Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1892 — Mrs. Astor's Whim. [ARTICLE]

Mrs. Astor's Whim.

Perhaps everyone has not heard of the novel feature introduced at an entertainment given recently by Mrs. Astor. The feature consisted of the turning loose of a lot of automatic toys, tiny alligators, papier-mache roosters, tin toads and other animals, which were wound up and then set going by the gentlemen of the party. Each man closely followed the progress of the animal which he had wound up and selected as his partner the young woman before which it paused.