Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1891 — New York’s Crowned Heads. [ARTICLE]

New York’s Crowned Heads.

At the opera a few evenings ago the wife of one of the hereditary millionaires of New York w-oro a genuine real all-gold-and-jeweled crown, constructed at a cost of $300,000. It has leaked out that two other New York ladlos have The peacock feathers did not make a peacock of the crow in.tho fable; neither will a $300,000-crown make a queen. If the wives of New York’s wealthy men Want to wear crowns, of course they have a perfect right to; a crown in this country has no more significance than a Leghorn bonnet, no matter whose head It is on. But would it not look better if these ladies would just lay the crowns away until they get the wings and harps that go with them? —Texas Siftings.