Arizona weekly enterprise., 1882-12-23
Gloves. Old and New.

Gloves were articles of Orfntal dress, for according to XenophonI they were worn by Cyrus the Persian; And Athen- eous speaks of celebrated gourmand who came to banquet with gloved hands, that he might eat more rapidly than his fellow-guests, who had to wait until the viands were cool.
 In ancient times a glove was employ ed as token or pledge of faith in the making of contracts-a sort of substi- tute for the hand itself-being cast down by one contracting party, to be taken up.a as sealing the agreement by the other.
 Before the union of England and Scot land, the Borderers having once pledged their faith to an enemy, regarded its violation as grave crime; and, when such breach of honor occurred. the injured person rode through the field at the next Border meeting, holding up a glove on the point of his spear-as Q pledge of faith-and proclaimed the per fidy of him who had broken it. To wipe out such a stain, the criminal was often slain by his own clan.
 Passing over all mention of the gloves worn by Knights with their mail armor, or having overlapping plates of steel, l will name few of those of which some note has made been made in history
 A fur-lined glove, worn by Henry VI, is still preserved in the old mansion that gave him shelter after the disastrous battle of Hexham (146D. The son-in- law of Tunstall, and esquire of his body" Sir Ralph Pudsey, kept him in concealment at Bolton Hall, Yorkshire; and there, when he left his faithful host he also left boot, spoon and glove. The latter is of tanned leather, lined with hairy deer skin, turned over at the wrist as deep cuff.
 The embroidered gloves of Ceur de Lion lost him his liberty at one time, and might have cost him his life. He was lying in concealment in an enemy s country, and his page carried them very indiscreetly in his pocket-though per haps for their better safety-when sent l by his royal master to obtain food in the neighborhood of Vienna. How it hap pened it does not appear; but they were l seen, and recognized as being only suit able for crowned head to possess. The same night the King was captured by the Duke of Austria, and sold by him tc Emperor HenryiVI for 60,O00 pounds oi silver.
 Anne Boleyn seems to have been very particular about her gloves, and it k recorded that her royal predecessor used to delight in making her play cards with them, that some little blemish 1T the shape of one of her nails might of fend the King.
 Queen Mary and her sister Elizabeth took pride in this article of dress. It i' said that the latter was eXtravagant il the extreme about them, and that |, marvellous pair wPj at one time present ed to her that was incloseL in walnr shell. She even retained her glove when playing her virginal. One ''payl of gloves embrawret with gold" is re corded as having been sent to her siste Mary as New Years gift before he accession, and ''ten payr of Spanysh' gloves from Duches in Spayne'' cam to her year afterward, while at abou that time "a pair of swete gloves" wer also presented to her from Mrs. Whel lers.
 The degradation of any exalted per sonage in the middle ages was express ed by the deprivation of his gloves just as glove was presented to him il the ceremony of bestowlng on him land or honorS.
 The enormous quantity of so calle' kid gloves is greatly in excess of tn amount of leather afforded by the skin of all the young goats annually killed t supply the demand. There has lon been quite a trade carried on in Pari by the gamins in rat skins, who hay much profitable sport in catching then at the mouths of the great drains of tn city. Our real kid skins come fror Switzerland and Tuscany, dispatche from Leghorn.-O Queen.