Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . CALLE OBISPO. to take home for souvenirs. In the old days when the toreador was thehero of Havana, everybody bought bull fight fans; the bull ring has longsince been abolished, but people still buy bull fight fans; they are inex-pensive and may be used for room decorations. In the shops devotedpartly or exclusively to fans, there is wide range of choice as to styles andprices; the cost runs from a few cents to hundreds of dollars. Am
Standard guide to Cuba : a new and complete guide to the island of Cuba, with maps, illustrations, routes of travel, history, and an English-Spanish phrase book . CALLE OBISPO. to take home for souvenirs. In the old days when the toreador was thehero of Havana, everybody bought bull fight fans; the bull ring has longsince been abolished, but people still buy bull fight fans; they are inex-pensive and may be used for room decorations. In the shops devotedpartly or exclusively to fans, there is wide range of choice as to styles andprices; the cost runs from a few cents to hundreds of dollars. Among OBISPO AND OREILLY. 43. CALLE OREILLY. the most expensive are those with sticks of carved ivory inlaid with goldand mounted with small oval mirrors on the outer sides and the fans hand-painted or embroidered. The use of the fan in Cuba is universal. There is one article without which the Cuban lady would not feel at home for asingle moment; it is the fan, which is a positive necessity to her, and she learns itsconuettish and graceful use from early childhood. Formed of various rich materials,it glitters in her hand like a gaudy butterfly, now half, now wholly shading her 44 77//: STAXDAKD GUlDli. radiant ace, which quicklj peeks out again from behind the shelter like the moonfrom out a gilded cloud. The little article (always rich and expensive), perfectly in-dispensable in a Cuban ladys costume, in her hands seems almost to speak; she has awitching flirt with it that expresses scorn; a graceful wave of complaisance, an abruptclosing of it that indicates vexation or anger; a gradual and cautious opening of i
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