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; . NOON EDITION ONE CENT CAFE DANCING GOES ON TRIAL THE SCHOOL BOARD BUDGET IS CUT SOME MORETOENGES' WIFE TELLS OF "HIGH FINANCE" METHODS THE DAY BOOK An Adless Newspaper, Daily Except Sunday VOL. 4, NO. 134 Chicago, Friday, March 5, 1915 398 WHITE WOMAN JOINS HAREM-SAYS SULTAN'S MATES ARE HAPPIEST Noted French Operatic Star Invades Mysteries ojE; Modern Solomon's Court and Spends Six Months Among 300 Wives of Oriental Potentate . , San Francisco, March 5-The jeal ously guarded mystery and resplen dent orientalism of Java's royal ha rem, which for centuries has piqued the curiosity of the Occident, has at last been invaded by a white woman. She is Mile. Ella Qauthier, noted French operatic singer and world traveler, who recently arrived here after having spent six months as the (, guest' of the sultan of Solo, under special dispensation. As a companion of the powerful soldan's- queen and the ladies of his household, this daring Frenchwoman who has had many thrilling adven tures in the far east was given op portunity to study intimately the life of a potentate whose wives number 300 and whose royal retinue em braces 5G-,6G0- people. she says, "could not have been,' more magnificent. And what struck me most forcibly is the fact that the wives of the sultan's harem are. the happiest of women, getting along amicably with their many loves on 3. minimum of jealousies." It was the spell of music which opened the portals of the sultan's palace to Mile. Gauthier. "My intense admiration for. tke weirdly beautiful Javanese music 'and the sultan's devotion to the firie arts made it possible for me to gain eatre to bis household as a student of ori ental melody," she explained. "At liberty to come and go as I willed, and attended by a host of ser vants, I spent six months in the ha rem under the tutelage of the, prin icesses, who ny betermEd'th'e ujasea i of thjB--woadrfa-eBatgrB-agj' yJi m