloves will
surely be made an instance of the amaz-
ing luxury of our degenerate 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 pernicious practice, which,
together with the toilet masks Of which
we recently heard so much and sew so
little, might indicate lamentable degree
of ovelrefinement, such as We should
certainly be reminded has invariably
preceded the decay Of empires.
The old receipt for perfuming gloves
runs Take amber grease dram, civet
the like quantity, orange flower butter q
quarter OF an ounce, and with these well
mixed and ordered daub them over gent
ly with fine cotton wool, and so press
the perfume into them. Other devices
for making them "richly redolent"
point generally to the use Of oil or fats
as being the best available and most
largely employed means to secure a
good and lasting perfume. As for such
gloves being considered excellent tor
night use We Lave the lines in Swlft's
poem on ''The Lady's Dressing Room"
showing on the liable:
There night gloves made OF Tnpsey's
hide,
Bequeath'd by Tripsey when she died.
Where lady's maid is reassuring her
mistress in poem of 1870, as to her own
superiority over rival, the maid says:
know the arts she labors to disguise,
I know whence all her boasted 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
hands,
And Chinese gloves enfold her arms and
hands;
Ii such madeup thing can rival thee,
Let park canals strive with the foamlng
sea:
Let Oxford hacks with Pegasus compare,
tAllQ ~. Si4AS's VIZ H4IA@ = W e--|e--|
square.
There would be some suspicion OF
chemical treatment about such gloves.
Although French philosopher some
time ago asserted that glovers, OF all
artisans, were the most mild and amlable,
owing to the soothing influence OF leath,
er upon temperament, this discovery had
not been made when Chinese gloves
were in vogue, and more direct agencies
acting upon the outer man or woman
were all that were sought after. !" Med
icated" gloves are used by DR.. Johnsons
born beauty in the l20th Rambler, the
doctor probably not knowing much OF
toilet mysteries. This young lady is
represented as always most carefully ten
ded and put under rigid cosmetic d1scl-
pline at night, never permitted to sleep
until thoroughly anointed with "Deau
flower water and May dew. her halr
perfumed and ciled, and the softness OF
her hands secured by medlcated gloves.