THE PRIDE OF PORTUGAL.

Grey River Argus, 24 November 1910, Page 7

THE PRIDE OF PORTUGAL.

Senhor Braga, the Republican Presiden- of Portugal, made a very favourable impression upon the newspaper correspondents who _ ..came in contact with him immediately after '.he revolution. He is . described as a "grey-haired man of sixty-seven, quiet, pleasant and extremely modest." He made no display- of: his mew authority aftex the country which he had educated in the ideals of republicanism had been placed under his admin'istra tvon. On the evening following" the aramat ;ic events which gave him office he returned home as usual in a second class railway carriage to me unpra*ennous little house which .h e . occup- »«« in the suburbs, quietly receiving me congratulations of his richest and nuniblest friends, and deprccatmgly acknowledging the frantic ovations of tiis fellow-passengers. The President is a poor manl j'Braga lives in an intellectual atmosphere," said one of his friends. "He has no wants; and, therefore, is the richest of men. No one is better fitted to occupy the position he now holds, tor. vis probity commands universal confidence." A i coirespondent of the Daily, Mail called upoa the President's wife and found her ''j. frail, sweet-faced old lady, with

white hair. She was mat at all sure that an event which threatened to disturb the quiet domestic happiness of forty-three years was a pxoper sub r ject for jubilation. "We Jiave always beea poor and always happy with one another,'' she said,, "except for our one gxeait sorrow 'that we are now childless. ♦ I have told Theophilo that I ml\ never leave my litltlo home and pretty -garden, where I have lived for vwenty years. If we ait; forced to have a larger house for. meelings and recepitions, we will keep our little home to live in always. We have had just ■enough to live on. My husband has always been persecuted because of his opinions, but, although he cannot forget, he is incapable now of seeking to avenge himself of his enemies." Senhor Braga had become famous among his cou-ntTymen as a philossqv her and teacher, bu: he has revealed himself during .the last few weeks as the strong man of affairs..