FORTUNE'S WHEEL
Into the Madrid Infirmary for po\oll\ -stricken old women a very creut» lady has entered to end her days. n > n^ le is. Dona de Pos Dolores lelless uiron ,v Domine. a duchess in her own right of Benavente and Gandia. Hers was one of the proudest and wealthiest families of Spain. Her father was the Duke of Osuria, who could trace his ancestors back through thirteen generations of nobilitv to the days of Ferdinand and Isabella. | An ancestor might have been one of 1 the hidalgos who saw Columbus received at Court. Wealth and lands were for four centuries this family's portion, and one Duke of Osuna whom Dona Maria can remember used to boast that he could clffcre from Madrid to France or Portugal on his own estates. Now not an acre nor a peseta remains, and the poor duchess, in her 80th year, iis glad to seek a refufce I among the poorest of the poor.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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161FORTUNE'S WHEEL New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 22991, 19 March 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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