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Senorita Mercedes Castellanos achieved politest world renown (TIME, April 23) when it was announced at Madrid that she, an orphan & a spinster of 47, would shortly be taken to wife by the Dictator of Spain, General Don Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, Marquis de Estella...
...that he has chosen definitely, at last, among the too many ladies who have sought through him to sway the course of Spain. There was, for example, very recently, the Marquise de Arguelles. Perhaps it is well that her somewhat sinister influence will be supplanted by that of the Orphan & Spinster-who is one of the richest women in Spain, and accounted sage with the wisdom that comes from managing large monetary affairs...
Author Macaulay, brought up in Italy, by the sea, now lives and writes in London. Somewhat annoyed that her publishers required further publicity matter than her creditable list of novels (Potterism, Told By An Idiot, Orphan Island) she answered in regard to hobbies: "I don't keep rabbits or collect stamps in these days...
...interesting to know the state of Otway's health when he wrote The Orphan and the countless other minute facts such as might be required on a daily examination paper in many of our English courses. But art is long and life is short as several astute gentlemen have observed before out time, and such microscopic examinations of limited fields are quire meaningless to the large majority inadequately prepared for these courses. (Yale News...
There are 615 Catholic hospitals, 147 Catholic homes for the aged and 351 Catholic orphan asylums caring for 51,961 U. S. Catholic children...