THE LATEST PARIS CRAZE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XVII, Issue XXII, 28 November 1896, Page 102

THE LATEST PARIS CRAZE.

The latest new craze in Paris is said to be the wearing of a lighted lantern as a personal ornament. The fashion has not been adopted in honour of M. Rochefort, the once dreaded Lanterne man, but originated with a speculative manufacturer, whose petite lanternes were bought by tens of thousands at the fair of Neuillv. 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 corespondent tells us, looked as if he were outwardly symbolizing 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.