The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1907-03-17
HOW THE FASHIONS START
sold in every furniture store iu Amer

sold in every furniture store iu Amer
lea.
The fashion of wearing pink pearls
was made by Mrs. John w. Mackay,
The pink pearl, rs naturallstS and Jew
clers agree. is not true pearl, but FOR
all that it is very rare. and good speci-
mems are quite expensive They are
found in conch shells, not oysters, and
| the most Of them come from the 18th
mus of Panama. When Josiah j..
Pearcy, of Tennessee, was the American
Consul at Colon he purchased a pink
pearl from Il San Bias Indian. This
particular pearl was larger than pea.
OF perfect shape and ilawess orient. The
San Bias indians sell all pearls, large
| or small at the fiat rate of $3.50 each.
Mr.. Pcarcy sold his pearl in Panama
| for 5000. The dealer sold it aftcrward
for $1,000. 1t became one of the collcc-
| tion of pink pearls made into a neck
lace for Mrs. Mackay, and that necklace
set the fashion which endurcs to this
| day, limited only by the purses of jewel
lovers and the scarcity of the supply
Names of fancy drinks are nearly all
originated by accident. An American
drink of world wide reputation is the
Hickey. a combination of lime Juice,
mineral water and whisky or GIN. The
first rickey was made in 1891 by George
Williamson, who is still quenching as
sorted thirsts at ShoOmakers', Wash
! ington barroom which has been ia
nous since 1858. Colonel Joseph Is.
Hickey of Fulton, Mo. was a celc
| brated character about the National
capital in those days. He drifted into
Shoomallcrs one hot day and asked for
cooling drink Mr.. Williamson put
piece Of Ice in long glass, poured
some gin over II and added mineral
water. The crowd had several
Grounds of them. Then the sugges-
tion was made that a drop of lime
luice would be an Improvement. Mr..
Williamson supplied the lines, The
new drink was called "CoIonel
| Rickey's brand Of poison. A few
weeks later n Washingtonlau dropped
into the Hoffman house bar in New
York and asked for Colonel
Rickcy." Tho barkeeper confessed ig-
that time the Hickey began to grow
IN favor and it has endured to this
day.
The dead letter Office in Washington
throws away two barrels of mlsdlrected
souvenir postal cards every day. This
represents only fraction of the mil
lions that reach their destination. This
fad which has swept the country from
ocean to ocean, and from the lakes 10
the gulf, is borrowed from the Ger
mans, and was introduced in this coun-
try only four years ago. Phlladcl-
phia printing house brought out the
first American cards with rcproduc-
tions of the United States mint, the old
State House and tho Liberty bell. The
idea started a hundred firms in diff
ferent cities to printing souvenir cards,
and IN short time .he mails were
Hooded with a deluge If picture postas
representing every phase of life from
the cradle to the grave.
When Miss Harriet Lane, niece of
President Buchanan. was mistress of
the White House during the admins
tration of her bachelor uncle, she APP
peared one evening with her wealth
of beautiful hair falling over her
shoulders, loosely confined in net the
color of her hair. Some one said cit
looks like a WATERFALL and for the
next ten years the ladies Of America
wore their hair la waterfall. y
Mrs Nicholas Longworth inuocenily
started an epidemic of red hats in the
Philippines when she accompanied the
Taft party TO the far east 1t was
scorching hot the morning she landed
in Manila. but nothing daunted she de-
fed old Sol and tropic conventionali-
ties by wearing red hat ashore. In
side of twenty four hours every other
woman in town was out IN crimson
headgear. In their cagerness to adopt
the new style the ladies demonstrated
no small amount of ingenuity. Old
hats were made over with any kind of
red material that might be had, from
wells to bandana handkerchicfs. The
fad caught so quickly, that dull old
Manila was ablaze with color before
the inhabitants could get their breath.
Roller skates were brought into
America in lS45 with a French troupe
of acrobats called 'The -Four Ravcls.' ~
In their first form they were merely
four wheels placed under the foot, one
behind the other, and very awkward
to use. In this form they received lit
tie or no attention in this country,
and il was not until Just before the
Civil War that some one was clever
enough TO rearrange the wheels. The
children started their popularity then,
as they have on each of the periodical
revivals. At the Philadelphia centen-
nial, in 1876, rink was made and
roller skating again attained great
popularity, Instructors were provided
who taught the grown people TO com
pete with the children. From that time
to the present roller skating has held
precarious position in the popular
idu'Nu ~ udS pScu SOhLcu puC year
and revived the next until the latest
and most prolonged enthusiasm has put
the entire country on the flying wheels.
The wearing Of pink carnations in
the Legislative halls was started by
the late President Mckinley, when he
represented Ohio in the lower house of
Congress. IT was then merely a per-
sonal fad, but it made such an i'm
preston that when he became Presi-
dent all his floral presents were Of these
flowers. There WAS never n day that
the White House was not adorned with
them, and the President always wore
one in his buttonhole. At the time of
his death, the American people wanted
some way of commcmorating him, and
decided upon this as the distinctive way
of dong 1t. In this way it has almost
become the National flower. On "Mc-