Show Dale Cam arIe ie I Minute 5 Biographies Author of How to Win Friends and Influence people NIZAM OF TILE THE RICHEST ICIEST MAN IAN IN TIm TILE WORLD EATS SOUP sour WITH HIS lIS FINGERS The richest man mail manIn In the world eats eats' with his fingers He doesn't use a n I knife nor a fork nor a spoon He Tie even drinks hs ha soup out of or his fingers lingers I am not referring to the fastidious fastidious fastidious ous Mr Morgan nor to the bustling Mr Ford No the richest man in the world has never played the stock market He has never seen Wall Vall Street and most of the people in America have never nover even heard of him I His name is Nizam Osman Alt All Khan Khan- Bahadur Fateh Patch Jung Mat Asaf Jan Jah but he is usually called the Nizam of and he is a ade de descendant of or the old Mogul Emperors Emperors Em- Em w who o swept down don through the Kyber Pass Tass and lo looted ted India centuries ago He rules with a ligh tigh hand over the richest state in India What Goes does he do with all his wealth Well for one thing ho he has hasa a n harem filled with over five hundred hundred hun huD dred women But he has one favorite and she lie rides around in a n. Royce Rolls-Royce limousine with t the the te e shades drawn so that the unworthy populace cannot cannot can can- not gaze upon her royal face He doesn't pay much attention tc t the theother theother e eother other beauties in his harem Did 1 I Isay say beauties Well now that isa is IB IBa isa a bit of exaggeration for tor he in inherited inherited inherited in- in his harem from his hla father who twenty three years ago The richest man in he world gets up every morning before down He HeliaS Henas nas liaS four servant servants whose sole d duty ty n H life Is to dress him Each ser ser- ser ser-I ant dresses dresseS' a different part of or the royal toyal body One man for example s the trouser specialist He would be insulted if it 1 you asked him to help helpt t ut t t on the royal shirt No sir air when wilen he gets on the Nizam's trousers he lie heits heits its Sits in the shade shado and rests up for forche forthe forthe the che next mornings morning's work The Nizam is an absolute monarch monarch monarch mon mon- arch with the power of Or life lite and death over fifteen million of or his sub subjects and the common people peaple fling themselves humbly upon the ground as he passes by He eats cats breakfast on platters platters- of or gold And what a f A dozen dazen different kinds of hot soups eggs boiled and curried and scrambled scram scram- bled and sl stuffed and fried Cried His Jaded palate Is tempted by such rare as s curried peacocks an and 3 wild cranes and bird of paradise Although he has a n. barber whoso whose only duty in life ire is to keep him well groomed roomed he slips occasionally und goes about with his hair uncombed 1 and his chin unshaved Thu The Nizam of cr II nas chairs carriages and eVen cannon cast in solid gold and in inlaid inlaid in- in laid with emeralds and rubies Of Or course he cant can't shoot these golden cannon because they are too soft but they do make a mighty impression Ion sion upon the visitor He goes on regular shopping ex- ex into the public market tasting this food and that and when whenever whenever whenever ever His Exall Exalted J Highness admires 1 anything custom demands that the shopkeeper give it to him free of or carge So he goes back to t too io o palace with an au army of or servants carTing carrying carrying car car- Ting baskets of food rood that cost cast him a cen cent t. t The Nizam speaks perfect 1 English Eng ng- ng lash lish shoots tigers from the back backof backor of or an elephant wears weara rings in his l ears gives his favorite wife two hundred dollars a month for spendIng spending spend spend- Ing money maney and sleeps in a bed that doesn't have any springs |