DIONNE QUINTUPLETS
A SUBSTANTIAL ESTATE HALF A MILLION DOLLARS NEW YORK, Nov. 18. (Received Nov. 19, at 1 a.m.) Dr Dafoe, in an interview, said the Dionne quintuplets’ estate at present was 500,000 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. Dr Dafoe receives 200 dollars a month and their 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, Emilie gamin and Marie affectionate as the clinging vine, and Cecile and Annette easy-going. The parents and six brothers and sisters will spend Christmas with the quintuplets, sharing their presents.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 23353, 19 November 1937, Page 10
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