FED UP

Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 3, Issue 659, 11 October 1933, Page 2

FED UP

ENGLISH GIRL LOSES HER LIKING OF SHIEKS. ENGLISH CLERKS BETTER "I am fed up with this sheik and cave-man stuff. I am satisfied there 'is more real romance to be found 'with the average young English clerk." This is the frank avowal of Miss Eileen Bo water, a native of Ashton-under-Lyne, who has just sought the 'aid. of the French authorities to faciditate her repatriation after three /years as the "wife" of a sheik in the 'wilds of Morocco. While on a visit to Paris, Miss Bowater made the acquaintances of her •Sheik, and she decided to share his 'life in the Riff country. She went i through the form 'of marriage in ac- ' cordance with the customs of the sheik's tribe., but did not realise until afterwards that she was just one of six wives, not the most important by any means. "I had not been long there," she declares, "before I realised that I was just a slave expected to wait hand and foot on the other, who, according to Moslem law, 'were the real wives of my sheik husband. "There was no lack of the pictur'esque life portrayed on the films, and there was even plenty of the rough stuff that is known in Hollywood parlance as "cave-man stuff. "It was not long before I' was fed • up with' it all and wanted to get 'away, but the legal wives were always here eager to prevent the escape of a woman they had come to 'regard as their servant. ' "I think if the average English girl realised the truth about these unions she would see that all this I sheik and cave-man talk is unwhole"some. "The much-boosted sheik lias no idea of how to treat a white girl." It was stated by the French authorities that when Miss Bo water made her escape she was obliged to wander foodless and barefoot through 'the desert until she stumbled on & French patrol belonging to the Camel 'Section of the Foreign Legion. During the trip across the desert to 'safety the column was attacked in the night and almost overwhelmed. Miss Ro water was actually cap-. tured by the. attacking force, and had she- not been rescued- at once would certainly have been sold as a slave. As the fesult of-her adventure, the .'girl is to find real romance. She Ihas received a proposal of marriage from Lieutenant Rene Nicholas, com;mander of the Camel Section of the Foreign Legion, to whom she owes her escape, and the couple are to be 'married.