Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1886-11-11
NIGHT GLOVES REVIVED,
Modern Beauties said to BE Returning
te Fashions of the Last Century.

tS obhkOAB Oh the Last CenLufYs
GFrom the Leudoa Queen.
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 growing
less white than they used to be, and have
suffered from too great attachment in ladies
to lawn tennis and boating and other masea-
line accomplishments. Chapped and red
hands are never pretty, and these, of course,
invariably follow on outdoor exercises. The
evil is, happily, not beyond remedy, and to
offset this purpose "the daughters of fash
ion," as many of them will learn with sur
prise, now have dishes of hot water shaped
like flower leaf on their toilet tables, In
which they steep their hands for while be-
fore going to bed, then anoint them with
vaseline and put on gloves lined with a pro-
paration of cold cream. These gloves should
be of wash leather and several sizes too
large for the land
Before the paragraph has gone its tardy
round in print these night gloves surely be
made an instance of the amazing luxury of
our degenerate days, and point, we may be
sure, a very doleful moral. In the absence
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 SO little, might indicate a lamen-
table degree of over refinement, such, ss
we should certainly be reminded, has
invariably preceded the decay of en-
pires.
The old receipt for perfuming gloves runs:
Take amber grease a dram, civet the
like quantity, orange flower butter quarter
of and with th6ea well rniYa1 and
ordered daub them over gently with fine
cotton wool, and 30 press the perfume into
them. Other devices for making them erich
ly 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 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.
Bequeath by Tripssy when she died
Where lady's maid is reassuring her mis-
tress in a poem of $780, as to her own super
iority over a rival, the maid says:
know the arts she labors to disguise
1 know whence all her boasted graces rise:
Those charms which gained she creature such re-
Are cullsd from every quarter of the town;
She buys her beauties at price immense,
Her breath from Warren and her teeth from
Each night her face is wrapped in greasy bands,
And Chinese gloves enfold her arms and hands;
II such a made up thing can rival thee.
Let @ PARK canals strive Tith the fosaing sea-
And broad st. Giles vie with Portman square.
There would be some suspicion of chemical
treatment about such gloves. Although a
French philosopher some time ago asserted
that glovers, of all artisans, were the most
mild and amiable, owing to the soothing in
huence of leather upon temperament, this
had NO haap OIL, uba Chinese
gloves were in vogue, and more direct agea
cies acting upon the outer man or women were
all that were sought after. "Medicated"
gloves are used by DR.. Johnson's born beauty
in the 120th Rambler; the doctor probably
not knowing much of toilet mysteries This
young lady is presented as slways most
carefully tended and put under right cosmet-
ic discipline at night, never permitted to
sleep until thoroughly anointed with "bean
flower water and May dew" her hair perfum
ed and oiled, and the softness of her hands
secured by medicated gloves.