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...purely Jewish as their husbands). Julius turned up with an English wife and a new name: Justin Marmaduke Gooderson. Papa Mayer and Son Pincus shook their heads but made the best of it. But when Son David-Yusel came to town disguised by his wife as the Mohammedan Prince Yusef ben Mameluke, the shock was too much for his father. Whether or not he had died laughing, he left his chief blessing to the honest son who still rejoiced in his given name of Pincus Marmelstein...
...Sultan. "The Sultan is dead. . . ." Death came last week to Mulai Yusef, Sultan of the Shereefian Empire (Morocco), 36th lineal descendant of Ali, cousin and brother-in-law of the Prophet Mohammed. The Sultan died in the 48th year of his life and the 16th of his reign from a violent attack of uremia (his kidneys could not strain off blood poisons), his demise taking place in the Imperial Palace at Fez, one of the four Imperial Capitals...
...absolute monarch, although in practice the French governed for him under the protectorate they exercise over Morocco. He was aged 30 when his brother, abdicating, nominated him as his successor, a choice that the College of Ulemas (wise men, meaning the Mohammedan religious heirarchy) seconded. But Mulai Yusef had had no thoughts of ruling Morocco and thus without any training orexperience he found himself walking under the Shereefian umbrella, the symbol of power in Morocco (equivalent to the sceptre in occidental countries...
Next day, cheered by the hundreds of Mohammedans resident at Paris, Mulai Yusef dedicated the first Mosque to be erected in France. Gazing proudly about he remarked with satisfaction that all women present were veiled, conducted themselves with decorum...
Banqueted by M. le President, Mulai Yusef, mindful of the Koran, sipped iced tea from a champagne glass...