It was such a muggy day…a liquid sky coerced beads of sweat to trickle down our backs as we politely conversed with the mayor’s wife. Intuitively sensing our misery, she reached into her purse and withdrew two hand fans that cooled us like a douse of spring water. I now keep one in my bag throughout the warm months. Ours is rather coquettish…an old lace pattern is revived in black cotton and attached to decorative wood spokes to fold slimly in your tote.