Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
S NJ III ECO NOM I E s
WHAT A WOMAN DID WITH HER
OLD GLOVES.
Happy With the Success, Gave New
Career to Her Old
81 Shoes.
Written for The Evening Star.

Written for The Evening Star.
This is story for the strictly impecu-
NOUS. not for nillonaires or even for the
little rich. as the explanatory foreigner
remarked
| had met asbriS!f young woman friend
who while busiy working her way through
this vale of tears Always hives as If she
expected something Very pleasant to surely
happen to her on the morrow, hence she is
a Cheering sight TO see and one who has
ever an amusing tale to tell of her expe-
dents and small economies while waiting
for that blessed morrow.
AS she extended a.hand neatly g,oved in
black she gave it a whimsical glance, say
ing, Il am 50 glad / can frankly hold out
a hand to a friend, for do you know I have
been so shabby of late as to gloves. that /
nave had to contEiVe- various excuses for
concealing them.
Il was as careful as possible OF these
black kid gloves which were new in the au-
tur, hut some little time ago that oninous
wilderness began TO ove-spread the inside of
thumb and fingers Of my right hand and l
knew that l was looking at the beginning
of the end THIS kept on until in shopping
l was obliged TO hold my hand as if dis2os-
ing of Malage c~ape seeds a dessert fer
fear the cleli; in correct shirt waist and
ratty stock would see and critic:se those
fatal marks on the inside of my glove.
ETOm bGQ lC w OfSe.
This went on, of course from bad to
worse, until whenever l met one OF my
| stylish acquaintance l was obliged to
ignore the eutlield hand of greeting and,
keeping my own in my muff say airily,
oh! don't make me take my hands from
my muff, it's so cold, you know"
well, as the days went inspira-
ton came to me- and ] proceeded according
J ;v,IrE &c si,zaa eal4 n
touch up a seam or a ispot in black gloves.
! but | concluded TO use ii unsparingly, and
! if the result was what | hoped, my gloves
would be redeemed and discovery made.
| and If not the gloves could not be worn
much longer anyway, and | would sacri-
1 flee them to the experiment.
Touching Them Up.
II put on the left glove. and dipping an
| old tooth brush in a hottie of black ink, /
! applied it freely TO the glove all over, put
| ting on two coatings where it was most
rubbed. It was pretty damp when l fin
ished, and 1 held it on the heater to dry,
! You know in our boarding house you can
| always hold your hand ON the heater in
| any room,
presently it was quite dry and looked
very nice and black, but so decidedly dull
and lifeless that 1t showed at once thai
| something had happened. Then came the
| real triumph. | took up a wooden cloth
| polished it as I do my shoes, and, to my
! great surprise the glove began to show the
| luster of new glace Kid, while |, fascinated
| with my success, rubbed and polished, fan
| beyond the necessity for so doing.
The Second Treatment.
81 then put on the right glove and treated
it similarly, and though of course, that was
| far more worn than the other, it came out
very well and looked like new, except Just
Of i'm ger a ,bar
| it had been rubbed, and so the surface
! roughened. a nty
Now, I have been wearing them every
| day for week, and am highly satisfied
| with the result of my labors. They have
| not rubbed off noticeably; they have not
soiled anything, and are, as soft and pliable
| as before, Az a.
"My gloves were far gone toward ruin
| but to take them in time, treating only
| the worn fingers, l am, sure will far pro-
| long the service of black kid
Blackened Shoes, Too.
after succeeding so well with gloves /
| tried the same experiment with some old
shoes, putting regular shoe polish on one
and ink on the other, and polishing both
| with a black wooden cloth. When done you
could not tell one from the other, and the
effect of one was as lasting as the other.
| Possibly ink might inJure the leather in
| time. but from this weeks wear it does not
| appear to.
"Of course, cannot speak beyond this
one trial, but I shall go on using 1t, and
| now give you the benefit of my experiments
| il you want to try it yourself or tell other
people Of 1t in you writing.
| ''When shoe polish-the paste is best-can
| be gotten 1t IL probably preferable for
shoes, but when sometimes one is far from
such conveniences, e bottle OF ink may
prove real blessing"
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