Show LURED KING FROM THRONE story comes from berlin that dancing girl was partially responsible for manuels downfall berlin A music hall ball dancer lost king manuel of portugal his throne the siren in the case Is mile gaby des lis whose dancing of the jiu jitsu waltz caught the young monarchs fancy in paris and threw hla his heart inac a passion of yearning it was the dancer who inveigled the young monarch into extravagances which brought down upon his head the wrath of his subjects the story Is not a now new one in the long history of the downfall of kings and monarchs the dancing girl and manuel were together constantly in paris and when the youthful king returned to lisbon he took her with him in lisbon mannel and the dancer were seen together everywhere in public this by itself might have done no great reat harm in his subjects eyes but he e proceeded to heap rich presents her to load her down with jewels and to buy her everything her fickle fancy happened to crave times were hard people were clamoring for work hunger was more than a mere name in portugal when starving men and women beheld the kings icings sweetheart ablaze with diamonds whose price was wrung from tho the state and whose equivalent in food might have saved many a life trouble set in the nation murmured the king was deaf to the growing voice of corn complaint and spent more and more mor e money on mile des lis ills his indifference was nothing new in tue lue astory of rulers tho the young kings ministers tried to glosa gloa over ills his faults the excuses did not serve manuel continued to spend most of his time with mile alile des Us its shutting his eyes to the complaints pla ints As in the case of henry III of prance france and other royalties of the same tastes the fling lasted just a trifle longer than did the sore tried patience of the people manuel awoke to find himself kicked off ills his throne and to know he had thrown away a kingly career at the feet of a dancing girl |