Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1897-01-24
ess of Marlborough to Mrs. George Curzon
and LADY Terence Blackwood.
AnouT GLOVES.
How to select. Put on, Mend, Clean
and Wear Them.

How to select, Put on, Mend, Clean
and Wear Them.
The French woman's idea OF dress Is, Of
course, perfect in all its details; but II she
must practice economy she never neglects
her shoes and her gloves. "Blen chause ct
bic gantee" is her motto, and she lives up
to this. Her gloves are proverbial. She
chooses them with art, she puts them on with
art, she takes care Of them with art. and
finally, she mends them with art. She al
ways puts on ner gloves in the house, and
buttons them as carefully as any other
article OF dress. She never would be guilty
OF pulling on her gloves rudely in the
street or in a street car, or OF squeezing
her hands into gloves several sizes too small
and buttoning them with a hairpin. This
would be considered a great improperly.
Many people cram their hands into gloves
which are so small that the glove looks
stuffed, and yellow kid on a pudgy hand
reminds one of nothing more poetic than
ham in its yellow bag Even people espe-
cially ladies with large hands, ought to buy
gloves which are larger than seems neces-
sary; for tight gloves, like tight shoes, al
ways make the hand swell and increase in
size by years of such injudicious treatment.
Tight gloves are always responsible for red
ness of the hands and for wrinkles. Women
who care to preserve the whiteness and
beauty of their hands and arms always wear
loose gloves. Ellen Terry, for example,
who has large hand. so large that 1t Is
somewhat masculine, never congresses 1t
in tight gloves but selects comfortable
size which gives her hand ease and full
play.
Now, after selecting gloves-nice stout,
loose ones for street wear, and others a
little closer in At, for calling and for even
ing woar-there is a way to put them on. III
there is anything that mars a woman's APP
pearance 1t is a glove with the seams
twisted and all the fingers awry. The hrst
trying on of a glove Is the most important,
because this gives the glove its set. First
shake some powder into each finger OF the
glove. Then place your elbow firmly on a
table with the hand upright and the thumb
extended toward the palm. Draw the Dody
of the glove over the fingers, and, after see
ing that each seam of the glove Is straight
with the line of the finger coax each hnger
into the finger of the glove. Be sure, In the
meantime, that the stitching on the back OF
the glove is also straight, Now insert the
thumb, and look once again to see IL the
seams are all straight If not pull the glove
off and begin again. The seam at the tip OF
the thumb should be in line with the mid
die of the thumb nail. Smooth the wrist
neatly and fasten the second button hrst'
All of this may seem tiresome, but an eN-
ponsive and well fitting glove is worth the
trouble of putting 1t on carefully, Tor IL VIII
wear twice as long. In removing glove,
skin il off quickly, turn the fingers, put a
little powder in them, smooth them neatly
and place them in a glove case. They Will
keep much nicer in this way than II tossed
in drawer.
are nice to use, for they save the hands In
many ways for example, in gardening and
busting and, indeed, II one moistens the
hands with glycerine or cold cream, ana
draws on pair OF easy OLD gloves lor an
hour the hand is made astonishingly white,
smooth, soft and flexible. Another use Tor
old gloves is to cut the backs for penwipers,
and to keep the fingers for stalls for cut
fingers or burns or any accident to the
hands.
There Is also a proper way to mend.
glove. Glove needles can be procured at any
shop where ordinary needles are sold, and,
unlike the latter, they do not split the Kid,
If the seam. break or rip, sew up the seam
on the right side of the glove, as much like
tho rest of the stitching as possible; and II
the seam breaks between the thumb and
palm. a little network made in the button
hole stitch will replace the little Kid hinge,
II one may call the three-cornered piece
of kid. If the buttonholes break away, 1t
Is easy enough to replace the binding, II you
examine the method by which 1t was origi-
naly put on. Gloves may be cleaned at
home. OF course the white chamois skin
gloves are easy enough to wash by slipping
them on the hands and rubbing them in
lukewarm water, filled with suds made from
ivory soap White kid, and even suede, may
be cleaned by gently rubbing them all over
with pumice stone powder. Another
way equally good is to brush them with
benzne or gasoline, and hang them out in
the air. One must be careful in this latter
operation TO avoid being near fire. or near
fame or heat on account of the explosive
quality of the gasoline. Another method Is
TO put on the gloves and to wash them in
basin of spirits of turpentine. White
gloves may be dyed a good tan by wetting
them with saffron and water, which have
been boiled and standing ten or twelve hours.
Gasoline will also clean white kid slippers
and make them as good as new.