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Show Residents of Spanish Village Like Savages Madrid, Spain. Spain's elTorts to improve the living conditions of her people have disclosed the existence of an extraordinary village within 500 miles of Madrid where ' 3-"0 persona live without marriage, bapiism or the usual civilized forms. Valdemaniiueda is the name of the place and Gen. I'rimo de Rivera's attention at-tention was called to it when he hap-penad hap-penad to take a vacation in a near-by monastery. The locality formerly belonged be-longed to the duke of .Medinaceli, who sold it lo the Spanish resin trust. There is a tumble-down church wiih no priest, a school with no pupils and the inhabitants live in a state of semi-starvation. semi-starvation. Mental degeneracy is com mon because of consanguinity. |