FUTURE NEEDS
PIONNE QUINTUPLETS
NEW YORK, November 18,
Dr, Dsfoe, in an interview, said that the Dionne quintuplets' estate at present is half a million dollars. Their expenses average more than 400 dollars a week, including the salaries of a teacher, two nurses, three guards, one housekeeper, and two maids. Pr. Dafpe receives 200 dollars a month and the parents 100 dollars. The doctor said'that two or three years' hence, when the quintuplets are ready for school, it will probably be necessary to build a private schoolhouse and import selected; pupils from, the village to provide social contact. They are now studying English, in addition to French. ,
Dr. Dafoe described Yvonne as, a sophisticated lady of the world type, Emile as a gamiri, Marie as affectionate and clinging, and Cecije and Annette asN easy-going. The parents and the six brothers and sisters -will spend, Christmas with the quintuplets.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIV, Issue 122, 19 November 1937, Page 9
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