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£5 1 (3 4 Off "laken away from Her to be Fg For ER ER RS TaiA DN OT Ie Rr ERSTE Sia Sb ES as id SS Little Princess Almost Starved The little Princess Katherine »f Valois was sobbing her -heart jut. She was cold, hungry and very dirty. "There is 10 -food lor your Highness," the servants old her, The door opened and Katherine screamed as she saw' \ wild, dishevelled man appear, 'Hush, it. is "your father, the Ling," said her, governess, drop- ping a deep curtsy, The Prin- tess looked at him with terror n her eyes. She knew that her lather was mad and that her wmnother kept him locked up in he palace. : He was having one of his rare lucid spells and, noticing the filthy state of the palace, had been questioning the servants. He learnt that his children were ragged and hungry while his wife, Queen Isabeau, was away enjoying herself with a new lover. "Who is this child?" he asked the governess as he gazed at the dirty little girl, "She is Katherine, youngest daughter, sire." "Why is she crying?" "Because she is cold and hun- gry," he was told. "Take this gold vase, sell it and buy food for the children," the King replied. It was the last thing of value left in the palace. When Isabeau heard of her husband's return to sanity, she was frightened, All France rocked of stories. of her scan- dalous life. Her present lover, Louis of Orleans, urged her to flee with the children. Fortun- ately for them, Isabeau was cap- tured and' sent to prison and Katherine was removed to a Your - ronvent. Her father died and it was rears later before she saw her nother again. Katherine had frown into a beautiful young voman and -the wily Isabeau law in her a pawn. "We must try to marry you well," she. said. She had Katherine's portrait painted and lent' to Henry V of England ~vho was: waging war against france. : When: Henry saw the picture 1e sent back & note demanding the Princess' hand in marriage logether with France as a lowry. Isabeau was furious, but the had no choice but ta comply, for - France was' ravaged, and bleeding. a Katherine, who was" passion- itely in love with the soldier Ling, cared for nothing so long 1s she became 'his wife. Their srief honeymoon was spent in he battle-torn countryside. King Henry brought his young sride home to England to be wrowned. Her glory was short- dived. After the birth of her n, Henry V died and the lovely atherlne becamé a widow and Queen Mother of England while still in her teens. Her baby was rained as the future king and the lonely girl went to Windsor. She was not lonely for long. Among her train was a handsome I roung Welshman, Owen Tudor, n whose eyess he saw a burning admiration. One warm night Katherine was alone in her . MERRY MENAGERIE 7 J oie "Figured I might as well be baby-sitting -- I'm up all night anyway!" . secret marriage, -- to garden when he stepped out of the shadows and took her in his arms. . Katherine responded ardently to his advances until, aghast at her indiscretion, she broke away and ran indoors The next day she' for him." He fell on his kneed Bore her and covered her hand wih kisses. "Your Majesty, F desing to die" he said. "But I am in Jove with you!" The jay in Katherine's eyes 'old him what he wanted to know. "You realize it is death for you if our love is discovered," she asked softly. No answer from him was needed. "Then we must be very careful," the Queen added. - Katherine was very happy with her Welshman, When she found that a child was expected, Kath- erine and Owen decided on a A priest was found willing to perform the ceremony which, if discovered, could mean death. For Humphrey of Gloucester, Protector of England during the minority of the young King Henry VI, had had a Bill passed in Parlianient threatening death anyone who . married the Queen Mother without the con- sent of the King and the Council of State. For Katherine might yet be a useful pawn in -the marriage stakes. fight Kath§rine e For fourteen years played hide and seek de Councillors of State. e ceremonial occasion, she took her placeplace as the young King's mother. The rest of the time ~she spent either in Wales, where she bore Owen's children, or in living quietly at Windsor. The decision to come to-London for the birth of Katherine's fourth child, and at the same time to seek pardon from the young King and recognition of their marriage, was a brave one. Unfortunately, once in London, Katherine put off the' interview with her son. The wife of - Humphrey the Protector paid her an unexpected visit and noticed Katherine's condition. This piece of news she trimphantly reported - to her husband. One morning the doors of Katherine's bedroom: burst open and the Protector's soldiers came in to arrest her. The children were taken away, Owen was imprisoned in Newgate, and Katherine in Bermondsey Abbey: Poor Katherine! The strain of the past years had taken toll of her health and i her daughter was - born,.- - nuns realized that death was near. The young King was sent for and with her last breath Katherine begged for forgiveness and for 'the life of Owen Tudor and their children. Henry VI, who hardly knew his mother, was so moved that he granted her requests. He kept his word. Owen Tudor was released and the children cared for. So strange is fate, that --} the grandson ofthese two lovers. was one day to become Henry VII of England and the founder of the royal Tudor line. BUCK LAW QUESTION Maine has never had a buck law. Sportsmen bag deer re- gardless of sex. They have am- ple proof that this works to the good of both deer and 'sportsmen. The annual bag has average over 35,000 deer for the past three years -- and in a J. state half the size of Missouri. Maine deer have steadily in- creased in size and improved in condition. In 1925, a 200-1b. deer was a rarity. Last year 837 deer were bagged that weighed over 200 1bs. and 55 wents past 300 lbs, Few buck law states pro- duce deer of that size. Some buck law states report that their herds are decreasing in stature, antler development and reproductive vigor. Yet many sportsmen throw up their hands when a no-sex law is mention- ed. . R CROSSWORD PUZZLE ACROSS .Btreetcar Highway That woman Relleve Gaelic In what way Country in the western hemisphere . Slipknot Pagan god . Rescuer .Partofa 66. Male deer 57. Sour DOWN 1. Afternoon party 2. Batter 3. Enzyme 4. Deserve -- Pn IND TT Tr a a 1300 pbs --D Da flower . Present 5. Poem . Wide- mouthed jar 28. Winter vehicle Soak up . Pours Recline Makes lace Sleeveless garment Age 39. For fear that 41. Shunned 43. Straighten 45. God of war 46. Christmas i saint (47. Washing lightly §1.{Poultry 2 Phafuet A . Taga) claim 3 Bacchanalian ory this $5. Stupid person 303 00 DL Wwww NRISE i. 6. Recall 29. Independent 6. Of the mouth Ireland 7. 8Ince 30. Lifeless 8. 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They can take a lot more air in the house than most-of them get -- espe- cially at night. "Most of us know hdw to live right one of my chicken- growing friends says, "but we still pay the preacher to remind us every Sunday. "And even if we know how. to grow chickens right, we seem to need to be reminded about that, too!" deep before you , i PRICE OF A PICTURE -- When Thayne Smith, a stopped to take a fcture of some goats, he got this. Curious, one of the goats eaped on the back of his car. The trunk lid was badly scratched by sharp hoofs. ALL HIS OWN -- Six-year-old Jerry Coppens. doesn't have to worry "about his doll flirting with other guys as they dance. The life-size doll, made from cotton feed and flour bags by Juanita -Misemer, was among 500 articles in the 1956 Cotton Bag Sewing Contest. The World On Your Doorstep The rest of the world is on everybody's doorstep these days. A crisis anywhere seems like _ a crisis everywhere, Insofar as this reflects an awareness of the interlocking interest of all peo- ples in peace it is a good thing. But it does at times distort the world pitcure even while clari- fying its central features. Visitors to world capitals are often surprised on home-coming to read that they have been in the midst of cataclysms without sensing the fact, Others know that while the headlines are teling what may be most significant aspects of daily life at a given place in a given moment, they can ony tell part of the story. An interesting analysis of newspapers some years ago showed that even when the "big news" concerned mainly catas- trophe, crisis, alarums, by far the largest part of the average newspaper dealt with things that were going -- not wrong but right. The tables of ship arrivals told of dozens of safe ~ passages. Story after story of some achievement by an indi- vidual or a community. Last night's television pro- gram, today's. radio, tomorrow's movie -- these command atten= tion even when some unstates- min like act has upset a national or international applecart. And to the overwhelming amount of - good news in the daily paper one should add the scores of everyday happenings and sights which make up "a casual day's beholding." ) There is not necessarily a basic difference between facts and headlines or between what the trained observer reports and what the untrained hap- pens to see for himself. Where an adjustment seems needed is at the point of individual' awareness, Crisis is surely the more manageable as mankind preserves a sense of perspective, avoids obsessions, and tackles the big job with the calmness that comes from successful ex- perience. with the little ones. The world on your doorstep may need -- more than any- thing else you can give it-- just the quiet, friendly reassuring word or gesture that finds its impulsion {n your own inner Rojee , = From The Christian ence Monitor, THE FARM ERONT Great - great - grandmother Catherine's Christmas cookies! I can smell them yet--the first thing we sniffed when, as chil- dren, 'we went to our grand- mother's house a week or so before Christmas! A gingery, cinamony aroma that pervaded every room for a week after the cookies had been made. And no matter what relatives we called on during Christmas season, we could always tell by the fra- grance that met us at the front door whether we would be of- fered some of THE ginger cookies. i fui I can taste those cookies in memory, too, for I have eaten them almost every Christmas that I can remember, so hot with spices that at first I wasn't sure I liked them. But when the grown-ups praised them and ate them by handfuls, I had to make believe I enjoyed them too. And then each year the taste grew on me, until I was asking with the older children along in De- cember, "When are we going to make great - great - grandmother Catherine's ginger cookles?" I am a grandmother now, so add "two "greats" to that name for the present generation of chil- dren. Catherine, whose maiden name I do not know, was a Philadel- phian "who married Frederick Dickes. He came from Alsace, and presumably brought with him his 'mother's recipe for Chyistmas cookies, and his wife made some. Since that day in the early 1700's every branch of our family makes a full batch of "gingerbread" as it used to be called, and sends a dozen or so cookies to each of the other branches of the family to taste," writes Mary Geisler Phillips in the Christian Science Monitor. Every year it's the same. Each family thinks its cookies the best! The others are done a little too much, or have a flavor of lemon added, or are just a bit too hot! So you taste those that come in the mail judiciously, turning over a bite in your mouth to savor the spiciness, you try them on your husband to get his judg- ment, the children eat as many as you will let them have, and the verdict is always the same. The ones you make are best of all! Here is the recipe: GINGERBREAD COOKIES 7 pounds of flour 14 pound freshly ground ginger Ys pound freshly ground cinnamon 114 grated nutmegs (nowadays we substitute 114 teaspoon- fuls of ground nutmeg. I' haven't seen a nutmeg grater for years) 1 pound brown sugar 1 pound white sugar Mix these dry ingredients well with the hands before adding 3 pounds lard. Blend in the shortening with the hands, then add 12 quarts . dark molasses, into which has been put 1 teaspoonful baking soda, ; Knead and mix with the hands until a smooth dough is obtained. Cut, then bake for about 12 minutes in a' 375 degree oven. It used to be sacrilege to make these cookies "fussy" No, they must be: ¥-inch thick, cut with a round cutter about 2% inches in diameter and watched care- be John Russell -- A re ba sds - a fully to prevent burning. You are not a true member of our family if you waste any of this precious dough by burning a single one. I must confess I used fancy cutters for my children's share, but the samples I sent to other families were always plain. The making of such a_ large amount of cookies is always a family project--it's no fun unless your husband and all the chil- dren get into the act, each with a wad of dough to punch and press into a smooth round ball. "You never mix with anything but the hands, and so first comes the ritual of a good scrubbing of fingernails 'and removal of rings. I used to wait until my husband would say some evening in December, "I could help you with the ginger .cookies this evening--how about it?" "Yes, Yes!" the children would shout, shutting their school books, and the eledst soon would go down cellar to bring up the big gray crockery bowl dedicated to great- great - grandmother Catherine's gnigerbread. Some families use their biggest wash boiler, for this is not just an ordinary batch of cookies. When you're done, you have two or three hundred! At our house these were always kept in the gray-and-blue stone, vase-shaped crock that stood in one corner of * the dining room. ld was gone, but a large pie plate did as well. After inspection of hands and the rolling up of sleeves, the younger ones look on while Father or one of the older boys mixes the first part; dry flour, sugar and spices, with the lard. Squish comes the soft dough through the fingers, puff comes up the flour from the bottom of the bowl. Advice is given freely --"There's some of the dry left on that side!" or "Better turn it all over Dad, there's still flour at the bottom!" Whén esveryone is satisfied that the sticky mass. is com- pletely blended, then comes the hard part. The bubbly, yellow soda-and-molasses is poured in. The mixing now is real work for it takes strong arm and hand muscles to knead the whole into a smooth dough. After a partial kheading by Father, the small children are given a wad to pound and press, and finally a smooth, dark brown, glossy dough is produced, with not a sign of any dry ingredients or smear of molasses showing. Now a bit of the dough is pinched off to taste, and usually is pronounced perfect, We al- ways did our mixing in the evening, because the dough is supposed to be allowed to stand some hours before baking, to "ripen." - Next morning the children are excited for they are all allowed to cut, after Mother has rolled out the dough to an even thick- ness, We always timed our bak- ing for Saturday morning, so that all could help. Mother does "the baking, and if a child is al- lowed to bake a few ovenfuls, it marks a milestone on the road toward growing up, because he or she can now take responsl- bility. Watching the oven is a rare privilege! To find out whether a cookie is done, you press it lightly with a finger, and it the dent ¢@maing you leave dishpan, others even use the The original, the panful in for another minute or two. These cookies are rather chewy if underbaked, and some families like them that way; other batch- es may be very crisp because overbaked, but part of the lot is always "just right" They are' hot with spice, and I know that most folks don't know when to. stop eating them, In making these cookies, you never use spices from the cup- board: -- you always buy them fresh. Some families use vege- table shortening in-place of lard, but this causes head shakings and dubious looks from others. You just don't tamper with great- great - grandmother Catherine's recipe! Legal Loopholes Trick Justice An. assize judge in England wondered recently whether he could accept a naked footprint as evidence against an alleged bare-footed burglar. In giving evidence on footprints and finger- prints, a Scotland Yard expert mentioned that in twenty-eight years he had examined millions of fingerprints never to find two the same--and then the defence counsel leaped up. They pointed out that if the detective had examined only a million prints he would have had to look at twenty an hour every single working day for twenty- eight years -- and millions of prints involved obviously double this task. Though the burglar was con- victed on other grounds, legal loopholes often trick justice, Con- victed of house - breaking, one crook won an appeal because a window was open. He pointed out that he didn't have to break anything to get in. An embezzler made a get-away from England and escaped : to Australia. Detectives traced him and the Home Office began ex- . tradition proceedings. But the man's lawyers pointed out to an Australian magistrate that a per- son to be extradited must be liable to the death penalty or imprisonment with 'hard labor-- and Britain abolished imprison- ment - with hard labor in 1948. On this technical point the man was, released. In West Germany an admitted member of a smuggling gang shot and killed a man standing"in a doorway in East Germany. Ac- cused of the shooting in Germany, he was able to prove that the killing occurred in East Germany. where he had never been. When the East German police tried to extradite him as a fugl- tive from justice, he successiully claimed thal he couldn't be a fugitive since he had never been in East Germany. But the West imprisoned him for a maximum term on a charge of using a weapon with intent to kill. Even a schoolboy startled a juvenile court recently by hls astute defence on "a legal loop- hole. Knowing children to be instinctively honest, the owner of a sweetshop kept penny twists of sweets beside a box with the notice, "Take one and drop a penny in the slot." Carefully every day the boy put a penny in the slot, but the coin was fastened to a piece of thread with which he whisked it out again. "The notice tells you to drop a penny in the slot," he declared. "It doesn't say any- thing about leaving it there!" IT'S EASY A Usually you can tell, by look- ing at a girl, what kind of past she is going to have. West Germain "authorities successfully ~ around his BY REV R BARCLAY WARREN, B.A. B.D, 4 KEL. . The Way of Christian Love 1 Corinthians 13 Memorial Selection -- Now abldeth faith, hope, charity, these three: but the greatest of these 1s charity. 13:13. One-js always humbled whea he reads the thirteenth chapte of First Corinthians, Paul Hymn of Love searches tht heart. The Greek word hert translated 'charity' is usually translated 'love'. And it is lov in its most exalted form. Ex ample --"God is love'. 1 Johx- 4:16. It is the love called for ia the great commandment, 'Thoy shalt love', No wonder we long for the answering of Paul's prayer in our behalf: 'And this I pray, that your love may abound more and more'. Philip. plans 1:9. To spepgk with the combined eloquence of men and ange to be able to foretell the future] to . have not only all hum knowledge, but also secrets God; to have absolute faith = as to move mountains; to give all, even one's life; all this with. out love is nothing. On the positive side, ir Mot. fatt's translation: 'Love is very patient, very kind. Love know no jealousy; love makes n{ parade, gives itself no airs, § never rude, never selfish, nevet irriated, never resentful; love never glad when other go wrong love is gladdened by goodne always slow to expose, alway] eager to believe the best, ale ways hopeful, always patient'. If ever mankind needed ( baptism of love, it is today. Ouf store of hydrogen bombs, out United Nations (or should w{ say, Disunited Nations), ouf alliances, our diplomacy; thes( will not dissolve the hates, allay the fears, remove the suspiciong and save us from destruction We need Jesus Christ. Only af we repent of our sins -and be- lleve on Him, shall we receivq this love which is the very nat. ure of God. 'God so loved thal he gave his only begotter "Son . .. !' John 3:16. May wi believe on Him. BLACK CAT TURNS WHITE James W. Wright had a jel black Persian cat. Old Tab wa( always giving trouble trying § get at the canary. One day, while the cat was figuring ouf a new approach, the bird cagt fell, striking the uoor with 3 _loud clatter and rolling around .. noisily. The frightened caf ducked for cover. Old Tab disappeared for ovet 24 hours, When he finally shows ed again, there was a white ri neck. Wright sa that the ring has spread now until only the cat's tall remalm black. Some scare! - Upsidedown to Prevent' Peeking 1 3 pb) a v 3 qQ wire li LO Wu) Wi--i Zor { | MINIATURE PAINTER -- Only three fe Ratoucheff is definitely a climber In the art world. The Russian. born artist uses a stepladder to overcome the limitations of hia height while painting pictures often taller than he is, , Fon ' : : - A 3 et tall, Andres Nicholas 1 Corinthlasg