The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1892-04-01

linen and bed sheets consisting of huge
gold embroidered crowns and monograms
and holes: doors that would not shut;
windows that would not open, and a la
mentable deficiency of even the most ele-
mentary notions of sanitation and comfort.
So much for the pleasures of life in an
Egyptian palace under the reign of Khe-
dive Tewfik.
The two young princes while under the
care OF Mr.. Butler were among the daily
attendants of the Ali school, founded by
their father and situated on the Abdeen
square, just opposite the Abdeen palace.
Among their schoolmates were some eighty
or hundred other boys, sons Of princes
and pashas. Although intended only for
the children of the rich, the education at
this school was entirely gratuitous, the late
khedive providing for everything, includ-
ing tuition, the natty military uniforms
and very luxurious table. BY the COM
mands of his highness, absolute equality
prevailed among all the pupils, his sons
being treated exactly like the other boys,
and no one being permitted within its pre-
cincts to address them either as prince
or highness. They were full of fun
and merriment in those days, and
most amusingly demure on state oc-
casions. Moreover, they were devoted to
their father, and nothing could be more
touching than the affection displayed in
couple of letters which they wrote to him
while travelling in upper Egypt, and which
he gave me to read. may add that they
were written in English, and commenced
my dear, dear papa"
In 1884, the question arose of sending
them to complete their education at some
scholastic institution in Europe. Natu-
rally the khedive's English friends urged
him to place the boys at Harrow, where
the Duke of Genoa. brother of Queen Mar
guerite Of Italy, had been educated. The
French, on the other hand, insisted that
they would be far better at some Partisan
lycee such as St. Barbe, where King Milan
of Servia and many of the Bourbon princes
had received their training, while Tewfik's
Italian acquaintance clamored that the
boys should be sent to some Milanese or
Paduan college. At length the khedive,
anxious as usual, to compromise matters
and to avoid giving offense to one party
or the other, determined to place his sons
at the famous Theresianum military col
lege at Vienna, where his own intimate
friend young Cherif Bey had been brought
up.
Theresa in the Eighteenth century, the
Theresianum is one of the most remark
able institutions of the kind in Europe
The majority Of the pupils are of princely
rank, and among those who have sat on its
benches have been King Alfonso XII Of
Spain and his cousin and rival, Don Carlos,
Duke Of Madrid. 1t is there that the two
young princes have spent the last five
years, the first three being passed in the
SO called "gymnase," or lower school, and
the last two in the higher school, which is
known as 'the Oriental academy" They
were subjected to the same severe military
discipline as the other pupils, and it has
only been during the last few months that
any exceptional privileges and exemptions
were accorded to them.
Each summer, as soon as the school closed |
for the annual holiday, the two boys
started on tour, attended by a large
suite specially dispatched from Cairo for
the purpose of accompanying them. Dur
ing the course of these summer tours they |
have visited France, Spain, Portugal, Italy, |
Scandinavia, Germany, Holland, Switzer-
land, Russia and England. 1t was while |
In London that they became much inter
ested in and attracted by the merry little |
American humorist, Marshall p Wilder, |
w ohcy pItScIUtu DtlOTe leaving
England a very handsomely mounted cane |
as token of their regard
1t Is difficult as yet to predict what in
fluences will predominant over the young
Khedive Abbas, but in my opinion they
will be those of his mother, the khediviah,
q woman of singularly strong character
and forcible mind. 1t was she who abso-
futely controlled her husband, Tewfik, and
who from motives of farsighted policy
him, sometimes sorely against
his will, to remain loyal to Great Britain.
She Is a princess of high principle, utterly
unlike the ordinary woman of the Levant.
md under her guidance young Abbas, an
ndolent, easy going and affectionate youth,
q likely to keep on the straight track, both
~ regards loyalty to Great Britain IN wen
y Difference to the opinion of the civilized
world. Ex-DIPLoMATIU.