The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-07-29

fore. It not only craned it's neck but struggled among itself to catch a fleeting glimpse of the Belgium King, Albert, and his Queen; it bent it's knee to the attractive Prince of Wales; it split it's throat in honoring the good General Joffre.
 But in frantic effort to behold the radiant Princess Fatima, fat, freekled and many times 40, Wash ington broke all previous records. The sister of the reigning ruler of Afghanistan, the Sultana of Kabul. enjoyed the spectacle. She evidently thought the force which animated the unprecedented crowds not curiosity crash and crude, but idolatry, inim- itable and idiotic Washington laughed at her, but she certainly laughed at Washington.
 Stampede at Willard
 Fatima was attended by her three Prince Mohammed Azam Khan and Prince Mohammed Ackbar Khan, and the crown prince of Egypt, Prince Zerdichenois
 When the party first appeared in peacock alley, the New Willard, the 1 alley stampeded. When the party | dined, Washington peeped through
 the portals of the cafe. Others at
 table dropped their knives and forks, and with mouths agape, stared | When the party visited the capitol,
 girls in the offices of representatives and senators leaped from their seats
 and ran pell- mell, headlong. They
 struggled for seats in the galleries, and almost produced a riot It was necessary for policemen to use | ~ .sz ators checked their rambling debate and gazed upward Some members of
 the House broke into impromptu and
 spasmodc applause.
 Like Solomon Arrayed l And the royal party visited the
 White House. A motor car sped up
 to the portals. Out stepped slen- der, swarthy gentleman in modish cutaway coat and silk topper. Then followed three other men, two in
 black, woolly astrakhan caps, the
 third with head wrapped in heavy
 turban.
 l And then appeared gorgeous riot
 of color enveloping a representative
 of feminine royalty. It was the Prin-
 cess Fatima.
 Tourists rambling about the grounds spied the pageantry and lit
 orally ran to the White House door.
 Camera men and movie operators swarmed the portechocheres
 It was a glorious princess. In the right side of her nose, just aft the nostril, she wore a black sapphire. Topping her jet black hair was green ostrich feather, and this was crowned by flowing green veil, dotted with gold. The veil was not | ta the entire
 pink, gold brocaded gown. The gown,
 invidentally, scarcely reached the
 knees Gin Keeping with the custom Of
 the west) and gave an open view or
 green silk stockings. amply filled.
 Gold medallions, suspended from her neck, matched in brilliance her pen dant earrings. Gold appeared again | in the oval buckles of her patent
 leather slippers.
 | Some Cruel Cleverness | On the first appearance of the party at the Willard, and its sitting
 down to dinner, a reporter for the 1 Washington Post wrote an unusuaiiy clever story, not necessarily true in many particulars. At any rate, ne featured the willard cat, and de- clared that because the cat was sacred in the home of the princess' she felt constrained to feed it as table. That she had quickly learned the American pastime of "feeding tne kitty'' was the point of the yarn. He would have escaped wltn ms cleverness but for the fact that the
 sons of the princess are eouca.eu
 men. They read the story it is un
 derstood that there were subsequent Interesting proceedings in the Post | office.
 However this may be-. the Princess
 Fatima entirely captivated Washing
 ton And she was so delighted that l che nrnn1ised to return.