The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1889-07-14

/ it is not with the king, but with her own
ladies. The king eats with his officers, &C
cording to Mohammedan etiquette, and his
apartments or the salumlic are separate
from hers. Both she and her husband have
done much to break down the rightly of
Mohammedan social customs. Their love
for each other and the example of the
khedive in having but one wife, Consul
GeneraS CardWell tells me- is catching, and
many of the other noble Arab gentlemen
are following it. The khedive takes his
wife with him wherever he goes. She
does not usually travel on the same train
nor, if so, in the same car. She has stuck
to the khedive through the stormiest times
of the reign and during the last war she re-
fused to 90 on the English gunboatS when
invited to do so for safety. She is close in
the councils of her husband, am told, and
it is said that he has great confidence in her
! Judgment.
Both the kheGive and the khedivieh are
WRAPPED Up IN THEIR CHILDREN,
and am told that they intend to allow one
of their sons to take a trip to America at
no very distant date They have two boys
and two girls. The boys are Abbas, who
will be fifteen years old in July, and Me
hemet Ali, who is two years younger.
These boys are now at school in Berlin.
They speak French, English, German al
Arabic, and they are l am told, very bright.
The girls are rather pretty; cream com
pleXioned young maidens of eight and ten
who are as much like American girls as
they can be considering their surroundings.
They wear European clothes and may be
seen along the. sea shore at Alexandria,
walking together and swinging their hats
in their hands like our little girls at Long
Branch or Asbury Park. They have Eu-
ropean governesses and talk French quite
well
These children are by no means badly
off as regards money matters
THE KHEDIvE's INCOME IS LARGE ENOUGH
to enable him to pay all of his expenses,
and his wife has an independent fortune,
which, / am told, brings her in about fifty
thousand year for pin money. Abbas, |
the Oldest son, is the heir apparent and he !
gets an allowance of $75, 900 year and all
have enough and to spare. Still in com
parison with the fortunes squandered by
the families of the khedives of the past, |
this is nothing and the present khedive |
does what any other monarch of the world |
would not think of doing. The last year |
was poor one in Egypt and the people |
were hardly able to pay their taxes. In |
order to relieve them somewhat, the |
khedive ordered that the salaries of all the |
officers should be cut down for that year |
10 per cent. and he set the example, am |
told, by cutting that much off the allow |
ance for his family and dropped off $4,000 |
from his personal allowance for the sake |
of his people. This does not seem the act |
of Pharoah. 1t is more than that of |
man and Christian. 1t shows that this |
Mohammedan ruler is a king in heart and |
soul as well as position and may well lead |
us to wonder whether this land under him, !
if freed from debt and unshackled by Shy |
locks, would not rise to higher and better
civilization than it has ever had in the |
6,000 years of its past.
E'RANK C CLPpFNrKR