The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1901-09-29

SAVIOR faire to conceal their -)rSJuuices'
Woe be TO the poor little stranger VINO
unwittingly joins group OF aiiens;
She is made so Enthusiastically to feel
she is not one of them that there is
no danger that she will repeat the r-
II Lsion.
why are you not going to have
Your party, Maud?" asked her al IT OF
ct.ild at Newport recently.
why, because mother insists upon
me having the AS and the BIS, ana
they are not in our set at all, ana !
know the other girls won't ike u u
they have to know them, so l said
would rather not have the party at
ALI"
There is something particularly un-
childlike and repellant in snobbery
like this unlovely mimicry OF one CT
the many faults of fashionable FAR
ents.
women are armed with fans as
men with swords, and sometimes DO
more execution with them" Such were
the words of Addison in one OF the
most amusing satires he ever wrote;
and Mime. de Stael was equally appre-
ciative of it's power when she exclaims,
What grace does not a fan place at
a womans disposal, IL she only knows
how to use it properly! 1t waves, II
fiutters, it closes, it expands, 1t Is
raised or lowered according to curcum-
stances. Oh, win wager that in all
the parphernalia of the loyeliest ana
best dressed woman in the world there
is no ornament with which she can pro-
duce so great an effect" 1t is cu-
iously little in use to-day, compare
lively speaking, but there are some
who say it's revival is close at hand.
A collector, painter and expert judge
of fine fans, says the New York Com
mercial Advertiser, is Lady Colville OF
London, whose accounts OF her many
treasured wind-wafters are literally
tales of war and chivalry, politics and
love affairs in many ages and coun-
.ries.
At one time both men and women
used fans in Venice, Florence, Milan
and other places, and they were of the
greatest beauty, and the accounts OF
fans in the possession of Catherine de
Medici speak of them as studded with
jewels, the sticks being sumptuously
suspended by chains worn round the
neck, and the fan in Titian's painting
of his daughter-in-law is too well
know to need description. Good Queen
Bess delighted in the fan, and no few
er than twenty-seven were in her in
ventory, most of them being quite
splendid, and one given her by Sir
Francis Drake was of red and white
feathers, the handle of gold richly
studded with diamonds and pearls, with
very flattering miniature of herself
set amid to please her vanity The
Earl of Leicester's gift was fan OF
white feathers with jewelled handle,
having also heraldic designs. Shakes
peare speaks of the fan, and scorns
the foppish ways of the dandies of
those days who used them.
1t was in the reign of Louis XIV
that fans became works of highest art.
There arose a perfect rage for speci-
mems of the most exquisite order, and
jewels, lace, silk, satin, ivory, rare
wood, tortoise shell, lacquer, etc, were
lavishly used in their decoration and
manufacture, while great artists We'd
with each other in depicting various
scenes with all the skill imaginable.
| In Lady Charlotte Schreiber's famous
collection are many quaint eighteenth
century fans, with texts from the BIZ
ble portraits of preachers, caricatures,
riddles, etc. The art was revived in
| France in the same century; 1t had
| been ruined in the revocation of the
Ediet of Nantes; such artists as LIE
Louis and LIE Brun painted them, and
| Ternis Martin was used for vanishing
these lovely works of art. Those of the
| type known as brise were held together
by narrow ribbon running through the
little sticks.
Sometimes mirror is inserted in a
/ fans, and in the Vatican period of the
art. when the lorgnette fan was the
| fashion, there was an open space to
look through. Probably the loveliest
4 Of all fans are those Of the Pon1pa-
dour period. which exceeds all others
| in perfection of design and finish;
these are often the work of Boucher,
Lancret, Vatican and Greuze.
| For a time portraits of Mirabeau,
Corday, Murat etc, were used as fan
decorations, but Nine. Recamier soon
changed all that and revived the art
once more. and Nine. Du Barry set the
fashion of what became quite mania
in collecting fans of all kinds. Thanks
to this many exquisite specimens have
been preserved for us which otherwise
would have been lost.
] 1t is, perhaps, a matter of no great
surprise that we rarely find fan paint
ing included in all those arts and crafts
followed with both zest and skill by
women to-day. 1t is an art requiring
infinite delicacy of touch, artistic per-
ception, true knowledge of painting,
and most careful, dainty manipulation.
Lady 'Colville is an enthusiastic fam
painter, and her ivory-white drawing
room is filed with examples of her ar
tistic taient--Cosway miniatures en-
larged and copied with wondrous deli
cacy, a painting by Parter copied by
special permission of her late majesty
Queen Victoria, from the original in
buckingham Palace, another of Lady
Burgoyne from the portrait of Rom
ney, and one from Coates's picture of
MIS-. Forbes of Culloden, who received
Prince Charlie the evening before the
great battle.
A fete champetre, by Lancret, and
Guards Venice are reproduced, and
form valuable heirlooms. To the left
of the chimney piece is a very fine copy
Of the portrait by Sir Joshua Reynolds
of Jane, Duchess of Gordon, This re-