The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1906-04-07
SATURDAY, april Z, 1906.

Paris. April SAN Oriental potent
ate who has 100 dancing girls is put
ting the. French protocol to much em-
barrassment. ..,
He is Sisavah, brother and sue
cessor to Norodom, who died two years
ago, but who vas burned and finally
disposed OF only last month. Now the
1 new King OF Cambodgia, having full
/ filled all his pious duties, comes on an
foftiicial visit to the gay French capital
the capital of his Portectorate.
There are political reasons why he
should be treated with much honor;
and the government will either lodge
him in some palace or rent one floor
of swell hotel for him and his suite;
but will one palace or one floor
suffice?
\ It's the suite of Sisayath's Ministers
that cause the mbarrassment--thou
they be. jewel-studded artistocrats In
broadcloth and gold BRAID. and 60
barefoot. and do not wear pants.
Nor do I refer to the mysterious
Three Bakous, guardians of the Sacred
Sword, lineal descendants of Brahma
himself and the three most pure blood
ed aristocrats of the world entire al
though they fall into embarrassing
cataleptic ats. 'l. =
The true embarrassment consists Of
just 100 of the daintiest buds Of
Oriental femininity the West ever
dreamed of. Three of them are ST.
savaths own daughters; five are his
grandaughters; three are his wives.-
all royal Processes, and the rest are
his fayorites In varying degrees.
All ara auch ir0naNmmoto 1lff1o
artistes, such perfumed little flowers
Of grace and beauty, and such learned
little reciters of Gambodgian classics
that King Sisavath cannot get on with
out them-so he brings them.
They came In the early part of May,
q whole Messageres liner being char
tered for the transport from Cam
bodgia, that Indo- China kingdom ly-.
Ing between Siam, AMMAN and French
Cochin China. 1t is mysterious old
kingdom, terribly depopulated by un-
ending wars and filled with noble
\ castles and great temples very much
In ruins. But between the sixth and
the eleventh notwithstanding 500
years of golden period theat ended
when William, the Norman, was con-
quering Observation-Disclosures was a,
mighty realm of riches and culture
covering great parts of present-day
Siam, AMMAN and Cochin China. It
was the Khmar empire of Asiatic leg
end; and its line of princes, terminal
ing for the moment In Sisaveth the
sport, still possesses diamonds, emer-
aids and rubies that would make even
the Shah Of Persia sit up and be SUR,
prised.
Partisan interest, naturally, CEN
ters In the 100 dancing girls. No
such Oriental blossoms Of young
beauty and old culture have never
before been seen in Europe.
japanese geisha girls are clumsy.
empty-headed little parvenues be-
side them. Theirs is tradition that
dates back through a thousand years
Of palace culture to period of light
and sweetness whose beginnings are
lost In the mists of time.
These girls. In whose. veins runs
the blood Of a thousand princes of
Cambodgia, whose maternal lire goes
back through countless delicate and
learned little artisties like themselves
have qualities that are extraordinary.
Their bones are as flexible as steel
springs. They have q dislocation, of
the hands and wrists that lets their
fingers bend back and touch the fore
arm. Their elbows are dislocated
like their wrists. their shoulders