RAIN OF GIFTS ON MUSSOLINI.

Hokitika Guardian, 3 April 1926, Page 4

RAIN OF GIFTS ON MUSSOLINI.

POME, Jan. 3,

Should any doubt linger in the mind as to Signor Mussolini’s popularity it would bo dispelled by a glance at Clio room of his secretaries, which is stacked almost to the ceiling with the New Year presents sent to the “Duce.”

It is an extraordinary assortment, from portraits in gorgeous frames of obscure, citizens who fondly imagine that they liear a. striking resemblance to their hero to shampoo powders and bottles, of hair restorer.

There are so many presents of fruit sweets, wine and provisions, that one might imagine oneself in a grocer’s shop until one looks at the boots, the walking-sticks, the pictures, and the books. All tliis accumulation's disposed of every two or three days lor various charitable purposes, only to make room for the fresh supplies that your in daily.

The letters and telegrams, divided into packets, are .piled oil-the ehai’s and divans. Needless to say, many • l the letters are insufficiently stam.iel, and these are remorsely charged for by the Post Officio. Some of them are addressed in any fashion that appealed to the fancy of the writer rather than in the conventional style; “Mussolini the elect of God” for instance, after the manner of the ancient Hebrew prophets.

Portraits of Signor Mussolini himself can lie numbered by the score—pen-and-ink sketches, oils, water-colon*-x. and wood inlaid with niother-o’-pe.u 1 There are portraits produced with the simple aid of a pair of scissors and a bottle of gum.

A tailor from the South has cut him an overcoat with bis initials embroidered in blue and yellow silk. Another gift is of a pitir of boots of the finest leather in red. whitif, and green (the national colours), and another pair is made, entirely of iron. Almond cake, ginger-bread, crackers, and puddings of the most varied shapes and dimensions are other tributes. The elimax was reached when a sugar statuette of a Kaseista appeared, .swathe*, in white linen, and looking more like a dead baby than *nything else. And this is not the end. There is Epiphany to route yet. mi! in 7ta v tills is essentially the .season for presents; much note so, 'udeed. tlan the New Year.

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