The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-10-10
Gloves, Old and New.

Gloves were articles Of Oriental dress,
for according to Xenophon they were
worn by Cyrus the Persian; and Athen-
mous speaks of celebrated gourmand
who came TO banquet with glovcd
hands that he might eat more rapidly
than hissfellow-guests, who had TO wait
until the viands were cool.
In ancient times glove was employ
ed as a 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 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 rs grave crime; and, when
such breach of honor occurred, the
injured person rode through the field at
the next Border meeting, holding up n
glove on the point of his spear-as
pledge of fath-and proclaimed the per-
lidy of him who had broken it. 10 wipe
out such 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, |
will name few of those of which some
note has made beer made in history.
A fur-lincd glove, worn by Henry vi,
is still preserved in the old mansion that
gave him shelter after the disastrous
battle of Hexham Q46D. Tho 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 Cnur dc
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
indscreetly in his pocket though per-
haps for their better safety--when sent
by his royal master to obtain food in the
= neighborhood of Vienna. How it hap
pened it does not appear; but they were
seen, and recognized as being only suit
able for a crowned head to possess. The
same night the King was captured by
the Duke of Austria, and sold by him TO
Emperor lienryIVI for 10000 pounds of
silver.
Anne Boleyn seems to have been very
particular about her gloves, and it is
recorded that herroyal predecessor used
to delight in making her play cards
with them, that some little blemish in
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 1t is
said that the latter was extravagant in
the extreme about them, and that q
marvellous pair was at one time present
ed to her that was incosed in a walnut
shell. She even retained her gloves
when playing her virginia.. One "payr
of gloves embrawret with gold" is re-
corded as having been sent to her sister
Mary as a New Years gift before her
accession, and "ten payr Of Spanyshe
gloves from Duches in Spayne'' came
10 UtI y cal dlltI W dlu, NllllG ~ dDOuI
that time "a pair of swete gloves" were
also presented to her from Mrs. WHEEL
| 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 in
the ceremony Of bestowing on him lands
or honors
The enormous quantity of so called
kid gloves is greatly in excess of the
amount Of leather afforded by the skins
of all the young goats annually killed to
supply the demand. There has long
been quite trade carried on in Paris
by the gamins in rat skins, who have
much profitable sport in catching them
at the mouths Of the great drains of the
city, Our real kid skins come from
Switzerland and Tuscany, dispatched
from Leghorn. Queen.
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