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THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH,

MONDAY, APRIL 4, 1938.

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This is How I am Bringing Up

THE QUINS

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By

Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe,

O.B.E., M.D..

who brought them into the world

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Callander, Ontario THE Dionne quintuplets.

are getting along to- wards four now, and as they approach, their birth- day, May 28, they deport themselves as well as any other girls of their age.

The past winter was good to the quins. Apart from a few minor snifles their health was perfect. They continued their steady and consistent gaing both in height and weight-and they continued to look so much alike that only a very few of us can tell them apart.

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At times during the cold wea

little 'ther the quins lost

weight. Any mother, however, knows that such losses are not unusual, and are quickly re- gained.

instance,

for Junuery. During Marie lost 14b.. Emille lb. and Cecile 1. Annette stayed the anime weight and Yvome gained 4lb.

Here are their weights and heights un January 28:

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Weight

s1. 36.

It.

Height

i

Yvonne

3

2

»

Annette

3 1

612

11

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Emilie Cecile Marie

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One of the latest pictures of the quins. Left to right: Emilie. Yvonne, Cecile, An. nette. Marie.

Dafoe receives £40 a month. Their parents, who with their six other children live across the road from the quins' £15,000 model home, get £20 a month.

Mr. and Mrs. Dionne are allowed to see the quins at any time.

They have an invested fortune of £101,000, which comes from 24 contracts signed since their birth. Dr. 4|-|-|-|-~|~|~|~|~|~|~||~|~||~||~||~|-|-|-|-|-|-

A typical lunch would be: A first and they don't like that restraint one

course of soup, Then specially pre- hit.

This past winter they have become pared Bver and potatoes, with French For dessert, surprisingly adept at winter sports, beans and raw carrots. Tobogganing and ski-ing are their perhaps chocolate pudding and bis-

cuits, favourite cold-weather pastimes. 11

Chocolate pudding, by the way, is On what do we feed our sturdy quins? Well, as you might imagine, the bables' favourite dessert, al- never yet been they have pretty healthy appetites though they've and there's seldom a meal when known to refuse any sweet dessert.

Lunch comes at about 11.45. anything is left on their little plates.

Supper is simple. Usually a bow! Breakfast time is 7.45. First thing of porridge. a biscuit, and plenty of on the menu in the morning--and milk. Sometimes tomato and lettuce also a suppertime-is a teaspoonful sandwiches, and very often fruit of of cod liver oil in a little orange some kind.

Sleeping is one of the things the

216 Scientists have found that the quins are "identical children. That "identical" shouldn't be taken word

its face value. No two people are What the ever really identical. scientists un is that the Dionne juice.

meun

closer to being quintuplets come alike-all Ave of them-than any of children ever group pair or studled by selence. All Ears Alike

AN elaborate study of the

are dentical in hands and feet and, most of all, their faces,

A quins showed that they

Several similarities of the babies) are readily apparent to anyone who is with them. Tor any length of time. I know, of course, that their eyes are all the same, a medium brown mixed with grey. Their eyelashes are long, dark brown. and curly. The contours of the digirtines are the same.

The only difference is that while the hair whorls on the crowns of four of the quins heads go counter- clockwise, Marie's goes the reverse way.

All five have fair, clear, and rosy skin textures. They tan easily and deeply-but they don't freckle,

Ears are supposed to be foolproof means of identification. Even identi- cal twins usually have different ears. But the quins' ears are all as nearly alike as is possible.

One

The pelentists declared that: thing is certain-and that is that these children do not it into a similar mould of personality development and that the variation manifest at this age, 314, is showing signs of wider divergence."

After this coines a helping of quins do best. Soon after they finish verent with milk, then an cúz, either their supper they are bundled away scrambled, soft bolled, or poached. to bed. Breakfast, as I have noted, With the pan we usually serve one is at 7.45—so there is no oversleeping, or two strips of bacon, brown bread The midday nap lasts an hour and a toast, and whole wheat biscuits, and half.

at least one cup of milk. That's a The quins always sicep on their rather hearty breakfast for a 34- outside sleeping porch and they

wouldn't have it any other way.

years-old, don't you think?

OUR

BRITISH crossworDS

20

the

25

They classified Yvonne as motherly type; Annette as a soclat ellaber; Emilie as a happy-go-lucky little girl and the most self-sufficient of the five; Cecile as the unknown quantity; and Marle as the "baby" of the family.

Two Languages

Now I wouldn't agree en- tirely with these descrip- tions but they do serve to emphasise the fact that the quins are develop- ing the way they should; as Ave little girls all with their

dividual personalities.

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ACROSS

I la this fish bound to be chilly

and dreary? (5). Temporary device for a move apparently (9)...

own in-

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I

us if a fruit is Bounds

in- tended but it is only invention (7).

and Contract (7).

The children's schooling started! before they were three. They have

music lessons singing and dancing lessons. They draw

with 10 Incline (4).

coloured crayons. They listen to 11 B.B.C. oficials should be good stocles and look at picture books. at this kind of race (5). Before long they'll be learning to 12 A fight to become rugged (4). must- 16 The whimsicality-of a rend.

Almont pil

round the people

cinn? (13). Callander speak French, and that is 17 An ald to oriental oratory per- the language on whlch the quins hops (13). are concentrating. But at their noon 20 Separute a piece (4), dinner they speak-or apeak at 21 Alice of fish from a state (5), English, and so they are already 22 This blessed, this earth, this learning two languages.

realm, this England" "Richard No-the quins have never been i [1.") (4).

Lafg I hope they never will 25 A small French and a #spanked."

English town show dearth (7), be. But they aren't spoiled by any incans. And they are subject to 28 No, this account of one's pur-

chancs

is not ural (7). strict discipline. They are Indies-

perhaps (9). 20 British poet who shows 10

agreement (5).

for they learned early that they can 27 Crafty work for some arebiteet

get what they having.

When one of them disobeys, she is placed alone in the "bad room's and stays there until she decides he can return to her play with the others and behave. We don't

expect-or want-the bables nover to disobey. But we do like a happy balance,

Play is the big thing round the nursery, of course, and the quins are outdoors almost every day of the year. It gets mighty cold here onco In a while round 30 below zero,

Only in extremely Inelement weather are the quiiis kept insite-- |-.

only by be- want

DOWN

1 Sultable instruction to a tollor

perhups (9),

2 This teaching alms at the im- provement of the human race (7).

3 if one earns this one can supe

port oneself (4).

4 Love of this may cause of pro-

long war (13).

5 This British Isle may have

helped to clothe'n Scot (4).

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128

6 This is the opposite in some

poetry (7).

7 To correspond thus is entirely

(5).

o it needs an actor getting on in for this theatrical job years

(13). 13 Polson from tinned meat ap-

parently (5),

14 A palindromic musical note (5).

16 Not resourceful, needing a 4

across perhaps (9).

18 Either a German or an Austrian

musical composer (7).

10 Concet (7).

20 Sailors many be thus summoned

(5).

23 Common plant enught by rea-

anglers (4).

24 Not rough nor edi (4).

Saturday's Solution.

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BRAD REMENDOUS UD RNA IN B LOT UNSETTLING

EESY

The Story of FRANK CAPRA'S Mightiest Production RONALD COLMAN in

LOST HORIZON

A“serialization of Robert Riskin's screantversion of James Hilton's novel. "Narrative by Albert Dully. ZAZZOLIM BIA PICTURES

Tilt

WHAT HAM Harrowed Barons - Robert Conway, British diplo- Kar in the Fast, who been missing more than Hear, hes been found in Httle Chinese mission by Lord! Goinsford, Conway has to re- collection of his past fo but readily agrees to return to England with Gainsford.

On the boat Conway hears a fam ona pianist playing at the ship's concert Conway gues to the pano after the concert and be p to play a strange, beautiful

elody The famed pianist dis agrera with Conway when the that it (« lafter InstRÍA Chopin stud pin "Et vous naver published. learned it from a man who was one of Chopin's upita." "That's impossible the piantat inmate. "A pupil of Cho- pin', he were alive today, would have to be more than a Zuentred and twenty years old?" "What of it?” Conway anapa and then he rushes from the Toom. In his stateroom* Lord Gainsford Anita Concay pack. ing his bug, "I must leave you," he says. "That music brought it all back to me. Shangri-in! I remember it all now." Ouma- ford urges Conway to tell his storp. Conseɑy begins,

the plane nwung around, unthered momentum and taxied crazily down the runway. In a moment thes ceaned to bump over the uneven ground and took to the air. Con way peered warly out of a window "Guens we're out of range

now." The aald. "Everybody ali right"

No one had been hurt and Grosge slumped into a nearby Ment. {“Whèw," he said. "That was a clonN one." Conway grinned at him and then turned to the newcomer in the Chinese robe, "Where'd you come from naked

"I'm Alexander P. Loviti, air" "Why weren't you registered at the consulate? Serve you right you wore left behind,

"How did I know a war was go- Ing to break out right over my head? Lovett demanded "I had to get into these ridiculous clothes to escape.".

"Where were you hiding?" Con- way asked.

wn in the Interior hunting fossile."

Harnard, the American, turned to Lovett. "Pardon me," he asked, "What did you say you were hunt Ing?"

Foanila, I'ma pulcantologist " Bainard stared at him binokly "Oh, I ace," he muttered.

Conway had dropped into a ent at the rear of the plane "What happened to that brandy, Freshle he demanded of his brother. George produced the battle. "Drink" con-

NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY way asked.

Chapter Two

Fiames from the burning elty of Basku darted high into the night nky and enot a weird ilumination over the bedinm of the dying Deld on the outskirts of the city, in the distance there was the steady rum. ble of gunfire and the solitary rond was choked with from the city Chinese refugees fleeing from the demontae fury of the bandits

The drone of the motora soon lulled them to lumber and the pinne roared on through the night. With the dawn Barnard began to stir. He opened one eye, stretched and looked over at Lovett who wan already awake "Morning. Lovey." he smiled.

"The name it Lovett, Sh." was den fright reply.

"Well, it's a good morning, shy- way." Barnard, unabashed, ieplied He glanced out the window of the plane and looked around thought.

Attacked by Chinese bandits, Robert Conteay, British connut st Baskul and other white residents, evacuate the town by pinne. (Posed by Ronutd Colman, Isabel Jewell, Edward Everett Horton, Thomas Mitchell and others.)

fully: "Bay, we're supposed to be heading enst, aren't we?" he asked

"Of course,”

"Well, seems to me we're going west."

The airport itself was already packed to overflowing with wild eyed. hysterical Chinese seeking refuge from their attackers, Flood- lights on the Aeld ellhouetted their figures as they raced around seek- Lovett peered out the window and ing lost friends or familles. A Brit (thes jumired quickly from his seat. Ish Army transport plane was "Oh my goodness." he cried, "we're drawn up on the runway in front going weat! We're going in of the office building, its motor id- wrong direction."

the

ling.

plane

From the rear of the

The door of the building opened George opened a sleepy eye. "Can and Robert Conway, the British you manage to make a little tess Consul, came out followed by analse?" he demanded.

mall group of terrified whites. With "But we're going weit. Shanghai's

cast of here!"

Conway in the lead, they fought their way to the plane through the George rose slowly, stretching horde of milling yellow men. and yawning. "Sit down and calmn

He a roar an the motora yourself I talk to Fenner." There was raced and the huge ship begun to walked to the front of the plane lumber down the runway. Conway and knocked an the glass panel turned and pushed his way back separating the body of the ship to the once building where the re- from the cockpit. From the cockpit maining whites were huddled. side a smali olade enapped up and His brother. George, was sitting George stared into the scowling In one corner of the room. his ears face of a strange pilot. glued to the radio. Conway atrode over to him. "Are you through to Shanghai he asked. George nod. ded and handed the mike to Con- way.

Hello. Shanghai: Conway talk ing Cudunel Marsh there?

"Right here, Conway. Go ahead" "Where are those planen?

I've

George ran down the narrow alste to his brother and shook his shoul der. "Bob! Wake up!" he cried "Something's happened. That isn't Fenner in the cockpit."

Conway sat up and stretched, "You're having nightmaren.” he Buggented.

"No. It's someone I never saw be

at about thirty people here. The fore Queer looking bloke. Chinese whole town's on fire and the ban-for Mongolian or something. And. dits will be here any minute."

the plane's Dying away from Shang,

"Sent every ship we could find. hai! Conway. They left Hungchow three

hours ago.

Conway looked out the window

to get his bearings. Then he rose

At that moment George rushed and walked to the front of the plane. He pounded on the glars and

In. They're here! They're circling

the field now,"

All's well, Colonel. The pinner are over the field now. See you in the morning."

Conway rounded up his whites and hurried them out to the planes, sending the women and children in the first planer,

The

Inst plane Juckeyed into position in front of the office build Ing and Fenner, the pilot, grinned down from the cockpit.

"Hi. Conway!" he called, "Bit of amees, what?" Conway waved to him and smiled as he turned back to the office building.

Lonce again the mysterious pitor

turned and scowled at them.

"Charming chap," said Conway, "Wonder what happened to Fen, ner?**

"Where's he taking us?" Lavett demanded. "He may be a manine for all we know." George opened a tool kit, extracted a monkey wrench and started for the cockpit. Coh way stopped him.

"What are you going to do?" he anked.

"I'll drag him out and make him tell us what his game in," was George's determined reply, Dealden Conway, there was only

"Briliant!" Conway smiled. "Any? his brother, George, Glorin Stone one here By a plane?" They all and an American, Barnard, He

alicok their heads. Conway took the rounded up the little group and they wrench Trom his brother's hand and pushed their way

the through shrieking Chinese to the waiting bed it into a corner, "That's ne pinna. A the plane's door they food, Freshile."

"Menn to any you're going to walt, were joined by another man in Chinese contume, a box clutched unth he lands before you do any under his arm, who pushed his way thing?" Lovett demanded. Into the piane, Conway grabbed film Suddenly the plane lurched and by the neck and was about to throw headed for the ground., Georgo, film from the plane when He tooked through a window. "Bob, wrenched free. "Let me in you we're landing?" he cried. Conway, blighters!" he cried, "I'm an Eng-came and looked over his shoulder. Jahman!" And, indeed, he want "Gearge," he said, "we're going to A Conway clowed the door of try something. The moment the ship the pinne and the motors began store we're going to jump out. You to race several truck Jonds of ban run around the other side and Tit dita came lumbering onto the deldatny hero. If he covers me with, and they began to shoot wildly at his gun you'll be back of him. Hit the slow-moving piano,

Aral, -- and hit hard!

"Everybody on the floor!1

Quick!!

They all crouched to the floor as

(To Be Continued)

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