Morning journal and courier., 1891-06-06
THE FLEETING SHOW.


 Some of Its Facts and Fancies.
 Written for the JOURNAL AND CoURIER.l
 SUMMER HYMN.
 The year draws near its golden-hearted prime Fulfilled of grandeur,rounded into grace: We seem to hear sweet notes of joyous chime
 From slfn bells through many a greenwood
 place.
 The sovereign summer, robed and garlanded,
 Looks, steeped in verdure up the enchanted
 skies;~
 A crown, sun woven, round her royal head
 And loves warm languor in her dreamy eyes. We quaff our fill of beauty, peace, delight;
 But mid the entrancing scene still voice
 saith
 .'If earth, heavens shadow, shows face so
 bright,
 What of Gods summer past the straits of death?"
 PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE. HER FANS. Could some patient annalist trace the history of the fan from the primeval lotus leaf to the painted and jeweled treasures of modern collectors, the chronicle would be both curious and entertaining. Though l not devoted solely to woman's use, women have always seemed to be especially fond | of them, and there is indeed a daintiness | and airy grace about many of them that | renders them peculiarly attractive to a woman's beauty-loving eyes. We find them sculptured upon Egyptian monu- ments and painted on Pompeiian walls. The Roman ladies had immense ones of l peacock's feathers, and a slave, ,fabellifera, 1 the fan bearer, must carry and wave the futtering iridescent mass. There is a | painting at Pompeii in which cupid figures ! as the fan bearer of Ariadne, deserted and lamenting. In Queen Elizabeth's time the fan was usually made of ostrich plumes set into handles that were richly carved and crusted with jewels. Gentle men carried fans in those days, and &C., cording to an old manuscript in the Ash mclean museum, a certain judge, Sir Edward Cole, had a prodigious fan with a stick so long and strong that he used 1t as a rod of correction when he consid- cred his daughters in need of strict disci- pline.
 At the rooms of the Grolier club in New York recently there has been an ex- hibition of valuable fans, most of them eighteenth century. One of tho most elaborate was Vernis- Martin, the paint ing representing the sacrifice of Iphigenia upon others tho scenes were commemora tive of political events, such as the Peace of Utrecht; upon one were portraits oi Marie Antoinette and General La Fayette exquisitely painted, while others of vel lum, painted by Watteau with his favor ite rural festival or ball scenes, were oi exceptional value and beauty.
 The happy possessor of many fans is the young Duchess de Luynes. Her brida trosseau, one of the most splendid tha even Paris has ever seen, was placed or private view, and among all these beauti ful belongings were forty fans, many o. feathers, and many of rare and costly lace one with painting of her future home the old Chateau of Dampierre, upon it and others of satin and silk, that seemed when closed but mass of e1quitsit' flowers.
 Flower fans like these are shown il New York fancy shops. Very fine Frencl flowers are fastened down the length O. each stick in such way that when the fa1 is closed the flowers are brought close to gether without being crushed. One suol fan was pale lilac silk with clustered , l Parma violets, and another of black satil closed into bouquet of crimson poppie with crumbled silken petals and buds o ! soft gray green.
 t I Some of the new fans are in the Spanisl
 style, mounted on gilded sticks of fragran
 wood and painted with gay landscapes O castles, ,sorange trees and dancing figures, o I with toreadors and bulls in the arena, sur 3 rounded by brilliantly dressed grandee |, l and danes.
 0f Louis Besche, an artist who, like Wal , teau, does not disdain to paint lady t fan, but makes of it beautiful and costl g work of art, has designed two exquisii r fans, one with hunting and one with | boating scene, each framed in a yer
 elaborate ornamental border. Other fanc e ful fans of the season are adorned wit
 crystal beads, ornaments of cut jet, r. embroideries of gold thread and spangle D The artist who would have fan of b,