Evening star., 1923-04-25
Descendant of Confucius Venerated
by Countrymen as Student in u. S.

character. There is no doubt. how
ever. that she has been the pioneer
or woman reform in Turkey, and had
already acquired fame as a story
writer, and as novelist. before the
downfall Of Sultan Abdul Hamed.
Indeed. her literary activities were
OF such a sensational character that
ABDUL Hamed. during his brief return
10 power ordered her arrest and her
sentence to death. but she escaped
the fate in store for her by flight
She is no longer in tho first bloom
or youth, nor does she present an
appearance that conveys the inn
preston of romance Indeed. her
persecution by Sultan Abdul Hamed,
on account of her advanced ideas in
dicate that she must be "a woman of
nearer fifty than forty, and in the
near east the fair sex age very rapid
ly. She still remains an important
factor in Ottoman politics by reason
OF her writings. and of her public ut
terances. But she has ceased to en-
ercise any influence on kemal Pasha
since his marriage to his present
young. comely. wealthy and master
full wife. who is very jealous of her
authority over him.
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Moreover, Adnam Bey,. her husband,
who has been recently one of the vice
presidents of the national assembly
at Angora, has never quite recovered
his prestige since he was dismis sse d
from the governorship of onstanti-
nople for having permitted the ex-
sultan to escape from his palace on
board an English man-o-war to seek
refuge, first at Malta and now at
Mecca.
AS graduate of Robert College. at
Constantinople, she speaks English
with the utmost 1uency, and on sew
eral occasions she has contemplated
Britain. in order to deliver a series
OF public addresses and lectures in
behalf Of Turkish nationalisni and
of the Angora regime. But there is a
very great doubt as to whether she
would be well received. owing to the
stories which have been so widely
published here. as in western Europe,
OF her completely and even active
participation in the murders and even
wholesale massacres of the Christian
races OF Syria and of Asia Minor In
deed, 1t is hardly likely that she
would escape the knife or the bullet
Of some Armenian or Greek who had
lost all his property and those most
dear TO him through the cruelty and
barbarity Of the Turks
Although Maj John Jacob Astor,
younger brother of Lord Astor and
who last year put up most OF the
money needed for the restoration of
the London Times into the hands of
the Walter dynasty, is supposed to
make his principal residence at
Hever Castle, in Kent, which his
father, the late Lord Astor, restored
to its medieval condition, utterly re-
CARELESS OF cost and comfort, vet
there Is no place where he feels so
mucn at nome as at Meikelou, the
beautiful old place in Perthhire
Wnich came to his wifes first hus-
band, the late Lord Charles Marine,
who was killed in the war. and which
will descend in the course OF time
to his son, still very small boy.
1t came to Lord Marine through his
mother from Lord Keith, whose
daughter married the Conte de Fla
hault, the lover in his early days Of
Queen Hortense of Holland. There
was no secret made Of this romance
between the queen and the count,
for the pages of the ,Almanach de
Gotha officially describe the late Duo
de Morny as the offspring Of Queen
Hortense de Beauharnais of Holland
and of the Conte de Flahault. one
Of the daughters of the Conte de
the late Marquis of Lansdowns.
father of the present marquis, and
the late Marquis of Lansdowne,
Charles Marine and handed over the
12,000-acre estate of Meike1eur to
him on the occasion of his marriage