Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1893-12-04
MISS MIGHELL'S SULTAN LOVER.
He Sailed Away on a Gallant Bark and
Left the Lady Behind.

He Sailed Away on n Gallant Bark and
Left the Lady Behind.
Young women who dream rose-colored
dreams of ensnaring susceptible masculine
royalty, says the New York Sun. ought tc
read the sad story OF Miss Jenny MICHEL
and the Sultan of Johore.
Miss Mighell. in spite OF her name is 9
prepossessing young English person. and is
the more to be pitied in the affair because
not knowing the gentleman from Johore tc
be sultan. she was not influenced by any
ambitious desire to become a sultaness. No,
being familiar with the blue book of Johore
she did not even dream that the dark gen
tleman who was introduced to her as Mr.
Albert Baker was none other than his
Royal Highness Abubakar
1t was in 1885, and the susceptible sultar
was living in England under this assumed
name. In an unhappy moment he fell a vic
tim to the charms of Miss Jenny Mighell
| and under the influence OF real oriental
| passion. such as is common in Johorear
sultans, he proposed and was accepted.
All. happy Miss Mighel! and thrice happy
Sultan Abubakar!
For several months the two young people
| billed and cooed and called each other Jenny
and Albert once in a while, and a good
Miss Mighell assured Mr. Albert Baker that
he was her king" and his royal highness
who relishes a little joke now and then
would ask her. with twinkle in his coal
black eye. whether she wouldn't rather have
| him sultan than a king
"Or even a maharajah?' the toyial Joho.
rean would say.
And so they made love with much lest
put more earnest, for some time; and finally
/
the discovery to Miss Jenny Mighell that
| she was a prospective sutaness! She was
staggered at first But she had borne ur
TOO long under the name of Mighell not to
De able to recuperate quickly. She taxed
her lover with the fact that he was a sultan
In good and regular standing, and he mod
esty admitted that he was Not only that
put ne gave the astonished young woman to
understand that the royal palace at Johore
was none too good a setting for so bright a
gem as She
This was probably true. The mistake
winch the hotheaded sultan made was in
giving Miss Jenny to understand that she
should ornament the palace as soon as the
painters and paperhangers were throughwith
IL, or something of that sort. He bound her
over TO silence concerning his identity, and
she' being doubtless aware that such dis
covery, II made public might get her more
rivals than even a Mighell would care to
stand up against, yielded. But, of course
tnat old not prevent her from putting a
act or sitting on throne: or from gracious
ly salutinS her imaginary subjects as she
stood before her mirror.
But In the midst of her rosiest dreams of
her sultanesque future cruel awakening
came to Miss Jenny Mighell. His Royal
Highness Abubakar, whom Jenny had ten
derby christened "Bubby," for short, sailed
away to Johore, or some other place. and
did not take his bride-to-be with him. Jenny
waited In vain. Her absent sultan did not
return.
At last the wigged lawyers and justices OF
the queens bench division of the high court
OF justice put on their spectacles and opened
the papers in the case of Miss Jenny Mig
hell VS.. the Sultan OF Johore." 1t was for
breach of promise but the oriental lover de-
clined to answer the affidavit OF the lady
The lawyers put their wigs together over It,
and finally 1t was decided that royalty may
firt to its hearts content, even to the ex-
tent of inviting a lady to be a sultaness,
without being bound to ful1ll the promises
that may be incidentally made.
And so the susceptible sultan Is still at
large, making coal-black eyes at whomso-
ever pleases his royal fancy. American girls
are hereby warned against a dark gentle
man with winning ways, a subtle air OF
royalty and the name OF Mr.. Albert Baker.