The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1888-08-24
CARE OF CLOTHES.
Eternal Vigilance the Poor WOman'a
Price of Success in Dressing Well.

Eternal Vigilance the Poor WOman's
Price of Success in Dressing Well.
Clothes which are well cared for
will last twice as long as those care
lessly treated, and with a liberal
expenditure of time and little display
of taste can be remodeled and made to
do duty for long time. Eternal vigi-
lance is the price of success for poor
people in dressing we'll, and it should
be exercised, as nothing pays better.
Garments can be injured as much by
careless handling when not worn as
when in use. Dresses thrown across
a chair or hung in crowded ward
robe under other heavy articles will
be creased and injured. Laces gloves
and ribbons tossed into drawer with
other articles will not appear fresh
and neat when worn.
1t is an excellent rule to carefully
put away every article of apparel as
soon as taken off. Dresses should be
shaken and well brushed, and, If hand
somely and deliberately trimmed, should
be folded, every fold and plat in place,
carefully pinned up in large towel,
and laid in a drawer: this is very inn
portant in order to keep dresses in
shape, or, if preferred to hang them
up, loops should be sewed on the back
of the shoulder, by which they may
hang.
Cloaks, after being brushed, may be
laid in q long drawer, or hung up by a
loop in the back of the neck. Shawls
should be carefully folded in the orig
inal creases, wrapped in paper or
square cloth, before laying away in a
drawer. Gloves should be pulled out
lengthwise, folded in thin paper and
laid in small box kept for the pur-
pose; laces should be smoothed out and
placed whore they will keep clean and
fresh. Walls, ribbons, sashes, silk
handkerchiets and silk stockings will.
keep in good condition much longer If,
folded in proper shape and laid under
q weight.
Shoes, if thrown around in the dust,
will not last as long or look as well as
when stretched out of the wrinkles,
well brushed and put carefully away.
Bonnets and hats are more easily
spoiled by want of care than almost
any article of dress. They should
not, therefore, be allowed to be about
on tables, or in dusty places unpro-
tected, but as soon as taken from the
head should be brushed, the trimmings
and feathers Strengthened, Ind laid in
boxes.
Every ladies room should be fur
nished with clothes brush, a wisp
broom, a hand brush, sponge, bot
tie of ammonia, a vial each of alcohol
and benzine, also some cleaning fluid
or erasive soap. to aid her in keeping
her wardrobe in order. Another very
necessary item in the care of clothes is
mending and repairing every article as
it may need it; the time spent in SO do
| ing is well bestowed, for, besides the
pleasure it gives to always appear in.
whole, respectable garments, the
clothes will last twice as long. Every
rip and rent in dresses, skirts or un-
derclothes should receive attention as
soon as it occurs. The old-time adage,
"A stitch in time saves nine.n is we'll
to remember. Gloves should be mend
ed as soon as a rip appears in the fin
gers, and, if thin and worn in the hand,
may be neatly darned or mended with
a piece from an old glove Of the same
/ COLOR Woman.