ITALY: Million-Dollar Nuptials

Prince Henri, Count of Paris and Dauphin of France, married a Princess of Brazil in Italy last week—such at least was the way in which thousands of enthusiastic Royalists thought of the bright, expensive pageant which passed over a great carpet 200 yards long across Palermo's Cathedral Square.

The bride was beautiful, her name euphonious Isabelle, Princess of Orleans-Braganza, descendant of the Emperor Dom Pedro II of Brazil. For this tall, dark-eyed graceful girl the Royalist ladies of Lyons, France, had embroidered with silver palm leaves a...

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