GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 246, 10 July 1908, Page 5

GOSSIP FROM ABROAD.

Lisbon newspapers-arol telling a romantic story, of tie young King: of' Portugal. From his childhood King Manuel -lias shown .a great "affection for a young girl, whoso mother is now a lady-in-waiting to Queen Amelia.: Some days ago; the . Queen was conversing .'with the Duke. of Oporto on the King's'future, both'agreeing that a match •with .an English' princess would be for the country's, welfare. King Manuel, to their surprise; interrupted them' with a declaration of ihis lovo for tho daughter of the lady-in-waiting, saying i that Ho would abdicate: rather than'.marry anyone biit his own' choice. • It iis understood that the lady-in-waiting will be invited to take her. daughter for a long journey'abroad. In his sketches, of lif.o on tho Pacific slope, Mr': Horace .Anncsley Vachell gives an appreciative .'.description, oftho womon of tho West.v .''Our -pretty Californienno -dines in the middle, of the day ijnd sups at six. Tho same girl, in; England, would be painfully ill at ease in tho presence of a: stranger. Moreover,; you.'would .notq regretfully that the. 1 English girl's skirt - was ill-hung, that her. hair . was:, somewhat towsled, that her shoes' were vilely cut.' : The; Californienne, on .'the contrary:-.'-'challenges criticism. out of a pair of sparkling eyes. 1 'Take a square loos, atshe seems to say; 'it will brace you up-V. Should you accept this invitation in sober 'earnest, ' defiance,' will curve her lips into a smile. . .The: odds,are sho will put ; 'you; to the:, blush , with the sharp,question, :-'Anything ; wrong P.':. . She is unconsciously the most selfish creature of her sex. To , find , her .mate you must go to England and ' take . the: gilded youth who. fondly - believes that tho world ,owes jhim'.'a living." Among ' Royalty - generally . (says, an. exchange) there is. a. disposition/.'to "adopt" children, who are usually, taken'from the lower, middle .'classes.' The Princess of Wales' protegeo is Annie Steole,;:a former inmate of . tho - village , home at 'Alder,stone, was founded -in(memory; of; tho; late, Dychess of Teck; -■ This little girl is now a pupil at si boarding-school, and tho -Princess has promised to provide for her future. Tho :Em--j press of Russia has "adopted" several children, included among 'whom are the - offspring of officer's killed' in the recent war. The: Gorman Empress • has. established orphan; schools j where the inmates are regarded, as IJer Majesty's "children by adoption." In addition, sho takes a special in'-, tere'st: in two little ones .whoso' parents ■ were burnt .to death at a ; fire.,in Berlin.