The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1895-06-03
LONDON'S WILD AFGHANS.
Nnsrulla Kahn and His Rctinuc Make
Things LIvcly-Thc Prince Shocked at
English Ladies' in Evening Dress.

English Ladies III Evening Dress.
London, June 2-Nasrulla Khan, the
second son of the Ameer Of Afghanis-
tin. who is now visiting England, is
not a social success. When he makes
visits accompanied by some of the
members of his suite he becomes a So
cial anxiety. The natives of the party
live in barbaric style at Dorchester
House, They sleep on mattresses
placed on the floor and cover them
selves with rugs, declining to use the
more comfortable beds. The English
officials who are supervising the party
had to correct their habit of pocketing
the silver plate from the tables of their
entertainers, "A habit which occasioned
considerable more or less adverse com
ment during their stay in India, but
which, ii appears, they were then AL
lowed to follow IL they could escape the
observant eyes of their hosts.
According to the Afghan idea this
plate was intended as present to Mas
rully Khan, and his followers therefore
felt themselves to be at liberty to ap-
propriate 1t to their own use. Nasrulla
Khan can use a knife and fork in eat
ing, but he prefers to use his fingers.
The members Of his suite invariably
use their fingers, disdaining to use the
table implements of civilization.
a pipe-bearer attends Nasrulla Khan,
and at every opportunity he hands to
his master "A pipe loaded with tobacco
strongly charged with opium. The dig
nifty Of the Afghan prince approaches
sulkiress. He is greatly amazed by
the position held by ladies in society
here. and refuses to be reconciled there
to At Lady Tweedmouth's party.
where he first saw large gathering of
ladies in evening dress, he refused To
go into the drawing room and declined
to give Lady 'Lansdowne his arm in
goirg into the supper room. He
scanned Lady Lansdowne attentively.
and then marched several PAGES in
front of her into the supper room. Lady
Lansdowne following, half amused,
half indignant.
NasrulIa and Victoria.
In his audience with the queen, Mas
rulla Khan spoke in broken French, the
queen helping him now and then with
a timely word. He afterward expressed
speaking Hindu to her attendant. Mum
shi Abdul Karin. At the Derby, he
said he supposed it was all arranged
beforehand that the Prince of Wales
should win the first race and the prime
minister the second. He added that it
would have been so in Cabul. The In
dia office allotted $4,000 for the enter.
tainment OF the prince and his suite
This money will be chiefly expended in
presents.
on Thursday the soldiers became so
mutinous that, at an English officers
suggestion, the princess body guard
were allowed out in the park in charge
of Sergeant Rawley of the Eighteenth
Hussals, and on the horses belonging
to that regiment. They We're on parole
and behaved very well, but on the same
evening, when the foot soldiers were
taken out for an airing in a wagonette,
several of them bolted, and the last
straggler was not brought in until the
small hours of the morning. Yester-
day morning an English army surgeon
made an inspection of the stables, with
the result that the whole contingent.
horse, foot and artillery, were taken in
the afternoon in three wagonettes to
st. Georges public baths to perform
much needed ablutions. Mops, pals,
brooms and water hose were briskly
piled at Dorchester house during their
absence.
Next week Prince Nazrulla will start
on his tour of the provinces, and, as IL
would be impossible to take all his peo-
pie with him, the London authorities
are nervously apprehensive of what
may occur when the restraining pres
ence of their prince is removed from
the wild Afghan soldiers.