Morning journal and courier., 1892-04-16
are in handsome shades of tan and russet

are in handsome shades of tan and russet with heavy stitching.
 Most people when putting on a glove, are more occupied in coaxing it to smooth ly invest the hand than in refecting upon glove making as @ most prosperous and steady industry. According to @ writer in the Journal des Debats, at the town of 1sere, France, 1,2OO, 900 dozen pairs of gloves are manufactured annually. This represents value of g, ,000, 900 to $7 200, 900, and gives employment to twenty-five thousand work people. There are four thousand men and twenty-one thousand women residing in and about Grenoble who live by this work and among these three millions of dollars are annually dis tributed in wages. To produce the 200, 900 dozen pairs of gloves g, ,600, ,000 little victims must yield up their lives, since only the skins of very young kids are suited to the glover's use, and the skins are so small that not more than three gloves can be obtained from each.
 in the glove industry is because of the special quality of the waters of that city for dyeing the skins. The art of dyeing has reached perfection there which per haps could not be realized elsewhere. The current card of glovemaker comprises three hundred tints with 8 constant de- mand for new shades to match samples.
 The "dolage," or shaving of the dyed skins SO as to give them the minimum of thickness with the maximum of f1exibility, is most delicate operation, re- quiring an apprenticeship of two years before the workman becomes proficient Expert workers cannot shave more than six skins in an hour. When ho okfno r,rarorad and tho ry1n Q 70 cut out many of them are sent out into the mountain district, where contractors dis tribute them among the sewing women. Many more are sewed in the numerous factories in the town, some of them being perfect industrial palaces, airy, light and clean, and provided with household con- forts on the most improved system. The "petites gautiers" are daintily, neat and even coquettish in dress, with delicate white hands, which seem to gain softness and sensitiveness from the pliant material upon which they work. Each girl or woman sits before 8 sewing machine run by steam power; one fastens the finger stalls, another the pieces of leather uniting them, third puts on the thumb, and fourth stitches the backs To complete 8 dozen pairs of medium sized gloves, of four-button length, twelve hours' sewing is required, and as the diff ferent cuttings require as much time there are two hours of steady work represented by each pair. After this comes the test ing, sorting and packing, and the possessor of a new pair of gloves may remember with some interest that before they came to her hands two hundred other hands, at least, has had share ia their production, talk ing no account of the work of tanners and dyers.
 Two other items out of the many con- corning this great national industry may be recorded here, one being that in the principal public square of Grenoble stands a splendid statue in honor of Jouvin, who invented machine by which four or five pairs of gloves are cut at one time, the only mechanical contrivance, except the sewing machine, used iH glove making. The other is that since this industry was founded no such thing as 'strike" has ever taken place in the whole Isere valley.
 HILARY.