The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-01-29

be a perplexing one. They will be
showered upon the bride and groom
by wholesale and where to store them
and what to do with them will require
much ingenuity Of management, There
will be some very costly presents for
in hundreds of cases individuals be-
longing to organizations will unite in
presenting a gift which naturally Will
be of great value. Thus the members
of the senate will probably join in pur-
chasing something typical of the es-
TEEN in which they regard the presi-
dent and his family. Possibly Mr.. Till
man may not subscribe to the fund,
but practically all of his colleagues
will do so. The members of Secretary
Taft's party which visited the Philip
pines last summer will combine their
funds and give Nicholas and Alice a
present typical Of the trip which was
fraught with so much for both.
The casslni Girl.
There is a whispering in the boudoirs
as 70 whether Miss Roosevelt VIII send
her wedding cards to her old chum
and ally, Countess Marguerite Cassini
She owes her present happiness large
" to the former hostess of the Rus
sian embassy. Mr.. Longworth openly
and frankly admired the countess, and
his first attentions to Miss Roosevelt
were only as the countess friend. His
mother and all his intimates here
viewed his infatuation with alarm, for
he spent at least half of his waking
hours at the embassy on Scott Circle,
It was said that Mr.. Longworth's de-
lection was the primary cause of the
break between Countess Marguerite
and Miss Alice, but neither young wo-
man ever vouchsafed any explanation
of the rupture.
But there is one thing certain that
If whole shipboads of special ENJOYS
were sent to the countess, Washington
will see her no more. She is regretted,
and will be. among those who really
knew her for many moons, but that
she has passed out of the social realm
is not denied either by her friends or
foes 1t is circulated here that she
and her adopted father have parted
and that she is living with a kins-
woman, Madam des Planques, but no
one has definite knowledge on this
point. The countess left some cha
grined tradesmen in Washington when
she took wing to Paris. One fash
ionabIe tailor has a bill of nearly nine
hundred dollars against her, and a
florist has a record Of a half a thou
sand. Count CaSSini refused to con-
slider the claims of these men. He
assumed no responsibilities for the
countess debts, that she had her own
income and was financially liable
Some of these men have placed the
matter before the foreign office, but
they are having troubles enough in St
Petersburg without mixing up with
dreSSmakers' bills.
Madrid Not Too Easy,
Rumors reaching Washington anent
the reluctancy which Count Cassini
evinced in presenting his credentials at
the Madrid court, throw an interesting
Iight upon the indifferent method with
which diplomatic affairs are conducted
in this country. There is no more rig
orous court than that of Spain, and
the pedigrees of all those that are ad-
mitted within it's sacred portals are
passed upon with a scrutiny that has
caused more than one envoy to be a
persona non grata. 1t is broadly hint
ed that the Spanish court chamberlain
asked some very embarrassing ques-
tions when the encourage Of Count
Cassini was being viseed prior to grant
ing them diplomatic standing among
the grandees of CASTLE. 1t will be re-
membered that when Count Cassini
first came to Washington there was
no little friction in the corps by his
demand that his ward" Marguerite,
be accorded precedence over the other
women Of the foreign contingent
through her position as chatelaine of
the imperial Russian embassy.
At the first state dinner at the
White House the Count sought to OBJ
tain for his ward" a seat of honor
which Immediately caused a perfect
hubbub among the foreigners. There
upon Count Cassini sought the aid of
the car. who conferred upon his
ward the title Of countess" When
the count announced the honor which
had come to his naughty Marguerite
he did not see fit. however, to satisfy
the curiosity Of the fashionable world
as to any interesting details of the
countess career in China or elsewhere
before she appeared as the hostess of
the Russian embassy in Washington. If
run1or is to be believed, it would seem
that the Spanish chamberlain has been
more successful. The time that Count
Cassini is at Madrid the countess will
spend in a trip around the world.
Cigar Named for Taft.
William H. Taft is about to meet his
Waterloo. We have grown to look up
the secretary Of-alnost everything. He
has crossed seas; ruled our expensive
colonial possessions without knocking
too many corners off and has generally
made himself prominent. That his
downfall is imminent is not commonly
known, but it is at hand just the same
The idol of Senator Tillman, the ideal
Of the late Edward Atkinson, the deity
of Aguinaldo is lettering. A fell blow
has been struck by a secret enemy. The
assassin Of reputation has succeeded. A
cigar has been named after Mr. Taft
Let the people prepare to mourn and
Liberty to wear weeds, fitting symbol
of grief over the bastard blow that
struck down William H Taft. It is
another victory for the corporations
using insidiously the alleged friendship
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