Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1900-01-04
CAR DRIVERS GLOVES.
And the Various Mittens Worn by Mo
tormen and Gripnen,

And the Various Mittens Worn by Mo
tormen and Gripmen,
The ear driver, when he wore any
coverings on his hands at all has al
ways worn gloves, He needed the use
of his separate fingers in handling the
reins. but his modern successor, the
gripmau or the motCrman, while wear
ing gloves in summer, in winter wears
mittens: he does not need the use Of
his fingers separately in handling the
mechanical appliances he manipulateS
and mittens are the warmer and more
comfortable. In summer all wear
gloves. Aside from their greater con-
venience. they are at that season
cooler. Gloves and mittens for motor
men, gripmen and car drivers are made
in many--a hundred or morc-difierent
varieties. The materials used in their
manufacture are horsehide, buckskin,
sheepSkin. cowhide, calfskin and rub
Der, tire glove or the mitten being
made perhaps entirely of single one
of these materials Of of two in eombi-
nation, and then many of these gloves
or mittens are lined with some other
material. or they are. it may be, worn
with some other kind of glove or nit
ten.
Horsehidc has in recent years come
to be largely used for gripmens and
motormens mittens. There is made of
horsehide for this use a leather that is
not only strong and has good wearing
qualities, but that is at the same time
soft and pliable. One kind of horse
hide mittcns is made with Il wooden lin
ing and with what is called an extern
sion cuff, also of wool, to be turned
back over the wrist of the wearer. The
horSehide tanned for mittens does not
get hard, nor does it shrink. OF
course, no man using leather gloves OF
mittens of any kind ever throws them
aside when they are wet to care fol
themselves, but he dries them care.
fully, occasionally working them with
a sort of massage, to keep them soft
and flexible.
Tho driver wearing gloves buys very
probably gloves of buckskin, very stout
and heavy, and the old driver is likely
to buy them unlincd He wears next
his hands, with the unlined buckskir
gloves over them. a fleecc-lined cottor
glove that Is specially made for thi,
use; it keeps the hand warm and keeps
off the chill Of the leather; drawing of
the buckskin glove the driver has II
wet or cold weather hand that IS dry
and with which he can easily and con.
veniently get at his watch And i
these inner gloves get wet or damn
from the perspiraton Of the hand
they can be easily and readily dried
separately from the buckskin gloves
and so quickly made ready to veal
again inside the buckskin.
These gloves are worn pretty large
so that they will not cramp the free
dom Of the wearers hand: that the,
may be put on and taken off readily
they are cut with wide and roomN
wrist part In that part Of the glove
nowadays there is inset, with its base
at the edge OF the wrist, a small gore
OF softer leather. Attached to the
glove at one side of this gore is a
strap with a snap in the end Of it
while at the other side is a button
this snap and button being like those
nowadays used on kid gloves. and In
other uses With the snap unfastened
the opening Of the glove is hand-w wide:
when the glove is on, and the snap Is
fastened, that part OF the glove is
drawn closer around the wrist keeping
the glove on better, and affording bet
ter protection from the weather, The
old style, without snaps. commonly
until few years ago, worn everywhere
by car drivers. were called frog
mouths Comparatively few frog
mouths are worn nowadays by city car
drivers, the gloves OF this kind worn
here being mostly such as are fitted
with snaps. But frog mouths are
worn more or less in the country. and
still to some extent here; and every
car driver knows the frog-mouth
glove.
Many gloves are reinforced on the
thumb on the side toward the palm Of
the hand whore the most wear comes
with an additional thickness Of leather.
which is riveted on It is a character
istic Of the gloves of all kinds such
as worn by car drivers, gripmen and
motormen that the thumb is Of the
same piece as the glove: 1t Is not a
sewed-in thumb. They don't take any
chances Of the thumb earring out
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