The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1899-12-30
ROYAL HOUSE OF PORTUGAL


Victor Emanuel, stilI the "Glass oil
Fashion" and Said to be the Best
Dressed Woman I'm Europe.
Especial Correspondence of the Journal
and Courier.1
Lisbon, Portugal Dec. 9--It is the old
story of shabby gentilty the wide world
over The more hopelessly down-at-
heel and out-at-elbow, the larger man
Tie OF naughty reserve is needed to COW
er it, Therefore poor old Portugal put
on more and more official airs as her
poverty Increases. Always extremely
punctllious in the smallest detail Of
court etiquette, she has drawn the
lines ever tighter and tighter, while
richer monarchies have been relaxing
them in this dawn of the twentieth
century until to-day the Portuguese
court is by far the most stately and
ceremonious in Europe. For an unof-
fetal American to gain audience with
The king or queen is as well nigh inn
possible as for the scriptural rich man
to enter the kingdom of heaven "A
cat may look at a king" you know,
e'iiNt Gil Lie WOIIu is WPICOIlG 10 COillt
and shake the hand Of great Americas
ruler, at least on the first day of new
year, but he who aspires to gaze at
Portuguese royalty must take his
chances with the populace on the Lis
bon bouleyards, or in the theater, or at
one of the infrequent semi-public func-
tons in the palace to which he may
perhaps be admitted through the inter-
cession of the minister plenipotentiary
from his country. Our party has en-
joyed all these opportunities. King
Carlos l., who is considerably under
forty years of age, mingles more freely
with the people than did any of his pre-
decessors, and may often be met in the
streets of Lisbon, on foot, or riding his
splendid charger or in his glttering
State-carriage, whose crimson and
gliding reminds one of the regulation
circus chariot. The only difficulty is to
tell the king from the courtiers who
surround him. He is younger than
most OF Them and his dress Is decided
ly less conspicuous than their bediz-
zened uniforms King Charles looks
much as his uncle, Dom Pedro II. of
Brazil. must have looked at the same
hge-a stout, fair-haired blue-eyed
young giant, the very antipodes of our
preconceived notion of the swarthy
Latin. The truth is that blondes are
almost as numerous as brunettes in the
upper classes of both Spain and Portu-
gal. Carlos 1. has French, German and
italian blood in his veins and goodness
knows what other admixtures, along
with the original Roman, Moorish and
Portuguese. He is directly descended
from the ancient house of Braganza--a
house which the Emperor Napoleon Of
ficially declared to be extinct, but
which yet appears to be very much
alive. His mother Marie Pa, was the
youngest daughter of King Emanuel of
Italy. His great-grandmothe was the
Archduchess Marie Josepha. daughter
of Emperor Francis I of Austria; and !
among his ancestors was Amalia of |
Bavaria, Augustus Charles Eugene |
Napoleon Prince Ferdinand of Sake |
Coburg Gotha, and scions of other roy !
al houses In various parts Of Europe. |
By the way, it is often enormously |
stated that Elise Hensler, the English |
dancer was his grandmother. x ng |
Ferdinand H., his grandfather, after
the death of his royal consort, the ia
nous Marie da Gloria grandmother of
the present king, morganatically mar
ried the pretty dancing girl and died
soon afterwards. The late king Dom
Luis l.. was a model monarch beloved
by the people. In his grave he wears
eht medals bestowed upon him by the
city of Lisbon and the Humane society
of Oporto for his herosm in that
dreadful time, a few years ago, when
cholera and yellow fever together raw
aged the capital. While the nobility
fled and everybody who possessed
enough mil refs to get away, scattered
like rats from sinking ship, all the
male members of the royal family staid
by to the last, regardless of the expe-
riences of their relatives in similar
way, in 1861, when Dom Pedro ", and
his two younger brothers, Dom Ferdi-
nand and Dom Joao,, refusing to desert
their subjects in time of need, died of
the pestilence. Dom Luis went about
freely among the stricken people in the
worst dens Of the city. When remon-
strated with he replied: my post is
where the hand of sickness weighs
most heavily and where the sickle is
down the flowers of my sub
ects. My place Is beside the suffering
and sorrowful; it is for that am your
King
Dom Luis died in the autumn of 1898,
when his eldest son, Carlos, succeeded
O the throne-not a month before the
evolution in Brazil, by which his great
Uncle, the good Dom Pedro H., was
orced to abdicate, to the lasting i'll
ortune of the country he had so wisely
md kindly governed Carlos I, was
hen about twenty-five years old, and
lie Immediately married (for love), one
# the most beautiful princesses in Eu-
ope, Amelie de Bourbon, daughter of
he Comte de Paris. Theirs was a
Happy romance, rather rare in royal l.
rces, where marriages are usually q
matters of state arrangement, Carlos, b
hen Duke of Braganza, has been very !
Estimate declaring he would choose '
nd WOO wife for himself, or he !
yould not wed at all. AS he neared the '
nd of his teens another and another Il
European princess was suggested TO +
i'm as a suitable partner. but in vain. I
,ither he declined altogether to visit |
he court where the maiden was en- II
nrned, or, after spending a short time Z
1 her presence, during which he q
bowed her the limited courtesy of dis u