The Watertown weekly leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1912-1917, 1912-11-01

Portugal, will have nothing to
do with him
Gaby is drawing salary four times as large
that she received before Manuel's infatuation
for her public property Two years ago she
told she saving her money and when
the right man came along she would marry him
If he didn't have cent. The right man has
turned up. He Is Harry Pilcer, Gabys Amer
lean dancing partner. She has denied It several
times, but despite all her laughing protestations,
Just about year from the present date the two
will be married and will retire to a small estate
in France where Gaby declares she will be con
tent the rest of her life to raise chickens
But this story is not concerned primarily with
Gaby Deslys 1t is written to tell you about the
latest troubles of monarch in exile. Besides
his broken heart Manuel has a broken ambition.
At last he has lost all faith in the ultimate
cess of the valiant band of royalists who are
plotting, planning and fighting the frontier
of Portugal. He has been forced to the conclu-
sion that his stay In England will be a perma-
nent one barring a social revolution in the coun-
try over which he ruled. He is making
preparations to forsake the temporary abode i'll
Richmond in which he took up his residence
pending his return in triumph to Lisbon and to
take up permanent quarters in the
most aristocratic flats in the whole
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World-Kensing ton Palace. Il:
Manues pessimism is due to the /%%s$&sss
report of his uncle the Duke OF fM% s. s.
Oporto who since the royal fam
lily hotfooted it out of Lisbon, has /$#%%S% ==s B
been running between England x|#.Sassa*$8#8*s
and the Spanish-Portuguese from Ill Sassss
tier carrying and instructions
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between the boy king and those
who are battling for his cause N#ass aS##88
against the overwhelming odds of V##xASS
the Portuguese republican govern Ws$S#88#SS
ment. The duke, who is a we'll
meaning but ineffective sort of Wsas3s8&s
man, recently brought back from w
Spain proofs that Manuels cham
pions are indeed in bad way-in
fact, just about in their last gasp
Manuel has given the last penny
that he spare, Queen Amelia
has made herself almost destitute by her sacri-
ices, while other sources of revenue have been
sucked dry The royaist soldiers without nav
without food, without clothing and practical out
laws with prices their necks look forward
with concern to the coming Of winter
1t is in these circumstances that King George
has come forward with offer of suite of
rooms In Kensington Palace for Manuel and his
mother. The relations between the English king
and Manual are very close, and George knows,
almost to the dollar the dwindling resources of
the exile. In Kensington Palace although Man
uel and his mother probably will not enjoy the
luxurious surroundings that they have had at
Richmond, they will have neighbors in adjoin-
ing flats two members of the English royal fam
lily. The apartments In Kensington Palace
at the disposal of the crown and in two of them
King Edward installed his sisters, Princess Henry
Of Battenberg and the Duchess of Argyll.
Kensington Palace, in former years, was allow
ed to fall into neglect and the sanitary conditions
were not of the best. Then many of the
were thrown open to the public, notably those
associated with the early years of Queen Vic
toria, and in consideration of this concession the
state bore the expenses of the upkeep of the
buildings With the coming of the two daughters
of Queen Victoria, radical Improvements were
made in the furnishings, but today 1t would
he har
American accustomed to the comparative luxury
of S100a-month fiat in New York.
With the flight of his hopes young Manuel will
enter more fully than ever into the social life
Of England. There is still hope among his older
relatives of marrying him to Of the English
princesses The first choice is Princess Alexan
dra of Fife, daughter and heir of the late Duke
Of Fife Such match would be more attractive
to Manuel than it four years ago when
it first mooted, because the young Fife prin-
cess has since inherited the fat fortune Of her
father and would bring welcome relief to the
private pocketbook Of the Portuguese monarch
You will remember, probably that Manuel came
to England some three years ago looking for
wife. He spent some little time in the company
of Patricia of Connaught and the Fife sisters
Subsequently he confided to Caby Deslys his i'm
pressions of the three English princesses. Boiled
down they amounted TO this He was willing to
consider Princess Patricia, but he understood
that she did not view the match with favor,
whereas the Fife girls were fiat and uninteresting
and he would not consider them for single
moment
Of Queen Amelia it can be said that she is
endeavoring to find consolation for all her trou
bies and disappointments in good works. In this
she is following the example of the Duchess Of
Marlborough and it was the American-born Ouch
ess who gave her the tip. Not long after the
Portuguese queen had exchanged the Necessi-