CARE OF VEILS & GLOVES

Dominion, Volume 8, Issue 2468, 22 May 1915, Page 11

CARE OF VEILS & GLOVES

The little items_ of dress, that make all the difference in_a woman's appearance, also mako a big hole in her dress allowance. Such important details as veils and gloves may, however, be renewed at home at a trifling cost. To clean white gauze, nmon, gossamer, and such fragile fabrics, says a professional cleaner, soak the articles over-night in a solution of a quarter of a pound of white soap, dissolved in two gallons of water. Or course, if thero are not many items to be cleaned, half or even less the quantity will suflico. Next morning wash by rubbing between the hands in a fresh solution or the same quantity of soap and warm water. Then give the articles one warm and one cold rinse,' and another rinse composed of one-eighth of an ounco of oxalic acid and half a teacupf'ul of acetic acid to two gallons of water. If not sufficiently white, bleach with one part of poroxiae of hydrogen to 10 parts_ of water, leaving the goods in this solution over night. Stiffen with a little gum arabio or sago. White veils are treated as above. Coloured ones are cleaned with a little soap melted in cold water, or the water should be allowed to get cold before being used. They are then well rinsed and finally are passed through a weak solution of acetic acid, about a teaspoonful to a quart of water. Stiffen with a little gum arabic, partly dry, by clapping between the hands, and pin out smooth on a door or some flat, clean surface to finish drying. Black veils are vest cleaned by handling them carefully in warm water with a tablespoonful of ammonia added to each quart of water. If the veils are rusty-looking tliey may be completely renewed by boiling one ounce of logwood chips and one teaspoonful of sal. soda in a gallon of water, and handling

them without cleaning m this for ten minutes. Rinse once in cold water; the stiffen and dry in the way described.

To remove varnish or oil paint from linen, cotton, or silk, first wash with turpentine, then with benzine or gasoline, and finally with soap and water. Chamois or buckskin gloves may bo dry-cleaned with gasoline and soap, or they may be stretched on the hand or on a wooden hand and rubbed with stale breadcrumbs, or with a brush dipped in a mixture of equal parts of Fuller's earth and powdered alum. Another good method is to wash the gloves in a Fuke-warm solution of castile soap, and pull them into shape on the liaiids without wringing. Rub them then with pipe-clay, yellow ochre, or umbre, or a mixture of these made into a paste of the desired shade. Tho gloves should be dried, nibbing them well so as to smooth" them, aud then pulled into shape. When they are entirely dry brush out the superfluous colour and iron them with a warm, not hot, iron. Ail kid gloves are best cleaned with gasoline (which, though not generally procurable at the retail chemists, may be obtained at the wholesale houses), petrol, or benzine. The usual method is to soak the gloves ovornight in the benzino or gasoline, and leave them for about half an hour before finally hanging them up to dry. A bottle with, a sorew top is best for soaking in, as tho air must ue excluded. —"Sydney Morning Herald."