Freeland tribune. (Freeland, Pa.) 1888-1921, 1899-09-11
WOMAN'S WORLD.
LACE Is FASHIONABLE.
Its Vogue Suggests Means of Liveli-
hood For Some Women.

GHSG 10 fRoF1lSNHBLE.
Its Vogue Suggests Means of Liveli-
hood For Some Women.
Lace is so fashionable this year, so
much more so than it has been, that
everybody ought to know how to look
after it, and the care required is by
no means SO easy task as might be
supposed. To begin with, the look
Of age adds greatly to its beauty, but
beyond certain point lace can look
too yellow, and also can look not only
old, but dirty, and care must be taken
to avoid this. Lace should be put
away in soft blue tissue-paper. 1t is
thought that blue tissue-paper keeps
it from turning, and the most valuable
lace is always laid away in blue paper.
The lavish use of lace has suggested
n means of livelihood for some gentle
women who had learned the art of
iace-mending, and they are now max
idg an income by repairing and clean
ing laces. In the first place, valuable
lace cannot be intrusted to any one.
The woman who has to clean it must
have learned how to clean lace, and
also how to make lace, for again and
again stitch or two will be dropped
or broken, and the pattern must be
made perfect. This can only be done
by the most skilled fingers. The
cleaning of lace is long process, and
even the lace barbes and the lace
bows now commonly worn have to go
through long performance before
they are made possible. An old fash
ioned receipt for cleaning lace Ia very
good one, too) comes from England.
The directions read that good lather
OF soap should be made, in which the
lace shall be put and left to stand for
a short time; then put the lace into a
second water and allow it to stand,
and so on, until all traces of the soap
are removed and the water is absolute
ly clear once more. The lace is then
taken and pressed between the hands
never rubbed or squeezed. After
this il is put in flannel, and the fan
mel squeezed together hard with the
palms of the hand. The lace IS then
stretched on another flannel cloth and
put to dry in the sun, great care being
taken that the edges are all pulled out,
SO that each little loop shows to tie
best advantage. 1t is easily seen that
such process will take long time,
but all these efforts are we'll worth
while, for the lace looks like new if it
Is thoroughly well done.
Laces should not be left to lie loose
in drawer among ribbons and the
hundred and one odds and ends, but
every woman, and every child too,
should have box where all her bits
Of lace should be placed. There should
be several layers of blue tissue paper,
in which the lace should be carefully
rolled. There should be, too, some
delicate sachet-powder put into the
box; if possible, bit of the scented
flannel that the Partisan dressmakers
use so much. This flannel, as is well
known, retains its perfume longer than
anything else, but it is so very ex-
penslve that it is beyond the reach of
most people, so it is well to have
sachet that can be renewed. For this
purpose nothing is better than equal
parts of heliotrope or violet with orris
root. This can be put in sachet-bag
underneath two or three layers of tis-
sue-paper, SO that no foreign sub
stance shall come near the lace itself
Lace should never be put away fold
ed, but should be rolled on rolls of
blue tissue paper. -Harper's Bazaar.