The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-10-18
THE HISTORY OF GLOVES.
How They Became Articles of Raiment
and Played Part in History.


From the New York Advertiser
One of the earliest records of the use
of gloves in England is found in the reign
of Ethelred II. to whom some German
merchants paid a toll of FIVE pairs of
gloves. 1t was not, however, until the
eleventh century that they were gener-
ally worn by both sexes. A pair Of
gloves is said to be at the bottom of the
quarrel between Queen Anne and the
Duchess of Marlborough, which drove
the queen to throw herself in the arms
OF the tories. According to Ablgailc Hills
account, she was sent one day by her
mistress to get pair of gloves which had
been left on a table in an adjoining room
Abigail found that the duchess, who was
reading letter at the table had mad
Vertently put on the gloves instead of her
own. On being informed of her mistake
she flung them on the ground, exolaiming
Have 1 really worn anything which has
touched the odious hands of that disagree
able woman" Unfortunately for her
grace, the door between their rooms had
been left ajar: the queen heard ALL and
never foTgave it.
Queen Anne's we're not the only gloves
to bring about an important political cri-
sis. The Hugueonots firmly believed that
the death of Jeanne d. Albert was due to
poison administered through a pair of
5AON65. 1 lie queen OF Navarro nad come
to Paris to arrange the marriage of her
son (afterward Henry IV.) with Marguer-
lite of Nalois daughter of Henri H. and
Catherine de Medici Like many another
lady she seized the opportunity for doing
a little shopping, and her i'll
fate led her to the Italian
perfumer, Maitre Rene, from whom
she bought a pair of scented gloves. I'm
mediately afterward she was struck
down by a fatal illness, and the Hugue-
nots whispered that it was not for nothing
| that Mattress goods were so highly es-
teemed by Queen Catherine, for whom
Queen Jeanne's death proved most op-
perfume.
Even before the days of Maitre Rene
Paris gloves We're celebrated. Margaret
! Tudor Countess of Richmond, wrote in
1895 to the queens chamberlain, lament
ing that the French gloves he sent her
were too much" for her hand and slyly
adding that the French ladies must be
great altogether, not only in estates but
in their persons" A few years later the
| Queen of France was sending ring and
glove to the King of Scotland, not for the
benefit of his wife, but to tempt him into
quarreling with his brother-in-law, Henri
VIII. Those fatal tokens lured James
~ to Flodden Field.
Still more celebrated has been the glove
which after this period, was flung into
non den. If that glove, which Sire de
Lorges tossed back into his lady's face
cannot strictly be said to have played a
part in history its legend has been famil-
lar to us from childhood, and has long
been a feature in every volume of selec-
lions intended, to use an old-fash.
Toned phrase, for the use of young per.
sons"
King Francis and his laughing court
might we'll have shuddered had they have
| looked forward far two centuries and a
half. and seen what gloves would be re
garded as the hight of fashion in 1894
No perfumed and jewelled tribes fringed
with gold and embroidered in silk, came
| from the tannery which a good patriot
established at Meudon. The gloves
which he offered to his patrons were made
from human skins-the skins Of victims to
La Sainte Guillotine. 1t would have beer
we'll could old Simon Glover have re-
| turned from the grave to strike a good
blow 70 avenge the honor of his craft
| The motto of the Glovers of Perth, THE
| perfect honor of a craft, or beauty Of a
| trade is not in wealth but in moral worth
whereby virtue gains renown," could new.
or have ben blazened above the door OF
the Meudon tannery.
81 understand" said the detective. tina,
/ YOU had clew to the whereabouts o.
/ Crool1lcs, the famous criminal"
/ slight one"
What was it?"
| Srooldes ana wanted 10 give himself ul
/ because he was tired Of eluding justice"
/ What dld YOU DOR
/ Nothing Tie couldn't prove his idcn
] uly. washington star.
Three Warnings. Man from Boston-I