oves (2).

Put the gloves on your hand and wash them, as if you were washing your
hands, in some spirits of turpentine, until quite clean; then hang
them up in a warm place, or where there is a current of air, and all
smell of the turpentine will be removed.

2253. How to Wash Kid Gloves (3).

Have ready a little new milk in one saucer, and a piece of brown soap
in another, and a clean cloth or towel folded three or four times. On
the cloth, spread out the glove 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 glove, if white, looks of a dingy yellow, though
clean; if coloured, till it looks dark and spoiled. Lay it to dry; and
old gloves will soon look nearly new. They will be soft, glossy,
smooth, well-shaped, and elastic.

2254. Preserving the Colour of Dresses.

The colours of merinos, mousseline-de-laines, ginghams, chintzes,
printed lawns, &c., may be preserved by using water that is only milk
warm; making a lather with white soap, _before_ you put in the dress,
instead of rubbing it on the material; and stirring into a first and
second tub of water a large tablespoonful of oxgall. The gall can be
obtained from the butcher, and a bottle of it should always be kept in
every house. No coloured articles should be allowed to remain long in
the water. They must be washed fast, and then rinsed through two cold
waters. In each, rinsing water stir a teaspoonful of vinegar, which
will help to brighten the colours; and after rinsing, hang them out
immediately. When _ironing-dry_ (or still a little damp), bring them
in; have irons ready heated, and iron them at once--as it injures the
colours to allow them to remain damp too long--or sprinkle and roll
them up in a cover for ironing next day. If they cannot be
conveniently ironed immediately, let them hang till they are _quite_
dry, and then damp and fold them on the, _following day,_ a quarter of
an hour before ironing.

It is better not to do coloured dresses on the day of the general
wash, but to give them a morning by themselves. They should only be
undertaken in clear bright weather. If allowed to freeze, the colours
will be irreparably injured. We need scarcely say that no coloured
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