Evening star., 1923-11-30
How to Save on Gloves and Hosiery.

milk bath will remove water stains and
new ink stains. Rust stains and old
ink stains are best cleaned by apply
ing thick paste made of cream of
tartar and water. To prevent the
stain from spreading, sprinkle French
chalk round each spot before you
treat it. AS soon as the spots have
disappeared, apply little French
chalk to the part that has been treat
ed. The chalk will absorb the mois-
ture.
Three rules apply to cleaning all
kinds of gloves, no matter what meth
cleaned gloves in a fresh solution OF
the fluid that you cleaned them In.
Second, for polishing. use only a soft,
clean linen cloth. Third, always clean
one glove at a time, working from the
wrist to the finger tips.
Touching Up Gloves with Dye.
Dyeing a glove all over is not diff
more delicate undertaking, for the dye
must then be applied evenly with
brush and care must be taken not to
color the same spot twice. light
brushing with the dye is usually suf-
ficient. All dyeing should be done
after the gloves have been cleaned,
but before they are polished. With
the exception of white washable
gloves, which should be dipped in the
dyeing fluid while they are still wet,
they are thoroughly dry. You can dye
any washable white gloves TO a cream
color by using diluted yellow dye or
preparation of strong coffee. Only
gloves of the best quality can be dyed.
Expert Mending Of Gloves.
For your mending outfit you will
need some very fine sewing needles.
some medium and some extra fine
milliner's needles several pieces of
glove skin and some fine cotton or
silk thread. The thread and the glove
skin must match the color of the
gloves. Cotton thread is best because
it will not as readily cut the glove
skins, but if you can find the color
that you need in silk thread only, use
the silk. When repairing worn-out
glove tips use the small sewing
needles; when making invisible darns
use the milliners' needles. II the work
is done right glove will not show
that 1t has been mended. An over
casting or buttonhole stitch makes
a good copy of the machine stitching
that appears on most gloves. Some
times two rows of running stitches
can be used. If you use the button
hole stitch do not place the stitches
AS close together as you would if you
were making buttonholes.
To mend very small hole in
glove. turn the glove inside out and
join the broken edges neatly. To mend
large hole. the edges of which are
smooth, insert patch. If the edges
or the hole are very ragged make an
invisible darn with very fine thread
and fine milliner'S needle.
Do all mending of finger tips with
very fine thread. If the seams have
split open sew them neatly together
on the inside of the glove or on the
| outside, whichever the seam was in
| the first place. either buttonholed or
plain. To mend a tear in the material
| at the end of d finger rip out the
| stitches at the end of the finger and
| cut away the part of the material that
| is torn. Cut a piece OF glove skin to
J the same shape as the torn piece. but
| q little larger. II the machine stitch
| ing of the finger seams is on the out
! side of the glove, sew in the patch TO
| correspond Overcast the lower edge
OF the patch to the upper edge of the
| finger If the machine stitching is on
| the inside, turn the glove inside out
| before you sew the new patch TO the
| finger seams.
To make a whole new tip for a
glove finger, cut off the old tip and
unravel all of its seams. Use these
pieces as patterns and cut out the
same number of new pieces. Stitch
| the new pieces together in the form
| of tip and overcast the lower edges
of the tip to the upper edges of the
glove finger. You can mend the tip
| of the thumb in the same way, but
instead of having several pieces TO
S--tcn INTO tne form OF Il UP, you Will
have only one piece, deeply scalloped
at the end.
.Runs" In SILK Stockings.
If a run is in the leg of a stocking
| first baSte ii over a piece of glazed
paper or over think cardboard. While
YOU darn, hold the section to be
darned in place without stretching ii
or pulling it. If the run is in the
foot, use a darning egg for the work.
A good way to darn run quickly is
to use a raveling from an old silk
stocking or single strand of fine
darning cotton to fill in the run with
a zigzag stitch. For the first stitch,
bring the needle up from the under
side of the material. For the next
stitch, bring 1t down from the upper
side. Continue as long as is neces-
sary, catching the run very near the
edges. Have the thread rather loose,
and when you have entirely filled in
the run, pull il just taut enough to
draw the edges together. For this
kind of darning the stitches should
be placed about an eighth of an inch
apart.