The news and herald. (Winnsboro, S.C.) 1877-1900, 1883-08-25
Now Styl0s In Fans.

Who that has attended the circus,
listening to the stale gags and jokes of
the painted clown, while the band
blares and toots out "My Mary Ann, "
but has heard the melodious voices of
Of the boys that sell fruit, candies and
peanuts Oh the seats as he yells out,
| NWave coolers, only nickel apiece
the palm-leaf fan. Buy one ?" Fans
are common now, yet there are many
uncommon fans. The styles have
| greatly changed for the better since the
days when the huge peacock-feather fan
and palm-leaf were known at every
colonial settlement and camp meeting.
Dropping into one of the largest dry
goods stores in Chicago, while the mer-
| curry was steadily climbing from the
middle Of tho box clear up higher than
the price of butter, and the counter
| where the collection of fans were Spread
out was thronged by fair buyers, when
a lull in business permitted the neat
looking lady saleswoman to talk to Il
reporter, she remarked: eyes, the hot
weather is making sales lively. We
began to feel discouraged when the
weather was so cold and there were
iow sales except party fans, or we'd
ding downs
1hSio aIS IL lew lt" SlSleS III 1anS,
but think they are mostly very home
ly. a new thing is japanese fan,
only TO tell you the truth, it is made in
this country. 1t is a long handle, has
Il black silk center, with hideous hand
painted Jap scenes, and with small
bangles all around the edge. Some OF
the old fans used to be ones with hand
painted portrait of Garfield and mourn
ing fringcs.
Here is a Grape mourning fan, and
here a white point lace and down
fam Tor weddings. This one is worth
Sl5. Here is the highest priced fan in
the store. 1t is mother-of- pearl sticks
and point lace body, with pearl-dust on
the lace. 1t is imported from Paris.
But we had one fan here for Wabash
avenue lady that was specially ordered
FOR her from Paris, and cost $l25. 1t
was of point lace, with antique designs,
and was a beauty.
Now here are some nice little fans
that will be all the rage among young
girls for street and theater use. They
are long handles, fully eighteen inches
long, with an oval body of black silk,
some having hand-painted flowers and
ferns in the center; others little birds of
genuine feather. Some miniature pea
cocks, others gold-plated monographs in
the center, while black lace fringes on
circle most of them. Now, you would
think that these fans would be very
costly, but they amt. 1t is surprising
how cheap these fans are manufactured.
1t only takes about 80 or Is cents to
possess these fans.
'Thcre are some cheap fans here in
this lot, ranging from Is cents to 26
cents. Here is one, nice little con-
ceit in straw. yIt+lS braided finely, ard
then turns and folds up. Here is a cheap
fan, regular Chinese make, with odd
figures on the rice paper, and little bells.
Here is fan of swans down, for some
fair belle, that will cost her parent
something like $40. 1t has diamond
dust strewn over 1t.
"Ilere are the palm leafs that are
almost given away. They come in ship
loads, packed in crates, to New York
and are then sent over the land. An
old idea at the seashore last year was to
have your sweetheart portrait painted
on silk Of light tints, with odd couplets
at the bottom. Oh, I could tell you of
many funny points in fans, but i must
attend to these ladies'" and the far
saleslady moved away, while the re-
porter swan out.