The Care of Gloves

Gloves tend to become more and more expensive, and a few suggestions as to how various kinds may be renovated at home may prove helpful.

White Kid Gloves—Have ready a little new milk in one saucer and a piece of brown soup in another, and a clean cloth or towel folded three or four times.  On the cloth spread out the clove smooth and neat.  Take a piece of flannel; dip it in the milk, then rub off a good quantity of soap to the wetted flannel, and commence to rub the glove downwards towards the fingers, holding it firmly with the left hand.  Continue this process until the white glove looks of a dingy yellow color.  Lay it aside to dry.  Old gloves cleaned in this way will soon look nearly new—soft, glossy, smooth, well shaped, and elastic.  They must be well pulled out when they are dry.

Yellow or Tan Kid Gloves—Get some pure benzine from a chemist.  Put the gloves on stretchers or on [unclear], and rub them with a [unclear] sponge or flannel saturated with benzine.  Hang in the air [unclear] if you have no stretchers [unclear] piece of wood or roll of  [unclear] each finger and thumb to keep these in shape.  Remember that benzine is highly inflammable.

Undressed Kid Gloves—Draw the gloves on your hands and freely rub them with stale bread crumbs and any very dirty part treat with pure benzoline.  Black gloves which have grown white at the seams and fingertips may be lightly brushed with the tip of a feather dipped in a teaspoonful of salad oil in which a few drops of black ink have been dissolved.

Light colored suedes may be washed and dried on the hands or on a pair of glove forms, using white soap boiled in milk as a suds, and rubbing them with flannel, then with warm water, and finally with a dry flannel.