Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1892-07-23

make them true ''palatal blisses," and the
huckleberry cake appeared again, cold, but
delicious as ever. For bedtime lunches,
huckleberries and milk; for between meals
bites, anything from huckleberries au nat
urel to huckleberry pie that had to be
eaten with spoon.
Could the pursuit of wortleberries or
the assimilation of whortleberries with the
corporal frame be attended with such de-
lights as these!
Never!
You needn't tell me!
Huckleberries it is!
JULY.
When the scarlet cardinal tells
Her dream to the dragon-fy,
And the lazy breeze makes q nest in the trees,
And murmurs lullaby,
1t is July.
When the tangled cobweb pulls
And the lilies tall lean over the wall
To bow to the butterfly,
1t is July.
When the heat like O mist-veiI floats,
And poppies flame in the rye,
And the silver note in the streamlet's throat
Has eoftened ALMOST to sigh,
1t is July.
When the hours are so still that time
IForgets them, ma and a. lets Il. them s' lie
At the sunset in the sky,
1t is July.
SUSAN HARTLEY SWEET.
FAN LORE.
Far and away beyond all written records
we find traces of the ubiquitous fan. It's
familiar figure is carved upon those endur-
ing chronicles, the Egyptian monuments
and the walls of the tombs at Thebes.
The honor of its invention is claimed by
Egypt, Greece and China, yet it hardly
needed to be invented, since to primeval
man every waving leaf must have suggest
ed its use.
Perhaps the earliest mention in lit
erature of this instrument" as the Greek
and Egyptian priests called it, is in
one of the tragedies of Euripidies,
who relates that according to Phrygian Gus
tom a slave was charged with the special
duty of tanning fair Helen of Troy. Other
Greek and Latin writers mention the fan
of peacock's feathers, and Ovid even de-
scribes the manner in which the feathers
were united by means of linen bands and
thin strips of wood, while Terence makes
one of his characters allude to the fan as
in common use among the ladies of Rome.
In the sixteenth century the use of the
fan became general in Europe. They were
of peacock or ostrich feathers inserted in
a handle of gold, silver or ivory.
We have descriptions of remarkable
fans, gifts to Queen Elizabeth, to
Catherine de Medecis, to Madame de Pom
padour and to Madame du Barri. The
''good Queen Bess" was extravagantly fond
of them, and they were ever a most accep-
table gift. Next to fattery she loved
fan and consequently had whole "treas-
ury" of them, enriched with rsrest laces or
needlework, or all s-glitter with gems. One
of her portraits shows her with round
feather fan in her right hand upon which
she gazes critically, but approvingly.
At the time of Henry III. of France
China could not supply the demand for fans
and their manufacture was bsgun in Paris.
There are records which prove that as early
as 1929 the manufacture of feus formed
one of the largest communities of handi-
craft in Paris, and statutes relative to this
industry are found to be approved in an
edict of Louis XIV, 1878. 1t was in the
reign of this king that the French fan
reached its climax of beauty. Perfumed
leather and costly gems, and the choicest
paintings of Wstteau and Boucher, elabo-
rated them, and brought for them fabulous
prices. Nowadays, as then, in fan manu-
facture, China and France are rivals
and monopolize the supply of the
world. In lacquered fans China
has no equal, for dainty and elegant toys
France takes the first place. AS for
Japanese fans, we have but few of them,
the graceful, quaint, and pretty paper
fans, to be had at every counter, and so
cheaply too, are made right here in Amer
ica
Literature is full of illusions to the fan.
Shakespeare, Addison, and Steele, Mrs.
Montagu and Madame de Stael do not dis
dsin to mention them and there are an
cient legends concerning their origin and
USE 1t would be an entertaining topic
for one inclined to search in "volumes of
forgotten lore" to take up, and trace, and
present fan-lovers, meaning all woman
kind, with the results.
We are apt to think of them as only
"raising breeze" or possibly of provok-
ing envy or even a quarrel, but strange
episode in the history of the fan relates to
the part it once played in war. Hussein
Bey of Algiers, being dissatisfied at his
failure 20 obtain from the French govern
ment indemnity for q loss of seven million
francs, demanded of the French consul:
"When will thy master pay mea"
"My master owes yon nothing" answer
ed the consul.
"Thy master is disloyal," was the retort,
and ss quickly the consul replied: "My
mnster does not deign ever to answer a
| man like thee" Then Hussein, wild with
| anger, struck the consul in the face with
| his fan From this followed the siege of
| Algiers, and, few months later, its cap
ture by the French. HILARY.