| Show LURED KING FROM THRONE story comes come from berlin that dancing girl was wa partially responsible for manuels manuel downfall berlin A music hall dancer lost king 1 manuel of 0 portugal his throne the siren in the case Is mile caby des lis whose choso dancing of 0 the jiu jitsu waltz caught the young monarchs fancy in paris and threw his heart into a passion of at yearning it was the dancer who inveigled the young monarch into extravagances which brought down upon his head the wrath of ills his subjects the story Is not a new one ona in the long history of the downfall of 0 kings rind and monarch mon archa the dancing girl and manuel anuel Ni were together constantly in paris and when the youthful king returned to lisbon he ha took her with A ith hi him in in lisbon manuel and the dancer were seen together everywhere in public this by itself might have done no great harm in his subjects eyes I 1 lut hut he proceeded to heap rich presents upon her ber 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 inor e than a mere name in portugal when starving men and women beheld tho the kings sweetheart ablaze with diamonds whose price was wrung front from the state and whose equivalent in food might have saved many a life trouble set in the nation murmured the king was deat deaf to the growing voice of complaint and spent more and moro more money on mile des lis ills his indifference was nothing new in the of rulers the young kings ministers tried to gloss over his faults the excuses did not serve manuel continued to spend most of his time with mile des dea Us its shutting his eyes to tile the complaints pla ints As in the case of henry III of france and other royalties of 0 the same tastes the fling lasted just a trine trifle longer than tham did the sore tried patience of the people manuel awoke to find himself kicked on off his throne and to know he had thrown w n away a kingly career at the feet ot of i 3 dancing girl |
