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When Anna Leonowens entered the service of the King of Siam, that progressive monarch had 9,000 women in his harem. They lived in a small city adjoining his palace. In the center was a garden and artificial lake, where the princesses bathed and picked water lilies. There was a theater, a gymnasium, a temple where Anna Leonowens taught English. There were blacksmith shops, slave quarters, barracks for the amazon guards. King Mongkut and a few priests were the only men allowed inside its high stone walls...
From 1862 to 1867 Anna Leonowens lived there. When she got out she wrote articles for the Atlantic Monthly, lectured, turned out two forgotten books: The English Governess at the Siamese Court, and The Romance of the Harem. Last week her story was revived...
Royal Progressive. The King was a believer in progress. He even let his wives leave the harem occasionally to go to a cremation. Twice a week, at midnight, the King held a secret council of the San Luang, the Royal Inquisition. This nocturnal Gestapo kept spies in all influential households, kidnapped subjects. It was dreaded. Its members communicated with each other by a stealthy, warning tapping...
...Spaatz's strong feeling for the family relationship in his official life is a reflection of his happy and notably informal family life at home. He is devoted as only an inarticulate, hard-shelled Pennsylvania Dutchman could be to his spritely family of women, fondly known as the "harem." Tooey may be tough on the troops, but with his three daughters he is "weak in the head"-this from no less an authority than his wife, dark-haired, good-looking Ruth Harrison Spaatz...
Spaatz has not yet seen the youngest member of the harem-his five-month-old, redheaded granddaughter-but he was "pleased sick" over the addition, especially because it had turned out to be a girl. His eldest daughter, Katherine ("Tatty"), is in England with a Red Cross club-mobile crew; the rest of the family is living in the big old Spaatz home in Alexandria, Va., near Washington...