Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1912 — SAYS DON’T WED ORIENTAL [ARTICLE]

SAYS DON’T WED ORIENTAL

Princess Hassan Points Out Fatal Mistake After Five Years’ Trial. New York. —“Neves marry an Oriental —it’s a fatal mistake,” said the beautiful Princess Hassan, who, before her marriage to a cousin pf the khedive of Egypt, was Miss Ola Humphrey of California, an actress. After five years* absence from her native land, the princess has arrived from her home in London and she will remain a few days at the Knickerbocker before going to join her mother in Oakland, Cal. ; The princess spoke feelingly and somewhat knowingly, on the subject of marriages between members of the Oriental and Occidental nations, for her life as a member of the khedive’s immediate family was one that waafar from romantic and happy. “To begin with,” she said, “an American girl la far too Independently brought up and too spoiled by her own countrymen to be dominated in the manner an Oriental expects his wife to be. Yen see, my meeting with the Prince Hassan was so romantic and I was so overpowered by bls great manner and his magnificence that I married him Impulsively after two months’ courtship. “I have always been Impulsive and I shall always be so. My marriage with Prince Hassan should have taken sdme of that quality out of me, but it hasn’t „ “I know, however, enough to give advice to other and the advice Is never to marry people of Oriental origin or with Oriental strains

in the blood. They can neven-under-stand each other and the woman will be the one who suffers." I The princess was wonderfully at* tired in a new Parisian frock and ermine toque trimmeiF with sweeping aigrettes. The Skirt of the frock, by the way, was made simply of a-wide border of lace over nothing but chiffon. No petticoats were worn underneath. “All the frocks are made In that fashion in Paris and London now f and no petticoats are worn,” she added.