Foreign News: Voyage of Curiosity

Four buxom wives and 296 concubines have been too many—until lately—for slim, bashful Sidi Mohammed, 19-year-old puppet-Sultan of French Morocco. Last week Paris looked on Sidi with new respect. For one thing Sidi's chin is sprouting. For another since he left Morocco two of the stripling-Sultan's wives have become mothers, and on dit a concubine too. Admiring Parisians cheered ce brave petit papa! Was not the eldest of his ably begotten babes a manchild, born Crown Prince of Morocco?

Sultan Sidi on his last visit to Paris a year ago seemed almost a...

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