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Golf Maxims-No. 1. "Keep Your Eye On The Ball”

One of the first principles of golf is to keep your eye on the ball. But it should be a clear oye, sparkling with health, for success at golf, just as in any other game, depends upon physical fitness,

Pinkettes, the dainty, pink laxative pilules, are a splendid aid to health. Taken when needed, they dispel con- stipation, stimulate the liver, improve the appetite, correct disordered diges- tion, ensure regularity of the daily habit. If you are 'topping' your drives. "fluffing your approaches, missing the putts that would make all the differ ence', see what a dose or two of Pinkettes will do to help correct the trouble. "At all chemists.

THE CHINA-MAIL, SEPTEMBER 29, 1939.

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WAS QUEEN ELIZABETH A MAN?

BY VINCENT TOWNE

Lorked in the depths of Queen Elizabeth's heart was a deep secret that no one could ever fathom. Var ious biographers have remarked upon her secretiveness, and upon the fact that she took very few people into her confidence.

She never married. Those who have written her history have ex- titude toward men. pressed their amazement at her at-

At various times. she averred that she would never marry. When only 15, and while being ardently courted by the Lord Admiral Seymour (who later wedded her stepmother, Queen Catherine to the possibility of her future mar-fess to death, and if it be so, it wils

ariage:*** if ever I should think of

"The Lad Was Dressed In The Princess' Clothes"

Parr), she wrote to that suitor letter, in which she stated in regard it (which I do not believe), you would be the first to whom I should make known my resolution." When she was 23, Giovanni Michiel, the Venetian Ambassador, wrote of her to the Doge of Venice: "She, I under- stand, having plainly said that she will not marry. even were they to give her the King's (Philip of Spain's) "son, or find any other great prince, I again respectfully remind your serenity to enjoin secrecy about this."

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Sne would not allow doctors to ex- amine her even when she was ill She looked upon them as a source of danger.

never be gotten unless by the King's Majesty, or else by your Grace.” There two attaches of the royal household were the only persons in whom she was ever known to confide. To the end of her days she was loyal to both of them. On her accession to the throne, she appointed Parry Controller of the Royal Household. She continued to shower honours upon both him and his daughter as long as they lived--con- duct," remarks the blographer, Strick- land, "which naturally induces the suspicion that secrets of great moment had been confided to him secrets that probably would have touched not only the maiden name of his royal mistress, but placed her life in jeopardy, and that he had preserved these inviolate. was a subject of The same may be supposed with res- comment. "The constitution of her pect to Mrs. Ashley, to whom Elizabeth mind is exempt from female weak-clung with unshaken tenacity, through ness, and she is endued with an every storm." After succeeding to the excellent power of application," her throne, Elizabeth knighted Parry. Dur- tutor, Roger Ascham, wrote of her ing Mra Ashley's last illness she was In a letter to the rector of Stras- honoured by personal attentions from bourg University, when she was 17. "In the whole manier of her life,"

the Queen, who mourned her old added Ascham, "she rather resem-

nurse, with deep grief. bles Hippolyta" (Queen of the Amazons) "than Phaedra" (who was wout to love not wisely, but too well.)

Her masculinity

What was the secret which Eliza-* beth guarded so closely, and which seems to have been shared by these two functionaries of the royal house-

She carried about with her a stockhold? Only within the last decade has of wigs-"no less than 80 of various colours." She bore

no

resemblance

an answer of any definiteness ever been ventured by an authority reach- to her mother, Anne Boleyn, but wasing the world at large. said by some biographers to favour her father, King Henry VIII.

the

The only persons who seemed to enjoy her confidence were her child- hood nurse, Mrs. Ashley, and King's cofferer, or steward, Thomas Parry. When Elizabeth was only 15, Sir Robert Tyrwhit, the great English critic, wrote of her to Pro- tector Somerset: "I do verily believe that there hath been some secret pro- mise between my lady, Mistress Ashley and the cofferer never to con-

Upon the eastern slope of Cots- wold Hills, in Gloucestershire, lies hidden the ancient village of Bisley, at whose manor - house, Overcourt Elizabeth was isolated in charge of Mrs. Ashley during a pestilence, which threatened London when the young Princess was a child of 11. The author, Bram Stoker, some time ago, visited Bishley, and uncovered this tradition: the village she died of a sudden ill-` During the child Elizabeth's stay in

ness upon the eve of a visit from her father, Henry VIII. In terror, Mrs. Ashley placed the Princess' body in a stone tomb, and scoured the country round for a child resembling Elizabeth sufficiently well to allow a substitu- tion that would deceive the King, who hnd, never taken the trouble to ac- quaint himself very familiarly with his fair-haired daughter. Unable to find a girl hearing sufficient likeness, the nurse discovered

a boy of the name of Neville, strikingly like Eliza- beth in appearance. This lad was dressed in the Princess' clothes, and imasqueraded as the royal child thenceforth through the career of the personage known in history as Queen Elizabeth. According to this tradition, all persons learning the secret, except Mrs. Ashley and Thomas Parry, were "gotten rid of.”

Some year ago, when a stone tomb upon the estate of Overcourt Wis opened, the bones of the young girl were found therein lying among rem- nants of costly clothing. Mr. Stoker has suggested that the boy, masquerad- ing as the royal princess and later as Queen Elizabeth, was a són born at an Inopportune time to Henry VIII's na- tural son, the Duke of Richmond, and Mary Howard, whom he married.

Whether or not these traditions and speculations have any foundation în the fact, the world may never know, and probably the deep secret of Queen Elizabeth will remain unanswered un- til the end of time.