The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-02-13
ALL ABOUT GLOVES.
Facts to Remember in Buy
ing and Wearing Them.
HOW TO Pull THEM OFF.
Where Memoranda That Will
Remind, Can be Kept-A
Useful TIDY.

In buying II III 'AVne nnSers
separately, and look for broken Stitches.
Ii, when stretching the fingers, n
thread pulls away from the kid, leav-
ing a white spot the gloves will not
wear well. When the kid stretches
easily and seems elastic it is likely to
be a good quality, but if it is stiff or un-
yielding it will neither fit nor wear
well. Always get a glove large enough.
If they are sc narrow as to require
stretching they never WILCOX as well
as if the hand was the first s%tretcher.
If they are short-fngered they convert
the hand into a positive deformity,
and do not wear half SO long as when
they are of the proper size.
A great deal depends upon no W the
gloves are put on the first time. The
hands should be dry and cool; If they
are at all moist they should be pow
dered. First. work on the fingers,
keeping the thumb outside the glove.
When the thumb is put in, place h
elbow on the knee and work the glove
down smoothly. Button the second
button first and SO on to the top, leav-
ing the first button till the last.
When removing gloves never begin
at the tips of the fingers to pull them
off. Turn back the wrist and draw
them off wrong-side out. Before
putting them away, turn right side out
and smooth out lengthwise. Never
roll them up tightly, one inside of h
other, as whatever moisture they may
have gathered from the hands dries
in this way very slowly and makes the
kid stiff and hard. Strips of canton
flannel are good to lay between gloves.
Dry cornmeal will clean light gloves
nicely, but if much soiled it is better
TO send them to a reputable cleaner
Benzine will clean white gloves, but
it is not TO be recommended where
there is any color. Where black kids
have become rusty about the finger
ends they can be restored by adding a
few drops of blackink to a teaspoonful
of olive oil, and applying with a
feather or camel's-hair brush.
The suede or undressed glove is
made with the hair side of the skin
out; the glace or dressed kid is made
with the inside Of the skin
out. In choosing a suede
glove examine the inside. If inside
is smooth the chances are it is not kid,
but lamb. Real kid is roughened in
side in process of finishing, but the
cheaper lamb skins are usually left
smooth. 1t is difficult and disagree
able to put on a glove that is smooth
inside. 1t slips when it oughtto cling.
The best skins come from Grenoble.
where the young animals run about
tame in the streets like cats. Poor
little kids! They are cultivated for
nothing but their skins. To make
the suede glove the most carefully
selected of the young animals yield
up their jackets. They must never
have eaten anything but milk.
The older kids that have fed on
grass make the thicker suede glove,
the frmer glove used fer day wear.
A useful article to possess is a glove
tidy. 1t is made of linen. after the
of an ordinary housewife"
and contains castings to hold skeins of
silk of various colors, also is fitted up
with a glove-stretcher, button-hook
and scissors, as we'll as leaves of fan
mel for needles, and pockets for but
tons. etc. The outside of the ''tidy"
can be embroidered ACCORDING to taste.
A motto. such as "a stitch in time
saves nine,n offers pretty ornamen-
taIion and is in keeping with the pre-
vailing fancy for inscribing everything
with some ancient saying.
The little glove memoranda. SO
called because they are small enough
to be slipped in the opening OF the
glove, are nothing new; but SO many
have never heard of them. So tiny
are they that only one word can be
xyriffnn on QElInn and soma OF us
would have to modify our handwriting
in order to accomplish that much.
But n word is enough to call back a
strayed idea, while the little book is
much more convenient to handle than
a loose piece of paper.-NeWaTk
EUenamg NeaOs.