Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1920 — Queer Wedding Presents. [ARTICLE]

Queer Wedding Presents.

The following are « few of the many carious wedding presents that have been received by those about to enter the bonds of matnimonyh A well-known author received on his marriage, from a rival man of let# ten, a scrapbook containing a coHeotfon of all the advWse criticism his works had ever received; a popular artist was en similar occartee presented with a set of elementary works upon self-instruction in drawing and painting. Unusually vexatious was the gift received from his neighbors by an infirm octogenarian, who had a nr women more than fifty yean fate Junior. It took the form of a large brass <age, “intended”—so ran the accompanying note “to restrain the wayward flight of a giddy young wife \So had married a decrepit Old feel for his money.”