p. 293 | GOOD ENOUGH FOR ORDINARY WEAR

Seventh-day Adventist Publishing Association · Battle Creek, Mich. · Tuesday, May 12, 1885

FromAdvent Review and Sabbath Herald, Vol. 62, No. 19

“GOOD ENOUGH FOR ORDINARY WEAR.”

Utterly reckless and high-handed extravagance, which is begotten by the sudden and undeserved wealth which so many find themselves in possession of in these last days, has a striking illustration in the following incident. If such persons as are here mentioned would indulge in a little rational foresight, they would see that a time of reckoning must come at last for all such folly; it might lower their insane pride a little to know that, although they are now too precious to wear a $100,000 necklace, they may come to an end as ignominious as that of the Roman mentioned last week, whom a poor washerwoman finally made up into soap-grease:—

A story is told of Mrs. Flood, wife of the California millionaire, who, when in New York comparatively recently, visited Tiffany’s and asked to be shown the choicest and most expensive necklace in the premises. The most superb of the Tiffany necklaces failed to satisfy her, and the firm offered to cable to Paris and import the handsomest necklace to be found in the city. Mrs. Flood had returned to California by the time the gorgeous ornament arrived, and the necklace followed her to her Pacific home. She refused to accept it, declaring that it was not good enough to encircle her queenly neck and suggested that it should be offered to Mrs. Stanford, wife of the governor. Mrs. Stanford was not so difficult to please as Mrs. Flood, and purchased the necklace, but only, as she was good enough to let Mr. Tiffany know, for “breakfast,” it not being expensive enough to do for more formal occasions. The cost of the jewel was over $100,000.”—N. Y. Cor. Savannah.