Los Angeles herald., 1909-07-29

| kkH EFT married II you are rich" is
eT good advice for the young
W woman.
The custom of wedding gifts has now
reached sucn point of prodigality that
among the wealthy the offerings attain
the value of kings ransom.
Once il was considered a remarkable
thing for a man to be worth million
dollars, to have that represent his en-
tire belongings.
| Now it Is nothing uncommon for a
bride to realize that great a sum from
her wedding gifts.
| A case in point is that of Mrs. John
K. Mitchell III, who from her father
alone received one million and a half
dollars
He is e. I. Stotesbury, a banker of
| international fame, member of the firm
of Drexel, and a multi-millionaire.
| A few days before his daughter
Frances Stotesbury married John
Kearsley Mitchell III, Mr.. Stotesbury
handed her a check for $l000,000. But
this was only part of his generosity
In addition to that he gave her dla-
mond necklace string of pearls of un-
matchable beauty and diamond tiara.
|
pieces of jewelry exceeded half mil
| lion dollars, which made the receipts OF
the beautiful young bride million and
q half from her father alone
But in addition to this the fortunate
Young woman received gifts from doz-
ems of wealthy connections of her IA
theirs and of the groom S to the amount
of perhaps another million dollars
| Therefore as a little nest egg for the
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with two and a half millions of dollars
in cash, jewelry, etc. Mrs. Mitchell was
the last unmarried daughter of the
banker and was his particular faVorlte'
This remarkable amount of gifts puts
Mrs. Mitchell fairly in class to rival
Mrs. T. Suffern Taller, who was sup
posed to have Jared better than any
bride of 1909
King Midas took full charge of the
wedding of the noted young New
Yorker. Taller. and Miss Harriet Stew
art Brown, eldest daughter of General
| Alexander Brown of Baltimore. In
city noted for it's beauties, Miss Brown
was esteemed to be the loveliest of them
all.
Her gifts came at her from all Sec
| tions and in all amounts. 1t would nave
taken a peck measure in which to put
all the jewels. There were checks for
a big enough amount to make quite a
difference if suddenly turned into cash
and dumped into the stock market, and
real estate also figured in the offerings
to the most superbly beautiful bride OF
the year,
General Brown, like Mr.. Stotesbury'
| is a banker and his connections In
| clude men of big wealth, who would
never even give a second thought to a
| gift that did not involve an excursion
| into the five figures.
The union of the Taller and the
Brown families was deemed so appro-
pirate that instantly wealthy Balti-
more and New York began a race to
see which city could spend most Law
! ishly. =,
There were 450 gifts in the great hall
under the Louis Quinze ballroom When
the family stopped counting, and there
were some gifts that could not be
brought into the room, as, for instance,
the imposing residence at 21 West
Fifty-frst street. New York. the gift
of the groom to his bride.
Her father gave her a check for half
a million dollars. The president of the
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad company
decided that a $4,000 automobile was
about the proper caper of a gift for
him to make to the lovely bride, and
other friends presented a superb cleo
trio car which she herself can drive
without needing the aid of a chauf-
feur.
In order to transform his house into
church for the wedding the fond fa-
ther had pipe organ placed in the
damask drawing room and there was
also an altar and chancel.
The bride wore rope of diamonds