The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-11-09
MANY HAREM MYSTERIES
STORIES OF VERY FOOLISH EURO
PEAN WOMEN.
An Actress Who Became a Wife, But
Regretted 1.-The Fairest Inmate of
the Harem Was the Mother of
Prfncass HeIAa

SS 0ASL0 was Tue MOsQer OF
Princess selihe.
From the Chicago Herald
The recent rescue of the young woman,
Marie Marillier, from the harem of a high
Morocco dignitary, and her return to her
friends in Algeria, calls attention to the
fact that not few European women have
been and are among the willing consorts of
Mohammedan potentates. There is but one
sovereign to-day Of the many who adhere to
the Mosem faith who is known to have only
one wife, and she is acknowledged TO all the
world as his queen. That ruler is Tewfik.
the Khedive of Egypt. The woman who
holds this exceptional place in the palace of
Mohammedan Prince is Emineh Hamen,
on her mothers side the daughter Of q Cir
cassian slave, her father being one of the
bravest officers in the service of Isnail, the
predecessor and father Of the present Khe-
dive. Emineh has played no unimportant
part in the politics of the old world.
That she holds her husbands heart within
her sole keeping alone proves her to be re-
markable woman. She is lovely type of
Oriental womanhood, not Cleopatra, but
rather Josephine; but with greater ability
than Josephine displayed in retaining the
affections of the lord of her youth. She is
one of the
MOST NOTABLE WOMEN
that the east has given to history, and
ought to be pre-emlnent over the mediocre
queens of the day and generation.
The visit OF an English theatrical troupe
to Cairo not long after Ismails promotion
to the throne was quite an event in Egyp-
tian society, especially as the physical
nrS tv1a was fhaa in he Iii #
develop neEt, and its living illustrations
were still comparatively youthful Ismail
went and saw and was conquered, more
partic Ilarly by the ample attractions of an
actress known by the stage name Of Clara
Krollgs. Clara, whatever her real name
may have been, was of Irish origin, and
had temper as well as good looks. The offer
made in behalf of lsmail might have daz-
lied more Scrupulous woman, and she
consented to be added to the indefinite list
of royal wives
AT first she was given to understand that
she would be permitted to enjoy some of
the liberties accorded to her sex in western
countries. But Isnail was of too selfish
disposition for this to last, and one day
Clara's black attendant brought her per-
emptory order to confine herself to the
harem. This was
TOO MUCH FOR HER
After the command had been translated
to her the attendant thought for moment
that she was going into a fit. But she
wasn't-at least. it was only a fit of temper
Brushing ASIDE the sable shadow, she darted
from the women's apartments and into the
hall, where lsmail was just then giving an
audience, fortunately for Clara, to the
British envoy. The Khedive was seated
cross-legged on a divan and the envoy near
him, both talking confidentially.
Suddenly a vision in female dress
rushed in, and Ismail felt.himself,,, seized by
the beard.
"I'll teach you, you old reprobate, to try
to make an Egyptian mummy of an Irish
grill" yelled Clara.
The attendants dashed up with drawn
swords, and Clara would soon have been
carved but for the prompt interposition of
the British officer, who saw that the woman
was a fellow subject of the queen. She was
permitted to go unframed, and is possibly
| yet exhibiting her charms upon the variety
| stage. She was a ultana just three weeks.
The painful experience of his beard on that
occasion proved warning to Ismail. Since
that time mo Irish need apply" for adj
mission to his circle of domestic happiness.
| Ismail has, however, one German aud
two Greek wives on his list who have ad-
hered to him, or rather, he 10 them, in all
changes of fortune The German is the
army. who Joined the Moslem religion and
adopted Moslem name. AS she has never
| known a civilized career, the rights enjoyed
by women in her ancestral land, she is as
| sat isfied with her lot as Oriental women
generally.
The two Greeks are sisters, presented to
Isnall when very young by the late Sultan
of Turkey, and there is no reason to believe
them disconnected with their fate. At any
oft bn ~ -Io,.
he removed with his household to Naples,
any and all Of his wives had liberal oppor-
tunity to desert their husband.
ONLY ONE is KNOWN
to have taken advantage of the privilege.
and she was an Arab. now married to a
merchant at Gaeta. Ismail's polygamous
mode of life, it may be mentioned here,
caused no end of trouble in Naples, and it
was in Difference to Italian public opinion as
we'll as to have a whip TO hold over Tewfi K
that the Sultan required the ex-Khedive to
take up his abode under the shadow Of the
Porte.
The Sultan Of Turkey, Abdul Hamid, al
though admittedly a man OF unusual intel
ligeDce and, for a Turk, enlightened ideas
as to his imperial duties, continues to be
eminently Turkish in his domestic circle.
White, or to speak more jrrectly. Euro
pean women form the majority in his mar
rage list, and quite scandal was occa-
stoned not long ago when an appeal was
made to friends In England by a we'll
known English actress OF the lower grade,
who had tried life in the harem and
got tired of it. The sultan does not keep
his wives prisoners. The influence of west
ern civilization is felt in the recesses of the
imperial palace, and the women enjoy a
liberty at which twenty years ago the
chief of the faithful would have stood
aghast. Each lady has her day for receiv-
ing friends, and her name appears on the
outer door Of the apartments reserved for
her special use. She goes abroad in, the
streets attended, of course, but not without
the chance of admiring
AND BEING ADMIRED.
More than one tragedy in Constantinople
in recent years has testified to the truth of
the latter part of the above sentence.
Abdul Hamid had no fairer inmate of his
harem than the mother Of the Princess
Saline. OF Bulgarian origin. this lady at
tracted the attention of q Turkish pasha
who took her by force from her ents and
made her birthday gift to his imperial
master Her original name Is not known,
but her Turkish name signified the Pearl OF
Light, or something TO that effect The
intrigue that led to her fate has been
clearly told, but general gossip in Goa
stantinople is that she smiled on
young Hungarian officer then in the
service OF the sultan, and who had ex-
changed his ancestral religion for that Of