The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-07-13
KHEDIvE OF EGYPT, 3s TOMORROW, INFATUATED
 WITH AUSTRIAN WIFE

Abbas Pasha, Khedive of Egypt. Hhirty-eight years : old tomorrow, is not the least of the problems that Lord Kitchener has to deal with in his administration of that country. The preticaily, the Khedive has about as much to do with the government of the worlds oldest country as I have. Actually he exerts considerable ir1- 9luence over his dusky subjects. In the Egyptian heart slumbers deadly hatred of the foreigner and his rule and his religion. Peace and prOsperi- ty now smile on the nation on the Nile The actions of the Khedive may to continue. or whether there shall ba a repitition of the nationalist re- belln0ri. of three decades ago, when Arabf Pasha's revolution eliminated in the battle of Telle-Kebir,f the bomb bErdment of Alexandria, and the ec- cupation by the military of the Khedediviate.
 . Cherchez Ia femme-look for the woman-and we find her in Countess Toeroek, the Hungarian adventures Esendes, and who now occupies the harem of Egypt as his favorite wife. She it is who may bring war and misery on Egypt. Through her in- fluence may the slumbrous Nile be einged with the red of blood.
 
 and came to the throne twenty years ago. His father had been progressive in spirit, and Abbas Pasha, educated in Vienna anc European in tastes, was expected to follow in his, footsteps. He introduced many European inno- vations, fostered the arts and sciences and was for many years content with one wife The Khedivah was a for mer slave, Circassian beauty of the type SO highly favored by Moslems. -L xl-- harem, and in 1899 bore the Khedive an heir, Prince Mohammed Abdul Moneim. She had been given to the Khedive as playmate by the Sultan of Turkey, and the affection they early entertained for each other seem stately, dignified, the Khedivah was a beautiful woman, and admirably fit- ted to her role.
 Cherchez Ia feTnme-the serpent in this Eden of connubiSd bliss. In Temes- var, Hungary. some forty years ago, was born. Of her young womanhood the least said the better She was beautiful, and she had a voice She secured musical education, although her method did not meet with the approval of the wife of the director of the conservatory where she studied. Her face and voice attracted the at- tention of Count Albin Toeroesk de Szendro. a Hungarian noble. Him she married The Count died in a mad house. Enough for him.
 Tn 1900 the merry Countess met the Khedive in Vienna. The ruler became infatuated with the woman, and in- vited her to visit him at his harem. The Countess accepted, and found harem life to her liking. She easily suppIanted the Circassian beauty in the heart of the Khedive, who took the lovely adventures for his lawful welded wife
 Since then domestic discord has reigned in the harem. The Khedivah fought. valiantly for her rights and those of her children. The Hungarian woman. become a convert to Islam. demanded first place in the Khedive's s court, as well as in his affections. Her spouse, eager to please, has sought to fulfill her wishes. Thus began a do- u1estic warfare that may yet involve a whole people, and make Egypt tenn porarily an unhealthful place of resi- dance for Europeans.