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[a LI 287d. 8H i Lice ww aiof ww down irom sw lang Kensington Palace Does A Come-Back In all the hearl of London only one royal * palace stands embowered in greep parklaid. Shopping=streets actually flank : .the sou ham Palace and King George V once seriously considered selling it for $10,000,000 to convert into offices.- But he"longed to live in tranquil Kensington Palace, now to be'the wonderful new home of ,the Duchess of Kent, "Not "so long ago Kensington Palace Was slipping into ghast- ly disrepair, The walls were bulging--according to a report, "the raftérs rotting and the old * panelled- walls' and painted ceil- ings slowly crumbling in decay. :The Duke of Edinburgh spent the last night of his bachelor- 'hood in Kensington Palace but the servants found the scrubbed board 'floors creaking so badly - that they tiptoed about for fear they would wake him too soon. The Duke stayed in the palace flat occupied by his grandmo- ther, the Dowager Marchioness of Milford Haven. But her rooms are now a ghost suite, empty and echoing. It is not idly that Kensington has been called the sleeping beauty!" palace iern walls. of Bucking- * 4 4" ing . When an official took stock of The dreds of rooms, at least four out of five were. empty.' Yet . Kensington Palace has been a royal home for 250 years and for over a century it was the chief official home of roy- alty, just as Buckingham Palace is today. King William III found the London smog so trying to breathe that he bought. the pal- ace when it was called Notting- ham House, rural home of the Earl of Nottingham, At $55,000 purchase price it seems 'a bargain. * But William spent ten times this sum in five years in making improvements, He had scarcely begun a new wing than the walls fell down, - killing eight workmen, and then - a disastrous fire meant that much of the work had to be done all over again. Like William, Queen Anne died in the palace. Queen Vic- toria. was born there. When George II was living there as sovereign, his wife laid out the gardens. Convinced that she 'was paying 'the bills out of her privy purse, the King never inter- fered. He had a rude shock after her death when he examined his bank accounts and found the Queen -had' drawn park money" to the tune of $100,000. Today Kensington: Palace is the only royal residence in Lon- don with state apartments regu- larly open to the.public. You can. stand in the . very room where Victoria, as 'an eighteen- | year-old girl, stood in dressing- gown and shawl to receive the news that she was Queen of England. You can see her doll's house, a truly enchanting relic, _ or you can shiver in a room so draughty _ that King William caught pnfumonia when he fell asleep there. There is a staircase that was - thought to be -made of ebony until restorers tried to clean it and discovered the black was merely dirt. So much dirt and rubbish was taken out of. the palace during the clean-up for the Duchess of Kent's suite that it fook twenty "truck loads to cart it all away. " When King George VI allotted the Duchess a twenty-two-room suite in the Palace as a grace- and-favour residence, he warned her that it would take time to put it into shape--and as, the Duchess viewed her new home MERRY. MENAGERIE "Pardon: me. Could you direct me to the nearest belfry?" 4 "two of these are .small it must have" been one of the most depressing experiences of - her life. "for a quarter of a century of widowhood by Queen Victoria's daughter, Princess Louise, and . "left untenanted for another .ten 'lay © years. thick. "No longer suitable for hudisn habjtation? _was the There stables, chilling corridors ~'ong which all coal and water |- | to be carried, and rooms that led inte ore another in gloomy vis- tas. yf The walls were damp and mil- wed--and no wonder, for very little light came through the grimy latticed windows. Above © the ceilings could be heard .the soft. tap of the death-watch beetle. The Duchess of Kent had the help of experts, of course, Angry questions were asked in Parlia- ment when the Office of Works bought a $2,500 Adam -mantel- piece to grace her drawing-room. Dust and 'cobweb The $200,000 spent in repairs has also been criticized. If you look carefully you can spot the Duchess's windows from the Park, for they are draped in white-frilled nylon, an enchant- "ing modern touch. And every- where in these redecorated, re- planned rooms is grace If "you could walk down the blue-carpeted corridor would be charmed by the white paintwork. The yellow ceilings _ are intended to create a sun- shine effect even on a dull No- vember day. The drawing-room is a won- derland of gold and white. The settees' have been upholstered in gold, and pieces -of antique ~furniture which were wedding gifts have' been brought out of store after thirteen years. Prin- cess Alexandra has a separate sitting-room - in. which she can entertain her own friends with a modern radiogram. Upstairs are six bedrooms, but guest bedrooms. - The Duchess's bed- room is carpeted in cherry. with curtains of white and red-flow- ered chintz to set the theme, ang, | a bedspread of pure white satin. Princess Alexandra has chosen a white 'wallpaper patterne with pink and red carnations. By contrast, the young Duke of Kent and Prince Michael have austerity rooms. The Duchess of Kent's wing of Kensington Palace has be- come as glamorous and beauti- ful a home_3gs the similarly re- modelled Clarence House. And "how, needless (0 say, there are other kinsfolk of the Royal Fam- ily who have been eyeing the remaining vacant suites and gently hinting that they too » would welcome the grace-and- favour of these desirable royal residences. Young Men he Wanied Bv Rails Realizing the need for young men to plan a career, we inves- tigated the possibilities of a young man trained as Agent- Telegrapher. We discussed the . matter with J. E. Cassan, presid- ent of Cassan Systems School, 20 Spadina' Road, Toronto, who has been specializing--in this training for over 50 years, Records show that every gra- duate has been placed in posi- tions, and during the past five years the school has been unable to. supply the demand in On- tario, let alone the other prov- inces. ~ Training may be 'taken' at home with the use an®l loan of the Self-Teaching Code . Ma- chine, with the privilege of at- tending "school any {ime for " check-up and speed tests. Train- ing is also given in Day and i. Night School. If a Railway car- "eer interests you, secure book- let without obligation. Tele- graphers and Station 'Agents work five- -day week, eight-hour day, receive Union - pay, pen- sion d express commissions, "all of which means big wages. 300 BILLION DOLLARS 200 100 SPENT BY GOVERNMENT / Vd ; EI a foci au surf I reiemiad +t "SPENT FOR PRIVAT £IVESTMENT 1940 1945 1950 BRETT SPENDING UP, WILL RISE~Demands of the American people; - for goods and services was at a record annual rate of 392 billion. - dollars in 1955, 9 per cent above 1954. Consumer spending rose * 10 the highest level in history and investment by business ex-: panded sharply. Government expendilufes .fedetsl state and. local--leveled off. (A look ahead to 1956 sees continued glrong, consumer. 'spending, business investment isifig further, federal! government purchases about at 1955 level. ernments will spend increasing amounts te ather facllities. fate and local gov- chools, roads and => The suite had been oécupied - verdict. , were staircases wide as" you' ' And |. FAT OF THE MOON. The reid looking abject above is a fairy- - tale moon--being explored by space travelers--made from some Creator is confectioner Jean Chabot, | | "masterpiece" 40 pounds of pork fat. shown finishing his in Nice, France. The pork- - fat moon required 20 days' work to complete. They Tried To Fool Their Fellow Crooks A couple of seedy rogues. -- "Lord and Lady Scot". as they called themselves -- were great- ly interested in the newspaper accounts of the newly-arrived Count Cagliostro, a self-styled alchemist, They were particu- larly een to get their hands on magical Egyptian manuscript which, it was rumoured, could perform all manner of marvels and could even predict winning lottery numbers -- eighteen cen- tury equivalent of our Pools. The Count 'was only too eager to "advertise himself newspaper interviews. For "he had ¢ome to England to fleecé credulous - -- and wealthy -- mugs. . So when the Scots read all .about the Cagliostros having taken furnished apartments at a Mrs. Juliet's No. 4, Whitcomb .. Street, Pall Mall, they made a note to mark down the Count for plunder. The Scot's chance to' meet the Count came whén his landlady 'suggested that an impecunious Portuguese lady, Madame Ble- vary, would like to earn a trifle acting. as interpreter for Coun- tess Cagiostro, who knew. no English. The Cagliostros were exceed- ingly kind to Madame' Blevary and when she brought along a starving = ex-Jesuit $eminarist, _named Vitellini, introducing him as a fellowrcountryman of the | Count"s who could teach Ehg-* lish, tlie Cagliostros welcomed the man, and took pity on his obvious poverty. Now the Scots' chance had arrived. For Vitellini was not only poor and grossly dishonest; but he was also very thick with the Scots. He introduced them to Madame Blevary as two im- poverished Scottish aristocrats who really deserved to know the secret of predicting lottery num- bers. For good measure, Vitel- lini promised Madame Blevary a cut on the profits if she could ~ arrange to introduce .the Scots to the Count. After some trouble -- for the Count showed a curious relue- tance to meet strangers whom - he himself had not marked down for . prey -- Madame Blevary managed to effect an introduc- tion. And from that moment "Lady Scot" -- actually Mary Fry, the . jailbird -- began to worry the life out of poor Alessandro di Cagliostro for a winning Jot 'tery number. The cream of the jest in this priceless example of diamond cut diamond is that the Scots believed . implicitly in all the "fancy claims that the Count had made for himself, The Count, of course, knew that his claims were no more than a device , to part the wealthy riches. But he saw, too, with alarm that he would be forced to give some sort of answer to the ex- tremely importunate Lady Scot. The Count -- brought up in the slums of Palermo -- 'could tell a dangerous type when he met her. And he recognized just that in this demure but demoniacally obstinate woman.. In , desperation, he though hadn't enough real confidence in his psychic powers. to predict to- morrow's weather, he told her what his magic book had turn- ed up for the next lottery, The Count and Countess had "arrived in London from Portu- gal in July of 1776: The. first number. that he gave to Lady Scot was for the draw on No- vember Ith, . She and her confederate didn't stake much-on this first number, But they were not 'at all sur« prised when the number came up and "launched them on an amazing. run of good fortune. (It' was' the Count who w tonished!) p Now their pressure Str ensed, the heat was well and truly on! "In spite of his refusal to give through _ - phina's room and sobbed out a t "laboratory and steal his precious another number, the Count was forced by the - Scots now backed up by Blevary and Vi- = 'fellini -- to give "just one more number." Two days later, November i 16th, number. 20 turned up -- exactly as the Count had pre- dicted. On November 17th, his predicted number -- 25 -- net- ted the Scots $65. And with the turning up of two numbers, 55 and 57, on the following day (he Scots netted over $2,500! The Count, certain' that this run of luck could not possibly - continue, refused point-blank to predict any more numbers. But he had reckoned without the Scots. For the first time in their un- scrupulous'lives. they had touch- ed "honest" money. And they were not going to be sent back to dangerous criminality if they could help it. _But.when the Count celtied to receive them, Lady Scot forced her way into Countess Sera- BR-R-R--It's 'cold down below, as Folke Brandt, left, and Hans Gustavsson will tell anyone. They're working on the Stock- holm, Sweden, subway during one of the worst cold spells to 'hit Europe in recent years. Storms, snow and cold com- bined to create this fairyland of icicles in the underground work site. . lying story 'about her husband having abandoned her, with 3 starving children on her. hands. The tender-hearted Countess got .one more number out of the angry Count, and sent the tear- ful woman away with it -- num- ber eight for the December Tth lottery -- after pressing a gui- nea into her hand. ' The Scots put everything that they could raise on this num- ber. And the Count rust have felt faint indeed when he heard that it had won them over $3,500. 1 This big win started a life "of persecution for Count Cagliostro which must. have almost made him wish that he were back in _some Palermo jail. In despera- tion, he and his wife moved to Great Suffolk Street. But Mary Fry took & room. in the same house and by a 'trick got the Countess to accept a necklace, ant then had the Count arrest- ed for eaing it. She even brought' an action against him for practising witchcraft, so that her friends could break into his manuscript while: he was ans- . wering. the charge. np . When the, rogues could not read what. it contained -- and it would have been difficult fog - anyone since it was pure gib- berish -- they broke into the Count's room and held a loaded pistol to his breast, demanding the secret. © Only the knowledge that there . was 'no secret gave the Count ar -imprisgnment courage to.refuse their request. "My stay in England has cost me aver $9,000!" he 'declared -- and © decided: to 'leave Longon, 'But this he could do'only with . the consent of the Scots. Arrest "on trumped-up charges was only ° too easy a way to keep. him in: England for ever, Finally, the Scots; realizing : that they could not get the "secret". of the manuscript, agreed to let the Count leave the country in return for enough lottery numbers to provide them with a fortune. For good measure, hoping to teach them a good lesson and praying that he would never clap eyes on them again, he gale the first half-dozen numbers that came into his head. Then, before the first of them could fail to come up--as he was convinced they all would. fail-- he and his wife hurried off to France. Sitting in his dungeon many years later-----condemned to a life from which he was to emerge only in his cof- fin -- t he wretched "Count Alessandro di Cagliostro" must have wondered why he had got into trouble by pretending to have magical powers when, in eyes. "(choose fact, he really did have them. For how otherwise can one explain how those last six reck- lessly chosen numbers all turn- ed up? Numbers which had en- abled the confidently plunging Scots to net a fortune of over $150,000. -- 8 Easy On The Eyes The 'eyes, poetically described as "the windows of the soul," do in actual fact reveal more about their owners: than any other single feature. Tiredness, ill-health, overstrain and anxi- ety, all show quickly in and around the eyes, which deserve but seldom receive -- as much care and attention as the ©. hair or complexion, Many leading" "actresses are noted for their beautiful eyes, but even they would lose their lustre if she didn't take care of them. . days spent Yet, dry summer : mostly out-of-doors .-- or win- ter evenings of TV and films both put a strain on our When you have been out in the dust of a town, it's as im= portant to bathe yuor eyes as it is - to freshen the rest of your- self up with a wash. Use one of the branded eye-lotions which are on the market, or make your own with one tea- spoonful of salt in a tumbler- ful of warm water. And here's another tip about eye-bathing -- always have two eyé-baths them in different col= ours so that you can tell them apart), one for the right and one for the left. In this way you won't pass on minor infec- tions from one eye {o the other. When you feel your eyes are tired after a lot of close work, give them a short and complete rest. Close them for a few min- utes, cover them with the palms of your hands to keep the light right out -- and you'll feel. wonderfully refreshed. For reading ana all close work, the light should shine "over the left shoulder for mini= "ed and in a stream, mum strain on the eyes. And "don't on any account try to eco- nomize by having lowpowered bulbs; good light is the secret of good 'sight. Care for your eyes sensibly and they will give you a life-~- time's uncomplaining - service, No need to mollycoddle them -- they were meant to be work- they flourish on use, provided they are given reason- able Morking conditions. Magic Spring. South didica Yas Is "Lourdes" according to a report from 'East Griqualand. Just before she died as a wi- dow at 18, an African girl de- clared that an angel had told her of a spring of holy water, She refused to make use of it to cure her own malady, so she bequeathed it to her people. "She instructed her mother tq go into one of her father's fields and pull out a tuft of °grass. She had dreamed that the spring would he found at that spot. The mother did as she was told, and water gushed forth which since has not weakened or varied in its flow. Many who 'have drunk the . water have professed miracu- lous cures of various illnesses, some, no more than stomach- ache, others more' serious. A white doctor who has ana- lyzed a sample of the watet . states that he found no medi- oinal properties in it. Yet the "eures" still go on, . "any other pure bre own .- GOOD LOOKS "Don't judge a book by cover" goes arnold saying. Like- wise the appearance of a fabric is no assurance that it will wear well, The right amount of sizing in a fabric can -enhance- the look and feel of the material. But sometimes sizing may be used to 'fill out' a fabric and skimp on the actual amount of yarn used. Sizing of this kid is very often soluble in watér, and one or more washings will get rid sof it, leaving the fabric limp and lifeless. ) Water soluble sizing is- often affected even by the slight . moisture present'iin dry clean- ing. And the job of removing spots and stains is made much more difficult, The Canadian Research Insti- tute of Launders and Cleaners, which conducts regular tests on a wide variety of fabrics, says that taffetas have been a chief offender. They warn too of linens that have been heavily starched. Here again the excess starch will wash out leaving the linens looking very forlorn, One simple but effective test may be used to show up excess sizing that has been used to conceal poor quality. Just rub a portion of the fabric between your fingers. If excess sizing has been used, a trace of white powder will usually appear. Remember too that when buy- ing a garment or cloth where a crisp effect is desirable, it's best to ask the question -- will this article stay crisp after cleaning? its "mal binges. Animal Toppers .- A southern farmer recently complained to a sheriff that his Jersey cows came home the other week so drunk that they couldn't be milked. Seems the animals had a little party down by a stréam into which had been spilled gallons of whisky from an illicit still, Two arrested. ; 1955 was quite a year for ani- In January a mon- key started the ball rolling by . getting = tipsy on a bottle of Benedictine, 'Eighteen-inch tall Jokko staggered around house in Southend. where he lives, found a pair of nylon panties, put them on and tot- tered off out of the house and down the road. Passing children were delight- ed, but a man yanked Jokko off to the police station where they put him .in jail until Our Dumb Friends' League turned up to bail him out. In September ldst an animal ambulance was called to Sam» my,. an eighteen + month - old pony, who was skipping and dancing about a field blind drunk. But it wasn't really Sammy's fault, he had merely been eating some fermented po- tato peelings he found on the small-holding in Romford, Es- sex. When he had finished, he walked unsteadily into the field where his owners found him later . . . on his knees. It took eight men to- carry Sammy away to sober up. ~ CLASSIFIED ADVERTISING BABY CHICKS SEND for full detalls about our new Tweddle series 400, and 402, These are regular egg machines. They will lay more eggs on less feed than any other breed we have to offer, Buy some and compare them with or cross breed, it you do we know you will be back for more next year. 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