The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-11-22

soon developed it into SOmethlng Tar more
abstruse and complicated than even the
patient Celestials ever dreamed 1t be-
came a dictionary of fiuttering wind swept
symbolic emotions.
Spain thus brought into being at the
very early date of the beginning of the
fifteenth century the cipher code of the
fan. an application which antedated the
Morse code by more than 400 years. You
NAV. if you have a taste for ancient
politics, dig deep into the Spanish archives
and still find hidden away practically un-
decipherable into modern reading, old,
grabbed secret codes compiled from the
fan dictionary which would provide some
puzzling DECIDING for the experts Of the
telegraph and wireless of our time.
Fan talk thus became serious affair
in Spain as it was employed in everyday
affairs of men and in politics quite as much
as by fair ladies in their digital CORE
spondencia and proved to be the first aerial
waves to dip into intrigues and plots and
leave none of the traps of written words
on paper which might later be produced
as tangible evidence in courts of justice,
whether the case be secular, political o.
of the heart.
Thus fan tappers in court and in love, as
well as the man fan Taper in the street,
were immune from any discriminating evil
dence which might echo indiscreetly down
the ages.
Later the fan dictionary became a
medium for still further social amenities,
the ultimate, of course, being love making
in secret, at least as means leading
thereto in some more tangible, expression
able form. AS social intercourse between
men and women in Spain is a dumb letter
to all practical purposes, and is, as it
always has been confined to flirtations
through barred windows or from balconies,
the fan as transmitting medium for an
embryonic wireless was hailed as joyfully
by these etiquette sequestered young won-
en- as the broadcasting radios are to-day
blissfully captured by wireless amateurs
possessed of a desire to know the next
change in Paris modes, what pill to take
at the full moon, the latest straight into
the receiver sermon or the newest jazz
step and tune.
Spanish young folk who would be So
cially and eternally ostracized if they sat
and talked together decently at home, even
in presence of la fdntiIid, still are able to
wing their tenderest emotions and throw
their most intimate heart throbs, by the
flutterings of many fans, to the four winds
OF heaven, across streets, across theater
and opera auditoriums and across the
plaza de toroS or bullring.
The shorthand code of the fan as the
Spaniards have designed it is a double sys-
tenn of signaling which is keyed thus:
The palm of the left hand is what is
known as the receiver and carries the
capital letters. not only capital letters in
the sense in which these words are USUALLY
used. but as capital letters in which to eX-
press the important words of the secretly
compiled "Code of the Fan" The important
part Of the message to be communicated is
thus spelled out on the left palm receiver.
The left palm also is used to represent the
hours of the clock face, and consequently
this gives the Roman numerals without
further complication.
Each articulation, or joint, OF the lett
hand as seen from the palm side is made
to carry a capital letter, these beginning,
naturally, at where the hand itself begins
at the wrist.
Here the maker of Spanish fan codes