The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 9, 1937, Page 10

D e - By J. CARROLL MANSHELD FORSAKEN AND IMPOVERISHED, THE UNHAPPY COUNTESS RETIRED TO THE CASTLE OF GOES-~THE SIGHT OF A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN N SUICH DISTRESS STIRRED THE PITY OF THE NOBLE FRANCIS VAN BORSELEN, A DUTCHMAN OF THE "COD" FACTION WHOM PHiLIP HAD APPOINTED STADTHOLDER * (GOVERNOR-GENERAL) OF HOLLAND. @ e VEAR 1428 THE CounTess JACQUELINE GAVE UP THE LONG AND HOPELESS STRUGGLE TO SAVE HER DUTCH POSSESSIONS FROM THE CLUTCHING HANDS OF _ BURGUNDY AND SUBMITTED TO 4 THE OVERLORQDSHIP OF DUKE PHILIP. WA S ALLOWED TC RETAIN HER TITLE OF COUNTESS | OF HOLLAND, THOUGH IT WAS NOW AN EMPTY ESTRANGED HUSBAND, F THE DUKE OF BRABANT, DIED ABOUT THIS TIME- -~ AND PHILIP FORBADE JACQUELINE TO MARRY AGAIN WITHOLIT HIS CONSENT. PiTy RIPENED INTO LOVE. AT THE RISK OF HIS HIGH OFFICE AND EVEN OF HIS LIFE, VAN BORSELEN AIDED THE FAIR JACQUELINE WITH FUNDS AND MANY KINDNESSES . WON BY HIS TENDER SOLICITUDE, THE GRATEFUL (OUNTESS RETURNED VAN BORSELENY LOVE ............... THE couRAGEOUS COUNTESS DID NOT HESITATE, BUT SACRIFICED HER BIRTHRIGHT FOR LOVE ! TOUCHED BY SUCH DEVOTION, PHILIP AT ONCE RELEASED VAN BORSELEN,RESTORED HIM TO FAVOR AND CREATED HIM THOUGH AWARE OF THE DIRE CONSE- QUENCES IF SUCH AN ACT WAS Dis- COVERED, JACQUELINE AND THE STADTHOLDER \WERE SECRETLY MARRIED ----BUT,ALAS, SPIES LEARNED OF THE WEDDING AND BuRGUNDY. WRITTEN TO THE TURBULENT AND i DRAMATIC CAREER OF THE WAR- RIOR-COUNTESS JACQUELINE OF HOLLAND, WHO ENJOYED PEACEFUL SECLUSION AND DOMESBC Van BORSELEN WAS ARRESTED AND FLUNG INTO PRISON -~ TeN PriLiP OF DY INFORMED THE DISTRACTED BRIDE THAT SHE COULD SAVE HER HUS- BAND FROM THE HEADSMANT AXE ONLY BY RENOUNCING HEPQ TITLE AND ALL XS | @uriTANs OF CoLonIAL CONNECTICUT WERE SOMETIMES CALLED . > PUMPKINHEADS ~ / THE NAME ORQIGINATED FRQOM THE PREVAILING “PUMPKINHEAD ™ STYLE i. WAS OBTAINED BY " PLACING HALF A PUMPKIN SHELL ON THE HEAD LIKE A CAP AND CUTTING OFF ALL THE HAIR | THAT STUCK ouT § BENGATN rr PP TURKISH GALLEY OF THE 1677 CENTURY «:+-ecvevee A TYPICAL SHIP OF THE DAYS WHEN THE TURKISH FLEETS CLASHED WITH THOSE OF VENICE AND © SPAIN FOR SUPREMACY IN THE MEDITERRANEA CULMINATING IN THE DISASTROUS DEFEAT OF THE TURKS AT LEPANTO IN 1571 ..ccceee o n:m/qwsuua @\.oucH SITUATED FAR FROM THE SEA, MICHIGAN HAS THE LONGEST SHORE-LINE OF ANY _STATE IN THE UNITED STATES~/ TURNYS THE FRONT WHEELS MAKE A \WIDER ARC - @,;936,JGGH'?MMANJHELD waprasssm