The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-12-08
Wotnan's World

Let me see everything that is stylish"
said a young woman in a fashionable
glove store, as reported in the New York
The latest thing in an evening glove
from Paris is twenty-button suede That
Is the longest made this season. and even
IL woman wears gown with no sleeves
n II she does not wear longer glove,
but leaves the fieshy part of her arm ex.
posed. This glove has two bands of Jew
e,Ieu Trimming, one at the wrist, and the
the glove from slipping down"
That's great" said the customer for
that does away with a very disagreed bIe
feature of these gloves. iii take pair
satin gown"
They only come in whites and blacks
and soft tones of pearl, tan and mode
THIS season. said the clerk. ANY other
colors are very bad form. Take this del
lcate shade of tan The price is only s.
and II you prefer them without the trim
ming the price is only $3.50. Then here is
a glove much used in Paris in the even
ing by those who are forced to wear long
sleeves. 1t is an eight-button suede with
out any opening, and is finished at the
top with beaded trimming. Still another
style Tor evening wear. and one very be-
coming 10 plump, white arms, is finished
at the top with a plated frill of fine lace
set on with pearl trimming. They are
much used by chronic OperagOers Suede
| Is the thing for evening wear. though a
Few economically disposed women buy
glace This is an English fashion. Now
|
! cover their hands, while in England and
America they usually wear them to shane
the hand; No well-dressed French wo-
i man would ever be caught anywhere in
glace kids. They always wear suede on
all occasions. At present there is a great
demand for glace gloves in America, but
the various shades of red that have been
so stylish for two years past are quite
out OF date. Soft neutral tints are used
Tor the street. They go with everything.
don show soil, and are easily cleanSed.
Inc street gloves have two buttons, which
clamp instead of buttoning, Just as the
iastenlngs on mems gloves do. They hold
very securely, never come off, and rarely
ever get out of order"
IN let you fit me with two or three
pairs of the glace kid for street wear, and
/ want the broad stitching on the back"
answered the customer.
The broad stitching is not so stylish
as 1t once was replied the clerk. 1T
makes any hand look broad and short,
and takes away from the grace that the
narrow stitching gives. The welt back
makes the hand look we'll 1t is simply
a tiny piece of the kid taken up with two
rows of stitching around it,"
DO you make many of your gloves?'
asked the inquisitiye customer, while the
Yes, we make a great many that we
carry in stock besides the special orders.
the rest are imported from France. The
SKINS principally used in making gloves
are Kid, sheep and a few skin which was
discovered six or seven years ago, called
mocho. This is the hide of an animal
bred in Arabia for its skin alone. 1t is
used principally for walking gloves and
is very durable. There are no glove fac
/ tories IN this country where fine skins
can be treated, but in France they come
! to the factory in the hair. They are i'm
mediately put in watts of lime until the
hair is taken off. Glace is the hair side
of the skin, and suede is the under or
flesh side. After the hair is removed an
expert goes through the skins separating
gloves from those to be used in suede.
II there is the slightest abrasion for
example, if kind has torn itself on a
barbed wire fence-the skin cannot be
used for glaze. But generally the abra-
sion has not penetrated to the flesh side,
and the hide is used for suede gloves.
"Glace gloves are dyed for light colors
by immersion They are put into a tub
of coloring matter and a man tramps up
til the color is set. The surface of the
skins is often so hard that they won't
take dye at all, and hence your white glace
gloves. After the skins are dyed they
are put on a curved table covered with
zinc, and the water is pressed out with
a piece of hard Arubber. Next they are
ture at 40 degrees, and when they come
from there they are as stiff and hard as
wood. Then they are put in damp saw
dust, where they are left until the mois-
ture penetrates them thoroughly, and then
comes the process of kneeing. Each skin
is rubbed over a circular piece of iron
the shape of mans knee until it becomes
soft; frequently they are so hard that the
workman rubs them up and down over
ODefa-
ton takes its name from that
THE skins are now ready for the. cut
ters, who roll them up in damp cloths
Just as washerwomen do fine linens be-
fore ironing them. AS soon as they alb
| sorb the moisture sufficiently the skins
are put on a marble slab and shaved with
knife blade about six inches wide and
| eight in length and as sharp as a razor.
| This gives the skin elasticity and it is
Impossible to cut it without first doing
| this. The measurements are next TAKEN
| and the skins planked-that is, cut into
pieces the proper length and width.
There are only. three or four firms in
| this city that make gloves to order, and
| they get the skins after they have gone
| through the process of kneeing and are
ready to be planked. All gloves cut for
! stock, such as these street gloves that I'm
| fitting on you, are cut on calibre. We cut
| six pairs at once and send them to the
| sewers in packages of a dozen pairs. II
used to be the fashion to make gloves by
| hand, but now they are sewed alto
| gether on the machine and are much more
| satisfactory and durable than hand-sewed
| gloves"
what about bicycle gloves?" asked
the customer as she gave an admiring
"A great many of my customers ride
! wheels, but they use their old, soiled
| gloves for the purpose, and they are
| does buy new pair to go with her BIZ
| cycle suit, however, she usually selects
| a pair of extra heavy glace walking
gloves"
DIR. Elizabeth Blackwell in her autobi-
/ ography recently published, shows the op-
position she encountered fifty years ago
! in the practice of her profession, to have
! had its foundation in dread of conse-
/ quences rather than dislike as ordinarily
/ supposed. THE fear of successful rivalry
she says, (which at that time often exist
/ ed in the medical mind, was expressed by
| the dean of one of the smaller schools
! who frankly replied to the application
! You cannot expect US TO furnish you with
/ a stick to break our heads with so rcvo-
/ lutionary seemed the attempt of a woman
! to leave a subordinate position and seek
/ to obtain a complete medical education
A similarly mistaken notion of the rapid
| practical success which would attend
/ lady doctor was shown later by one of the
4 professors of my medical college, who was
I DESTROYS of entering into partnership with
/ me on condition of sharing profits over
/ $1,000 on my first years practice" DR.
/ Blackwell tells. too, of a visit to Fanny
Kemble to beg that distinguished woman
/ to give reading in behalf of the institu-
/ ton now the New York Infirmary, with
which she was identified. She received US
/ cOurtesously, listened with kindness 10 an
/ explanation of the object of our visit and
! of the needs Of the infrmary, but when
I she haa rd he raygfpiane nF