To Clean Gloves.

Waikato Times, Volume XXV, Issue 2084, 14 November 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

To Clean Gloves.

Damp and put them on a glove stretoher ; sponge with reoently rectified oil of camphor, or turpentine ; when dry, hang them in a draught for a few days. Doe and buckskin and wash leather olean with a mixture of fuller's-carth and alum ; brush thia off and sprinkle with dry bran and whiting. If maoh soiled, vra<*h in lukewarm water, curd soap, and ox-gall ; stretch, and rub with pipeclay and yellow ochre, made into paste with beer ; dry gradually, rub when half dry, put into shape, oovcr with paper, and iron them. For washing glovep, a strong lather should be made of ourd eosp and milk ; put on the glove and apply the lather with a shaving brush, stroking from the wriet to the finger tops. When clean, remove the soap with a soft cloth, blow into the fingers to open them, and hang, well opened throughout, to dry. The simplest method of all is to put on the (kid) gloves, and bo wash them in a basin of spirits of turpentine till clean. This is the Frenoh plan.