The Power of a Fan.

Waikato Times, Volume XXIV, Issue 1976, 7 March 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

The Power of a Fan.

TnK FaD, The joung woman with the fan, the f»n flirting; the also more or less fl'rting. The extraordinary way she has of working the simple instrument, with it the wind nol only raising, Caiu raising, the word that the editor invariably sets railing. The way she can sit at one end of a hotel piazza, with a ten-cent fan a little flip giving, a young fellow right over two hundred feat of piazza suddenly bringing. Inetitution universal, in all countries great; in my country also great; to pearl handles, to feathers and painted silk and high-ton'd flapdoodle apt to run. I hail you, 0 Fan I I recognize the bu« periority of your cussednees. lam not impertient to you. I treat you with resp:ct. I have had to buy you, and I know what you cost. I rejoice to see your power over the human man, over the slim and the dude likewise. They follow you, they obey you, in the handi of a pretty girl flirted; they flit about at your book and call. They rejoico in their slavery ; caramels, chooolate-oreamg buying to be eaten behind you. I sit and smile at their feebleness ; they are your slaves and I smile upon them. I hitch up ay Buspenders in my own superiority ; I inflate my chest, I There is Clarinda flicking a little, dude, three-for-ten-cents Japanese fan at me over there at the other end of the pizza, a little, dude, three-f or-ten-cents Japanese fan flicking. Excuse me f,or two minutes. Tftwp. —IF. Whit, in " Puck."