The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-04-07
BY Ia MARQUIsE DE FoNTENOY.
I-IfrAN MAIJTlNfE,,r'S action IN no

ULTAN MAHOMET'S action in be
/ slowing one of the sixteen year
IA old princesses of the imperial fam.
/ lily of Turkey in marriage upor
Enycr Bey is, although great honor
| nevertheless one which cannot be alto,
gether welcome to this extremely level
| headed young officer. who, now military
| attache Of the Ottoman embassy a,
| Berlin. is still regarded as leader OF
the military element of the Young Turk
party AT Constantinople. In fact. En-
yer was the moving spiri, and the
brains of The military pronunciamento
| that eXtorted constitution from Alb
/ dul Hamid and which put an end TO
the rule of The infamous Yildiz Kiosque
ring. Although the highest Offices
were within his grasp, and he could
have had the portfolio of minister or
the grade of general, he declined
everything of the kind refused even
promotion TO a colonelcy. and returned
10 his post as military attache of the
former grade OF major When Abdul
Hamid attempted the coup detat last
spring, which resulted in his depcsi-
ton. Enver FASTENED from Berlin to
Salonica and assisted the generalissimo,
Shefket sPasha, in placing Mahomet V
on the throne. again returning quietly
to Berlin as soon as his task was COM
pleted In spite of all that has been
Il
party still remains the power behind
the throne, and the present Sultan.
aware of It's strength and of the fact
that 1t is subject to the direction OF
at Berlin, wishes to assure himself
against being deposed In his turn by
allying the young officer in a matrimo-
NAL sense to the imperial family.
When the Sultan thus bcstows
princess Of his house upon one Of his
subjects it is officially regarded as so
great an honor that 1t cannot be de-
clined under any circumstances. no
matter whether the lady is homely or
good looking, shrewish or good tenn
pered, old or young. At the same time
EnNer must know perfectly well that
the men thus distinguished by the SOW
creign are always regarded with a GER
tain amount of contempt by the people
they may heretofore have possessed.
They are known as "Damads" which
has hecome almost term of contempt.
Moreover when Moslem weds a
ceases TO be master in his own house
and even in his harem 1t is she and
not he who is supreme. and while she
often may give him cause for jealousy.
wife or even odalisque in hiss'seraglio.
He is condemned TO monogamy, in
spite of the fact that Koran comedies
four wives to the true believer.
fix, Il Hamy Pasha, found this out to |
his cost. For married to one of the |
most imperious daughters of Sultan |
Medjed. she took such exception to his |
having shown some signs of admiration
for young girl among her attendants |
hat one day she caused to be placed |
before him a silver dish, on which.
when the cover was removed. he saw
he severed head of The unfortunate
odalisque. That taught him lesson of
and it has always been my /
that II Khedive Tewhk was
! strict inonogamlst and was the most
'aithful of husbands, 1t was because
MS terrible and cruel old mother In
aw lived most or the year at Cairo I
With her daughter, the Khediviah, and
hat he probably feared that the lat
or might have possibly inherited some
# the maternal decision of character,
Under tho circumstances it is easy
o understand that although the prin-
,ess aftianced by the Sultan to rEnver
3ey is quite young and Is beautiful,
he major has requested that the mar
'lage might be delayed for two years,
n order that he might complete his
ducation abroad and render himself
more fit for the honor In store for him.
n two years time there Is much that
nay happen, and before 1912 possibly
lie may be able to evade the projected
rin1nnial a alliance