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Show But, Strange to Say, None of Our Girls Cares to fllBife SKjKJ Marry the Young Man Who Offers Such Interest- "d her One of the photographic exhibit which the Sheik submits nlong with his proposals of marriage to show ' how well he conforms to all the conventions of civilized life 4 WISE philosopher of bygone dn;, b i bequeathed to his sex a hit of M -J advice which time and history has proven to be invaluable. "Faint heart never won fair lady," lie warned, and the love stories of centuries, the immortal im-mortal romances of the world from its ' very beginning up until to-day, show the I importance of this homily. But even the author of the proverh ' hardly would have imagined his wisdom to apply to the wooing of a royal prince J of the desert, for all the world knows that the sons of Mahomet love, woo and ti'flrrv in thp mocf I masterful manner of all lovers. And yet the heio of our story, young Prince Mahomet Ma-homet Ali Ibrahim, nephew of tho King of Egypt, evidently feels the force of tho philosopher's phi-losopher's maxim, for he has announced an-nounced in a very emphatic manner that he will be satisfied sat-isfied only with an American bride, and all other nationalities na-tionalities will kindly lay off. There is a peculiarly pe-culiarly interesting story, romantic as one of Egypt's ancient an-cient tales, enveloping envel-oping the announcement, an-nouncement, and to tho people of this country his return (which is expected in tho near future) is a matter of piquant ' speculation. Three times already al-ready has this young prince been t umed down by an American girl, and this on top of the tremendous excitement excite-ment his arrival r vdlj?; V ;;.. . MMuaSB I T"' " ' .... i " 1 it: I f V . - v. aroused throughout through-out the land. Because of the glamour I encircling the visit of a nephew from the royal house of Egypt, because of the fact that this visitor represented all the mystery and charm of the unknown un-known East, because he, in addition to I hio great wealth, was young, handsome and cultured, and finally, because he had made known his interest in the American girl by paying court to a pretty scenario I WTitcr on the voyage over, every girl who read the innounccment of his arrival, each young woman who gazed upon his picture, felt a slight acceleration of the heart and immediately began to w dreams of romance about him. This universal wave of heartache was, no doubt, aiJed and abetted considerably by the tremendous success of a novel which was afterward turned into a movie. Every woman in the land read the book with great pleasure. Prosaic, middle-aged wives yearned in seer I I over the unfulfilled dreams of their youth, spinsters wove imaginary seem I in which they became the object of the hero's desire and young maidens blushed and rwooned with emotional enjoyment I .- . .. ' j '' ,, v; '" '"''. i . Mabel Normand, who enjoyed a lively summer at Deauville with the Sheik, but denies she is going to marry him Mabel Withee, theoecond beauty to re-f re-f rsc the Sheik as they longed for just such a lover. He was the secret ideal of all female hearts. He turned the drab monotony of every-day life into a thing of beauty. They practically could feel the hot winds of the desert sweep their cheeks as they read the burning pages. Is It to be wondered at, then, that with the arrival of this youthful Sheik, a veritable double of the novel's hero, excitement should run hi'h? They prepared pre-pared themselves for another feast of romance. Who would be the lucky girl? What great beauty would catch the indifferent indiffer-ent eye of Prince Ibrahim? Perhaps a famous singer, or actress, or movie star. Perhaps one of the loveliest of the young debutantes. Whoever rho might be, .she was Fortune's favorite daughter, for imagine lcing wooed by a real Sheik und carried ofi to the gorgeous splendors of his various palaces in the Orient. He came, he saw, BUT he failed to conquer! He fell in love, not once, but three times, with three different daughters of Uncle Sam, and each one gave him tho cold shoulder. One of them, the first to attract his ardent eye. made the trip over the ocean on the same steamer. They dined together; they strolled around the deck together; they stood at the rail on wonderful moonlight nights and watched the stars together. When the boat docked the press announced their engagement, but two days after the young story writer departed unceremoniously uncere-moniously and in a strictly businesslike manner for the coast to take up her work. The prince remained in New York. He, accompanied everywhere by his brawny training master (which further aroused the interest of the feminine sex), looked the city over. He stated with ardor that the American pirls were tho prettiest in the world. This, after Paris, Italy, London, etc. He visited a theater at which a spectacular play dealing with the Orient was attracting thousands of spectators. Out of the hundreds of beautiful girb his eye was attracted by the graceful youth of a blond actress During tho entire performance he sat spellbound and watched with increasing enthusiasm the rhythm of her movements as she pirouetted pirouet-ted on the stage. He demanded an immediate im-mediate introduction, and that night, after the performance, ho began to lay siege to the fortress of her heart. His attention was the subject of . :-citing :-citing gossip, not only behind the wings, in the dressing rooms, but to the entire city, and the daily papers reported the progress of his suit. But the days passed and no announcement announce-ment of their j e n g a gement appeared, and : the excitement became almost frenzied when the news service serv-ice published the departure of the young heir to Egypt's throne for California. What had happened? It .soon became be-came known that Mabel K Withee had rejected the royal proposal and the unsuccessful suitor had left to forpet his misery. After a visit to the coast Prince Mahomet Ma-homet Ali Ibrahim was scheduled as among those sailing on n giant ocean liner for France, and this summer ho again became the object of wide attention atten-tion by his devotion to a famous American Ameri-can film star. , Cables from Deauville flashed the news that none other than our own Mabel Normand Nor-mand would shortly announce her engagement en-gagement to the prince. They were seen at all the famous restaurants together every night. At the races, It the gambling gam-bling table.;, the two attracted more attention at-tention than any other notables (and there were many) present. For weeks the talk of all present at the famous French resort centered around the wooing of the young Sheik and when the newspapers printed an emphatic em-phatic den.al given out to the press by the film star that she would ever marry J him a gasp was heard on all sides. ;j Following on the heels of thfi denial I cams a printed statement issued by the 1 prince to the effect that he was perfectly d willing to give up hi? title and become a I movie actor if only Mabel would marry I him. But she couldn't seem to show any . n(h;!.--.i t m for this proposition and (irmly stuck to her refusal. Here, then, were three Amvrican girls who had rejected the hapdsome prince. WI.; ? The answer might best be answered by another question: When U a heik not a sheik? For, despite the fact that any one familiar with the seductive-charm seductive-charm u.ually accredited to all hotheaded hot-headed imperial lover?, of the Orient would jump to the conclusion that there irust he something wrong with a prince of Egypt who had received the mitten from, three American girls, strangely enough such is not the case with the hero of our st:ry. Moreover, he refuses to bo disouraged and is coming back for more. When the thin! rejection occurred many members of tho gay throng at Deauville determined to get to the bottom bot-tom of the mystery, and uhnt they d;?r covered only served to heighten the interest in-terest aroused by the prince. It seems that he is the possessor of strangely un-sheiklike characteristics. He, of course, has traveled far and wide. He has studied in Europe, and the Western civilza- n i, ! m - - ffi'? Showing how courteous this young desert des-ert chieftain is in his treatment of women even when they break his heart tion and culture which he has acquired ac-quired have alr.io' entirely obliterated his Oriental traita. He chib He is gentle and mild in his desires and, above all, courtly in manner 30 much so that the idea of wooing a girl with caveman tactics would fill him with horror. The real truth of his unhappy disappointments disap-pointments in love so far lies in the fact that each one of the girls, feeling that a sheik should be a sheik, and that this one in particular particu-lar should sweep them from their feet, were disappointed disap-pointed in hi courtship. court-ship. What he discussed under the stars with the scenario writer will never be known. One can only form the conclusion con-clusion that he Epent most of his time listening to the details of some movie plot which she was preparing. To the dancer he paid conventional court. sent her American Beauties, took her to tea at the Ritz or Plaza and gave her jewels. Now, these forms of court-phip court-phip are ail very well coming from an American ce-llego boy, a banker or broker, but a girl naturally expects something entirely different from an ardent ar-dent son of the desert. If before marriage mar-riage he only paid her tho customary tributes to which she already was blase, what would happen after marjiage? The fads could riot be overlooktH , .f down sfll rag her to the altar and take hrrlH rm? Why didn't he tell of his bttH Nile, tilled irjH so that would want, above ali thing?, to go U)H as his bride? Bui in the coarseH the wooing nothing more exciting tfcifl nd bracelet ur so cVrtjfl Mabel Withes decided that Priaifl her I j at DtaHj accustpmid vh:ch sH en '-.ode than any odH Mm aril, t, 'he plmil r .e,J l,fe vutkH would reeo'jaH his title and take a minor part is of her pictures. . h:$ anMW he thinks worth h&vinH L' K. It lil would .-.-I . . ( a sadliH fa. 5 shdH said to have cNpended on a . 4 II i irtH '.tL I ng bjH si i :.-r.ce . oi of score? u f imapaiH ' !' I , , . lBI giandr.iotiic! j did tJH family aloum.v Wiu n lie we: " UW offcrfd (11 pictures ' tht,BJ ere sheiks b ' "W" ,1 hf'd miefl nice, gentle, well behaved husbaniLB Sol and ' :rc!B : lances would doubrif?? have prH convincing enough to "rM a:-e. Bui when the Vuencan girl rics a sheik she apparently wantlM j :. non-pure article liery cave-man and all- and just won't be satisfied one who's o tii mated with (fjBf zation's veneer that ;. oi: might thinilB been bom in Philadelphia. 1 There were several snapshot? d tKJ I show how fond h of childrenBk Another showed him motoring pretty jrirl and behaving justasprBI. .is any American college """H good deal more so than sum?. P In on he i ki -sipk a young V0H hand showing how cavalierly kHIL treat the U i even when they fll'. his heart. H Other pictur 1 lin'.BJf g his knife ar.d fork, rolling J I rette8, oktailJ, dar.cicfB ft fox trot and following other arm customs in a thoroughly c f manner. -B It was a very complete a",( u record of a sheik transformed. A"WJj-it A"WJj-it had an effect just the reverse oim a he intended, nut only oh the thrJ JC ties to whom he lost his heart ba H K nn r un.eioa- 1 whom " ha I ey given tJH ment. Poor But the v re continues df'rf 11 Amen.-a gr bride. Wi' ..ce.ful '.H W- ! huM swallowed the H American girls, even as tflf'r . sisters of the Ka t. desire to mM tered and ek as their idel l mu men who make them cower ab JM, Perhaps when he returns "jH t rnncc Ali Ibrahim. Perhaps'. S |