Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 38, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1906 — THE GIFTS OF MISS ALICE. [ARTICLE]

THE GIFTS OF MISS ALICE.

Will Surpass Any Collection Ever Seen In This Country. According to a Washington correspondent, the gifts which Miss Roosevelt will receive -for her bridal display will be many and costly. Those will include presents from the Czar, the Mikado, the Empress of China, the Kaiser, tlie King and Queen of England, the Sultan, and possibly the King and Queo~n of Italy.. Nearly all royal gifts take the form of jewelry, lnoes or silk, all of which are among the highly rated articles . hen it comes to paying duty. However, if gifts are sent to the legations there is no duty, and the preSehtatTdns cafl“T>e nTßtlff"by "Hat envoy* and ambassadors in person. Miss Roosevelt’s gifts will surpass? any collection ever gathered in this counfry. Invitations have gone abroad to every ruler who has a representative in this country or to whom this country sends an envoy. There are 39 nations holding friendly relations with Hail Columbia, and this does not cover all to whom representatives are sent. News of the marriage has awakened great Interest abroad. The R man pontiff, who admires the vigorous American President so greatly that he is having all his works translated into Italian, has instructed his delegate in Washington, Mgr. Diomede Falconi, to ask if the distinguished pair wilt accept a gift of mosaic, designed in the papal instituton in the Vatican. This gift is meant to compliment Mr. Longworth, as well as Miss Roosevelt. He is the nephew of Mrs. Bellamy Storer, wife of the ambassador at Vienna, whom the pontiff knows well and admires exceedingly. The Sultan of Turkey is another who is deeply engrossed in the preparations for the nuptials. Ilis gift, according to those who know his traditions, is sure to be a priceless gem—a diamond, ruby, emerald or sapphire.