THE LATEST PARIS CRAZE,
The last new craze in Paris is said to be the wearing of a lighted lantern as a personal ornament. The fashion originated with a speculative manufacturer, whose petites lanternes were bought by tens of thousands at the fair of Neuilly. The lantern is very small and neat, and made in a Gothic form after an ancient model; it is only of tin, but is sufficiently solid; it has well-fitted glass plates, is about the size of a walnut, burns for some hours, and is sold at the price of six sous. Almost everybody who returned from the Neuilly fair to Paris, as a correspondent tells us, looked as if he were outwardly symbolising the Midsummer Saint, John the Baptist, " a burning and a shining light." The men and boys had the little lanterns in their hats, and the ladies carried them in their bouquets.
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Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9521, 14 September 1896, Page 4
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149THE LATEST PARIS CRAZE, Press, Volume LIII, Issue 9521, 14 September 1896, Page 4
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