Waterbury evening Democrat., 1906-05-01
ODD WEDDING PRESENTS.
Great Cheese for Queen-Pair of
 Trousers for Hing.


 Wedding presents made to SOY. ereigns have at times. been known to take decidedly practical if eccentric form, as was the case at the time of the late i'll fated King Alexander of Seryia's marriage, when a sum of money was raised by public subscrip- tion and presented to the royal bride. groom that he might be able to de- fray the cost of new regiment, to be named as compli- ment to the lady whom he had espoused. Queen Draga's Own"
 One hundred and twenty drinking cups. all fashioned to represent dain- ty dancing slippers, and no two of the same size. may certainly be de- scribed both as a costly and curious marriage gift. Such was the hyme- neal offering made to Mile Zucchi, formerly prima balierina at the Eden theater. Paris, by the friends of her husband, Prince Basetchitkoff, on, her quitting the scene of her aterpsicher. can triumphs for the more sedate du- ties of home life.
 On the marriage of our late queen in 1S40 the farmers of East and West Pennard, Somersetshire, in order to show their loyalty, manufactured from the milk of 750 cows an i'm. mense cheese weighing upward of II hundred weight and measuring nine feet in circumference. which was presented to the royal bride and Albert and by them graciously accepted as wedding gift.
 The cheese was stored at Bucking- ho m lara and i,, due season have been tasted by royal lips had not it's donors. scenting wide advertisement, asked for its loan for the purpose of exhibition. Their re-. quest was granted. but when, their end having been attained. they would have returned the cheese they were met with an intimation that under the altered conditions her majesty could not for moment entertain the idea of accepting their gift.
 A poor peasant woman sent pair of trousers of her own design and make to the late King Charles of Wurtemberg on the morning of his marriage with Princess Olga of Rus sia. accompanied by a letter express sive of her hope that the garment which she was taking the great but she trusted pardonable liberty 10 send would be found a better cut and fit than the one in which she had last had the honor of seeing his majesty attired.
 Another German ruler. Louis " of | Hesse-Darmstadt, the husband of | Princess Alice, received on his we'd | ding day perhaps more useful of- fering in dozen pairs of stockings, | knitted and sent by an elderly fe- | male admirer in humble eircum- stapces.
 The romantic personality of Signor Mario. the celebrated Italian singer. not infrequently evoked hopeless passion in women's hearts that on more than one occasion found express sion in strange manner. This was certainly the case on the occasion of his marriage. when he received from c bevy of female admirers a hand some cushion stuffed with the fair donors luxuriant hair. An even quainter present. however, did he re- ceiye on his wedding day in an anonymous gift from a Munich lady of one of her teeth. which. as she re marked fin an accompanying note. she had had drawn and set with pearls and erieralds as a searfpin. in the trust bf sometimes wearing it the hero of her dreams would give pass ing thought to his unknown worship Tit-Bits.