Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-27

| it should be used for cleaning the light
kid gloves and the light ribbons, also for
removing spots that come on light deli
cate woods. If the gasoline is poured into
a basin and the gloves to be cleaned are
left in it over night, then squeezed out
and fresh gasoline poured over them, they
will come out fresh and clean as from
the hands of a professional cleaner, with
just about one-tenth of the cost.
If hair ribbons are neatly folded as
soon as they are taken off and they are
pressed with a hot iron about twice a
week. and their edges kept free from
travelling by frequent trimmings with
good, sharp scissors, they will always
look neat and well. A ribbon-box should
be kept on top of the dressing-table and
the ribbons folded and laid in it. A box
for clean handkerchiefs should be in the
top drawer, and n small fancy bag for
soiled ones should hang at the side of the
dressing-table. The neck-ribbon and COL
lars and the belts, and stocks and the
other odds and ends which girl always
has in the top drawer should have set
corners, and they should be put into their
particular places each time they are
taken off.
If mothers would exercise strict sl-
perviSiOn over the top drawer for few
months and institute a rigid system of
discipline to control the condition of that
drawer, her daughters might rise up and
call her blessed in years to come, as Mrs.
Henry Ward Beecher did her mother.
Mrs. Beecher'S mother required that eacn
week the bureau drawers in her daugh-
ter'S room should be put in order and
kept so as nearly as possible for the fol-
lowing seven days. No scolding ever at
tended the failure to be. orderly, but
there were sudden calls from warm
bed at late hours of cold winter nights in
an age when bedroom heating was I'M
heard of. The call was followed by the
rising of the forgetful daughter and the
thorough Strengthening out of disordered
gown. Or just as the same girl was
starting out for a picnic. she was called
back and put to the task of getting the
drawer in order. Mrs. Beecher confessed
owed the neatnesS which marked her
habits throughout life to the Spartanlike
discipline which ruled her girlhoOd years.
1t should be a first law to keep all
hooks and eyes and buttons firmly sewed
on thus avoiding the temptation to use
pins which wear out skirt and neck
bands with amazing rapidly.
If girls would only set their hearts up
on having a long mirror to cover the
closet door they would soon have it.
This long mirror l consider one of the
strongest incentives for Keeping the bot
ItOm of the skirt and shoes trim and at
tractive. 1t costs something, but with
persistent saving of pocket-money and
coaxing of big brothers, one is bound to
ma terialiZe sooner or later. Besides be-
| ing a really encouraging If silent friend,
to a girl ambitious to be well groomed
and we'll dressed, it would be an ornament
and also add much to the apparent size
of the room.
With some extra hooks screwed in the
inside of the closet door and a shoe-bag
with from six to twelve pockets in it put
there also, some valuable helps to ward
robe beauty will be acquired. If girls
would make the pockets just large enough
| for a single shoe. the danger Of rubbing
the leather would be avoided. Dress
hangers-one will do for a skirt and waist
should be had for each costume. There
should also be extra ones for jackets,
either heavv or light. Small padded
pieces laid across the top of the hanger
will prevent the sharp ends from leaving
marks in the hips of the skirt and in the
upper parts of the sleeves of the gowns
or Jackets. A touch of daintiness may
be. given to these pads by making lem
of batting covered with cheese-cloth and
sprinkling violet or heliotrope powder be-
tween the layers of cotton. This will
give Just a hint of delicate odor, which
| is so desirable about a gown. ,
Another little point is to keep up the
care, of your things. Do not wear for a
single day. even shoe with a Slanting
heel. Any shoemaker will put neat
layer on the heel in five minutes and it
will cost but dime. If you have mended
your stockings religiously, there is no
reason why you should not drop into the
| shOemaker's on your way to or from
school or market and sit in your stocking
| feet while the mending goes on.