The San Francisco call., 1910-12-04
FRIENDS OF MANUEL
ADMIRE HIS WAYS
PortugaI's Deposed Ruler Cred=
tied With Having Tried to
Perform Duties

Although there have been rumors re-
Gently of bad behavior on the part of
the young king of Portugal, these re-
ports, says the New York Times, have
been so evidently part Of the campaign
of the republicans that little attention
has been paid to them.
AS a matter of fact, all the trust
worthy intelligence that has been re-
ceived in regard to the personality of
King Manuel II leads to the belief that
he did his best properly to perform the
duties that fate has imposed upon him,
and that the revolution which has end
ed his short reign was the result of
influences over which he had no con-
trol-infuences due to events that oc-
Cured before his birth.
STUDENT AND SPORTSMAN
Manuel is a student, a sportsman
Gin the English sense of the world. a
gentleman Gin the hest sense of the
word), a youth of most amiable char
acter He is a good linguist, speaking
French well and English easily. He is
fond OF music. almost as good a shot
as was his father, and a fine tennis
player. Fencing, however, is his
favorite sport. Every day, almost
without exception, he has been in the
habit Of receiving his fencing master
soon after breakfast.
After HIS fencing the king was in
the habit of spending the rest of the
morning on affairs of state. He read
the Portuguese and foreign newspapers
carefully. and declined to follow the
example of some other monarchs in
having a secretary cut out for him the
items regarded as worth his perusal
You may forget the most important
and useful articles mean the most
disaereeable ones" he is said to have
remarked when IT was suggested that
time would be saved by adopting the
plan.
After luncheon the king would play q
game of pyramids in the billiard room
and then usually went TO the library
where his favOrite books were those
OF the early explorers, Vasco de Cana
Cabral. Alameda and Albuquerque.
INCOME INADEaUATE
If the latter part of the afternoon
were not spent in visits, motor eXeur-
sions to Cascaes, or tea at the Palace
fde Penna at Cintra, the king took a
hand at tennis. Like his father. the
young monarch delights in the game
and on the well laid out tennis court
in the palace gardens at Lisbon parties
were organized by the marquis dc
Fayal. a champion tennis player. The
/ Queen Mother Amelie very often joined
/ the party.
The allowance received by the king
/ from the Portuguese people was just
/ 81. 600 a day-$3e5 900 a year. This
was about the same amount as his
! father obtained. and it proved so made
quite for one of the most eNtravagant
monarchs of his time that Carlos rar
fearfully into debt and made away witr
some Of the crown jewels. This vir-
tual theft from the nation has. it wa,
! reported not long ago, been made good
! by King Manuel.
The young king was relieved by tn,
! government. however, of various ex.
penses that his father had to bear, sucf
as the maintenance of the museums, thl
subventions of state theaters, and thu
keeping in repair of a number of use
less palaces at Lisbon and other cities
These were turned over to the govern
ment by the crown, and the buildingi
or their sites have been devoted tt
profitable purposes.