Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1902-11-10
New York World.

New York World.
The American and English residents of
Constantinople were surprised and shock
ed last May at the reported marriage of
Miss Isabel Dunn, the principal of the
preparatory department of the American
College for Women at Scutari, to an Arab
who is a descendant of the Prophet Ma
homet, and who is to be next Emir of
Mecca, the highest religious official in
the Mahometan world.
The Arab husband was formerly a res
ident of Egypt, but on account of the
great influence which his high religious
position gives him over the Arab tribes,
the sultan invited him to reside at Con-
stantinople, where he might be under his
majesty's watchful eye. Since then he
has been a sort of hostage, living at Sou
tart, not far from the American college,
with his wife and children and a large
household of servants, eunuchs and
slaves.
Unlike the ordinary Turkish subject, he
is a progressive man, and about two
years ago he sought an English tutor for
his two sons. Miss Dunn applied for the
position and was accepted.
For an English girl to be employed in
wealthy native family is nothing I'M
usual, and the friends of Miss Dunn
thought nothing more of ii until it was
reported that she had appeared at the
British consulate, renowned her religion
and country and married the father Of
her pupils. A few days later an item in
the Turkish paper said in the usual
stereotyped phrase that Miss Isabel Dunn
had of her own free will embraced Ma
hometanism as the result of conviction,
and had been given a common Mahome-
tan name. The newspapers which men,
toned her strange marriage speculated
as to what the outcome of 1t would be.
The second chapter of the adventure has
now appeared.
Last week a fashionable Turkish we'd
ding took place in the city, and among
the guests was the first wife and other
female members of the household of Miss
Dunns Arab husband. At the same we'd
ding another guest was a well-known
English lady, who is received into the
best Turkish families. and she heard the
story of Miss Dunn as it was told by
the first wife to her sympathizing friends.
Miss Dunn's marriage was at first con-
cealed from the first wife, for one day
her husband brought ASS Dunn to the
house and said that she would remain
there as the tutor for the boys, instead
of returning after their lessons, as usual.
AS a teacher Miss Dunn was kindly re-
ceived and given one of the best rooms
i'm the house, but the intimate relations
which existed between the teacher and
the husband aroused the JeOlOuSy anu
suspicion Of the first wife, who discovered
that it was not a teacher, but rival and
favorite wife that she was entertaining.
Turkish women are not more long
suffering than other women, and trouble
was not long in brewing. Expostula-
ton -zas of no use, for the Mahometan
law of divorce is so simple that an old
wife might suddenly find herself with
out a husband and home, but she had
In, her ncn .
sions such as this a religious law that
no one may become the Emir of Mecca
who has at any time been married to a
woman who has ever had any religion
other than Mahometanism. This was
a poweriu weapon in the wife's hands,
for with it she might ruin the career of
her husband, and Immediately going to
the palace she acquainted the author
ities Of the marriage of her husband TO
a Christian woman and persuaded them
to take action against him.
Tie palace sad .ong been suspicious