Honolulu Republican, Volume IV, Number 503, 22 Ianuali 1902 — Buying a Fan In Spain. [ARTICLE]

Buying a Fan In Spain.

This is how a Spanish senorita bargains for her fan. according to Miss Katharine Lee Bates, who spent some time in Spain studying the people and customs of that sunny clime; There is nothing sordid about it. Her haggling is a social condescension that at once puts the black eyed young salesman at her mercy. “But the fan seems to me the least bit dear. senoiT’ He shrugs his shoulders and flings jut his arm in protest. “Ah. senorita! You do not see how beautiful the work is. 1 am giving it iway at G pesetas.” She lifts her eyebrows half incredulously. all bewitchlngly. “At 5 pesetas, seuor.” He ruus his hand through his black hair in chivalrous distress. “But the peerless work, senorita! And this ether too. 1 sacrifice it at 4 peso _ tf tas. She touches both fans lightly. “You will let us have the two at 7 pesetas, seaor?" Her eyes dance over his confusion. He catches the gleam, laughs back, throws up h!s bands. “Bueno, senorita! At what you please i” And the senorita trips away contented with a sharp bargain, although—for Spanish gallantry, even when genuine, goes farther on the lips than otherwise —the pvi'V was probably not much more remote from what pleased the smooth tongued clerk than from what she pleased. Youth's Companion.