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time she wished and publish it
to the world.
Taking advantage of the rule,
Victoria's grand-daughter, 82-
year-old Princess Marie Louise,
is now writing her ess iemags
raphy,
The first tape recording made
by a tiny Prince Charles; the
exquisite guide book of the
rcute that the Queen kept on her lap when she drove to the
Coronation; the Queen's own
amateur movie record of her
family :theseare some of the
many treasures stored up for the
fature in the royal archives,
A selection of newspaper
photographs is sent to Bucking-
ham Palace each day and, of
course, the Windsor hoard also
includes a full. run of the Court
Circular, This terse and digni-
fied chronicle of the movements
and engagements of the Royal
Family dates back to 1794.
Throughout this century it has
been published daily and has
been called .the most exclusive
news-sheet in the world.
On one occasion, it gave Fleet
Street a surprise when it was
issued with nothing but a six-
word mention of one man. On
January 1st, 1937, Court gossips
read with surprise the brief
announcement, "Mr. A r thu r
Penn has left Sandringham."
But who was Mr. Arthur Penn
—and why should he enjoy a
Court Circular all to himself?
Worried editors did not know.
The great newspaper libraries
of press clippings revealed only
that Mr. Penn had been sum-
moned for an alleged motoring
infringement some five years
before—at his own request. And
the case had been dismissed.
But Mr. Penn proved to be a
middle - aged City bill - broker
who had never married. He had
enjoyed the friendship of the
present Queen Mother since be-
fore her marriage. When she
became Queen, "Arthur" was in-
vited to Sandringham for Christ-
mas`—and the Court Circular was
devoted to him as a truly royal
gesture of friendship.
Shy Mr. Penn has never since
appeared in print, But one day
scholars will find his name and
allot him his own small part in
history, thanks to the royal
archives.
LOVELY DISH — Serving up salad is 18-year-old' Donna Schur',
prettiest waitress in Cailfornia. Despite the fact that she was
named "Miss California -of 1955" she continues to wait on
tables at Knott's Berry Farm. Her contest-winning statistics:
36-24-35.
2 cups light cream
1 teaspoon vanilla
Pinch ealt
aS. cup chopped nuts (optional)
Combine all ingredients ex-
cept nuts and mix thoroughly,
Pour into refrigerator tray and
place in freezing compartment
with temperature set at coldest
point. When partially frozen.
transfer to bowl and beat until
smooth. Add nuts. Return to
'tray and freeze until firm (3-4
hours). Serves 6. *
PEPPERMINT STICK
CANDY ICE CREAM
envelope unflavored gelatin
cup cold milk
lys cups scalded milk (not
boiled
1 pint cream, whipped
la teaspoon salt
1 cup (IS pound) pepper-
mint stick candy
Scald the lac cups milk.
Soften gelatin in the xle cup cold
milk. Add to scalded milk and
stir until thoroughly dissolved.
Crush peppermint candy and
add to milk mixture; add salt.
Stir to dissolve candy; cool.
Whip cream and add the milk'
candy mixture, Freeze, stirring
every 30 minutes, until mixture
holds its shape. Serves 6. * *
Top this pineapple sherbet
with a mixture of crushed pine-
apple, orange, and grapefruit
sections and minced raw apple
for a new dessert.
PINEAPPLE SHERBET
SUPREME
2 cups milk
1 cup sugar
11/s cups pine apple juice
Combine milk and sugar and
freeze to mush. In another tray,
freeze pineapple juice. Beat
milk-sugar mixture smooth. Add
mushy fruit juice. Mix well and
return to freezer.
Record. Price Offered For
Royal Fiction
Although ice cream and fruit
ices have a history going away
back to the days of Alexander
the Great and the ,Ernperor
nero, it was only 150 years ago
that a woman invented the
land-cranked freezer with re-
any paddles and so stimulated
Vie manufeeture of ice cream in
:large quantities.
Today, of course, ice cream
way be bought almost any-
'where and -.-- what is more im-
portant — may be 'made In al-
*lest any refrigerator. And here
ere some fine recipes that you
might like to try in yeurs,
*
BANANA TOASTED
COCONUT ICE CREAM
1 cup mashed bananas
(2-3 ripe bananas)
2 teaspoons lemon juice
Ye cup sugar
N teaspoon salt
isa cup milk
1 cup whipping cream
2 egg whites, stiffly beaten
2 egg yolks, well beaten
1 teaspoon vanilla
la cup shredded Coconut,
toasted
Mix together bananas and
lemon juice. Add sugar salt,
and milk, stirring until well
blended. Whip cream until
thickened but not stiff. Fold
egg whites, yolks, cream, and
vanilla into the banana mixture.
Turn into freezing 'tray; set can-
StroIs at coldest freezing tam-
ature. Freeze until mixture
Ids its shape, stirring every
O minutes. Add toasted coconut ttetng flnalastirring. Freeze un-
cess. Margaret's short stories is
likely to be published in her life-
time.
These days she contents her-
self with crosswords, recently
winning Crossword 1266 in the
magazine 'Country Life' Even
the correspondence offering her
the prize of three guineas' worth
of books is to be tucked away
in the royal archives.
Here, too, is a fairy play youth-
fully written by our Queen and
—a genuine literary treasure —
the manuscript in the Queen's
hand of the "Account of the
Coronation" which she wrote in
1937 for her own parents: .
Ferhaps you'd like to try tt
41a*rbet-like dessert, flavored
-Oh marshmallows and orange
lake. riis recipe serves e-8.
ORANGE LACE
ait marshmallows
44 cap milk'
1 teaspoon vanilla
• pint heavy cream, whipped
1 six-ounce can concentrated
orange juice frozen to firm
mush
Combine marshmallows and
milk in saucepan and place
over low heat, folding until
gompletely smooth. Cool. Fold
'parshmallow mixture int o
whipped cream; add vanilla.
Place in freezing tray and
freeze until very firm. While
OM in tray, break up mixture
with spoon. Fold in 1/2 of frozen
venge juice to create a marble-
led texture. Pour remaining
mange juice over top. Continue
to freeze until very firm.• * *
TAFFY ICE CREAM
eggs beaten
• etip molasses
alma
"NESTING-HOUSE?" — A family of birds has set up house-
keeping by building a nest (arrow) in the "e" of the large
"Westinghouse" sign on the company's office building in Sharon,
Pa. Through a bit of tricky picture-cropping, the photographer
suggests that the 'birds must have mis-read the sign and thought
they were establishing their home) in an authorized "nesting"
area.
Shrimp Boat
A'Comin' To -
Find Sunken Ship
An attempt is being made this
summer to find the remains of
the Santa Maria, flagship of the
tiny fleet of Columbus when, in
1492, he discovered the New
World.
It is believed by an American,
Mr. Edwin A. Link, that the
wreck of the Santa Maria lies
deep beneath the waves on
Lemonade Reef, off the north
of Haiti.
He thinks the wooden hull will
have disappeared after the lapse
of nearly 500 years, bet that the
"great explorer's swords, cannon
and the ship's anchors—one of
which is already believed to have
been recovered—may be found.
They would be priceless historic
relics.
A London firm is supplying
important equipment for the
search, it is reported. Mr. Link
and his wife are both fully ex-
perienced divers. In a converted
shrimp boat fitted with 100,000
dollars' worth of electronic
equipment, including an echo-
sounder, they hope before the
autumn to locate what remains
of the Santa Maria.
Six scientists and two natives
from the British Bahamas are
accompanying the expedition.
MERRY MENAGERIE Took 41/4 Tons To
Burst Tennis Ball
Before last month's Wimbledon
Lawn Tennis Championships the
tennis balls were put in a re-
frigerator so that they would all
go into play at the same com-
paratively cool temperature,
First-class tennis balls, stitch-
less, will stand amazing tests.
One such ball, compressed grad-
ually from under 501b. to 3001b.,
'did not "give" anywhere.
It took four-and-a-half tons,
with the ball squeezed to a thick-
ness of three-eighths of art inch,
before a burst occurred.
Experiments have been made
with bright, red tennis balls in
Rhodesia. Eight crack players
reported favourably on them,
Spectators said they could -fol-
low the ball against any back-
ground.
Owing to the fact that the
Southern Rhodesian plateau is
More than 4,000 feet above sea
level, special bare must be taken
to choose tennis balls of the
right weight when important
games are played. They niuet be
at the correct pressure for local
conditions''.
"At 5 o'clock in the morning
I was woken up by the band of
the ROyal Marines striking up
just outside my window. I leapt
out of bed . . . and crouched
in the window looking on- to a
cold; misty morning. There were
already some people in the
stands and all the time people
were coming to their in, a stream
... Every now and then We were
hopping out of bed looking at
the bands and the soldiers. . .
Filling a ruled exercise book
it is a charming document and
a remarkable achievement for a
child of eleven. Every evening,
too, no matter how tired she
.a-feels, the Queen nnlocks her blue
morocco-bound diary and enters
up the day's events.
With their set of gold keys,
her father's own carefully writ-
ten journals were only recently
moved to Windsor. On the slid-
ves the bulky journals of George
V, also, fill over 'twenty-five
large volumes. The full run in-
cludes a pocket engagement book
he kept for three days as a bey
of thirteen and a final pathetic
entry by Queen Mary:
"My dearest husband was much
distressed at the bad writing
above and begged me to Write
his diary for him . ."
Then there is the" precious
manuscript of queen Victoria's
"Satrital of our Life in the High-
lands" and of the sequel, "Mere
Leaves ftern the Journal
These to books were published
in her
w
Meta-tie. When Charles
Dickens gave a Set of his books
to the Queen, She pretented him
with a set of here.
To-day they preeide the Starts'
ing' precedent that our present
Queen; cetild Write a book at any
When the heirs of Sir William
Jenner, the Court physician,
went through their family pa-
pers recently they found valu-
able letters from Queen Victoria,
the Empress of Germany and
other notabilities, which they
decided to place in the sale-
room. But as soon as our present
Queen heard of their intention,
she asked if she could see the
letters with a view to buying
them in.
It would never do, royal ad-
visers decided, for auction bids
to be offered for the complaints
of tummyache and other ail-
ments that Queen Victoria sent
to her doctor.
In the Norman Tower at Wind-
sor Castle are stored thousands
of letters, diaries and other
documents discreetly bought in
over recent years. With royal
journals an d correspondence,
Palace memoranda and even
quaint albums of old-fa'shioned
photographs, they form the Royal
Archives, the best-guarded col-
lection of family documents —
and family secrets—in the world.
Few people realize that nearly
every scrap of paper that crosses
the Queen's desk is carefully
stored for posterity. If the Queen
grants an audience or appoints
a new bishop, a record of the
occasion is carefully filed away
by the indefatigable Miss Mary
Mackenzie, registrar of the arch-
ives.
Bound in strict chronological
order are all the personal letters
of the Royal Family. In labelled
canvas-Jeoxes is the official cor-
respondence. But equally impor-
tant to future historians are
everybody family trivialities —
picture postcards that. Princess
Alexandra of Kent sent to her
uncle, George VI, from the sea-
side; charming water - colours
that our present Queen painted
In her teens; fashion sketches
drawn by Princess Margaret.
Only recently a New York
publisher is said to have offered
a quarter-million dollars for one
of Prin6ss Margaret's short
stories. These were stories writ-
ten for amusement in her early
girlhood, all with happy endings
for the fairy-tale princess she
was to become.
A repeated theme was all about
a princess who lived in five
castles but wanted to settle down
to love in a cottage.
The fee offered is a world re-
cord—representing $300 a word
for a royal daydream — but,
needless to say, none of Prin-
"One consolation: we don't have
to give them a two o'clock
bottle!"
SPITTING IMAGE'— Don't let the
Ole modestly lowered lashes
esnd simpering smile fool you,
The grin's built-in on this camel
of the London, England, zoo,
rand the demure, almost bash-
'firt look is designed to lure you
'within spitting distance Then-
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acquaintances, as he advances
through life, he will soon find
himself left aloee. A than, Sir,
should keep his friendship in
constant repair,
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hope: that the trnaller thentbers of the titbit-fry set` will pick
op at leartiiiitt while of play Oh ,His nursery block obstacle'
course In One of the roold, Fashioned cohcreid, the huge play
thitiaa attract youngsters Who have fired: of' the 'Latta
exercite beet dhd swings.
The glory of the fernier is
that, its the division of labors, it,
it his pert to create. All trade
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TABLE TALKS
dam Andvews, Watehers, >Ie surfaced again
and forged slowly, otroke loy
wearying *coke, towards the
wrecked bulk on the rocks.
Twenty times in every min-
ute it seemed he would be
sucked down and drowned or
smashed against the 'granite
crags,
He was too far off now from
the launch for any tug on the
line to jerk him free from in-
stant peril, All held their
breath until when it seemed the
fonlhardy hero, was lost, an arm
shot out of the waves, gained a
grip on the wrecked forepart
of the ship and the swimmer
pulled himself tip to the smash-
ed deck.
He drew in a stouter life-line "
and one by one sent the final
survivors to safety in the se-
curity of the Motor launch.
Checking again that none re-
mained alive aboard the Hong
Moh, he leapt off the deck and
was himself hauled back to the
waiting boat.
Dusk was now -falling and
from the cruiser sprang the
white shaft of a searchlight.
The last look-round was made.
Then peril pounced again,
The racing engine of the
launch suddenly seized. Imme-
diately she and all her crew
and the rescued were tossed
helplessly in the rip and rush
of the tides.
A wave rushed her sideways
until it seemed 41 would
smash against the rearing hull
of the wrecked Hong Moh.
A loose rope adrift from the
wreck had caught in the
launch's propeller shaft — split
tight — and made the craft as
unmanageable as a straw-in, a
wind. And now both rescuers
as well as rescued were in even.
greater danger of drowning
than at any moment before.
The man who had swum to
the wreck now slid once again
over the side of the launch in-
to the ice-cold sea and began
grappling with twisted strands.
The job had to be done under ,
water. Time after time he rose
gasping to the surface for a
fresh lungful of air — then
down again.
Twenty times as the launch
crashed against the wreck the
man in the depths escaped be-
ing crushed as well as drowned
only by a miracle. Yet even his
gallvit strength had to fail.
Before the shaft was freed he
had to be hauled back into the
launch. But immediately Able
Seaman Albert Whitehead went
over to take on the task and
as his, hands numbed to un-
feeling hooks' he tore off the
final clogging coil. The motor
coughed to life as his mates
heaved him back to safety.
The rescue was complete; 226
of the 1,100 lost souls of the
Hong Moh had been saved.
Yet the strangest part of the
story was still to come. For
when the captain's official re-
port was written there was no
mention of the name of the he-
roic swimmer.
Admiral Bowden. Smith, the
Commodore of the China
Squadron sent for the captain
of Carlisle and questioned him.
Eventually, he added to his re-
port: "The man Who swam to
the Hong Moh and later helped
to free the fouled shaft' of the
launch was Captain E. R. G. R.
Evans."
It was his own name he had
written!
We know him better to-day
as Admiral Lord Mountevane,
K.C.B., D.S.O., LL.D. -- who
had already won, in 1917, fame
as "Evans of the Broke" for his
daring exploits, Lloyd's of Lon-
don issue few medals, 'but for
this deed in the China Seas in
1921 they awarded six Silver
Medals. And for Captain Evans.
the here who wouldn't name
himself, they created their first
Gold Medal for saving life at
sea.
SOS • SOS • .• • SOS • • .
Originating from Swatow, a
port on the China, coast, the
agonized appeal was directed to
Hong Kong, headquarters of
H.M. R oy a 1 Naval China.
Squadron. From the commo-
dore in command there a radio
signal flashed.
"Captain. HIV!. cruiser Car-
lisle, Steamer Hong Mob re-
ported ashore on Latnock Rocks,
40 miles east Swatoii. Wrecked
two days ago. Over 1,000 per-
sons aboard. Proceed at once to
assistance and report'!"
The captain of the Carlisle
was dressing for dinner as the
knock sounded on his door.
"Signal from Commodore,.
sir."
The captain read it and his
mouth tightened. "Acknowl-
edge this to Commodore," he
said, briefly, and as he spoke
pulled off his evening tie, . . .
The Carlisle pitched into the
storming sea for a night-long
run that brought her to the
Lamrock Rocks by dawn. H.M.
sloop Foxglove was standing
by.
From the cruiser's bridge the
scene looked desolate enough to
warrant every doubt that any
man or womzi\ could still re-
main alive aboard the stricken
Hong Moh.
Her back was broken. Her
forepart held jammed in the
ugly rocks, the afterpart sag-
ging away and washed with
every other wave of the grim
grey waters.
Yet human beings lived On
the wreck in spite of sixty
hours' attack by the relentless
sea. Their rescue 'was impera-
tive. But ships' boats could not
beat -the breakers ,and none
aboard the w r e c k seemed
strong enough to catch and hold
a line fired from sloop or
cruiser.
Over the side of the cruiser
were pit c he d two Carley
floats—Naval life-saving rafts—
that swept • with the tide to-
wards the wreck. One was
caught in a current to be
thrown up on the rocks. Then
the tense watchers saw, as the
other floated close to the Hong
Moh, desperate figures fling
themselves on to it: Eight Chi-
nese were hauled to safety.
Cheered by, their first suc-
cess, seamen were set to knock-
ing up empty 'rum casks into
makeshift, rescue rafts. In turn
these were sent afloat. Anxious
eyes watched them — and
groans mingled with oaths as
wind and waters caught the
casks and carried them far from
the castaways.,
Through the long day of try
and try again the efforts of the
men aboard Carlisle and Fox-
glove saved seventeen more
lives in twos and• threes. Then
the sloop had to make for port
because her coal stocks were
almost gone. •
"Wind's dropping, sir," said
an officer — and the captain of
Carlisle now ordered a motor
launch to be made ready.
"You'll be in charge of her,
Commander Tower. Take a cut-
ter and a Carley float in tow."
Masterly seamanship by
Commander Tower brought his
rescue fleet swinging in Under
the stern of the Hong Moh and
as ropes and hands kept con-
tact, the last Chinese left alive
on that part of the wreck were
saved.
But there were still the luck-
less survivors clinging to the
forepart. The launch could not
be manoeuvred near to there.
Then all aboard launch and
cutter gasped. One man was on
his feet— kicking off his sea
boots — ridding himself of his
coat — knotting a line under
his arms. Then he plunged in-
to that storming sea.
Instantly the tide-rip tore
him to one side. Then as he
swam against. its pull he va-
nished from the sight of the
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