AMERICA'S QUEEN.
SHE IS LAVTNIA BY NAME AND HER CROWN COST £ofooo..0 f OOO..
One of the most pronounced characteristics of the average Americans his fondness for titles. HajutfM aristocracy of their own, .Anierica^ Save taken to adopting military and naval titles, oftentimes upon the flimsiest pretext. Of course none of the American women can adopt the titles; consequently they are now forming themselves into more or less curious . organisations, which are supposed to raise them above the multitude. There are in America 'Colonial Dames,' 'Daughters of the Revolution,' 'Descendants of the Signers,' and 'Daughters of Virginia. But an American woman has now gone one better, and created herself a full-fledged queen. She has a crown and sceptre, knights and powdered pages, official robes, and a costly throne. ,' v _ ' The descendants of the old Dutch settlers in New Amsterdam do not lack for wealth, and when Lavima Dempsey was chosen queen
HER COEONATIOX in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel was one that any properly State-recognised queen might have envied. Lavinia's crown, it is said, cost .£ 6,000, arid her coronatiop robes were quite in keeping with her head-piece. The other day 'Queen Lavinia' announced through her 'Lord Chamberlain' that she would attend a Sunday Kindergarten Association in one of the poorer districts of New York. She called the function a-'Twelfth Night Party,' and the members of the 'Court' were commanded to attend.
Of course they did so, and the woric-a-day people of New York have not yet finished talking about it. The royal procession started from a. fashionable Fifth Avenue hotel. Six carriages were required to convey the queen and her attendants to the party. The populace followed in street ears and on bicycles. Four splendid horses drew the so-called royal equipage.
The chief of police detailed Detec-. tive Strausky, a special escort, to ride with 'Her Majesty.' 'Queen Lavinia' knighted him at once, and told him his title would hereafter be 'Head of the Military Household.' .i^-i^J
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Auckland Star, Volume XXX, Issue 79, 5 April 1899, Page 6
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