CLEANING AND CARE OF GLOVES To Clean Gloves. — For cleaning gloves, gasoline, benzine, naphtha, and soap used with either milk or water, fuller's earth, with or without pow dered alum, cream of tartar, pipe clay, French chalk, bread crumbs, and corn meal are all recommended; for fruit and acid stains, ammonia; for ink stains, oxalic acid; and various compounds of these substances. • Gasoline.—Draw the gloves on td the hands and wash them in gasoline in the same fashion as the hands are washed in water. Wipe off surplus gasoline with a piece of flannel, and allow the gloves to partially dry on the hands. Afterwards hang on a line to dry in the sun. The soiled parts of the gloves may be rubbed' with any good white hard soap dur ing this process. But they should not afterwards be washed in suds, as it shrinks and wrinkles them. For light glace kid gloves, draw the gloves on to the hands and with a flannel cloth apply a paste composed of flour and gasoline. Rub with a clean, dry cloth until quite dry.
Turpentine.—Before the discovery of gasoline, gloves were cleaned by washing in spirits of turpentine in the same way as they are now washed in gasoline. Turpentine is to be pre ferred when the gloves are stained with paint or resinous substances.
Benzine. — Place the gloves in a large fruit jar full of benzine, screw on the lid and let them soak for twen ty minutes or more, shaking the jar vigorously at intervals. Take them out and examine for dirt spots, which may be removed by rubbing with ben zine on et flannel rag. Afterwards hang them up to dry in the open air. To remove the odor of benzine, pro fessional cleaners dry articles cleaned in this manner in a drying room at a temperature of about 000° But this odor will pass off after a time.
Or draw the gloves on the hands, dip a flannel rag in benzine, and allow it to become nearly dry. While slightly damp, moisten the gloves with this by rubbing the hands with it as if with a towel.
Or take part of a loaf of bread slightly moist, or dry bread crumbs, and rub lightly over the gloves until they are clean. Change the crumbs
as they become soiled. Repeat if necessary.
Milk for Kid Gloves.—Draw the gloves on the hands, dip a cloth in skim milk, and wipe them on the cloth as if on a towel. Let them dry on the hands.
Or draw a glove on one hand and with the other hand dip a piece of flannel in new milk, rub on castile soap or any good hard white soap, and rub the soiled glove lightly.
Or lay the glove on a folded towel, dip a flannel cloth in milk, rub on castile soap or other white soap, and rub the glove lightly, working from the back or wrist toward the fingers.
To Dry-clean Gloves. — Delicate white kid or suede gloves may be dry cleaned with cream of tartar, mag nesia, fuller's earth, alum, pipe clay, corn meal, or various compounds of these.
A simple method is to draw the gloves on the hands and wash them thoroughly in fine corn meal.
Or place the glove in a paper bag or fruit jar, fill them with a mixture of magnesia and cream of tartar, cov er them with it, shake the bag, and let it stand over night. Rub off this mixture with a flannel cloth inside and out, draw the gloves on the hands, and apply a mixture of powdered alum and fuller's earth with a small, soft brush, sponge, nailbrush, or toothbrush.
Or brush with fuller's earth with out powdered alum, and dust it off.
If the gloves are not entirely clean, draw them on the hands and apply fine bran or pipe clay, or a mixture of both. None of these substances will injure the gloves, and if one is not at hand use another. Bread crumbs are also useful, especially when the gloves are much soiled. Change the crumbs as they become dirty.
To Clean Wash-leither Gloves. Wash-leather gloves may be cleaned with soap and water. Draw them on the hands and with a shaving brush apply a lather of fine shaving or toilet soap. Wipe them on a clean towel and let them dry on the hands.