The Birmingham age-herald., 1907-09-01
By Frank G. Carpenter
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cial business, receiving such audiences and have been arranged for. This takes up the rest of the morning.
 He eats a substantial breakfast at noon. In all his meals he sits down 1t the table and uses a knife. fork and plates Just as we do. He often has guests with him. At other times he dimes alone with his wife and family. After breaK- fast he talks with his friends or family for an hour or SO and then goes out tor another drive in his carriage. At this time he is usually with some member of his court. He may go again to his farms in the afternoon or he may go back to the palace and attend to certain official business there. His dinner is taken at or s. This is served in the French style and is usually eaten in company with guests. By 10 o'clock, or Il at the latest. his highness is ready for bed and is tired enough to sleep like baby.
 Family of the khedive.
 have spoken of the lshedive having but one wife. This is the Princess Ikbal Hanem. whom he married when he was about twenty. She is said to be both ao- complished and beautiful but like all Mohammedan ladies, she leads to large extent a secluded life, and does not ap- pear at the great functions at the pal
 
 grand ball. which Is given to his officials and the foreigners about once year, and to which something like 1500 guests are invited. She Is present. however, all tho same. for she has a curtained chamber which looks down upon the ball room. and the curtains are arranged in such q way that she can see the dancing and flirting while she, herself, is unseen. Her majesty has gorgeous apartments In each of the palaces and she has a little court of her own of which the noble la- dies of Egypt are part.
 The khedive has six children, two boys and four girls. The eldest is the Princess Emina Hanem. who is now twelve. Tho next Is Princess Atiatou-llah Hanem. just about one year younger and tho third is Princess Fathieh Hanem. who was born ten years ago. The fourth child is the heir apparent. He is Prince Mo- hammed Abdul Molein, and he was born February 20. 1899. The next was girl. brought in by the sork on the following September. and two years later came the last baby, a boy, Prince Abdul Keder, born in 1902 The khedive's children are all Of light complexion and they lo.N and dress like Europeans. The khedive has one brother and two sisters, all of whom live in Cairo.
 Well Educated Man.
 The khedive is well educated, as was his father before him. Tewfk Pasha spoke IS good English as I do and tho conversation of our audience of today was carried on in English.
 Abbas Hilmi speaks French, German and English, as well as Turkish and Amabic. He went to school in Vienna at the Theresianum, a college celebrated for the education of princes. It contains, all told. about 300 students. and it has bar ons by the dozens and counts by the score The students all live together on terms of equality and they are under rigid discipline. The tutors watch them day and night, and there is not an hour of their school life when they are fred from restraint. They are taught to box and fence, as well as the ordinary stud les, The young lhedive learned his Ger man, French and English there, and he also studied geography, history, mathe- matics and the natural sciences.
 Later on he was instructed in politics and law and at the same time in mlll- tarv tactics He attended lectures on army organiza ton, military geographN, fortification building and the art of -, and on the whole he has received What would be considered a good all-round training for any monarch. The result IS that in such matters he Is far in advance of most of the officials of this country, | and he is well fitted to represent ths Egyptians in the dual government or Great Britain and Egypt by which they are ruled