The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-06-20
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From the London TdsBit
wedding presents ma.teSIo sorer-:
5efgns hare at times been known TO
take a decidedly prac eccen2
cric form, as was the case IT the time
ofSthe late iI-Ectei King alexander
of Servia's marriage. when q sun Of
money was raised by publis subscrip-
ton and presented TO the ro-a1 bride
groom that he might be able to de
fray the cost Of a new regiment. to
be named, as a compliment TO the
lady WHOM he had espouse1. Queen
,Draga's Own
One hundred and tweuty drinking
cups, all fashioned to p Mt dainty
dancing slippers. and On two OF the
same size. ma certainly be describ-
ed both, as 4 costly and curious mar
rage gift. Such was the hymeneal
Offering made to Mile. Zucc:li, form
erly prima balIerina at the Eden
Theater, Paris. by the friends OF her
husband, Prince Basetchitkcf, on her
quitting the scenes OF he- t~erpischor-
can triumphs for the more sedate du-
ties of home life.
On the marriage of our late Queen
in 1910 the farmers Of East and West
S~omersetshire. in order to
show their loyalty. manufactured
from the milk of $50 COWS an i'm
mense cheese. weighing upward Of
eleven hundredweiSht n measur-
ing nine feet in circumference, which
was presented to the royal bride and
Prince Albert and by them sraciously
accepted as a wedding gift
The cheese was stored at Bucking-
ham Palace. and would doubtless in
due season had been tasted by royal
lips had not its donors, seeming wide
advertisement. asked for its o for
| the purpose Of exhibition h re-
| quest was granted. but when. their
end having been attained. -heE would
have returned the Sceese they were
met with an irtimation that under the
altered conditions her majesty could
not for, a moment entertain the loea
of accepting their gift.
a poor peasant woman sent 4 pair
of trousers of her own design and
make to the late King Charles of Wurt
temberg on the morning Of his mar
| riaSe with Princess Olga Of Russia,
accompanied by a letter expressive OF
her hope that the garment which she
was taking the great. but she trusted
pardonable, liberty to send would be
found a better cut and fit than the one
in which she had last had the honor
of seeing his majesty alfred.
Another German ruler. Louis " OF
HeSSe-Darmstadt, the husband OF Prin
cess Alice. received on his wedding
day a perhaps more useful Offering in
a dozen pairs. Of stockings. knitted
and sent by an elderly female admir-
er in humble circumstances.
The romantic personality of SiSnor
Mario. the celebrated Italian singer
not infrequently invoked a hopeless
passion in women's hearts that on
more than one occasion found expires
sion in strange manner This was
certainly the case on the occasion OF
his marriage, when he received from
a bevy Of female admirers a handsome
cushion stuffed with the fair donors
luXuriant hair. An even qualntel
present. however. did he receive on
his wedding day in a anonymous gift
from a Munich lady of one of her
teeth. which, as she remarked in an
accompanying note. she had hat
drawn and set with pearls and ener
aids as a scarf pin, in.the trust thai
! by sometimes wearing it 1he hero Of
her dreams would give a passing
thought to his unknown ~worshipper