Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-28

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NE way has married His Highness Sir
Ibraim, Sultan of Johore, in
Malaysia.
The sultan has bright gold teeth that shine
in his dusky face. Once upon time they were
inlaid with diamonds but the diamonds have
been removed now But he still has glittering
grin.
He has the privilege of chopping of his
subjects heads whenever they get on his nerves.
And he has killed more tigers than any other
man i'm the world
He usually gets anything he goes after, so
when he decided not long ago that he would
like to marry Mrs. Wilson he had his servants
pack up his clothes and he set out to propose.
There was whole ocean between the dusky-
skinned ruler and the Anglo-Saxon woman, but
the sultan decided that at least he would do
his best to make the East and West meet.
There is nice romance as YOU ever read
back of the whole story, too.
or course It isn't 80 unusual now for white
women to marry the potentates Of the
brown-skinned races.
Last year the Aga Khan, one Of the richest
men in india a ruler without territory, but a
mighty prince because he Is the spiritual head
of a great sect of the Moslem Church, married
q pretty French girl, his first wife also having
been a European, an Italian
The Maharajah of Indore, who resigned his
dancing girl married Nancy Miller, an Anneri-
can. They have two children now and are
living contentedly IN Europe.
The Maharajah of Darbhanga married a
Spanish dancer, while the late Rajah Of Pudu-
kota married a beautiful girl of Australia, settled
down in Paris and lived the rest of his life
there.
One OF the princes Of Bhopal fell in love with
q pretty waitress at the Wembey Exposition
in London several years ago and married her.
They are now living happily in Bhopal.
The Sultan of JohOre used to be known as
playboy. He was just another wild young man
from the East, who had taken an apartment in
Paris while he was being educated in England
SO all the gossips said. Anyway, he was out to
have a good time and he had it.
Then the Sultan Abu-Bakar died. The
country needed money and needed it badly.
Abrahim was the oldest son. The government
made him come home, put a crown on his head
and asked him What he was going to do about
it.
LIE decided that he would 60 to work. Rubber
had been planted in some Of the neighbor-
ing Malay states and he decided that Johore
should be able to produce crops that were just
as good. II he could get financial backing he
would give his country q sound economic basis
Then he would have enough money to enjoy
life again.
The FIRST bank refused him a loan. 1t didn't
know that he had keen intelligence under
his charming grin and gay manner. The Sec
ond bank took him UP. As q result Johore Is
one of the richest countries in the world, con-
sidering its size, and every one has had to admit
that Ibrahlm would have been a splendid capt.
talist if he hadn't been a king.
Two years before his accession to the throne
the sultan married his cousin. Princess Maim-
oonah, by whom he had two sons, the oldest of
whom, Prince Ismail Tunku Mahkota, is heir
to the throne. The younger boy studied vet
Urinary surgery in England and went out to
Malaysia to practice, being employed by the
British government.
The sultan wasn't taking his affairs so seri-
ously that he wasn't enjoying life. What was
the use Of being prosperous If he couldn't play?'
While stin only heir to the Sultanate he
played around with English and Australian
crack jockeys on the Island Of Singapore. They
taught him all there is to be known about fine
horse flesh He has been mad about horses
ever since. At one Of his estates in Johore he
has one OF the finest collections Of Arabian race
horses in the world He not only superintends
their breeding, but trains them himself.