Spotted Gloves

New Zealand Listener, Volume 3, Issue 54, 5 July 1940, Page 45

Spotted Gloves

Dear Aunt Daisy, Your pages in The Listener are always the first I turn to in search of new recipes and hints on various topics. It is such a treat to get something different for meals, etc. when one lives in the country, and can’t just go and buy what one fancies. You have such a fund of knowledg about other subjects, too, that I feel emboldened to ask your help with two matters that are troublesome. Recently I found that my best pair of. navy kid gloves had become spotted, not badly but still encugh to spoil the look of the gloves. So I wondered if you could tell me how to treat them, please. They were a present, and were expensive, I know. The other problem is how to stop shoes from squeaking. If there is one thing I hate, it is squeaky shoes. They were not cheap shoes, either, but I think they are New Zealand made. They have a nice appearance, and would be most useful if only they wouldn’t squeak. _ "K" (Clevedon). Many thanks for your kindly. encouragement, which is very heartening. The spots on your kid gloves should yield to the following treatment. Get a few pieces of rock ammonia from the chemist; put them into a jam jar, and put the gloves in, too, protecting these from actually touching the ammonia by putting some tissue paper between. Screw the lid down and leave them for a day or so; the spots on the gloves should have gone, and you can just put the gloves on, and rub them up with a piece of silk. Very often a consignment of gloves from overseas for a drapery firm arrives in a spotted condition, due to humid conditions and imperfect packing; these are generally sold at half price or less, though really expensive gloves. People can buy these, and screw them down in this way with rock ammonia and thus get very good gloves very cheaply.