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kABAT Is. the present "war-capital"
of Morocco. History .books teach
that Morocco City is the capital of
the country, but the books are wrong;. The
city i tucked away Inland, for to the South
and Ions ago the Sultans found that resi
dence there meant perpetual trouble In
the turbulent North. So they established
thrmsplves in , Fes In the North, and
deputised the governoratUp, of the South.
A weak man cannot hold the country,
however, even front -the Korth, and Abd-n1-A(x
In thA tt-vMLlr riLthpr An ex
ceedingly foolish man. Into a county
of . hard-sllell Mohammedanism he has
Introduced all 'kinds of "toys of . the
rblds the faithful to look on any gra
ven image and this Includes pictures.
But the Sultan not only looks; he -as
tooiight a camera and takes pictures. . He
has .bought: pianos and gramophones,
motof bicycles and moving picture ma
chines. He ilooks upon ' the wine when
it Is sparkling. He hass been seen In
English clothes,, and he Beglects religion.
Worst of all he has endeavored to
.establish civ lilted ways -of V collecting
taxes. Think o the folly of this in
a country where the only part of the
law which is respected Is its strong arm.
His Old father knew better. He farmed
the taxes, and If he thought that ..ie
farmers were not setting up a fair share
he clapped them in jail till they came
to their senses. His gates, too,' were
kept adorned with an array of human
heads which he replenished from time
to time, Just to encourage those whose
heads were still screwed on their shoul
ders. Under the rule of the present Sultan,
the people have defied the taxes and
grown fat. Awy from headquarters
the people have flatly rebelled and taken
the field In armed force, mostly because
they like fighting anyhow, and partly
because they think the Sultan is an
Irregular young profligate. As a part
of their enthuslam they Jiave killed a
few Frenchmen, and so now France has
her armies encamped on Moorish soli.
Pretenders to the throne have risen up
on all sides and worried the Sultan more
than a little. For he cannot afford to
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SOME WELL-TO-DO WOMEN
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HAVE tiled to think what I could
do," said the woman at the con
cert, "and I have found that I
possess one talent. I have a voice and I
want to make themoyt of that. Nothing
else relieves me of the ordinary dally
round of society that I have known all
m v . life. T mnv not hav much of &
talent, as it is. but it Is all 1 have. I
am going to cultivate that therefore until
I make something out of lt."f
Her friends knew that she spent two
hours SjVery day at the piano, had three
lessons a week from her singing teacher.
In addition to perfecting herself In the
languages she thought would be neces
sary to her In attempting to sing. Such
serious devotion to 'her art was not neces
sary, as the young Woman In question
happened to have sufficient Income. Her
. case is typical of th present 'desire .of
New York women to do something.
"I can run oier my list of acquaint
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feed his armies, and he knows that those
who don't take the first chance to bolt
for home will likely as not go over to
the enemy.
The most formidable of the rebels, is
his own brother, Mulai Abdul-Hafid, until
recently Governor In "the South. He has
strong cards In his hand. He is an elder
brother, and born of a lawful "wife."
The young Sultan's mother was a slave
and a foreigner, so that he himself is
a half-breed. He got the throne which
he is frittering away by the whim of
of his father; for in Morocco the ruler
ances," a woman said to the Sun re
porter, "and find that a majority of them
are extremely interested in some kind
of work. I know just ordinary New
York women who do what tho majority
of New York women do and are not
speciallygifted beyond the rest of their
race. Yet I will tell you what their
specialties are. Not long ago they never
thought of doing anything beyond enjoy
ing the ordinary, social pleasures of their
class and thought they were doing their
full duty when they looked after their
homes- and their children.
"One of them who speaks Italian -well
wondered what she could make of that
gift beyond re ailing for her own pleasure.
She had a friend who had established a
school in which Italian girls were taught
sewing and other means of supporting
themselves. Everything about this club
had been a success, but the women who
founded It could never get hold of a
secretary . who was campetent and able
to speak Italian. Here seemed to be
just the chance that this girl wanted, so
she goes three times a week to the school
and spends the greater part of the day
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names his own successor. His brother
Is a thorough Moor, who rules by terror,
and he has promised to restore the old
days of his father, and decorate his
city gates with human heads.
When recently the Sultan heard that
his brother was in flat rebellion, and had
proclaimed himself the true ruler, he
knew that he was up against it. The man
who reached Rabat firstidway between
Fes and Morocco City, and a seaport
of considerable strategical Importance,
would hold the master card.
The Sultan scrape'l up a little money
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there apparently happier than she ever
was. To do such work as that requires
more than ordinary intelligence. In order
that she might not seem to be depriving
of the work some girl who needed - the
money she makes the society pay , her,
and that amount, she divides among the
Italian girls who come there and seem
to be really in poverty.
"I know two women who are Just now
moving heaven and earth to get orders
for household . decoration. Neither has
the least need of money, and what eaeh
wants is to get out of the amateur class.
They think that can be done only by
getting a legitimate order from somebody
to decorate a house. So they haunt the
offices of then- architect friends. It was
a great feather in the cap of one of
them when she succeeded in getting per
mission to decorate several rooms in a
hotel in which her busband was a stock
bolder. She makes a. specialty of the
French school, while the other devotes
her talents to the Italian renaissance.
One of them has decorated her own house
in the Italian style, but as there are lew
ordinary New York homes suited to such
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from somewhere, and at last managed to
set off with an army of several thousand
men. Other recruits were commandeered
to meet him at Rabat, and the friendly
tribes who respected the levy sent in
a riff rail of skulkers, many of whom
deserted, while others were prevented by
being chained together in gangs. The
Sultan actually got started within three
weeks of hearing of the crisis, and
marched nearly two-hundred miles In ten
days. Such unheard of haste had its
penalties: he Had to leave ninety per
cent of his wives behind! With a beg
a .period she Is longing for hotels and
rich men's palaces to'conquer.
"Both these women have husbands and
children and do not neglect their duties
toward them. That is another phase
of the new desire of women to have some
thing that they can do. They seem to be
Jut as efficient with these other duties
on their hands. They have ' even come
to speak Blightly of ffvomen who think
of nothing but society.
"The hardest worked woman I know is
a painter who leaves a beautiful home
early In the morning to spend half u
day in her studio working on portraits.
She never sells any of them, as she has
not yet reached the point at which they
would be good enough, and her husband
probably would not allow her to If she
wanted to dispose of them in that way.
Her ambition is not to make money but
to develop a talent which artists have
assured ' her that she possesses. Two
years before she took her own studio she
went as regularly to the league and to
other classes as if she had been depend
ent on her success for her daily bread.
Another hard worker in my acquaintance,
and a rich girl' at that, makes beautiful
book bindings. She went abroad last
Summer to take a special course of in
struction under a well known teacher in
Paris and stayed all during July and
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garly thirty of them he reached Rabat,
and the other 270, or thereabouts,
straggled In days behind. Under, such
spartan conditions the poor Cultan must
have realized the truth of General Sner
man's famous dictum.
X was at Casablanca, ' with the French
forces when 1 heard that the Sultan
was making for Rabat, and so I took
the coasting steamer going North. Alas
for human hopes. A surf was breaking
on the shore the long swell of the open
Atlantic and no Moroccan wouiu launch
a boat through It I was carried protest-
August alone in the city to complete the
course she wanted to take."
Good works are scarcely to be classed
as a part of this new movement, but Uie
missions in Chinatown, the various Gills'
frlendlles as they are called, and similar
organizations occupy the time of many
women who do not feel that they are
gifted in artistic ways. Those who are
anxious to do something In the musical
or literary field struggle at the piano or
write and rewrite the short stories which
they hope will pt them tn th produc
tive class even if It does not make them
famous. Perhaps the literary ambition
has consumed more women than - any
other, but that passion Is also too historic
to be counted as a sign of - the times.
This new inclination Is, however, resp-i
sfbla for the Increase In the number of
women who read or pretend to read seri
ous works. 4
"I know a girl who used to think of
nothing but her husband, her baby and
her hunters," said the same woman who
who had 'been telling The Sun about the
other woman workers in society.. "Nowadays-shfr
still loves her husband and
her babies, but she has given up the
hunters for Ibsen. She has taken up
Ibsen with the same enthusiasm that
20 years ago one discussed the plays of
the dramatist. The reason of that is the
present tendency for all women to be
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ing to the steamer's destination, and
on the return voyage had the same luck.
A courteous French officer, sympathized
with my plight, and made me a welcome
gueBt on his ship until the surf mod
erated, and I could land.
Thanks to the Sultan's slowness I
reached Rabat soon enough. The town
was all agog for the royal visit. Sold' rs
were swaggering on every street and the
market place was a seething mass of
gossipers. For some distance out from
the city groups of soldiers squatted at
ease, the Guard of Honor awaiting their
serious. The discussions over Ibsen were
confined formerly to women who thought.
Nowadays every woman has to pretend
to think whether she does or not, and
they are going In for serious reading
and thinking after they get to a certain
age.
"Sometimes the efTorts of women to
get in among the workers when they hare
no particular qualification for it Is almost
pathetic The other day I met a girl
who had aLways been popular among her
friends ana had passed the first days of
her enjoyment of social life. She told me
that she had just organized a "hat sale
which was to take place twice a year
according to her plans. . I asked what
In the world had put -such an idea Into
her head.
"I cannot work, you see, with my
brains," she explained. And as all the
girls I- know are doing something I
thought I had to get busy also. I can
not sing or paint or write, so I am going
to trim hats and sell the proceeds for
charity. That will at leant keep me busy
for several months of each year."
, "Thank God,, I am an Ancestor."
George T. Angell In "Our Dumb Ani
mals." A celebrated French marshal, over
hearing some of his younger officers
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OF THE, SuLTAN
chief. He came, followed by an Inter
minable straggling body of camp-follow-ars
and attendants, with camels and
asses innumerable. He reached the city
In good style through a double line of
soldiers frith fixed bayonets. These men
gave a really creditable dicplay, for the
veterans among them have been trained
by the Scotsman, Said Maclean. Dis
gusted and defeated by this lndece-.it
haste, the partisans . of Mulal Abd-ul-Hafld
declared that the trick was quite
unworthy of a descendant of the Prophet,
and sugggested that the Sultan had
hustled to Rabat to be baptized by the
French. To counteract this move the
poor man has become wildly devout, j d
goes to pray in state, surrounded v.y;
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and Arabs and Soudanese, and accom
panied by : the wierdest of barbarous
musio.
Nona of the factions In Morocco seem
to have got down to the fact that thel
day Is about over. The French are the
people with the final say. A quarter
of a century ago France might have en
tered Egypt as partner with England, but
she got scared and backed down. Eng
land's record in that quarter of the world
has been one long success, and when it
was too late France grew wildly jealous.
Now her chance has come. England is
backing her. and Germany gives her a
free hand. She already controls Algiers,
and with Morocco farmed by her, sha
will have a Western Egypt of her own.
At present she is a little dazed to find
the task a bigger one than she expected.
But she is awakening to the tacts, and
won't back down. Just now her chief crop
Is glory, and rather thin at that. i;ut
she looks for something worth while
soon.
Meanwhile, Gtrmany Is content She
Is establishing steamship lines, and pick
ing up dock rights and other concessions
which at present are going cheap. As
long as she can get a good share of the
plums she Is content to let France har
vest them for her.
telling of their great ancestry. Is re
ported to have exclaimed; "Thank God,
I am an ancestor."
- Various organizations of men and
women are now being formed in our
country, the members of whom are de
scendants of somebody who did some
thing which entitled them to special
honor. It seems to me very, important
that these good men and women should
just now be striding to become heroes
and heroines themselves.
' Our country is full of great and ter
rible wrongs. The starvation of mil
lions of cattle on our Western prairies;
the cruel transportation of animals
which makes vast quantities of our
meats ' unfit for use; the enormously
increasing practice of unnecessary anj
cruel vivisections; the fights between
colleges and classes in colleges.
on loothall
where; the
grounds and rlse
enbrmous adultera-
tlons of our
medicines; and
foods, drinks and
a multitude of other
wrongs too numerous to mention, all
furnish an ample field for heroes and
heroines to send their names down to
posterity.
Experts have decided thst the fameus
St. FaHil's Cathedral, In London, Is safe, bo
long as the buildings around It are not dis
turbed, and thus ends a lone controversy.