The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1889-12-07

scandal will find this costly trife q
! fan and lorgnette combined. The frame
| ofthe gold trimmed glasses Is attached
70 the stick and folds up with tho fan.
The broker lay awake three nights
wondering how he could get lenses
fitted To the eyes of his charmer and
finally ordered clear glass in despair.
She'll see much better without the
lorgnette than with it, but when they
are married he'll have ono thing the
less to put into his overcoat pocket
when they start for the theater, and
she'll have one thing the less to drop
when she rises between the acts TO let
the inevitable man pass by. So much
for fashionable combination.
The cases where the costliest fans are
kept are galleries of folded water col
ors. Paris Is sending us vellum and
kid and pale tinted silks and gauze
painted by artists famous over half the
world. Here is one Of Nine Chenne-
biere's latest designs imported for the
daughter OF railroad president at a
cost Of little over $500 The body Of
the fan is OF white kid and is painted
with an exquisite miniature of the
young girl who owns it, she having
given several sittings for the purpose
are flying winged loves holding trail
ing garlands of flowers. The sticks are
of pearl carved in foriated pattern and
ornamented with diamonds and enam-
elled flowers.
beautiful fan intended for bride
who will stand at the altar this month
was especially designed by the pros
pective bridegroom. 1t is round fan
mounted on pearl sticks and en-
broiderod in the white gauze center are
tho initials of man and maiden most
intricately intwined and surrounded by
q Bit OF somewhat sentimental verse
done in gold thread in old German and
quite obscure characters. The gauze
center is set in frame of white ostrich
tips
Some women have a mania for col
Letting fans. An Albert or Houghton
they find quite irresistible. One large
collection in Brooklyn contains some OF
Albert's best examples. One is an ex-
quisite wedding scene painted on gauze,
one is a French girls boudoir and
others are studies In the pink and blue
and white of Dresden china landscapes.
Mme. Chennebiere has painted fairies
lowering over flowers, cherubic infants
and the quarrels and reconciliations OF
sweethearts and SWANS. All of these
are pretty, but few have the charm Of
the genuine Louis Quinze fans in those
famous old Vernis Martin mounts which
time has not robbed of their lustre and
which are shown with connoisseur's
delight in the smiling and simpering
Marquesses, the powder and the
patches, portrayed with the minute and
delicate art, the graceful prettiness of
that pleasure-loving period.
Mrs. Aston had the largest fan collec-
tion in this country and it may be some
time before another equals hers. Mrs.
Seligmann has number of fine Louis
XIV. fans. The Vanderbilt women have
collected, when things worth preserving
have fallen in their way. Mrs. White
law Reid has an exquisite fan Of white
silk, embroidered with gold and pearls
Mrs Coleman Drayton has vsllum fan
painted with a scene from Spanish his
tory and mounted on carved sticks OF
sandalwood. One Of Mrs Whitners
fans has been greatly admired it is 1t
valuable point d'Alencon with frame
work of gold. A Chinese fan belonging
to another New York woman is a marvel
Of delicate workmanship in ivory.