Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-02-13

or he takes another tong walk around
/ Laeken where he has enormously i'm
proved the property, or else toward
| Teryueren, where he loves to watch the
fine roads he is making unroll them
selves like white scrolls through the
| Forest de Solgnes, which saw the
| Tassdge Of WeIlington's army. These
links are serving to unite the new and
| fashionable suburb with the city, ana
| will gradually lead the inhabitants to
| establish themselves IN "A fine ana PIC
| turesQue neighborhood.
CONTINUALLY BUYING REAL
ESTATE,
Whatever his faults. and In consider
ing Leopold II, one must remember Go
| paraphrase Burns) "a kings man
| for a that" that no country boasts a
monarch 80 entirely and actively de-
| voted TO the development OF MS KING
dom. He Is especially interested IN
the Improvement Of the three leading
cities Of Brussels Antwerp ana Ostend,
representing as they do wealth, com
merce and fashion Not street IS
planned scarce house designed, That
Leopold II does not consider us suit
! ability, and where private taste runs
| Wild he quietly purchases the property
and improves II according 10 ms own
ideas. The result of this incessant
watchfulness on the kings part is max
ing the chief towns Of Belgium ana es-
pecially Brussels, remarkable for their
flne open spaces, picturesque points OF
view and quaint and artistic buildings
II ia 10 his lnsistence, too, that Brus.
sells viii one day boast that splendid
nile the Mont des Arts where the
capitals art treasures will be suitably
gathered together and better accomlno-
dntlons for exhibitions be provided .
only recently his majesty discovered
that the houses in q new street Which
eventually will replace the well-knoWh
Montague de Ia Cour' were so hlgh
as 10 obstruct a certain view IRON 'he
higher part Of the city. He bought
the houses and the obtruslve stories are
TO be removed. lie IL necessarily buy-
ing property merely TO improve IT, ana
architecture, In which he Is q past
master is with him veritable passion
PLAIN FARE AND PLAIN TRUTHS.
OF late years his majesty has become
devoted TO the automobile lie loNes
TO drive far and fast, ana In some eouIi-
try district TO alight at cottage, anu,
while eating whatever fare is oiiereu, 10
listen 10 the remarks OF the peasants,
who, all unconscious OF the guest
rank. comment on national ana Local
events In n manner often more HOTTEST
than complimentary,
The afternoon walk or drive Is usual
w over by 3 or o'clock, when the
king takes tea or second poule
deau." Another post has by THIS Tune
arrived and business frequently must
again be attended to, The dinner hour
iS d. unless there Is state banquet
the same apartment being used as ior
breakfast. The king and princess dine
| alone. the menu almost invariably con-
slsting OF soup, a light entree, roast
| veal or mutton, a vegetable course,
game and sweets Coffee Is not served
AZ the royal table. After dinner the
| prlncess returns to her apartments
| where she lives very quietly, ike SOME
"sleeping beauty In the wood Inc
king leaves the dinner table for ms
study, where he patiently wades
through the London Times. At 10 10
o'clock, as a rule, Leopold ii, puts his
heard into a silk bag to preserve the
long soft, fine hair from breaking, and
| goes TO bed.
UNFouNDED SCANDALS.
This Woodworking. regular, ascetic
| life has not much In common win that
! OF the gay gallant whom the feuoW
press loves to depict. and II Is PROOF
| that 1.-THE fierce light which beats upon
| throne has been In this case allowed
TO fall through too highly colored glass
to produce a perfectly truthful erect
That the king IL a great admirer OF re-
male beauty Is certain, but his majes-
| ~ Is no longer a young man, ana most
| Of the stories told OF his private life are
nothing but malicious scandal Natur-
ally the gossip about himself has
reached the kings ears, and some en-
Pertaining stories are told Of his amuse-
ment at the character given to him OF a
Don Juan"
when one Of the Socialists spoke Of
| the king In the Belgian parliament as
king Cleopo4d referring TO the sup
| posed affair with Cleo de MerOde, the
| famous Partisan beauty, and the matter
| was brought before the attention OF his
majesty. he only laughed saying: IRE.
| membering my age, my people pay me
| though perhaps unintentlQnally-
very pretty compliment"
Again, when very important person.
age begged him to contradict this Mor-
ode rumor, on the grounds that II not
| refuted Ii would eventually be believed,
| the king smlllngly responded In that
| deliberate manner which gives his ey-
| cry utterance weight "rhey told the
| same story about you, but did not be-
lIeve II but; then / am really your
| friend"
ROUGH ON MABILLE.
one day when the king was walking
| on the bouleyards nc caught sight Of
Partisan paper with an illustration
showing him aflectonately embracing
| n ballet girl The aid de camp endeav-
| ored to get his royal master safely past
| the Objectionable picture, but the king s
keen eye had detected it, and he stop
| ped 10 examine II through his still fod-
| ed eyeglasses, a favorite habit when he
wishes to appear extra critical, Now,
the king has a double In NJ, VALERIE Ma.
| bile of Marlmont, whose resemblance
IL striking, a similarity somewhat
| heightened by an extreme loyalty,
which leads NJ. Mabille to a correspond O..
| Ing taste In dress, When the King had
thoroughly taken IN all the humors OF
the picture, which was more than usu-
ally daring he looked up quietly and
said, with IA wicked CLINT In his eye:
! 81 cannot think why all the comic pa
| pers should be- so down on Mabillc,"
The king doesn't care much about
public opinion and Is fond Of saying,
"Tlme will be our Judge" OF late
years he has been reproached with an
inordinate love Of money, which, II Is