Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-26
The Discovery of Ice Cream.
wide Awake.1

country was such grand king that he
wore his gold crown even at night, though
it made the worst kind of night-cap
The wise men of Lactia said the crown
must never come of, and it was these
wise men and the prince who formed a
conspiracy against the king, ending in
the discovery 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 he had
| to use a piece of paper doubled up inside
| of his crown to prevent it from Slipping
down over his nose.
| The wise men then said:
"We'll make a plan to reform this
prince.''
But during the next three years they
| did nothing but talk, talk, talk. One
| day the royal candle-snuffer brought
them this note:
"Your plan or your heads.
KING JOHN
They sent back word to the King to
please make the Prince Chief High Di-
rector of the Weather The change that
followed was marvellous. The Prince
suited every one. He made it clear and
sunny for a picnic party, windy in the
right direction for the sailors, Just right
| for the farmers, cold for the fur-dealers
and hot for the bathing resort men. The
| people Of Lactia almost went wild with
joy, and the King laughed and grew fat
again. The wise men claimed all the
merit, but they soon regretted doing So
| Thousands of factions came to thank
them in long, dry speeches, and brass
bands brayed before their houses all day,
while nightly professions 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 w;sest ran away to
sea, but the others formed conspiracy
The Kings strawberries grew between
the palace and the royal milk-house, and
it was double high treason for any one
but the King to pick them One morn
ing, before the weather Office was open,
| the wise men persuaded the Prince to 90
with them and eat berries with sugar and
cream in the royal milk-house. While
sugaring the berries they heard the King
come into the garden.
'I'm afraid those robins have been
eating my berries again.'' they presently
heard him remark.
The prince paused, pale with fright.
The wise men rushed up and down, shak-
ing with terror.
"Into-the-cream-w ith-th--th
chartered the prince, and into the can of
cream the berries were dropped, sugar
and ALL the lid capped on the can and the
prince on top of that. Six of the strong
est 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 accumulated such
store of i'll winds, cold snaps and great
storms as was never known before The
chief high director not appearing, the
commotion that began made all the old
people hunt for their almanacs in hur-
~. The wind blew over chimneys
and bent high steeples out of shape. And
how it showed, how it hailed and rained,
and made the people wish there hadn't
been any Chief High Director! The
wind twitched the Kings crown over the
high fence and, in two seconds, him after
it; and it rolled across the fields ten miles
before he caught it, The roof of the royal
milk-house flew over the 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 desert
ed 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 a snow-drift. The King
carefully took off the lid and then stag
gered back, screaming and trembling.
The can was filed with some cream col
ored thick stuff, such as never before had |
been seen!
"Seize him. said the King, ''he wants
to poison mel" and the whole court rushed |
out to protect the King.
"Make him eat it or off goes his head!"
said the King.
They expected to see the farmer drop
dead, but MOI he spooned out the stuff as
fust as possible. At last the Prince ven
tured to taste, and the farmer couldn't
get the spoon back. AS soon as the King
tasted he created the farmer Duke on
the spot, ordered one hundred guns to
be fired, and promoted the Prince to be
King, as he himself wished to open an
ice cream saloon at one end Of the pal