The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 5, 1936, Page 10

HIGH LIGHTS OF HISTORY URING THE 15 ™ CENTURY WHILE JOAN OF ARC , THE AMOUS WARRIOR-PEASANT GIRL, WAS FIGHTING TO SAVE FRANCE, THERE LIWED IN HOLLAND ANOTHER FAMOUS WARRIOR-GIRL. , THE COUNTESS JACQUELINE - Jacqueline of Holland—Part I prs X ‘ TALL AND WELLFORMED, JAC- . QUELINE AT FIFTEEN \WAS AN EXPERT RIDER, SWORDSMAN AND ARCHER ~ IN TOURNEY OR HUNT THIS REMARKABLE MAID CouLD / HOLD HER OWN WITH ANY KNIGHT! DISAPPOINTED AT NOT HAVING A 5O0N, COUNT WiLLIAM OF HOLLAND, WHO RULED THE Low COUNTRIES FROM 1404 TO 1417, RAISED HIS DAUGHTER JACQUELINE AS A BOY ...... : .eu. PLEASED WITH HIS DAUGHTER'S SKILL IN MANLY SPORTS , THE COUNT WISHED HER TO LOOK AS MUCH LIKE A BOY AS POSSIBLE ..« BuT NATURE HAD OTHER PLANS' EVERY DAY JACQUELINE GREW JACQUELINE MORE BEAUTIFUL AND CHARMING. OF HOLLAND ... Y @ e BOYS CLOTHES SHE WORE ONLY MADE HER MORE ALLURING. | YOUNG NOBLES FLOCKED FROM NEAR AND FAR TO WOO HEQ -~ FINALLY THE KING OF FRANCE SOUGHT HER HAND FOR HIS SECOND SON, PRIMCE JEAN ....n..n TWO MONTHS AFTER HER MARRIAGE THE DAUPHIN (FRENCH CROWN DIED, AND JACQUEUNE'S HUSBAND BECAME HEIR-APPARENT TO THE FRENCH THRONEFE .......... IT SEEMED CERTAIN THAT ONE DAY JEAN AND JAC- QUELINE WOULD REIGN AS KiNG AND QUEEN. 1 s i . i & 1 3 &N DesPiTE HIS DESIRE TO KEEP HER AS A"SON’ COUNT WILLIAM COULD NOT PASS UP SUCH A BRILLIANT MATCH FOR HIS DAUGHTER “~AND SO IN 1415 AT THE AGE OF FIFTEEN JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND BECAME A PRINCESS OF FRANCE ......,... WOULD YOU BELIEVE 1T~ @+ LARGEST FLAG EVER FLOWN IN BATTLE WAS THE ONE THAT INSPIRED FRANCIS SCOTT KEY TO WRITE THE o 4 *STAR-SPANGLED BANNER ~~ » THE AMERICAN FLAG THAT FLOATED OVER THE RAMPARTS OF HISTORIC OLD FORT McHENRY IN BALTIMORE- DURING ITS BOMBARDMENT BY COCKRANES BruTiSH FLEET, SEPTEMBER 12-13, 1814, MEASURED 29 BY 36 FEET w== THE FLAG WAS MADE BY MRS. MARY PiCKERSGILL OF BALTIMORE AND HER TWO NIECES AND WAS SEWED TOGETHER IN A BREWERY .....ccoovevnine @ s wAS NOT TOBE ... Two YEARS LATER PRINCE JEAN FOLLOWED HIS ELDER BROTHER TO THE GRAVE, AND THE LOVELY JACQUELINE WAS LEFT AWIDOW @ ALL THE RAIN THAT FALLS IN A | S [ £ YEAR FELL AT ONE TIME-, IT WOULD : i T PR COVER THE ENTIRE- SURFACE OF THE —eke T = F FL!PTAT!ON 1S DERI\VEPD FROM THE FRENCH WORD B vy B 9 @ s staunci LITTLE sHIP OF 100 Tons, ) tHE DON DE Dieu (*GiFr oF Gor?), Semu'w‘:‘é’ BORE SAMUEL DE CHAMPLAIN, “ THE DAYS WHEN FATHER OF NEW FRANCE " To CANADA miwsu IN 1608 TO PLANT THE COLONY OF QUEBEC ROSES AND BLAZE THE TRAILS FOR THE ESTABLISH- TO ATTRACT THE- MENT OF A VAST FRENCH COLONIAL ATTENTION OF S GaALAMTY EMPIRE IN THE CANADIAN WILDEQNESS.