The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, December 20, 1936, Page 30

Jacqueline of Holland—Part 111 ThiS MAQRIAGE (JACQUELINEY SECOND) - | MEANWHILE IN GERMANY, JOHN OF BAVARIA PLOTTED TO SEIZE JACQUELINES DUTCH POSSE SSIONS. BY SHREWDLY MARRYING ELIZABE™ OF LUXEMBLIRG,)NIECE OF SIGISMLIND, EMPEROR. OF GERMANY, JOHN STUPID AND WEAK-WILLED, HE WAS NOT A HUSBAND THAT THE INTELLIGENT, COURAGEOUS AND LIVELY YOUNG COUNTESS COULD LOVE OR REZP . FOILED N HIS ATTEMPT TO WREST CON- TROL OF HOLLAND FROM HIS NIECE, THE COUNTESS . ELINE, BY FORCE, JoHN OF BAVARIA NDED THAT HE BE APPOINTED REGENT FOR THE - GIRL,WHO WAS ONLY EIGHTEEN =~ To THWART THIS MOVE JACQUELING! ADVISERS INDUCED HER TO MARIY, THE YOUNG DUKE OF BRABANT (1416) JACQUELINE'S LIFE AT THE COURT OF BRABANT WAS VERY UNHAPPY - THE YOUNG DUKE, A PETTY TYRANT, FORCED HIS \WIFE TO DISMISS HER FAITHFUL DUTCH WAITING'WOMEN AND SURROUND HERSELF WITH WOMEN OF BRABANT ....oocvueninn. ATTHE INSISTENCE OF THE SPIQITED LINE THE YOUNG DUKE RELUCT- BEST LANDS, JACQUELINE DECIDED TO LEAVE HER SLUGGARD HUSBAND. SECRETLY QUITTING BRABANT (1421), SHE SAILED FOR ENGLAND ,WHERE - SHE FOUND SHELTER AT THE COURT ....... TO BE CONTINUED. TO MAKE MATTERS WORSE THE DUKE OF BRABANT WAS SO STUPIR .AND WEAK AS TO BE HOODWINKED INTO - SIGNING A HUMILIATING TREA CEDING SOME OF JACQUELINE'S IN RETURN FOR SIGISMUNDS HE(P JOHN OF BAVARIA UNDERTOOK TO MAKE HOLLAND A FIEF ( FEUDAL DEPENDENCY) OF THE GERMAN EMPIRE. IN 1419 JoHN SEIZED THE CITY OF ROTTERDAM AND ASSLIMED THE TIILE OF CaJu:r OF HOLLAND +sree=e .NOCKING ON WOOPD----- THIS OLD SUPERSTITION : GOES BACK TO THE I ' OF REMOTE ANTIQUITY WHEN TI SREEKS BELIEVED THAT EVERY TREE WAS THE HOME OF A DRYAD, A Goop FAIRY WHO BROUGHT GOOD LUCK-! IT WAS CUSTOMARY FOR ANY- ONE ENJOYING SOME GOOD FORTUN TO KNOCK ON ATREE TO CALL THE DRYADS ATTENTION TO WIS APPRECIATION, SO THAT [if GOOD LUCK MIGHT CONTINUE- ........... s 7osey WAS COLLECTING GIANTS ~f .OQ CENTURIES THE PICTURESQUE-, FLAT- BOTTOMED SAMPAN ,W|TH ITS PRIMITIVE RUDDER AND QUAINT MATTING SAIL, HAS BEEN THE TYPICAL RIVER-BOAT OF OLD CHINA - THOUSANDS OF CHINESE FAMILIES MAKE THEIR HOMES ON SUCH BOATS AND SPEND PRACTICALLY THEIR WHOLE LIVES AFLOAT ............... .N ALBANIA MEN WEAR SKIRTS AND WOMEN WEAR . Ak Y g : o 5514 COMBED BUROPE-FOR MEN TROUSERS ./ : e PR GIANT \