Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1880-11-20
THE DISCOVERY OF ICE CREAM.
A Better Business Than Making
Presidents or Even Acting King.

FFesauentS OF hSen Acting htnSs
wide Awake
1t was in Lactia, and the King OF the country
was such grand king that be wore his gold
crown even at night, though 1t made the worst
said the crown must never come OFF, and 1t was
these wise men and the prince who formed
conspiracy against the King, ending in the dis
coyery Of ice cream. But the king lived well,
growing fat and Jolly, until his son, the prince,
became unruly. Then the king grew so thin
that ne had to use piece OF paper doubled up
ihSloe Oh MS crown to prevent 1t from slipping
down over his nose
The wise men said: "We1l make plan to
reform this prince but during the next three
years they did nothing but talk, talk talk. One
day the very royal candle-snuner brought them
this note:
Your plan or your heads KING JOHN
make the prince chief hgn arectoT 81 fSe
weather. The change that followed was mar
yeilous. The prince suited every one. He made
It clear and sunny for picnic party, windy in
the right direction for the sailors lust right for
the farmers. cold for the fur.dealeTs and hot for
the bathiDg-resort men. The people of LactIa
went almost wild With JOY, and the king laughed
the merit, but they soon regretted doing So
Thousands OF Lactians came to thank them in
long, dry speeches, and brass bands brayed
cessions marched and hurrahed every wink of
sleep from their pillows. The wise men prayed
the king to send the people home and when he
refused fifty OF the wisest ran away to sea, but
The kings strawberries grew between the
palace and the royal milk-house, and it was
double high treason for any one but the king
office was open, the wise men persuaded the
prince to go with them and eat berries with
sugar and cream 10 the royal milk house
While sugaring the berries they heard the king
I'm afraid those robins have been eating my
berries again" they presently heard him re-
marx.
The prince paused pale with fright. The
wise enrushed up and down, shaking With
terror.
"Into-the- m-with-thern." chartered
the prince, and into can OF cream the berries
were dropped, sugar and all, and the lid capped
on the can and the prince on top Of that. six
OF the strongest OF the wise men placed their
backs to the royal milk-house door, and the
others soon appeared to be sound asleep IN the
corners.
The king strolled in the garden long after the
princes Office hour. 1t appears that the prince
had used only the good weather, and had acctI-
mnlated such store OF Ill winds, cold snaps
and great storms as was never Known before
The chief high director not appearing, the COM
motion that began made all the Old people hunt
over chlmneys and bent high steeples out OF
shape. And how it showed and nailed and
Iained ana made the people wish there hadn't
Teen any chief high director The wind
twltched the kings crown over the high fence,
and In two seconds him after It; and 1t rolled
across the fields ten miles before he caught it.
L uc IOUl VI dl llcW OVER Tue
palace, and the badly frightened prince and
wise men tumbled out. The wind tossed the
cans into the road and sent them spinning away
through the storm like silver wheels. The wise
men were lost. and were supposed to have
blown to deserted Island.
The king returned with his crown Just as an
honest farmer drove up to the palace in his
sleigh with cream can he had found in snow
drift. The king carelessly took Off the lid and
then staggered back screaming and trembling
The can was filled with some pink colored thick
stuff. such as never before had been seen,
.'Seize him." said the king, she wants to
poison me-" and the whole court rushed out to
protect the king.
MAKE him eat Of it Or Off goes his head said
the king.
They expected to see the farmer drop dead,
but no. he spoOned out the stuff as fast as posi-
BILE. AT last the prince ventured to TASTE and
the farmer couldn't get the sroOn back. AS soon
as the king tasted he created the farmer duke
on the spot, ordered a hundred guns to be fired
and promoted the prince TO be King, as he HIM
self wished to open an ice-cream saloon at one
end OF the palace. The ex-king died very
wealthy. While he lived he hired all the poor
people OF Lactia to spread fine ice upon the pal
ace hill and roll his cans OF cream down to
freeze. 1t was not until after his death that 1t
was allowed that ice-cream could be made in
any other way.