The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1886-03-20
isMAEL pAsHA.
The Once Proilisste Khedlve Of Egypt In
the Role Of an Economical Gentleman.

The Once PrOnigote khedive OF Egypt In
the Role of an Economical Gentleman.
lsmael Pasha's eccentricities and ex.
travagance while he was Khedive OF
Egypt have become proverbial, and it
must strike the reader as something
very new and extraordinary to hear
that this great spendthrift has grown
to be as penurious and saving as he
was liberal in his early days. The
world knows that for years the ex-
Khedive threw millions of money out
of the windows, SO to speak, of his
numberless palaces. His extravaganza
had reached its eliminating point at the
time of the opening of the Suez Canal.
Thousands of his foreign guests en-
ioyed his liberal hospitality for months,
and became so enamored with the coun-
try of the Pharaohs that their pro-
longed stay, after the close of the fes-
tivities, had to be shortened by the soft
but decided hint from trusted Govern
ment official, ''that it was time the
guests began to think of returning to
their respective homes" One fine day
Ismael Pasha had to relinquish his place
to Tewfik Pasha and to take up his own
gripsack. Since then he has travelled
all over Europe, and having taken good
care to lay up dollar or two in case
of unforeseen eventualities, he has
been enabled to continue his lux
urious style of living pretty much
as of old. His favorite resorts
are Naples and Vienna. At the latter
city he never fails to take up his abode
in the hotel of the '.Goldenen Lamm''
(gilded Sheep, which he had frequently
visited while Khedive of Egypt, having
been invited by the Emperor. Franz
Joseph, to take part in some festivity
or other. Times. have wrought many
changes since. But last year it was
discovered that one of the followers OF
the Khedive had made serious finan-
cial mlscalculation in his own-not in
the ex-Khedive's interest, and that a
sudden change was noticed to have
overtaken the latter. Society of Wen
ma upon sudden heard with great
amazement that Ismael Pasha had be-
come economical; that he had dis
charged his paymaster; that he audited
every bill, even the smallest, himself,
and that he scrutinized every charge
and claimed it extravagant. 1t must
not be supposed, however, that the ex-
Khedive has suddenly become a pauper;
to the contrary, although, as compared
with his former mode of living, he may
be called so, he still manages to get
along very comfortably. He occupies,
with his suite, thirty rooms in the
''Goldenen Lamm," and recently pur-
chased three thousand dollars worth OF
stoves for the new building he had
erected in Naples for his harem. He
knows that even Naples is occasionally
visited by frosts, and being a personal
friend of warmth he also wants his
wives and their slaves to be comfortably
housed. He does not take much inter-
est in his harem. 1t never did interest
him much, and he only maintains it
because it is a requirement of Mussul-
man Of distinction. Upon his recent
sojourn in Vienna he was accompanied
by his favorite wife, the mother Of
Prince Ibrahim. He does not appear
in public with her, but the well-pre-
served lady is often seen in company
with her waiting-maid upon the streets
of the Austrian capital, dressed in the
most elegant French toilet, and no one
would suspect she was the wife of the
well-known ex-Khedive.-Figaro.