Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1893 — A Famous Coroset. [ARTICLE]

A Famous Coroset.

The famous diamond coronet comb which Louis XIV. gave to lime, de Montespan, after all its wanderings and strange experiences, has at last fallen into the hands of Mrs. William Waldorf. Astor. she wore it in her lovely silken hair at the ijueen’s draw-ing-room a few days ago. Mrs. Astor seems to have a love ot' collecting old jewels worn by famous women. I wonder if she believes in that gem superstition which reads that jewels contain genii that work a good or evil influence on the person who wears them. The price paid for the gem was something .'ike 5100,010. How many little hungry mouths (hat would feed.