The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1895-06-15
PRESERVE YOUR GARMENTS

Hints on How to Care for Dresses. Gloves,
Etc.
It's not half as hard to care for ones
clothes as it is to get them in the first
instance. Yet, strangely enough,
take least pains to preserve their fresh
ness.
Rich women having French maids
have their gowns and bonnets looked
after with jealous skill that women
who need such service scarcely dream
Of
1t is not wear that make drabbled
mass of your best gown In couple OF
months. 1t is lack of care when it is off
your back. If you fold it up or hang
it, ten to one you do it badly.
Hang all your dress waists and
skirts, but suspend them on ''coat
hangers" not on hooks or nails. The
way shopkeepers care for ready-made
garments is nm excellent object lesson.
A large supply of coat-hangers can be
bought for a dollar. or, If you are out
of reach of the ready-made article,
manufacture them. Half q barrel hoop,
with loop or string in the middle,
makes satisfactory substitute. Hang.
ing only serves for stuff or heavy
fabrics, not when they are of thin
goods. In that case garments are like.
ly to become stringy. Light materials
must be folded, sleeves and bows
stuffed with tissue paper, and all given
plenty of room.
Skirt bags are luxury, even neces-
sity for handsome garments. They are
great square sacks of white cotton,
longer than the skirts, and into which
the skirt can be slipped without crush
ing. A sachet suspended in the center
imparts to the skirt fragrance which
makes it as sweet and fresh as flower.
Skirts should not only be brushed
when taken off, but the silk lining
ought to be well wiped with dry
cloth. This should be done at once,
and the skirt then put away properly.
1t is tumbling about on chairs, waiting
to be disposed of, that ruins quantities
of clothes.
A few pairs of boot trees are invalu.
able. The cost OF them is more than
compensated for in an actual saving OF
money. They not only preserve the
shape, but they crack and break far
less. 1t is measure of economy te
keep several pairs of shoes in use
When worn steadily they do not have
time to dry out thoroughly while of
the feet, and the constant dampnes.
rots them. Water should ne yer be put
on shoes, and any soil should be re
moved. Slippers can be kept stuffed
with paper.
Gloves must be pulled in shape a.
soon as they are taken off, and not put
away until they are dried. They
should always be removed from the
hand by turning them wrong side on
from the wrist up, not by tugging a
the fingers. In the shops they Away.
turn them, as the other method ruins
the shape, and it is likely to tear tn,
kid.
| The best way to preserve the crisp
ness of wells is by rolling them up il
long, narrow sachets made for the pur
pose; the tulle is Strengthened out
folded, laid on the sachet and rolled
up with it. and the whole tied with
ribbon fastened to the outside of tn,
vcil-case.
All closets and clothes presses neet
frequent sunnings and airings. Cloth
ing, too, should be exposed now an,
again, just as you sun your bedding
That is one of the most sweetenin,
measures in the world. Dress wais
Innings can be kept wonderfully mic
If, in addition, you occasionally wip
them of with cloth dampened will
very weak ammonia water. of course
the shields should be frequeptl,
changed, Detroit Free Press.