MEXICAN BELLES, 
53 
WITH AND W I T H tl T THE K E B S . 
rainbow, and a painted fan, are indispensable portions of a complete dress. 
Theyan is none of your new-fangled inventions of feather and finery, but 
the old-fashioned reed and paper instruments used by our grandmothers. 
The opening and shutting — the waving and folding of these is an especial 
language. They touch them to their lips — flirt them "wide open — close 
them — let their bright eyes peep over the rim — display their jewelled hands 
and witching eyes, and, in fact, carry on a warfare of graceful coquetry 
from behind these pasteboard fortresses, that has forced, ere now, many 
a stout heart to cry for quarter ! 
