RIO DE JANEIRO, IN THE LAND OF LURE 



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Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 



SWEEPER IN ONE OF Rio's PARKS 



He uses a primitive type of broom, made from the trees or bushes. Only the wooden 

 handle he buys. These men seem to love their work, for they are in parks and gardens, and 

 to the Portuguese-speaking peoples of the world the garden is the art gallery. 



eventful days of 1889, when Brazil's last 

 emperor was sent into exile, told me of 

 the event. 



"WE WENT TO SLEEP IN AN EMPIRE AND 

 AWOKE IN A REPUBLIC" 



"It came about so quickly and quietly 

 we could not realize it," he said. "There 

 was hardly a shot fired. Dom Pedro and 

 his family were taken from the palace at 

 night and put aboard a cruiser, from 

 which they were transferred to a steamer 

 bound for Lisbon. They said the Em- 

 peror was dazed, the Empress and Prin- 

 cess Isabel in tears. We went to sleep 

 in an empire and awoke overnight in a 

 republic." 



Dom Pedro II died in Paris in 1891. 

 Princess Isabel, who married the French 

 Comte d'Eu, still lives in France. In 

 1908 her elder son renounced his claim 

 to the throne of Brazil in favor of his 

 brother, Dom Luiz, whose little son, born 

 in 1909, is Pedro the Third. 



When in Lisbon I visited the Pantheon, 

 where the rulers of Portugal lie. Exiled 



from his own country, Dom Pedro II also 

 found a resting place in the land of his 

 forefathers. I was most unfavorably 

 impressed with this Pantheon. It alto- 

 gether lacks the beauty and dignity of 

 the royal mausoleum of the Escorial in 

 Spain. For the payment of a small fee. 

 the custodian permits you to climb a 

 ladder and gaze at the embalmed body 

 of the last Emperor of Brazil. This 

 seems most unfitting. 



There is a movement under way to 

 build a national pantheon in Rio de Ja- 

 neiro and bring to it. at the time of the 

 1922 centenary, the remains of Brazil's 

 historical personages, including Joao YI. 

 Pedro I, Pedro II, and his consort. To 

 this the Portuguese Government will 

 probably consent, and it is to be hoped 

 that Princess Isabel, too, will agree. 

 Dom Pedro II should return with honor 

 to the land of his birth. The difficulty 

 lies in the fact that neither the princess 

 nor her sons are permitted to enter the 

 Republic of Brazil and could no longer 

 visit the family tomb. 



