Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1897-09-24
THE LOVE Of GLOVES.
INTERESTING FACTS FROM HISTORY
CONCERNING THEM.

Early Manufacturing Establishments.
Rats, Dogs ami Cats Furnish Materials
For Giovemakine- Customs of Different
Times In Which Gloves Figured.
Gloves are now worn indiscriminately
by rich and poor and have no special
significance excepting as Il completing
article Of the toilet, much attention be-
ing given 10 their fit in case the wearer
is woman. Strangely enough, that
which is regarded as particularly nice
effect in the fit Of WOlnan's glove be.
comes positive blemish when worn by
man, if indeed man could be found
who would wear Il glove that was fitted
TO his hand without IA wrinkle.
The antiquity Of gloves reaches into
remote ages. As early as in the reign Of
Robert III glove manufacturers were in
corporated by charter III Perth, guild
being then established that still exists
III name, although the town Is not de-
voted now 10 the manufacture of gloves
ms leading article of commerce.
~ klONtiS NNiillIillg W l9 tSAdbllSIitNl
/ in London in 1864, but was not char
tered until 1858. In 1861 a company
for the manufacture and sale of gloves
was incorporated in Worcester, Eng
land, where the trade flourishes at the
present time, the famous English dog
skin, made really from Cape sheepskin,
and of a warm tan color, being unap-
preached in excellence by any other
makers.
Paris is a glove market for the whole
world. In the Swiss mountains kids are
raised especially for this industry and
great pains are taken 70 have the ami
mails killed while the skin is fine and
soft. Tannerics at MILAN, Annonay.
Paris and Grenoble prepare them for the
stitchers. But there are not enough kids
raised i'll France to supply the great de-
mand for gloves, and the gamins Of
Paris find steady and profitable employ.
ment catching rats at the mouths Of the
great drains of the city 10 exc out the
trade Dogs and even cats contribute
also, though supplying an inferior ar
ticle of kid
In ancient days glove represented
contract or pledge, IA substitute for the
hand, being cast down by one contract.
ing party 10 be taken up by the other.
1t also represented Il challenge, to throw
down the glove often being AN invita-
tion TO mortal combat. At the same
time TO give an enemy glove In 4 pa
cific manner was a pledge of faith, to
break which was regarded as crime.
4
ticular about this use Of the glove that
when one Of their knights broke faith
with his glove keeper they proclaimed
his perfdy by riding to appointment
holding aloft a spear, from the point Of
which the dishonored glove dangled.
And if the knight was slain by his own
clan it was conceded TO be righteous
punishment.
\ fur lined glove worn by Henry VI
is preserved in an old mansion that gave
him shelter after the battle of HcXham,
1864. 1t is of tan leather lined with
deerskin with the hair on and turned
over 10 form cuff
1t is recorded Of unfortunate Anne
Boleyn that she possessed many pairs of
extravaganza gloves and would always
wear them to hide certain blemishes on
her nails which offended the eye of
the king. Her royal predecessor used TO
delight III making her play cards with
out them, as it was sure to result in her
discontinue.
Queen Elizabeth took much pride in
her gloves, and made an entry in her
book of expenses of lone payr Of gloves
embrawret with gold" which she sent
as gift to her sister Mary. She also
recorded the fact of receiving "ten payr
of Spanyshe gloves from duches in
Spayne.
1t has been customary for gentlemen
to remove the right hand glove when
shaking hands with a lady. This GUS
tom descended from an ancient one
which forbade any one to enter the pres
ence Of royalty in gloves, because visit
ors Were 20 stand unarmed, with tho
helmet off the head, the gauntlets off the
hands, to show that there were no hos
tile intentions
Biting the glove Is looked upon with
disfavor as AN unpleasant habit. But it
had once deeper meaniDg-a pledge
of deadly vengeance.
stern Rutherford but little said,
But bit his glove and shook his head
Thus wrote Sir Walter Scott in his
Lay Of the Last Minstrel. "
1t was considered no crime for law
yors and special plcaders to take the
bribc of "a pair of gloves, and the custom
did not fall into disfavor until the
gloves We're "lined" with coin, which
gained the name of glove money" To
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