Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1898-07-09
FOR UP-TO-DATE WOMEN
White Gloves, Wells and Shoes, and How to
Keep Them So.
Gloves Only Worn When Really
Dressed Up Now-Pipe Clay to Clean
Shoes - Irish Damask Gowns.


| Special Correspondence of The Evening Star.
| NEW YORK, July Z, 1898
1t does not take great deal of observa-
| ton to discover that the hollow pretense
| of wearing gloves in warm weather which
| used. in other dog days, lead women to
| fold them in a pocket book or carry them
| loosely IN their hands is quite a thing of
| the past. This summer we make no effort
to make any one believe that We have any
| intention of DOMINIC gloves If We must be
| out during the heat of the day. We carry
| nene with US. For this we must thank the
| athletic girl. Many of her sports prohibit
| the use Of gloves. She has therefore,
grown to dislike their confirming feeling and
has relegated them to afternoon and even
| ing toilets.
| The wearing Of plain and severe skirts,
coats and waistcoats, not to say the plain
| shirt waist, have also made women feel
| that gloves need not be worn with a cos
| tune copied from that of their brother,
| with which he would not think of combin-
| ing gloves.
| But when we do wear gloves in summer
they are generally white. white kid or
| white chamois, and now we have the white
| Geerskin, or white mocha, as 1t is more
| often called, which is infinitely preferable
| to either Of the other materials for dura-
| g.oVe cannot be washed as chamois can,
but 1t can be cleaned quite as well white
! KID although it does clean little bit
| smaller, and allowance must be made for
! this in purchasing.
| 1t is very easy nowadays 20 keep half a
| dozen pairs of white gloves. either kid or
I deerskin, in beautiful condition. and it will
| be found much more economical thu II buy
| ing dark gloves. For either by reason Of
| the action of the dye or some other mys-
/ ferrous agency, dark gloves never wear as
well as light ones.
Convenient to Have.
| A woman of infinite patience and neat
| ness will have bottle of benzine stand
| ing In a convenient yet safe place, and
| with a little sponge rub away all the soiled
| spots on her white gloves when she comes
| home, before she takes them off her hands.
But few of US. no matter how strong our
| desire to appear well groomed. would care
to do this day after day. Some kind in
ventive genius has, however, come to our
aid with a wooden hand, the thumb of
| which is adjustable. On this wooden hand
| the glove can be placed and he .pot3 taken
| off when one has leisure foc Cleaning up"
| Best of all, the cost of this wooden hand is
| not quite one hundred round copper cents,
| and it is within the reach OF ali quite I'M
| like the shoe last, coveted OF all women
| who wish to keep boots Ia order, ana at
| tanned only by the wealthy few.
| Cleaning chamois gloves is probably well
| known, but from the number of failures
| of which one hears it is questionable
| whether every anxious reader knows that
| 1t is best to put them on the hands, make
1 suds of CASTLE soap and tepid water and
| gently wash the hands in II just as che
would If the gloves were not on. They
| cleanse very readily and require no APP
| probable amount of rubbing. They may be
| rinsed il one prefers, provided the water is
| very soapy. Then they should be gently
patted with a towel while still on the
| hands, carefully drawn off when the su-
| perhuous water is taken of, and hung,
| still shaped, In some airy place to dry. The
| process takes no longer to tell than to &C.
| cCmplish. A good chamois glove may be
washed every day for months. But Che
| can scarcely get sucn gloves for less than
| dollar at the very least.
| For peol who must wear gloves on
some occasions and cannot wear kid or even
| channels in hot weather, there is vast inn
| provement in the silk md Isle affairs.
| There is also new white cotton glove.
| which comes from France, is loosely
woven, very soft and washes extremely
| well.
| Stylish Wells.
Chiffon and even spool silk wells have re-
| tired this summer in favor Of the white
| wash veil One can buy these wells in
| very good imitation of lace. but the differ
| ence in price between them and the real
| article rs not as great as the difference in
| wearing qualities. Therefore, 1t pays to
| eschew the imitation. These wells must be
| kept spotless, and washing them is quite an
| easy matter. They should be soaked for
about half an hour In strong suds of
| white soap CASTLE or ivory and tepid
| water They should then be squeezed out
| and rinsed in clean water taking care never
| TO wiring them. Squeeze and then shake
| them gently, and pin to the bed or some
| other appropriate surface, pinning each
| lace point separately, and the sides and
plain edge in such a manner that they will
| be straight. The Veil will dry very quickly
| and quite stiff. If one wishes to have the
| veil the yellow cream tint SO becoming
| to most compilations it should be rinsed in
| tea coffee.
There is rumor that in the fall we will
| wear wells only covering the tips of our
| noses. This will be becoming to older wo-
| men, and is especially fitted for honuets,
| but before rashly adopting it because it is
new each woman should honestly find out
from her mirror whether she has the short
| upper lip so priced by Shakespeare.
In High Favor.
White shoes have also returned to favor.
| They are a necessary complement to a
| white season. They, too, soil with CELEBRITY.
and do not fail when buying your spotless
| canvas shoes to be fitted to box of pipe
| clay at the same time. Pipe clay is not
| pleasant to use. 1t is dusty, but 1t makes
soiled pair Of white shoes almost the most
| spotless affairs in creation. Indeed the
| uses of pipe clay as cleansing agent are
| many and mysterious. and all of them are
4 only known to the old soldiers in the Brit
ish army. 1t may be safely tried on all
| white materials which benzine does not
reach. 1t shrinks white cloth shoes. and
/ one should buy them half g. size larger
/ than they are expected to be after having
| been cleaned half a dozen times with
| paste of pipe clay and water, which must
| afterward be brushed out.
/ One might drift along on a tide of de-
| scrfntiou of white fabrics for hours. they