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Show Li 1 Lv."r,'-"'""4v;.-..'.3 A'etu Candid Camera Shots of the Quints: (Following Their Tenth Birthday) In spite of the invasion of their realm by the five in Argentina, the ! Dionnes are still the only identical ! Quints in the world. And they ARE identical; outside their own immediate imme-diate family there is practically no one who can tell them apart. Right to the day he died. Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe, the physician who brought them into the world, couldn't pick them. He could recognize Marie, but the other four all looked alike to him. They have always dressed in different colors to make identification identifi-cation easier, but they knew the doctor doc-tor didn't recognize them otherwise, and they loved to switch dresses and fool him. Even though they have been living liv-ing normally with their family for the past two years, the Quints still act as a unit as against everyone else. They are normal, in that they quarrel, but these quarrels are very seldom among themselves. Marie has the biggest fan mail. She is also the charmer when visitors vis-itors come. It's unconscious with her, and this annoys Cecile, who thinks herself the personality kid. She tries too hard. Emilie is the comedienne and a great mimic. The others look to her to give impersonations of visitors as soon as they've left, and it's uncanny un-canny to see how she picks up gestures ges-tures and peculiarities for her performance. per-formance. Cecile is very observant of vsitors' clothes and criticizes them with all the . confidence in the world. She is the one of the five that tends to be a bit "catty." Yvonne has most influence with the others, and if there is a difference differ-ence of opinion, they do as she says. Annette is the competitive one, gets upset if the others beat her. She is not a good loser. Marie, who has always been the slowest and weakest, weak-est, makes up for these deficiencies by being the daredevil of the bunch. Many think the "Sixth Quint" is best looking of the group she is Pauline eleven months older than they, but just about the same size. She is in sharp contrast to their dark beauty, for she is a blonde with fair hair, fair skin and dark eyes. Of all the family she is closest clos-est to them and because she is such an unusually lovely child, some times laKes me spouigm away ironi them. They have all but adopted her into the lodge. Of their brothers and sisters, only the three oldest show any signs of regarding the Quints as "different." This is because they, Ernest, Rose and Therese, were old enough to be affected by the early quarrels among the pressure groups that surrounded the Quints until the last couple of years. Mr. and Mrs. Dionne do their level best to keep the five from being be-ing treated as different. At the age of ten, not one of them has a cavity in a tooth. Dentists say this is due to scientific diet plus the fact they have always brushed their teeth. A couple of them may need orthoHontic treatment Cecile Ce-cile in particular. She is very conscious con-scious that her front teeth protrude a bit, and it bothers her no end. The Quints' great ambition is to see New York. They have already traveled to Toronto and to Superior, Wis. New York is their next goal. Travel bothers them not at all; they are great troupers. But Mr. and Mrs. Dionne hate it. They get upset by excitement and the crowds and meeting strangers, and come back exhausted, so they refuse to take the Quints away from home unless it is for some patriotic reason like a Victory Bond rally. Doctors for a time were a bit worried wor-ried because the five were nersist- ! ently overweight. Then they decided decid-ed this was because their bony structure is heavier than normal. This, the medics think, is the result of the heavy doses of cod-liver oil they were given to combat the rickets rick-ets they had at birth they have taken tak-en cod-liver oil every day of their ten years. Besides giving the Quints religious teaching, Bishop Leo Nelligan, their Chaplain, is head Roman Catholic Chaplain of the Canadian armed forces. His outstanding work has brought promotions until today he holds a unique rank in Canada he is an Admiral of the Navy, a General Gen-eral in the Army, and a Marshal of the Air Force. The Quints DO speak English and with a delightful accent. They know : over 400 words. Their conversation-1 conversation-1 al English has been retarded purely because their mother still doesn't understand it, and so it is spoken but seldom in the home. ; No, the Quintuplets haven't lost their looks or charm, as you often hear tell. It just appears that way in photographs because they all de- 'veloped a self-conscious shynfss so that when photos are taken, they just "freeze urj." I 1 |
