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Show , A Fan with Modern Improvements. A very odd thing in fans was brought from London as a present. This fan is a filmy affair of gauze stretched in a black frame and is the most simple and innocent looking of the fan species when it is folded up and lies demurely on a lady's lap or reposes peacefully upon her dressing table. But let a pretty woman unfurl and hold it before her face, and the most incorrigible woman hater will become dimly aware that even his peace is menaced by the fine coquetry of the dainty weapon. In the middle of the black gaoze is set a tiny .velvet half mask, through which a pair of merry, tawny brown eyes can do awful execution. The thin fabric upon which it is placed is distractingly becoming to the fair and delicate tints of hair and face, and the long, slender ebony sticks, decorated with bow and streamers of sable velvet, are in strong and pleasing contrast to white, slender fingers. This is what a man will see in the Kendal fan called so because Mrs. Kendal Ken-dal invented and patented it btt look you now what follows and you shall learn what a woman finds in the dainty toy when she investigates ito true inwardness. in-wardness. On one side of the outer stick is a small oval mirror set above a velvet bow, in the loops of which dangles a little black satin bag as round and only a trifle larger than a French franc. It contains a morsel of a powder puff. In an unsuspected crevice behind the mirror mir-ror are three hairpins. On the opposite 'side of the fan a clasp holds in place a wee pencil, glove buttoner and folding scissors, and in a groove are stuck half a dozen pins, while a miniature vinaigrette is stowed away at the conjunction of sticks, streamers and soft fingers: Exchange. |