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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Seaforth News, 1959-10-29, Page 3Ni b' pi MW© ©qe❑ ®0®' 00f©Y I000q00Jd MOZNOUMEIWIND ompavunwlym Mn0©m'mum aing o©©©o® o©oo© Romantic Heiress Forfeited Millions Naughty, beautiful, impetuous, Lady Jane Ellenborough found herself lighting the candles of her own birthday cake, politely applauded by only her serv'ants.. Her husband had forgotten her eighteenth birthday, but Lady. Jane had no intention of becom-, ing a neglected wife. Heiress to one of the richest estates in Norfolk, her grand- father was squire of stately Holkham Hall, and Jane was be- coming aware that handsome Lord Ellenborough had married her only for her money. But when she found he had still not disengaged himself from the af- fections of other Women, she refused to play second fiddle. Jane celebrated her nineteenth birthday in a secret hide-out she had daringly established for her self in London, But as she blew out the candles on her birthday cake, a lover's arms romantical- ly clasped her in the dusk and she shared her cake with dashing Prince Felix Schwarzenberg. Ile was the first secretary of the Austrian Embassy in Lon- don, and Jane wistfully reflect- ed' that it served her husband right. She had been prepared to love Ellenborough, but now her heart was altogether conquered by the handsome Austrian. There were idyllic week -ends in a ho- tel at Brighton, and a Peeping 'Tom waiter rapidly spied out sufficient evidence for divorce. In those days - at the outset of Queen Victoria's reign a marriage could be dissolved only by Act of Parliament and it cost Lord Allenborough thousands of pounds to win his divorce. But Jane Ellenborough proud- ly arranged through lawyers to pay over £25,000 as her share of expenses. The money was scarcely jingling in Ellenbor- ough's pocket before she arrived in Paris on Prince Felix's arm. She had borne him a child and was passionately convinced thet he offered her lifelong happi- ness. Unluckily, Felix had his scruples about marrying a di- vorcee and there were admit- tedly certain diplomatic social engagements from which Jane had to be barred. Once more Jane imperiously decided that she could not consent to play second fiddle to a man. One evening, at a ball, Felix chanced to ignore his lady and danced a Bavarian waltz, then all the rage, with another part- ner. "I'll give him Bavarian waltzes!" Jane apparently sum- med up the situation. And be- fore the Prince could make am- ends, she had stowed her chief possessions aboard her satin - padded travelling coach and de- parted - for Bavaria A famed connoisseur of beau- ty, King Ludwig of Bavaria de- voted an entire art gallery to his collection of portraits of lovely women. Jane realized that her presence in the collection would ensure her publicity and perhaps elicit a suitable husband. Sure enough, a young Bavarian, Baron Herbert Vennigen, was soon lay- ing his heart at her feet. And once again Jane fell in love, with all the helpless ardour' of her adventurous soul, The Baron was untroubled by the scruples against marriage that the Prince had so annoyingly shown. Indeed, he begged the King to intercede for his at the Vatican to ensure that marriage . to Jane would be in order. Under the blue skies of Italy, the couple duly honeymooned and Jane wrote home in rapture to her worried relatives in Eng- land. Yet even thia union was des- tined to end dramatically. Per- haps the Baron was too domest'i- eated for Jane's wild and restless tastes, He believed rnr settling his wife down with a;: baby a year while Jane's iihegiit"atiou dwelt on distant e onsi3 far from the nursery. - The wish brought fulfilment. At a court ball she meta swag- gering, good - looking young Creek, Count Spyridon Theoto- ky. While her husband Immers- ed himself in business affairs, Jane found the Count a flattering riding companion . and one day, in a forest glade, she found herself surrendering in his arms. But the Baron was Jane's lawful husband and he was not a man to surrender a prize with- out a struggle, As soon as he discovered the truth, he chal- lenged Theotoky to a duet Pistols were cnosen and two postillions acted as seconds. At the exchange of shots Theotoky fell, his breast streaming red. A horrified watcher, Jane ran forward and, supported him In her arms. - only to hear Theo- toky swearing, as if with his dy- ing breath, that he was complete- ly, innocent, Overcome with contrition, Baron Vennigen took the Greek home and allowed his wife to. nurse him back to health. Many were the secret embraces •that nurse and patient exchanged,. The time came, however, when Jane had to choose between her stolid husband and her conspir- ing lover. Again the illicit won. _ Jane was to remain in affection- ate correspondence with her hus- band for the rest of her life., Yet she left him and returned to Paris with Theotoky. They, lived together as man and wife and raised children whom Jane adored. Then, as pas- sions cooled, -they separated and lived apart. To Jane's family in England this wasthe last straw. So far in her career family fortunes. had supported her through every whim, But now she was told bluntly that any further excur- sions into romance would see her disinherited. The future price of romance to Jane, in fact, would be over £ 1,000,000. Jane seems to have taken the warning seriously. She was now in her forties:. it was time to think of settling down. But as a last fling she decided to visit Damascus. 'She went to Syria and found it necessary to arrange a camel caravan across the desert. In con- trol of this traffic was an Arab camel -driver who had enriched himself and was dubbed the Sheikh Abdul El Mezrab. The arrangements were made. The dark -eyed Arab. and the beauti- ful Englishwoman set off into the desert, They had not travel- led many miles when both real- ized they were in love. In a black Bedouin tent, un- der the rich stars, Jane told' her- self that at last she had reached. her journey's end. It was to cost her her -inheritance, but a man wno had begun life as a shepherd . boy, who could ride fast as the wind yet could not use a knife and fork, this was the man in her life! • She became Abdul's wife ac- cording to Mohammedan law and was to spend fifteen years with. him in the desert. Visiting her some years later, a British explorer found her washing her husband's feet, and' glorying in it, the proud, de- fiant woman who had thought to be second fiddle to no man. Drive Vint!) (are C OSSWO D PUZZLE 5. BOY 28. Owns 6. Pronoun 29. insane 7. Cozy retreats 11. Office waiter 8. Enact 02. Beat 0. Indulge 30. Dented 10, Employ 30. Gibbon 11. Pltcelilce fish 37. Out of breath ACROSS 62. Corrode 10. Toy 30. Engine 1, Young 53. Ballast of a • 15. Rhythm In 40. Nourished socialite fab). railroad verse 42. hollow 4, Stone 54. Moves quickly 20. Small swallow 43. T3aked 0. Breed of dog 55. Stain 21. Begin confection DOWN 22. General - 44. Lump 1. Millpond meaning 45. Frult drink 2. Rather than 23, Slicceseful 46. Soak up 8. Struck with n)aY 47. Ballad force slang) 25. bind of duck 40. Fr. summer 4, Run a vay 20. Small rock 51. Thus 13. Tardier 14. Third king of Judah 15. Fused 17. June, July and Almost 10. Drive slanttngly 20. Precipitous 21. Short distance 23. Belonging to him 24. English river 27, Spread 28, Wrult of the rose 20. Worth 80. Artlole 81. Feline 82, Active hostility 83, Carry out 84.5rovee on Wheels RB, Cover 107. Sinai! tumor 88. Forest growth 80. Laborer 40, Conflagration 41. Zeal 43. Mental perceptlen 44. Material ter platpacking. 8, Coliundrultt 8. poem b inautstttvety IL 2 4 7 12 13 15 16 n v,^9• 0a1;4 10 I I 19 20 :C 21 22 27 28 30 34 36 23 29. 24 25 26 32 30 39 ita 45 44 49 53 41 42 50 54 36 40, 51 3 33 52 65 47 48 Answer elsewhere. on this page SUBSTITUTE HAND - Although he has only one hand, Gene Henderson Jr., is an ardent handball enthusiast. A,A.U. offi- cials granted him. permission to play in tournaments with a piece of steel covered, with foam rubber and mitt as a left hand.' TIIEFARM FRONT Jahr People w h o don't 11 v e on farms - and some who do - only occasionally become aware of how diverse and fascinating the world of agriculture is, and how important. Sometimes.' globe -shaking events have to• happen to jar us awake about what is going on 'around us. It was the September visit of Soviet Premier' Nikita S. Khrushchev to the Agriculture Department research .f arm at Beltsville, Md., for instance, which triggered a report from the department summarizing the achievements of Ainerican farmers. 4, 0 0 Using fewer acres'and a third fewer farm workers, reported the 'Department of Agriculture to Mr. Khrushchev, over-all American farm production has increased by about half in the last 20 years. * * * Farmers have almost doubled the production of wheat on about the' same acreage. They have harvested 47 per cent; more corn on 15 million fewer acres. They have 'doubled preduetion of cattle and calves. They have grown nearly 98 per cent more wheat on about the same acre- age as 20 years ago. They have fattened about 9 per cent more hogs. Their 20,500,000 dairy cows each average 6,300 pounds of milk . a year, compared with 23,800,000 cows which in 1939 'each averaged only 4,589 pounds. Although the national popula- tion 'has. increased about a .third during this period, Americans haven't yet managed to eat their way through all.this abundance, to sell it, . or even to give it away. But they are working at it. * * * The farmers who have raised their productive achievements to these new heights are differ- ent from the farmers of 20 years ago, The modern farmer has be- come the man "in gray flannels rather than the shining blue serge of yesterday," Dr. William G. Mather, head of the Depart- ment of Sociology and Anthro- pology, Pennsylvania State Uni- versity, has said. This farmer, who "used to be afraid of government," said Dr. Mather, "uses government now as a tool, as a means to his various ends. .A few farmers m a y protest at government price supports for farm commo- dities, but the farm -belt legis- .lators that vote 6for them are • re-elected." 0. * * . Farmers, of course, do not claim all the credit for their record breaking production. They recognize that, as the De- partment of Agriculture inform- ed Mr. Khrushchev, much of the credit must go to "combined results of research by industry. and state and 'federal govern- ments, the production byindus- try of the tools and materials to put research to :works 'the educational system, and" `here the farmer modestly takes his bow -"greater labor efficicency in agriculture." * * * The astounding directions which research is taking can only be hinted at. We've hardly heard anything yet of things In store' for coming .generations. Here's one example pulled out of the research hat: A possible new source of food for hunger- ing millions may open as the result of a recent experiment at the California Institute of Technology. ' Technology s,c i en tis i s have found a way of growing winter grains in tropics which have no winter. Their announcement disclosed that winter rye plants have been made to produce grain without the benefit of winter and in a third of the normal time, by using a spray of gibberellin; described as a hormone that plants secrete to induce stem growth. They be- lieve that barley, wheat, and other winter grains would re- spond the same way as rye has, writes Helen Henley in the Christian Science Monitor. 4. Y e t despite glowing reports of progress in most aspects of agriculture, one problem stead- ily continues unsolved: Farmers' income has not kept pace with their expenses. During the first three-quar- ters o4 1959, estimated net farm income was 12 per cent lower than in the same period in 1958 - although it was 41/2 per cent higher than in 1957, according to the. Agricultural Marketing Service. At the same time, farm - operating costs were reported as Substantially above those of a year ago. If Americans :are smart enough to develop a way to grow win- ter grains without winter, why can't they find a way for farm- ers to earn a profit without all-out government support? Some farmers, of course, have no qualms about seeking goy- ernment subsidy which they consider similar to subsidies given other groups. But, victim- ized by a prolonged cost -price - squeeze situation, many farmers who prefer to be independent have been forced by economic, pressures to accept government aid to survive, Unless a way is found soon to change the trend, farmers may all - the enterprising and the inefficient together - become less and less their own bosses and more and more wards of government. Do Americans really want it that way? - Helen Henley. Ceir Drivers! As Americans, we have a national pride in our efforts and accomplishments. We are proud, not arrogant, we enjoy.competi- tion and like to do things well. These comments of self-esteem are not intended to be ostenta- tious, but only to emphasize i conspicuous exception to theTe rule. It is difficult to aceount" for our poor driving with its shameful sonsequences. Occa- sionally there are signs of minor improvement, but the records remain shocking and disturbing to the public. The problem war- rants rigorous, inflexible war- rective measures, and the end of our prolonged tolerance of this national humiliation. With constant effort, qualified personnel, boundless laws and regulations, good roads and goud cars, the problem of poor driv- ing remains an enigma. It war- rants a serious examination of our procedure. We need to fundamentally change the attitude of the driv- ing public, but not with erratic, so-called "crackdowns." Obviously, the tnree agencies now principally concerned in the issuance of driving licenses and assurance of their proper use or revocation are the state licens- ing commissioner. the police and the courts. They are the consti- tuted authorities and must nec- essarily work in unison, with a mutual and sympathetic un- derstanding of their cohesive efforts. There are few attainments in this country that are more eager- ly desired or sought after than car ownership and an 'operator's license, but, on the contrary, once they are acquired, there. is nothing more readily abused. It is in these areas that we might well strengthen our efforts to improve our driving and gain a much-needed public support. There should be no necessity for a ridiculous or domineering degree of enforcement. It would ' not meet with public acceptance. Driving can be made safe and efficient without unnecessary imposition only when we re- move the bandits from the high- way. If we seriously consider the full consequences of bad driv- ing, our efforts and zeal in re- stricting poor driving bear ,lit- tle comparison to the determin- ation and perseverance charac- teristic of other law enforcement agencies. An unwavering attitude to re- voke the privilege of driving as readily as we grant It will cre- ate an upsurge of better driv- ing and essential public support. -Col. Robert C. F. Goetz in Traffic Quarterly "Man wanted to retail par- rots," said a sign in pet shop window. "Are you looking for a job?" the manager asked a man who ,was standing looking at it. "Oh no," said the man. "I was wondering how the parrots came to lose their tails in :the first place!" UNMY SCII.00I LESSON ttev. ft Barclay Warren, U.A._ B.D. Christian Fellowship in Action Acts 4^,32.37; 5412.16, i Memory Selection: The multi- tude of them that believed were of one heart and of one soul: neither said any of them that Ought of the things which Ise possessed were his own; but they had all things common, Acts, 4:32. The sharing among the early disciples was not an experi- ment in Communism as some have suggested. Communism denies the existence of God. Moreover, while only a very small percentages of the people in any Communistic county belong to the party, their will is imposed upon all the peo- ple for materialistic ends. My friend, Dr. Mary Tenney, writ- ing in Arnold's Commentary, says, "The 1, -mediate cause o1 the disciples' sharing was their complete agreement concern- ing the paramount value of spiritual interests. They attend- ed to physical needs because they were spiritually minded. Illeere were many in need, es - elegy those who were tem- .i3oraiely in Jerusalem So men litre Barnabas hastened to serve that need. His generosity is a striking example of what should happen in any Christian fel- lowship, The wealthy man dis- covers how relatively unim- portant his possessions are and how deeply he loves everyone in the fellowship. Of course, he cannot stand to see another in want. He responds not to a theory of communism, but to his personal feeling of com- passion and his personal faith in the Eternal." The sin .of Ananias and Sap- phira was like that of many professing Christians: dishonest pretense to adopting a pattern which seemed at the moment to be popular. They had neither personal conviction not love for others. Apparently they mere- ly wanted to go along with the crowd. They wanted social ac- ceptance. Why anyone would want to join an all -out -for - Christ movement hypocritically is a conundrum, but one sees it happening occasionally. Their sudden death shows how God views hypocrisy. The apostles had the gift of healing. "There came also a multitude out of the cities round about Jerusalem, bring- ing sick folks, and them which were vexed with unclean spirits: and they were healed, every one." The healing of the body is not as important as the healing of the soul. The body is going back to the dust In spite of medicine and prayer. The soul will go back to God who gave it. Nevertheless, miracles of healing are an im- portant sign to any generation. A young thing was driving her car when something went wrong with the engine. The traffic light changed from green to red and back to green, but still she could not get the car to budge. A policeman strolled up. "What's the matter, miss?" he inquired, gently. "Haven't you seen any colours you like yet?" Upsidedown to Prevent Peeking ISSUE 43 - 1959 Soviet Premier Khru hchev arrives in U.S. 'for 11 -day visit. 1tT6M8.0R 27, Typhoon Vera ,nt�(ts central Japan, laming ncounted'thousonds dead and injured. President Eisenhower, after talks with Khrushchev, announces Berlin deadlock is broken, now favors Summit conference. Russia successfully launches rocket to the moon. ji ;;501 i:lvlBg,1z4 s }pn,1;gA4utg ugg LA, Dodgers defeat Milwaukee in playoff to win National League pennant, will meat Chicago White Sox in World Series. I r115(vl.l ti!{7t 613 die over Labor Day weekend; 438 in traffic. i6JB,ER 24k Airliner b!ows in air near Weco, Tex„ killing 34. Laos appeals to. U.N. for aid against Communist rebellion. S11'TEMs U.N. votes to send fact-finding team. Hurricane Gracie, with 125-m. ,h. winds, hits Georgia and South • Carolina, NEWSMAP