The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-07
< H.ED|vE A.BB.AS
TAKES NEW WIFE !.
Cairene Society Shocked at the
Sensational Marriage
Venture.
.LADY's Ros.EATE PAST!
Her Escapadcs Include a Divorce
and a Lively Stage
Career.
LADY's R.os.EATsE PAST
Her Escapadcs Include a Divorce

lllA q ASlVSAy SluS 81 sA5a4-I
Career.
ny "a MAI,auIsE DE roNTENoy.
= HED1vE ABBAss has created no
among his own people. but also
= = - in the foreign diplomatic corps
and in cosmopolitan society, ny MS
sensati9na marriage win thn
Ilfngspor, OF the Sixth Regiment or
Artillery OF the Austrian army TOR the
lady In question:. who IS by birth q
In OF the former secretary OF the Aus
TRAN embassy at washington. Count
Alexander Torok has been living for
the last t hr Sheyy faT1 p In vi
beh, in the outskirts Of Cairo, under
the protection OF the Khedive. Her
position at Cairo was so equivocal
and OF the foreign colony declined to
hold any sort of intercourse with her.
most relentless fashion. but subjected
ciety. the women OF which were en-
| couraged thereto by the knowledge
that their attitude towards the bar
oness was a source Of satisfaction to
| the wife OF the Khedive.
| Now the situation has changed in
a manner that has taken most pco-
pie by surprise. for tho baroness. find
Ing her position altogether intoler-
able, succeeded in persuading the Khe-
dive to legitimize their relations by
means of marriage. in the face of
the bitterest opposition Of the Khe-
=diviah., The baroness has now boz
come tho second lawful wife OF the
him four-and as his fayorite consort
she will naturally take precedence and
prove a much more Influential person
age than lkbal ~. Hanem. his first lant VIE.
such. all the ladies' of the foreign
diplomatic corps, and. the wives Of the
foreign and native dignitaries In the
viii b be o obliged t e pay Homage and
court to her and to attend her recep..
tons. for the wives Of the ruler :, OF
Egypt hold courts very much Ike
difference. that men are. excluded
therefrom, and until foreign woman
at Cairo has been presented to the
consorts and especially to the fayorlte
receptions by the wife Of the envoy
OF her country, or by the doyenne of
the diplomatic corps: she is barred
rom hna axclu an fr1 a
The ENJOYS wives end the better
halves Of all the. English and other
foreign officials OF the khedtvial ser
swallow, to make obeisance and to
treat with Difference the baroness;
who until the other day was looked
| upon by them as something very
much akin to an outcast.
Once on the Stage.
Nor are matters rendered more easy
4 existence Of tho new Khedivlah be-
i fore she came to Cairo was of a some
what stormy character; Her ,I moshe 7,
A Vetter Won der Lille. after divorcine
J. Count Joseph Torok. Governor of the
;. Province OF Ungvar. married the We'll.
Known Magyar engineer. 4, Th ,soae,ry
as the Spoken Newspaper at Pesth
, an organ Of the press which provide.
!. its subscribers. not with any readlns
!, nicated by telephone. Puskas is.dead
i and since then his widow has taker
to herself third husband, certain
Charles Cserna. Her daughter Count.
mothers second husband intolerable
i left her home and went, first OF all, on
to the concert platform as q pianist anl
and then on to the stage .a 3, Mn ,ll sa as
I sensational quarrcls with her man.
ayers, and through her. outbursts OF
\ temper against the critics and the
public, than through her art. Mos Most
outside of Austria. with ups and and
downs. especially the latter. and she
4 was often In extremely strattened. cir.
cumstances both prior and subsequent Tue,
u to her marriage in 1895 TO Baron Null
i Ter. union speedily sundered py IL
Ilvorce.
i Pesth, In the Hotel Hungaria, that she
i first attracted the attention Of the
IShedivc, and three years ago ct his ms
Instance, she took up her abode 5,e at
Koubbeh. where she e, has been G ccn1n
J. panied him on his annual trip TO
), Europe. She is q very handsome Wo.
man Of thirty-six, that IS to say, OF
!; before the marriage became a convert
!, to Islam, taking the name OF sopei a
!. in lieu OF that Of Marianne. which she
!. had received at her Roman Cathoilc
!, recent phi grimage Of the fhediye tG
Mecca and Medina, which has had
l tho effect OF enormously increasing MS
4 prestige and popularity among lne
J largely for the purpose Of silencing
a obiections which might otherwise have
been made to his marriage With
\ foreigner.
. understand. from Cairo that the
: new Khediviah has had one poWerLua
> | friend, who has been OF great assist
I ance in the events Of the last wv
months namely; the n s3arfi Woman Woman
T who completely dominated her hus
Q band, the late Nhedive Tewf1k, and
O princess OF the reigning house OF Tur
: key by birth. hoped. when her SO
a came to the throne. to dominate M
: in the same way that she had doml
9 mated his father. With this object !
view, she discouraged the Idea OF NJ
q marriage to a woman Of princely ran
"a and placed several Of her own an
faIrest Circassian slaves. that Is I
say, women supposed to be W ,l !, y
: any education or intellect, az ms Gi y
g Dosal for the formation.of his seraEi u
e When tho prettiest%of them, lKpni pa, I1 q
= nem, presented him with eng. =
. wns SO delighted that, to- the inalsna
9 tion Of his mother and or az ms lem en-
g mine relatives, he mGrried lne Ei ~
= and not long afterwards invested . ne l
e With VIE the rank and all the provocative
J; OF a Khediviah. She obtained a. zoo,
9 deal OF influence over hhr husb an ~
= thnt Of his mo Their waning IN pro
portion thereto and the result wa
that considerable enmity ensued be
tween tho two women.
n When tho Hungarian baroness mrs
t appeared on the horizon, the tprinc 8
: mother did not conceal her salts rae
!, ton, seeing In her sons infatuation !, 70 9
s the lady her own revenge upon no
e daughter-in law, that Is 70 say. upol
: hn- efornarE slave, who had been rSilS