Morning journal and courier., 1890-05-10
SOULFUL FANS. Some Spcclmens in Collections Of Be- wildorIDG Beauty.

Leonore d'Este declared her love by kiss- ing her fan and throwing it to Tasao, and there is 0 fan owned by New York lady, observes the Mail and Express, which is said to have been bartered long years ago for kiss, having come in the beginning from the imperial family of Russia. Ths fan collec- tion of Senor Francisco Gulu de Galbalda of Barcelona, which was sold in New York re- gently at biz prices and exhibited before to break gentle hearts, contained many speci- mems which woman might kiss or gladly buy with kisses, but which all the passion and poetry in the world would hardly induce her to throw away. The greater number of Seuor de Galbalda's fans dated from the first half of the present century, and were of Spanish or Italian style. Most of them had paper mounts painted in water colors, and the pierced and carved ivory sticks, ena- melled and gilded, and the incised carvings, reduced every woman who looked on them to abiect admiration and despair. One had guards and sticks of iridescent mother of pearl, carved and fretted away until 1t looked as cobwebby and as fragile as the mount of old Flemish lace, yellow with the coquetries of c century.
 Another beauty had sticks of gold lacquer, guard of ebony, inlaid with incredible pa- tience with patterns of mother-of-pearl and mount of Spanish lace. Chinese fan was of the most curious and costly construction. The sticks were of lacquered bamboo. the mount was painted in minute and intricate designs, and the figures walking in that | breezy field were all inlaid, the heads in ivo- ry, the dresses in many colored silks. The l beautiful Rau Si, who took off her mask at | the Feast of Lanterns and futtered 1t to and | fro to cool herself and hide her charms from l the idle geze of the public, could but look | with pleasure on such evolution of the toy which Chinese legend says was her inven- | tion.
 The "angry futter, the timorous futter, | the confused futter and the merry futter" could be expressed, ohl SO eloquently by the
 fans With a.icks of green. stained and red.
 stained ivory, with mounts of lace insertion, | decorated with bullion. Other fans with
 souls, and we'll calculated to express all the
 varying sentiment, that posses the heart and mind of & luxurious modern maiden had ivory sticks with silver inlays and mounts
 of duchesse lace with flower paintings in
 water colors. A French fan of the eighteenth
 century showed pierced ivo.y sticks with
 turquoise and jewel settings on the guards | The mount was in water colors on sha-
 green. Perhaps the most striking of all was
 q fan with sticks of mottled shell, a guard
 of metal, covered with plush and ornamented
 with gold figures in relief, and tiny opal l jewelled mirrors and @ mount in water | colors.
 There was a masterwork of tortoise shell, l lncrusted with motner-ot-pearl ana the lear
 painted with Jacobs dream, making a fan
 not unlike that of Ninon de pEnclos, now
 owned by the Countess of Chambord. There
 were exquisite lace fans, and fans in the
 Moorish style, and fans painted by the great
 pastel painters, aud directory fans with
 carved figure work in relief, and wattesu
 paintings on satin, and, testifying to the southern blood of him who owned it, a fierce
 bull fight in colors, raging on the edge of @
 ffteen-inch semi-circle, behind which one
 could well imagine an olive skin, heavy
 hair, half hidden beneath the mantilla,
 and dangerous dark eyes, kindling into
 sudden fire over the real combat in the l arena.