Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1883-06-28
GLOVES.

Hh'hS it'ilidH I'loNClOS Is. uuCt'
quantata non piglia sorice; "Cats wit
gloves on catch no MICE" meaning tina
success rarely attends the efforts of on
who is notpreparcd for his work. How
ill-adaptcd TO the use of cats or an,
other animal gloves may be, they are 0
great service to mankind, and have beer
used for many centuries. Indeed. as il
the case with various articles of utility O.
ornament, the antiquity of gloves is in.
Discriminate. The word is derived from
the Anglo-Saxon word glof, covering
for the hand; tut gloves were worn lons
before the settlement of the Teuton il
England.
Anciently, as a pledge of good faith
in making contract, glove wa,
given by one of the contracting partie:
to the other When Boaz purchased 9
field from Ruth, according to Scripture
" he drew off his shoe" and passed it to
her. But the Chaldean version OF
the. same transaction reads: " the
clothing of his right hand" and il
is certainly more reasonable interpre-
tation than the one commonly adopted.
Aenophon mentions gloves as forming an
important part of the Oriental dress, and
states. in language that indicates his sur
prise, the circumstance that Cyrus once
appeared publicwith uncovered hands.
The Egyptian Athenaus,-he died 1874
years Il. C.-gives an account of noted
glutton who always wore gloves to the
table, THAT he might handle the meat
while hot and so be able to eat more
than his companions.
The ancient Greeks and Romans used
gloves to protect their hands while en-
gagged in manual labor: never when i'm
full dress" During the Middle Ages
gloves were worn by the rich and noble
as ornaments; by officers civil and
ecclesiastical-as badges of honor; by
the common people not at all. In many
instances they were adorned with pre-
cious stones; but Louis l. forbade monks
to wear any save of plain sheep-skin.
For season they were considered eX-
clusively part of the Bishops dress,
and were not permitted to the lower
orders of the clergy. Those in author
ity conferred honor and dignity upon a
person by the gift to him of gloves, and
their removal was an evidence of his
degradation. When the Earl of Car
Isle had been impeached and sentenced
to death for conspiring against the life
OF the King, Edward H., shis spurs
were cut off with Ratchet and his
gloves taken from him"
AS early as the middle of the thir-
teenth century it was customary for one
knight to challenge another to single
combat by throwing down his glove at
the feet of him challenged. In case the
latter was willing TO contend with his
would-be antagonist he picked up the
glove and cast down his own.
A very impressive part of the corona
ton ceremony, where the early French
Kings were concerned, was the "Bless-
ing of the Glove" Briefly, it was as
follows: The director of the spiritual
affairs OF the realm, holding aloft the
monarch gloves, prayed that Heavens
richest Blooms might be enjoyed by him
whose hands they were to encase, that
he might be enabled, through Divine
assistance, to deal Justly by all his peo-
pie. When, in 1899, Richard ii. had
been deposed, and the Duke of Lancas-
caster, under the title of Henry w.. had
seized the throne, a knight in full armor
entered the hall where the mobiles were
dining and hurled his glove upon the
table, thus challenging to mortal fray any
one who should dare assert that the
usurper was not lawful sovereign.
Nothing afforded Catherine of Aragon
greater happiness than to have devised
some method which compelled her sue
cessor in the favor of Henry Will. Anne
Boleyn, to play cards without the gloves |
which she almost constantly wore to con-
ceal defect in the shape of one of her |
hnger-nails. the sight whereof greatly
disturbed the King Both Queen Mary
and Queen Elizabeth paid especial at
tentlon TO the matter of their gloves:
and the latter was passiopately
fond of the perfumed gloves, en-
broidered with colored silk. that
IN her day were imported into
England from Italy. In the old En-
giish records the expression glove
silver" is frequently found. By some
1T Is supposed to signify the money
given to servants wherewith to pur-
chase gloves, while others attach to it a
meaning not unlike that of modern
f" PIN money the sums allowed
ladies for providing themselves with
Many gloves of 10 inconsiderable
historic interest have been preserved to
this day. In the Cathedral of Canter-
bury may be seen the gauntlets-from
CANT, the French word for glove--worn
by the Black Prince at the battle of
Crecy. With Sir Ralph Pudney, who
kept him in concealment at Bolton
Hal, Yorkshire, after his defeat at
Hen am, Henry vi. left various arti-
cles of his apparel, and among them
was glove ''of tanned leather. lined
with hairy deer-skin. turned over at the
wrist as deep cuff A visitor at the
old Manor House will find it there even
now AT the siege of Frederickshalle,
On the borders Of Norway, where he