Besides, I wore it to-day--and--I hate it." "But what fan wilt thou keep thyself?
The one of sandal-wood thou hadst to-day ?" continued Enriquita, timidly eying the pretty things upon the table.

"None," responded Maruja, didactically, "but the simplest, which I shall buy myself.

Truly, it is time to set one's self against this extravagance.

Girls think nothing of spending as much upon a fan as would buy a horse and saddle for a poor man." "But why so serious tonight, my sister ?" said the little Enriquita, her eyes filling with ready tears.

"It grieves me," responded Maruja, promptly, "to find thee, like the rest, giving thy soul up to the mere glitter of the world.