Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1886-11-15
NIGHT GLOVES.
Modern Beauties said to be Reyiying
Fashions Of the Last Century.

! The remarkable discovery has recently
been made that white hands are coming
| into fashion again" 1t 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 accomp-
I liShments, ''Chapped and red hands
are never pretty, and these, of
course, invariably follow on out
door exercise. The evil is, happily,
not beyond remedy, and to offset this pur-
4 pose the daughters of fashion, as many Of
! them will learn with surprise, how have
dishes of hot wateS shaped like a flower leaf
/ on their toilet tables, In which they steep
I their hands for while before going to bed,
then anoint them with vaseline aud 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"
Before this paragraph has gone its tardy
round in print these night gloves will surely
be made an instance of the amazing luxury
of our degenerate days, ami point, we may
be sure, a very dOleful moral. In the alb
sence OF any general knowledge on this
point, the ladies of fashion will be looked
upon as having originated a perniciOuS
practice, which, taken together with the
toilet masks of which We recently heard So
much and saw 50 little, might indicate a
lamentable degree of Over-rehnement, such,
as We should certainly be reminded has in
variably preceded the decay of empires.
One old receipt for perfuming gloves runs:
Take amber grease dram, civet the like
quantity, orang flower butter the quarter of
an ounce, and. with these well mixed and
ordered. daub them over gently with fine
cotton wool, and so press the perfume into
them. Other devices for making them
richly redoent" point generally TO the use
of oil or fats a. being the best available and
most lrrgely employed means TO secure a
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" ghOwing on
the table:
There night gloves made of Tripssy's hide,
Beque3th d by IripSey when ShS died.
Where a lady's maid is reasSuring her
mistress, in poem of 1890 as to her own
superiority over a rival, the maid says:
know the arts she labors to disguise,
| know whence all her bOasted graces rise;
Those charms which gained the creature such
renDwn.
Are Guild from every quarter Of the town;
She buys her beauties at a price immense,
Her breath from Warren and her teeth from
Spence;
Each night her face is wrapp'd in greasy
bands.
And Chinese gloves enfoId her arms and
hands:
II such made gp thing can rival thee.
Let park canals strive with the foaming sea;
Let oxford hacks with Pegasus compare.
And broad st Giles vie with rortman square.
There would be some suspicion of chem
ical treatment about such gloves Although
French philosopher some time ago assert
ed that gi0yers, of all artisans. were the
most mild and amiable. owing to the SOOth-
ing influence OF leather upon temperament,
this discovery has not been made when
Chinese gloves were in vogue. and more di-
rect agencies upon the outer man. or
women. were all that were Sunght after.
"Medicated' gloves are used by DIR. john
sons born beauty in the l3Oth Rambler. |
the doctor probably not knowing much of
toilet mysteries. This young lady is repre-
sented as always most carefully tended and
put under rigid cosmetic discipline at night,
never permitted to sleep until thoroughly
anointed with ''bean-tiower water and May
dews." her hair perfumed and oiled. and the
softneSS of her hands secured by medicated
gloves.