Show THE OGDEN STA rm 'ft W i ?k ''A um k fa 0z 4V tn fI? 11 SUNDAY MORNING R SEPTEMBER 9 1928 VA 'A biiiUiiiiiTn no y Auy i y TDARD-EXAMINE- 1 wf rnsn 1)111 tie wiiivi v f H¥e 4 11 5yx vw si 1 1 b - The Gossiping Bickering Intriguing Harem Sixteen-Yea- r -- Old Sidi Refused to Stay "Fired" So He Lit Out for Dear tUo AJicrhfJ III Ll IKs T0rtA iVUU SJ A ' lU-- l LU X s XV t 'U s: Es ii & rl(HV XJNlt IllUlllV VI Below: Sidi Mohammed Rides Forth to the Mosque 44i— fifi I - in Part of the Ceremonies Which Attended His Coronation When This Picture was Taken He Didn't Realize What Problems He Si il Bill pillw ill ' : si - ' §"4 Eastern traditions are not so easily disposed of The ladie$ of the harem without TintI I j Nt II- - xir " r-- ravl : hat th b°y Sultan really came to Pans to escape the intrigue and unwelcome caresses of his 300 inherited wives He fled" - i'i "- -j u ''y themselves exception rA felt § H tVia fppHnc was shared hv the D0TU- Vawi1 y lis latioi of Fez Of course they had done nothing r me v5 !? S whic$ might have seemed a disgrace dux ' mere! fact that they were let out" cast such a vs k: : 13 $ ft stignia upon them that it was generally understood that none of the former Sultan's wives ?i i § L ' would be able to find a husband in private life l 51 J S Aid so quite naturally the three hundred s Si and started hM H Ss5 J f wivei together on the outside S :J H a bit ofgotintrigue v : on their own score Meanwhile there! were other interesting doings within the ll 111 I palace S si r V JS £J x With the harem disposed of Sidi Mohammed turnld to a task which he particularly enjoyed Under the boy's father a certain Tahami Ababu i" r had been the royal chamberlain I i Now from an Oriental angle Tahami had his and points He was reputed good at plottings t: I I H so He was finished was known as a intriguer close to the old Sultan and so successfully did he establish his influence that all the business of the palace went through him and frequently 1 high i off icials were unable to get the buitans I I $IS imtil thev had cultivated Tahami and won v s Si pit assistance S:?!'H- S? ' Mohammed issued a statement and X1 that so far i I : changed all that! He let it be known f t s concerned Tahami was nice an over-peppIt just wasn't x in the curry n have him around the palace and the ) order for his dismissal was issued Here Tahami showed that be wasn't so wise i? and crafty aa one might have hoped He chaln s s lenged the order and demanded an audience with! the new Sultan "Nothing doing 1" replied II pI His Majesty But Tahami pressed the point and H then Sidi Mohammed showed just how much Is I H rl Western culture he had absorbed H H "Throw him outl" That was the exact wordI i i of the Sultan's order and he didn't mean y ing x '' ! t ' f y' I anything else By this time people around the palace had grown used to sudden and violent I l orders and they knew that the Sultan meant Luckless Muta el Gloui a Harem Favorite Who Was One of the Three Hundred Inherited by the a what he said So a pair of eunuchs seized the Find to Unable Cold in He the rself Out Sultan of Blorocc5 and Who Now Finds Tahami and it is Harem in Was Sultan's the She hapless Because Life in Private Husband t iS S said literally pitched him into the road They may V to the late Surtan nave carefully guarded their even have administered an By NIGEL TRASK breakJ I'Mof even No has Sultan traditions -- v extra kick for emphasis m thought PARIS Was that next? What ing an important and established precept HE blinking and tinted lights of Paris never the end of Sidi MohamIII But suddenly things began to happen to shone more alluringly for any man than med's troubles? Decidedly Morocco to Sidi Mohammed and to the royal Yousished right into thin air! Ben Mohammed Sidi NOT! did for 111 they Sultart now father harem the of This called for some latter Moulay A little feasting who came sef youthful Sultan of Morocco e the is relished forty-fivthen and by of thinking After a the heavy Youssef died unexpectedly at age here a few weeks ago incognito for a "rest" moments the Sultan No knows one men few Islam best deof of Prince a was he As word to the be paramount For while "rest" may poilte I to commands a issued Sultan than this better sharp Elaborate his death wa3 a shock to the faithful scribe the reason for the Sultan's visit forthI I Mosome-o-f so the Sidi Morocco of guards palace the and Fez conducted at were Sultan ceremonies right examination revealed that the boy There followed the rattle hammed ordered that a Sultan was laid to rest while high officials of and Ml really came to Paris to escape the intrigue and of side arms and a detachbe feast stood to vother prepared the French and by governments unwelcome caresses of his 300 inherited wives! ment of soldiers swarmed gave additional instructions " offer the condolence of their respective states S °i He fled from his native land in the dead of night into the home of the forthe for up were doing 55 These elaborate ceremonies thing necessary : ft Behind Sidi Mohammed's "escape" observers mer Chamberlain Tahami time was about brown It for a very important decision had to be made in have discovered a fascinating story of eastern It II the Ababu exercise to he $ new of Sultan the to was be Who thought a short time love clashing with modern ideas old customs silver and K 3 inDid they find anyin was all gold Ulemas of palace and The Morocco? statescraft ones new day College superb resisting a lot of were There — flush of first the plate and and then a3 session They DID1 There can women thing? twilight as planned sponsor only trigue some not what AANwJftfr' and dishes was f selection was the the a gold plate the silsuffused executed in the shadow of the minaret! yellowed sky forto of them presented ver and jeweled goblets announced Sidi Mohammed Ben Youseff deThe very first and most important element mer Sultans by friendly In addition there were fender of the faith and directly descended from in this interesting tale is the young Sultan He 3 monarchs others of them the Prophet was the new Sultan! palace tapestries ornate is surrounded with a glamor all his own Those which had was costly beds St pieces and Mohammad selected which once had Sidi who have statesmen Just and why approached journalists adorned the royal harem his two older brothers passed over will be inhim all report a wistful sadness of expression 1 and in fact a goodly collecdicated later- - The mere notation of that fact and dreamer The lad suggestive of tion "of what a modern which hun tenseness lo sh6w is is the rtn g over sufficient 8000000 people who at sixteen rules I American might call the over the royal palace at Fez and caused hig a romanticist without repression contera when tremble to "family jewels" He spent his childhood at the Sorbonne and governmental officials the Then came the laugh in other important European cultural centers He probabilities plating the whole proceeding Tais the third ron of the late Sultan Moulay Yous-se- f Bang! Bang! Bang! That's the way things hami was conveniently aband as it was naturally expected in the happened around the palace at Fez when young to sent when the raid was Sidi Mohmmed stepped up the throne There event of his father's death that one of his older and official heads to called was throne deal a made but when informed the would be of brothers young' 'Si n as basket the fast of the business he exinto Mohammed thought little of his potentialities tSx Xv quite political dropped Above: Sidi into" in did back Paris as dived He and effectively as a monarch they wholeheartedly during pressed great surprise His Mohammed Ben was like the old answer those chaotic days when three sinister ladies western culture learned to play tennis to ride Sixteen-Year-OYoussef American marked the stitches in their knitting by the to hunt and took an active part in sports' joke about the of Sultan who was waitThese years of education served only to 'i t?jf polls gentleman dropping Morocco Who Hoped car He street idealism-Ha to measure be underhis the of The first revolutionary cup ing for sipped strengthen In Paris to Find a how the things know didn't western civilization and he liked the brew He taken by the young Sultan was the one which Solution to the did not go in for the "wild" amusements which "Out with the caused the greatest surprise got there! No Sir they Problems of Tangted his was and order interested his brothers but instead led a quiet harem!" That may have f 'own in the wondering His Unwanted Harem or dropped down Window and secluded life devoting himself to the serious eunuchs complied with it to the great consterA Clipping from Left: -with to Then connected the the chimney but the erstnation of everyone problem of acquiring higher learning palace an English Newspaper while Chamberlain knew The place occupied by the harem of the Sultan top it all off he came out with the! flat announceSidi Mohammed to Found Of course The is ment that he favored monogamy dead had Morocco Sultan traditional of nothing of it some Be the "World's Saddest Monarch" of the h had slept in To the English or American reader thi3 may collected a harem of three hundred wives and Used some had he and a beds law seem to and tradition these not concubines According revolutionary decision Monogamy didn't he same the is so firmly intrenchedin the western world but three hundred wives were inherited by his suca the of just gold plates sot been used in the place for years As that people often findif difficult to picture any cessor and such a thing as abolishing the harem know how they got into his house That was were not used but this time they general thing other system But that is not true irfvast sections his story and he stuck to it was unheard of the young Sultan decided to toss a real party xof the romantic east It is particularly untrue But the Sultan had another little story which Of course Sidi Mohammed could not kick his so he ordered out all the costly services and was of Morocco dinstuck to and this second story wa3 all about HE out into the streets He was out father's favorites happy in anticipation of what a "wow" of a v For in this small but important charges a to deal the harem a death blow but he had to former to protectorate have palace chamberlain who faced ner he was going s4 do with 'pilfering costly trifles from to the harem is an institution to be reckoned with move cautiously First the three hundred ladies Then came startling news! The new chamberhaving The emancipation of women has gone forward were moved into a separate palace where they the royal treasure chest lain an old friend of Sidi Mohammed came beI with rapid strides throughout the civilized world were kept awhile Then gradually they were Thus Sidi Mohammed handled a second diffifore his sire wringing his hands and loudly but the movement hasn't gained much footexsituation But he wasn't yet rid of his harem eased out into "private life and each one was cult he down somewhat lamenting Quieting hold in Morocco Here the descendants of the and the troublesome three hundred wives forced and expensive pensioned ' plained that most of the cherished 1 Prophet from Idris the First who ruled in 7S8 An admirable solution one might think But themselves on his attention It is not too much vanpalace plate was missing Yes sir it had i! U IV- - prir- f'i VT - ! j Inherited "V U - ii i Along with His ? Father's Harem S 1 f : tyyyt'-yyyyyy? i f $S v si- Nil J v -- frx 4 ? :VMi 'V ' tv nfJAX i-- f r ! f N -- 'ff v hy v j vi 1-- er 'sS 15 Vt' j$ 'X- -5 - IN! in in li T II sX s 5 5 c 4 I the-ideal- ist I - -- axe-swingi- ng Wr? 38 e f w ld Whose-Corresponde- nt Willi w -- v yy'yy'::'-- Kcmpapet : ' feature Bertfe — Cvi I isr conjecture to believe that there was a secret alliance between the disappointed ladies and tha fallen chamberlain The young Sultan's problem may be simply j expressed Outside of the cities the population! of Morocco is composed for the most part of j nomadic tribes They are fierce warriors andu the chief at the bead of each tribe is supreme Now it is necessary for any in his territory Sultan to have the support of a majority of these tribes and the chiefs are very Independent men who are quick to evidence their dissatisf ac--1 tion if they are not pleased Both the tribesmen and'the chiefs have their ji own Ideas about what is proper for a Sultan They didn't take kindly to the abolition of the!'m harem feeling in fact that the new Sultan ihad sacrificed some of the dignity of his state On the other side were the French authorities Were it not for French guns which are firmly m planted in Morocco strong hands would seize the throne and almost any Sultan might find himself out in the cold overnight Decidedly it was necessary to consult the French In matters' of national policy" The French of course are Interested in strengthening their influence in Morocco and this may best be done by Introducing whatever! western influences they can The harem always has been a sore spot with the French authorities and they backed Sidi Mohammed - for Sultan principally because of his youth and the fact that he would abolish this strictly eastern inj i j j i i i jjr stitution Thus Sidi Mohammed found himself between the devil and the deep blue sea On one side the tribes wanted the harem restored On the other th French wanted lit abolished and meanwhile the three hundred wives and the former cham- be rlain missed no opportunity to keep the pot j of intrieue boiling Finally the pressure got so strong that the Sultan found a "change!' and "rest" necessary He slipped away from "the palace and with a small retinue came to Paris It's not likely however that he is enjoying his stay Fori the three hundred problem of the harem and the must be satiswives from whom he fled still i settled factorily He has been seen at some of the night but always his air is detached and he seems lost In contemplation of a big problem And it IS a Dig prooiem tuter au iut m dred wives particularly when they are inherited might be expected to Keep any man ousy LvO ftV Jf 7 i - sliffc-center- v s 182S r v i A ' 1 y |