The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-04-06
APRIL TEMPERED WOMAN
as STUDIED ON AN APRIL DAY
WITH GOLDEN SUN

Life ThroDS ANSr -AOfo anu more
Restlessly and Her sphere" is
Growing Round and Coextensivs
With the World.
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New York, April 5.-Leonore d'Este de-
clared her love BY kissing her fan and
throwing it to Tasso, and there is fan
owned by a New York lady which is said
to have been barterec long years ago for a
kiss. having come in the beginning from
the imperial family of Russia The fan coll
lection of Senior Francisco Guiu de Gal
balda. of Barcelona. which was sold III New
York this week at big prices and exhibited
before to break gentle hearts, contained
many specimens which a 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 Senior de
Galbada'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, enameled
and gilded, and the incised carvings re-
duced every woman who looked on them to
abject admiration and despair. One which
Jenny June seemed unable to separate her.
self from had guards and sticks of rides
cent mother of pearl carved and fretted
away until it looked as cobwebby and as
fragile as the mount Of old Flemish lace,
yellow with the coqueiries of century.
Another beauty had sticks of gold lacquer,
guard of ebony, inlaid with Incredible pa
fence with patterns of mother of pearl, ard
mount of Spanish lace. A Chinese fan was
uf the most curious and costly construction.
The sticks were of lacauered bamboo, the
mount was painted in minute and intricate
designs and the figures walking in that
breezy field we're all inlaid, the heads in
ivory, the dresses in many colored silks.
The beautiful Tau 81. who took off her
mask at the feast of lanterns and fiuttered
it TO and fro to cool herself and hide her
charms from the idle gaze of the public,
could but look with pleasure on such an
evolution OF the toy which Chinese legend
says was her invention.
The angry f1utter, the timorous t1utter,
the confused flutter and the merry iuttern
could be expressed ONT so eloquently by
the fans with sticks of green stained and
red stained ivory with mounts of lace inser-
ton, decorated with bullion. Other fans
with souls and well calculated to express all
the varying sentiments that possess the
heart and mind OF luxurious modern
maiden had ivory sticks with silver inlays
and mounts of drcnesse lace with flower
paintings in water colors. A French fan of
the eighteenth century showed pierced ivory
sticks with turquoise and jewel settings on
the guards. The mount was in water
e0lors on shagreen. Perhaps the most
striking of all was a fan With sticks OF mot
tied she'll, q guard of metal, covered with
plush and ornamented with gold figures in
relief and tiny opal jeweled mirrors, and a
mount in water colorS.
There was master-work of tortoise shell,
incruSted with mother of pearl and the leaf
painted with Jacobs dream. making 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 paiuters, and Directory fans with
carved figure work in relief, and Vatican
paintings on satin, and testitylng to the
southern blood OF him who owned it, a
fierce bull fight in colors raging on the
edge of a fifteen inch semi-circle, behind
which one could well imagine an olive skin,
heavy hair half hidden beneath the man.
tllla, and dangerous dark eyes kindling into
sudden fire over the real combat in the
arena. Such toy at a Delsarte matinee
strikes one with the sense of the incongru-
Gus, but 20 such base uses must come even q
Spanish fan
A DELSARTE MATINEE.
Did you ever attend one? The theater is
r sea of bobbing bonnets. There are
women standing in the aises and at the
rear. Down in front is n man ready to
throw flowers. There is bald head shin
ing somewhere among the parquet chairs,
landmark in the midst of the waving rib
hons and tossing plumes. Somebody is talk
ing about the speaking voice." Her own
voice cracks drearily. She holds in her
hand something which appears to be text
Il c1,oo
the deep and dark blue ocean to roll on. or
Tretends to some occult knowledge of the
recent presence of Queen Nab in our vicin-
lty, or hears sounds of revelry by night
until our school days and our hacked desks,
and teacher, teacher, / know mice
now," come back with a sense of youth
that is quite refreshing
BY and by the curtain drops and when 1t
rises again there appears tall and buxom
bgure with large hands and large feet, and
Ciad in Greek gown of some thin white
stuff clasped on the shoulder, leaving the
arms bare and clinging to the figure. Tho
throat is uncovered, and long spray of
Easter lilies is pinned from the waist to the
hosom. There are sandals on the feet the
hair is twisted in Greek knot and filleted.
The figure sways slowly into the pose of the
enus Genetrix. The women catch their
breath and applaud. Then it meits almost
lnsensibly into the attitude of ATLANTA.
Slowly, as if marble were endowed with
life and power of action, il becomes a Vic
tory; then q Diana, a Hebe, an Ariadne
Not a word is spoken, but the almost in
sensible yielding from breathing statue to
statue goes on continuously. Itis pretty
performance and wonderfully graceful.
Then the man down in front begins to toss
his flowers. There Is laurel wreath and
somebody starts subdued murmur of "put
1t on" She doesn't deck herself, but begins
to speak. She tells US that we need plastic
bodies Sin order that the physical may be
the fit expression Of the spiritual" AS an
and toward the attainment of Elasticity she
lets herself go" at the wrist, the elbow. the
shoulder the neck, the waist and shakes her
different members as if they were dish rags.
w lille she is in this relaxed condition she
processes an entire willingness TO drop to-
getner in heap On the carpet IF it weren't
for soilipg her gown" This little feminine
touch wins the heart of the last uubeliever;
somebody says enthusiastically, ''She is so
womanly," and there are more flowers.
l. hen she "recomposesn herself and dances
the minuet and Spanish dance and Greek
dance, and finally she shows how plastic she
IS by making her body say joy, grief, anger,
surprise, and a variety of other sentiments.
Tier body speaks very eloquently. being
more docile than that commonly owned,
and, she says, the correspondence between
Inc nhVcinal nd no spiri