Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-27
GIRLS IN THEIR TEENS.
Practical Suggestions as to How They
Should Care for Their Clothes.

If girls in their teens could only
realize the value of caring properly for
their clothes, they would not only pre-
sent better appearance each day. but
the clothes would last longer and their
owners be gamers in pocket. declares
Katherine Prindiville in Conkeys
Home Journal. 1t is never nice to
come in from a dusty walk or ride and
put away the hat and coat, shoes and
gown without thoroughly brushing
them. The particles of dust, II left
over night, wear out the clothes, be-
sides making them look gray and shah
by long before they otherwise would.
1t should be the rule to hang up the
gown. put the hat into it's bandbox and
the shoes into the shoe-bag just as
clean as light, quick brushing will
make them. Never should this cleans
ing ceremony be omitted. If INDUCED
In hut short time, it will become such
fixed habit that the girl will not be
comfortable unless she has gone through
with it. The amount of money saved
in q year by persistent, watchful over
sight of every article of wearing-ap-
parel will go far toward buying some
bit of jewelry or other luxury every
girl secretly pines for.
No task can be accomplished properly
without the right tools, and the chief
ones for keeping the wardrobe in order
are a whisk- broom, a brush of soft, fine
hair for hats, a small bottle of ammo
ria, jug of gasoline, small, stiff
brush-one that may be bought for five
cents will do-and work-basket filled
with threads of different colors, need
les. tapes in black and white, and darn
ing-cottOn in black and white. There
should also be box Of soft backing
for shoes. If pair or two OF the new
foot-forms are added to the other nee
essaries. the shape Of the shoes, as well
as their color, will be kept like new so
long as they are worm,
The moment the braid on a gown
grows the least thin, it should be re-
moved. Or if there is a hem and this
shows symptoms of breaking, it should
he ripped at the top, the edge sewed in
the seam on the inside and then the
hem turned back again and stitched.
The pressing Of skirts and bodices Is
easy enough if long, narrow skirt
board and a thin sleeve-board are
standing in a convenient corner of the
girls closet. If. the moment a spot of
| any kind is noticed on a gown, 1t is
scrubbed with warm water to which
few drops of ammonia have been added,
the dust will not have chance to set
tie and form a permanent spot The
| serubbing should be done with the five
| cent brush. The pressing of her gowns
the girl of fifteen should he able to do
for herself. She should at that age
know how to darn her own stockings
| and mend any rips that show them
| selves in beg gloves. Att4ntion to
| these things ~ given from 1agzto day.
takes but little time, and In the long
! RIM proves the old. adage, "A stitch in
| time saves nine"
when gloves are taken OFT they
| should never he left with the fingers
turned inside out: neither should they
| e rolled carelessy together The
minute they are removed from the
han,,s' fine fingers should be pulled out
perfectly straight, with the wrinkles
srnoothed away BY quick pulling at the
ends of the fingers: then they should be
MT into a box, palm to palm, never
folded or never rolled up as stockings
4 are or should be.
The ing Of gasoline should always be In
the cellar. OF in some outside sned, and