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Show fi. I-l - Now that ostrich leathers have returned re-turned to favor the woman that has cared for her plumes will bring them out to find them increased in money value and available in a number of ways. Fashion approves of ostrich flues in many forms and plumes are used not alone in millinery but as decorations dec-orations for evening dresses and for making the handsomest fans. The flues form innumerable fancy feather millinery ornaments, neckpieces, wreaths and fringes and are fashionable fashion-able in both the curled and uncurled state. Handsome wreaths for hats are shown with the feathers along one side of the rib curled and along the other straight. If plumes that have been laid away nre in good condition but soiled it is not n difficult matter to clean them, except that the curling process is a little tedious. They may be washed In a lukewarm suds of soft water and castile soap. They are shaken In the suds and drawn through the hand to squeeze out the soiled water. After they are clean they should be rinsed in warm, clear water and wrapped in cheesecloth or other absorbent material mate-rial arid pus through an ordinary clothes wringer. But the rolls of the wringer musi not be close enough to damage the feathers. After this washing process they should be shaken until dry. Holding the feather by the rib it is shaken and gently beaten against the other band. If the little flues cling together this may be corrected by holding them over the spout of a steaming kettle. When the-plume is thoroughly dry it is ready for curling. An ordinary table knife will answer for curling a plume. The plume is drawn along the edge of the knife between be-tween it and the thumb. The trick Is to curl the flue only at the end and not too tightly. Each flue is to be curled to correspond with the others. A faded plume may be tinted or a white plume given a color by dipping them in gasoline into which a little oil paint, such as comes in small tubes, lias been dissolved. One has to experiment ex-periment to get the tint wanted. Gas oline will not affect the curl of a feather. This tinting should be done by an open window in a room that has no fire of any kind in it, or in thu open air. It takes a professional feather manufacturer man-ufacturer to make fancy feather ornaments, or-naments, wreaths and pompons of the flues. There are many new ways of using ostrich flues on the new millinery milli-nery for fall and winter and the possessor pos-sessor of plumes will not look far before be-fore finding a use for them. |