Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-11-30
THIS GIRL IS HAPPY
THOUGH A DUCHESS
Duke Della Revere Has Proved
a Success in Domestic
Life.
From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.

From the st. Louis Post Dispatch.
Rome-When o come to Rome don't
forget historic Orte, just Il half hours
jaunt away. It's Il quaint little town,
filled wi, h amiable. %jabbering peasants,
but this isn't what you Will come to
see. No, Orte is really famous for
something worth Whilc-one OF the
most beautiful as well as ,lic of the
most ancient estates IN ali sunny Italy.
what more, it's charming ohatelalne
is none o her n an American duch-
ess who loves Italy. and heI husband
and her home. the Villa I4antc, anccs-
trail seat of the Duke and Duchess
Lante della Revere.
Anita Russell Allen. once OF st. Lou
is, beauty n h~eiress, is one of the
many women whose experience proves
that America, money and foreign title
do not always make a sad marriage.
Here is. indeed. Il happy one, and her
money has helped 20 make it so, for
once deoayed and alinost gone to ruin.
the beautiful villa mas been restored
to its pristine glUIies of garden and
hall, and TO-DAY there is none fairer
than her husbands estate. thanks to
American millions.
How the Money Was Made.
ST. Louis has not forgotten the
dainty Anita Alien of q decade ago, and
she has not forgotten st. Louis. From
the west came her two fortuneS-the
one left her by her uncle, the late
Bradword Allen. owner of The Southern
hotel in ST. Louis, and the other be-
queathed by her grandfather, the late
Tnomas Allen. builder of the Iron
Mountain railroad. But such prosaic
things as hotels and railroads hardly
fit into the scneme of things i'm this
lazy and beautiful part of sunny Italy.
Romance and dolce far niente lie be-
hind those splendid wallis where will
la Lante" stands amongst it's gardens.
And there dwells the duke, cousin to
the King of Italy. one of the most po-
tent of Italian noblemen, master of the
show place of the peninsula, of Il fam
lily which has given two popes and
many cardinals 10 the church, and
himself a descendant of other of the
foremost families of medieval times.
Their past is that of the Borgias and
he Medicis. whom they fought at
times and with whom az other times
they made alliances. Their present is
that of power and position-the della
Revere family stands today with the
all the kingdom.
When Mrs. Greer Allen took her
dainty daughter 10 Europe about 10
years g to be educated. she little
realized that she was laying the foun-
dation of ono of the pretticst, as we'll
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marriages of rich American girls to
European n%oblclnen.
The Duke Was a Widower.
The duke, u handsome Italian Wild
owen olive skinned. swarthy. black
mustacaed. and q cavalier from the
top of his head to the soles of his
shoes. was so%journing in Hamburg.
quiet manner won him. He proposed
and was accepted. He took his bride
to Italy and installed her in his villa,
beautiful then, but fast decaying for
want of means to keep it in repair.
Here the Allen millions played their
part
The duchess has r~eiuvenated the
wonderful twin villas and vast estates,
until there is not a spot in all Europe
that is more beautiful and enhancing.
And what is best of all, the man
continues. Happiness flew in at the
riage and never few out again. The
Donna Matilda and the Donna Beat
rice, the dukes children by his first
wife, were pining for a mothers love
and care. The duchess-oh. we'll. she's
just like any o'her good American
In her arms and assigned the second
and third places in her heart to Them.
And the duchess-the mas+erful way
in which she has handled the many
problems. social and domestic, which
have been presented to her since taxi
ing h reins as a social arbiter in
Italy's most exclusive circles, stamps
her as a genius at diplomacy. Coming
as she did. entirely unknown to the
community over which she has been
destined to rule, 1t is scarcely TO be
wondered at that she was looked upon
at first with a forced tolerance as we'll
as skeptical eye. Gradually the charms
which had made her the pride of her
uncle and the boast of her grandfather
asserted themselves. Little by little she
won her way into the hearts of the
Italian patrician women, until now they
look to her for the signal to advance
or retreat.