| Show r t i A i I 14 J P PJ i J Jf r rr f r w R- R Ri r I r i o t t q 0 1 i 1 tt I I I 0 IiI 1 ir i-ir e eb pi b Jj J A I j i r I J I r or rw w Princess Fahmy Bey Bey even Shocking Matrimonial the shot hot French and lulled bride who her Egypti Egyptian an husband in a w x Convince the Government That Its x London taped punishment hotels botel andes and for far es et- et n uJ i the deed decd ri rii a ng den Would Be fetter f t tI I I They Married Only 3 f l M s 4 r HomeGrown Brides X 4 4 s j s sd d p pp p s j 4 p r as They Are 6 m y y L bra Y a aF at F t Wi l 1 H m f I i ia a Tr e 0 Ff F ro 9 y i h I II ry p paa i q bl A Ra k ka a J g S Sr r r t w 42 t I t 1 r A e 6 v vI vi i l lI I y t lr r a r o t i 5 n Gib rr 4 k r N Nr z Y K i r viA 1 I j Z M MC C 7 ti tik w f 4 r n Y r 1 r rk k 1 s r rR R r Rr v aa j r Mr t q y cr Wt v p w i I 1 r r rF F k Rv A Mlle Yvonne of sS S tp r 4 Paris who has broken a Oro A t d t r y rodl s si iA 4 i a Y her engagement to marry a wealthy H i is s U V Q Qs YR fw v a s s Egyptian since her sisters sister's tragic ex 3 rR Yd j a atea tea 1 with Prince Fahmy Bey t T K dp f M HOCKED BOOKED by the number of mar mar- marriages marriages marriages SHOCKED between young oung Egyptians and women omen of foreign countries that are ending in bloody tragedies the government of Egypt is trying to find some way of discouraging such love lovo matches as these which in recent years have been steadily on the increase Several of the country's Influential newspapers are urging that the time has for passed for any way half measures in the matter and that there thele should be a law to deprive an Egyptian of his cItizenship if he marries a foreign woman oman These newspapers think that Kipling C was entirely right when he said East IS East and West Nest IS West and never nC the twain shall meet It makes little dlf difference dif dif- difference I ference ference they say whether the husband brings his foreign bride to Eg Egypt pt to bye or establishes a home for her in m her own there country there is little chance of sucha such a alove love match bringing either of them hap hap- happiness happiness happiness The differences b between tween the civIlIzation civilization civilization tion of the East and that of the West are thought to be too great to be over over- overcome overcome over overcome come even when as is often the case the husband has bas been educated at one of the great English universities and has wooed and won his h s bride in the fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable fashionable able drawing rooms of London or Paris Pans Another argument that is being urged in favor or of legislation compelling Egypt's young men to stay at hine to do their lovemaking and marrying is the fact that even now there are barely enough prospective husbands to take care of the nations nations nation's marriageable girls girls- If more and more YO young ng men continue to go abroad for their wives Egypt soon lull will hale ha on Its hands a dangerously large number of old maids The killing of Prince Fahmy Bey in London by his French wife and the mys mys- mysterious murder or suicide of the English WIfe of Prince Abbas Hallin ar are arc two of many instances that are being cited to prove that these matrimonial alliances of East and West Nest almost inevitably are doomed to disaster The stony story of the insane jealousies tha made tho the romance of the tho Prince and Fahmy Bey sucha such a miserable affair has bas already been told in these pages During a midnight quarrel In London's fashionable Hotel Savoy the the Prince was killed by a bullet from a Il re- re revolver re revolver volver in his wife's hand The Princess was charged with Tour mur der murder but after telling the how Jury yury ury for months she had been shado shadowed ed every minute husband's of the night and day by her ber hus- hus hus bands band's ugly black she spies epics was ac- ac acquitted quitted ec-quitted quitted Princess Abbas Halim Hahm was found dead in her palace at the night before she was as to have havo sailed sailed for fora a visit D to her former home In England Ingland AI A smoking revolver lay by her side fido and andone andone andone one of its bullets had pierced her heart The coroners coroner's jury returned a verdict of accidental death while cleaning a revolver but the evidence hardly seemed to justify this Tho The general opinion among her friends in Alexandria is that Princess Abbas Halim Hahm either cither committed suicide or was murdered Why the Princess should have wanted to take her ber life or what motive anybody could have hove had for killing her nobody I It t k fH s adt ro k o vs o pS s T 9 6 r M Ml l 5 v Po tl q tr i r yi yiv v g a p k F p Princess Abbas the English beauty who was Vias mysteriously slain while living with her ber second Egyptian husband kno knows s Her IIer mother and her brother who saw heroic service in the Royal Horse HOlse Guards during the World War strongly suspect she was murdered and have gone to Alexandria Alexandra to try to clear up the deep mystery mastery that for some lea lea lea- leason on ica son bon has hal been thrown about her death The death of Princess Abbas Halim Hahm ended perhaps as romantic and spectacular spectacular lar Jar a career as any humbly born English gul ever had She was born bom Jessica Harrington one of the he four daughters of an innkeeper in a mIddle class London suburb An elderly sister Beat Beatrice ice is 13 regis regis- registered registered registered in the de Gotha as the th wife of Prince Louis de bon Duke rie de Ansola Angola cousin to the King of Spain When Jessica was ivas a a very young girl she went ent to 10 work in a smart dressmaking ing mg establishment in Regent Street Lon Lon- London London London don From there as soon as she discovered discovered discovered ered how much her fresh young beauty was admired and what hat an asset it could be made I she he went ent into the chorus ChOl us of a musical comedy The first of her romances to attract attention was one having for its hero a youthful member of a titled family This infatuated young man was Mas report report- reported ed ed to have spent a half mullion dollars on the alluring stage beauty before his fam fam- family family ily fly intervened and succeeded in packing pack pack- packing ing mg him off on a trip around the world While the war ar feel te was as at its height she was as mauled to Captain Arthur Esc I i 1 Ellis of the Rifle Rille whom horn she had met through leer her brother But they were I soon oon dl d and Jessica returned to the stage again to become the pet of London's rich and fashion fashion- fashionable fashionable fashionable able men about town A few months month later she embraced embraced the n fa faith th in order to marry I Mohammed led Ulna Din Dill a nephew of the tho King of Egypt and a brother of the ex ex Sho She went with him to Alexandria Alex Alex- Alexandria Alexandria andria to live but very cry soon eoon news reached England of a second divorce fol- fol followed fol followed lowed loved quickly by her marriage to Prince Abbas This third husband seems to have been no more congenial than the oth other r two but she was still living with him him at the tha I time of her death In spite of their end end- endless end endless less quarrels the Prince lavished h hr hir r with Ith luxury The dressing table over which her life blood spurted when she fell dying was as strewn with rare pearls diamonds and other jewels said to ha e hase been worth orth half a million dollars One of the reasons for the recent lecent amaL- amaL amazing ing increase in the number of Egypt's foreign marriages is 11 the wealth which the war brought many families and which enables more of them to send their tons to England Ingland or Prance France to be edu- edu educated educated edu educated When they trey have acquired a uni- uni university uni university education these young men qute naturally l want an educated wife and that is an exceedingly hard thing to lit Ill Egypt The emancipation of Egyptian women is 9 malting making great strides but hitherto progress has been mainly on the lines of great personal freedom While educational educational educational facilities for boys are being constantly con con- con and rapidly improved nothing of tho the kind is bem being done for girls and young women omen The number of girls schools sc is pitifully small Only 18 per cent of the women of the country can read and write and there thero IS not a single higher ed educational uca institution institution institution for women omen The only institutions which can ba bo said to provide anything approaching a modern modem education are alO maintained by foreign philanthropy These are the various convent schools and the American Mission College for I There are arc besides a number of die dis disagreeable agreeable but tine time customs con con- connected con connected witty with Ith Egyptian family life WhIch make many of the educated young men prefer foreign brides One Ono of them is that which requires any husband of means not only to support his mother mother- mother in in-Ia in law in-law but hut to give employment ment as servo sere servants ants in Ins Ills household to all his Ills wife's poor relations This might not be such sucha a bad arrangement if the relations were 1 really cally good sen sers ants but in most cases they arc are not Although these relations mako make a pre tense pretense of doing the work of the house house- house 1 1 old they insist on being treated qUi quite to like full fledged members of the family JJ They must have haye places place at the family table and when guests call th they y want tolay tolay to tolay lay aside their mops and brooms and be presented to them They are continually prying into nto the af- af fairs of the husband and wife and if the young oung couple happen to quarrel quarrel rel rei the relations are sure to step in and take a handon hand on one side or the other Another er disadvantage of marrying an anIg Ig Egyptian wife is the fact that the man who does bO s o is likely to miss all nil the romantic thrills tin ills of courtship In Egypt marriages are aie al e often arranged not by the tho jo young g lovers rovers themselves but by their parents and other relations The young man who has seen how de dc delightfully de-delightfully delightfully love is made in London or Paris is not likely y to relish the idea of having his Ills family do d do his woo ng for him Then too there is a painful contrast between the women of Egypt and those of the Western world orld in the matter of dress and personal beauty Even the tho daughters of many wealthy Egyptian families am les ha c no idea how to dress smartly This is particularly unfortunate for forthe forthe forthe the average Egyptian has so many de- de defects de defects of figure that she needs stylish clothes to cover them up Most of the women grow fate rat fat at an astonishingly early age They think that fatness makes a woman oman more admired and so they refuse to take any exercise worth orth mentioning and persist in m stuffing them them- themselves themselves selves with rich foods Some of Egypt's statesmen are inclined In- In in inclined to think the serious problem pi of foreign marriages will VIII solve olve itself with with- without without out the tho passage of any restrictive laws lass lassas as soon as the country's young men and the tho women of foreign lands realize how fated fated ill-fated these I love matches usually are They find support for this tillS view in the fact that Princess Fahmy Beys Bey's pretty sister is unwilling to risk sucha such a maro mar marriage riago and recently has broken her engagement en- en engagement en engagement to a wealthy Egyptian It is II i being urged that Egypt establish establish establish lish a great university so that hat its ts young youn men can be educated at homo home and will not have to bo be exposed to to the tho lure of the beauties of the Western orld v-orld Some also think that better educational facilities ties should be provided for tho the nations nation's but girls but but others say this would only make them as eager for imported love mates as the young peen men already are arc T M p pO p r 0 b r pmt cD O tr a e ey y f fX X Ios x t r ter w ids en a iK rn r n rr 4 r rn f r rOn f On the v sight ight young t two Egyptian t r women Y t ae who are learning how to tobe t Y be good goodR R f f wives wives at an American mission school at Khartum Below 4 three typical I Egyptian an girls a most of l yap tai F a at a al Da s wh whom m t IRo get no f education tion at all e i Jf r 4 v te 6 j yr J a aj ayr to a p r rIi Ii t i i gp 4 ti w Y r k kY kA A r ar L- L f a w a V 1 c i IJ v |
