The times., 1899-12-31

and Said To BE Considered the
Best-DresScd Woman in Europe.
LISBON. Portugal, Dec. ST is the old
story of shabby geuulity the wide world
over-the more hopelessly down-at-hezl
and out-at-clbow the larger mant Of
/ naughty reserve is needed to cover it,
Therefore, poor, old Portugal puts on more
and more official airs as her poverty in
/ creasss. Always extremely punc,ilious in
/ the smallest details OF court etiquette she
| has drawn the lines ever tighter and tight
| er, while richer monarchies have hean re-
| laXing them in this dawn of the twentieth
century-unul today the Portuguese court
! is by far the most stately and ceremonious
/ in Europe. For an official American TO
| gain audience with the King or Queen is as
/ well-nigh impossible as for the Scriptural
/ rich man to enter the kingdom Of heaven.
| a cat may look at a king, you know, and
! all the world is welcome TO come and shake
/ the hand Of great Americas ruler, at least
on the first day OF the New Year; but ne
/ VINO aspires to gaze at Portuguese royalty
must take his chances with the popu' ace
! on the Lisbon bouIevards. or in the theatre.
| or at one Of the infrequent semi-pub-ic
/ functions in the palace, to which he nay
/ perhaps be admitted through the iuterces-
sion OF the Minister Plenipoteutiary from
this country.
/ Our party has enjoyed all these opportu-
mites. King Carlos ], who is considerably
under forty years Of age, ming es more
I freely with the people than did any OF his
I predecessors, and may often be met in the
+ streets of LisbOn-Ou foot or riding his
/ splendid charger, or in his giitt=ring S ate
4 carriage, whose crimson and gliding re-
minds one Of the regulation circus chariot
The only difficulty is 70 tell the King from
! the courtiers who surround him. He is
/ younger Than most Of them, and his DR., SIS
/ IS decidedly less conspicuous than tn ir
/ bcdizened uniforms. King Charles loot
much as his uncle, Dom Pedro H. OF Bra-
/ I'll, must have looked at the same age-a
I stout, fair haired, bue-eyed young giant
/ the very opposite Of our preconceived no
/ ton Of the swarthy Latin. The trutl is
/ that blondes are almost as numerous as
! 6runettes In the upper classes Of both
/ Spain and Portugal.
The Kings Lineage.
Carlos has French, German, and Ital-
ian blood in his veins, and goodness knows
what other admiXturos, along with the
original Roman Moorish, and Portuguese.
lie is directly descended from the ancient
I house Of Bragauza-a house which the
; Emperor Napoleon officially declared 10 be
extinct, but which yet appears to be very
! much alive. His mother, Marie Pia. was
. the youngest daughter of King Victor
Emanuel Of Italy. His great-gr -grandmoth-
CT was the Archduchess Marie Josepha
daughter Of Emperor Francis I of Aus
triai and among his ancestors We're ANA
liza OF Bavaria, Augustus Charles Eugene
Napoleon Prince Ferdinand of Saxe-C0-
burg Gotha, and scions OF other royal
houses in various parts Of Europe.
BY the way, it is often erroneOusIy stat
"a that Elise HensleT, the English dancer.
was his grandmother. King Ferdinand IT,
his grandfather, after the death OF his
royal ccnsOrt, the famous Marie da Gloria
grandmother Of the present King, NOR
ganatcally married the pretty dancing
girl, and died soon afterward. The late
King. Dom Luis ], was q model monarch
beloved by the people In his grave he
wears the medals bestowed upon MIN by
lac city Of Lisbon and the Humane Sc
ciety. Of OpoTto for his herOism IN that
| Creadful time, a few years ago, when chOl-
. era and yellow fever together rayagcI the
/ capital While the nobility fed and
Z everybody who pCSz enough mil reis
to get away, scattered like rats from a
sinking ship, al the male members of the
royal family stayed by 10 the last-regard-
less Of the experiences Of their relatives
in similar way, in 1861, when Dom Pedro
Y, and his two younger brothers. Dom
ferdcnand and Dom JoaO refusing TO de-
seIL 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 remonstrat-
ed with he replIed My post is where
he hand Of sickness weighs most heavily
and where The sickle is moving down the
flowers OF my subjects. Ny place is be-
] side he suffering and sOrrOWlul; il is for
+ that / am your King"
Dom Luis died in The autumn Of 1889
when his eldest SON. Carlos succeeded to
be throne-not a month before the revoIu-
tiou IN Brazil. 10y which his grea.-u le
thc good Dom Pedro II, was forced TO alb
Gic2te TO the lasting ill-fortune Of tie
, country he had 50 wisely and kindly gov
, erued. Carlos | was then about twenty
, five years old, and he Immediately mar
{ rill tfOr love- one OF the most beautiful
= priuccsses iu Europe. Amelie de Bourbon
daughter Of the COmte de PaTis. Theirs
was a happy romance, rather rare in royal
R I circIrs. whore marriages are susualiy mat
Il ters Of state arrangement. Carlos, the
: Duke Of Braganza. had been very ohsti-
q nate declaring he would ch0ose and WOO a
a wife for himself or he would not wed at
p all. As he ueaTed he end Of his teens
another and another European princess was
4 suggested TO him as suitable partner but
/ in vain. Either he declined altogether &c
= visit the court where the maiden was en-
shrined or, after spending a short time il
o her presence during which lie showed hel
the limited courtesy of dislike, he w0ulJ
i take his departure, more disgustcd thar
S ever with match makers and mad
matches.
i How the scheme Originated.
s Finally a willy friend Of the royal famil,
- the French Countess de Ferronaye, whc
e happened 90 to visit Lisbon at tin,
when The whole Portuguese nation va
mourning the non-maEriageabIe attitude o
its future King suggested a ruse, an,
successfully carried it out Naturally th,
young duke called to see his mother
friend. On her table were many portraits
{, crele-sly scattered about He was particu
e larly struck by The picture OF a bsaufi.u
g girl, and picking il up demanded to know
. her name
ooh. that?" said the Countess indifer
emily. you DO not know her them Tha
n is the Princess Amelie, of Orleans; but th
, portrait IS far from doing her justice.
+ Then with admirable diplomacy the wis