New-York tribune., 1922-11-26
Abdul Medtd EGendi, Hish His Daughter


Abdul Medjid EFendi,
cemeteries. And as the road you travel
mounts the shoulder of the hill the
view becomes incompatible, both over
the sea and over the strait.
"There were walls, not IN the least
forbidding. A very large gate. A frame
house, simple in appearance. 1t is
called serial, because a prince of the
blood Of Osman lives there. 1t could
we'll be called villa.
"Theror were aides de~camp, secre-
taries and servants-a miniature court
The auto which brought me--the
princes own = stopped short at the
foot OF a fight of steps. There was a
gallery overhead. Some one stood in
the gallery, leaning carelessly over the
rail- and waved hand at me as one
waves TO an old friend.
| GA minute later was in the pres
ence of the heir to the Turkish throne
He insisted, first of all, that should
take cigarette, although he himself
does not care for smoking.
/ Il saw man of fine bearing tall
solid and smiling Beneath high
! forehead eyes Of azure blue shonc
good-naturedly. His gray trousers anl
! coat were in the latest style. A Euro
gean prince, certainly! He'can1e up -
me and held out lis hand. And while
addressed him as onseigneur and
Your Imperial Highness, he. even more
amiable than l was correct, addressed
ME cordially as my friend
Setting Was as Magnificent
OF That of Arabian Nights
"About US was setting like that oil
the Arabian Nights. The princes pri-
vate salon was cabinet of porcclains
which | believed TO be Persian. But
he undeceived me.
"Tt is modern. designed all these
pieces and friends of mine have worke ]
them out--good friends my potters Of
Kutaya. Alas! have been unable 20
get any news Of them since the Greeks
occupied the city.
L"Mustapha Kemal Pasha had not yet
reconquered it.
"'And these Greeks, my dear friend
the prince resumed. 'You know them.'
81 was thinking: Here is a prince
who proclaims himself the friend Of
simple workmen,-the friend Of the
workers Of his country. II ever peace
comes and il ever this prince becomes
emperor The Orient can perhaps give
the Occidert useful lessons in solving
the social problem
"a few days later took breakfast at
the princes table. had beside me His
Imperial Highness Prince FnTrouk. ell
dest son Of Abdul Mediid Ifendi-a q
captain in the Turkish army, one OF
the handsomest young men I have ever
seen in my life. Prince Farrouk is
married. He welded one Of the daueh-
ters of Sultan Mohammed VI, and so is
very close to the throne. No one could
be simpler or more cordial than this
young man, who may be emperor some
day and whose descent is traced back
eight centuries. No one could be more
gracious, more delicate, more imperial,
also, than his younger sister-thc Soy
ereign Pearl, to translate her Turkish
name into our language. The Sow
ereign Pearl, daughter OF Abdul Medjid
II, is thirteen years old and men have
still the right to see her without veil
although III the harem at Tchanllidja
the old usages are respected, as much
through prudence as through Koranic
scruples.
'''The breakfast over. we took 4 stroll,
Abdul Mediid Efendi and /, in the
beautiful English park which surrounds
the serial.
"'Do you know he said to me, that
have tanned the nightingales and the
goldfshe 1t Is as tell you. The gold
Ash in the bio fountain come to ess
out Of my hand when call them. And
the nightingales in the park do not
stop singing when take my seat ua-
der the trees or the hedges in which
they happen to be-
"He smiled an irres;stible smile
II answered.
Your Imperial IHghness has tanned
all the Turks and all tho foreigners
whom he wished to tame.
"He shook his head.
II have rot tanned the Greek or
the English
Il replied:
Your Highness expressed his opin-
ion just now OF the Creeks and share
it. AS TO the English, who lord il over
Constantiuople with srsch malice and