Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 November 1937 — Page 2

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Quintuplets Amaze Psychologists as Most ‘Identical’ Children Ever Known to Science

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Resemblance Makes

Birth Phenomenon Even Stranger.

By BRUCE CATTON (Copyright, 1937, NEA Service, Inc.) ORONTO, Ontario, Nov. 1.—The Dionne quintuplets might provide a bad moment or two for the fingerprint experts, if they should ever decide to submit their prints for examination For their gly similar. The different sets, when completerecorded, can be distinguished of course. But if one of the quintuplets should put one slightly smudged print on a sheet of paper—a print of her forefinger, for instance—the science of fingerprinting might find it utterly impossibie to tell which of the five sisters had made it. This is just one illustration of the amazing resemblance the quintuphave to one another. They are quintuplets—a phenomerare among quintuplets are an 87,000,000-to-one shot begin with) as identical twins are among ordinary twins. “Identical,” as biologists use the word, doesn’t mean quite what you might suppose. No two peopie are ever really identical. Even those twins who look so much alike that their own parents mixed up about them—everyone has known some such pair—are not exactly like. It's all a matter of degree. But the Dionne quintuplets — all five of them—come closer to being exactly alike than any pair or group ever studied by science

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HIS fact emerges from a scienT tific study made by Drs. John W. MacArthur and Norma Ford, biologists on the faculty of the Unirsi Toronto. They base their their own observation | ata collected by Dr. W. E. | ecto the university's School for Child Study. 1 made their study tion an effort to science’s most baflling roblems — whethel nvironment heredity has the greater influthe development of a per- | and physical charac-

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1C€C ON teristics =" » » PRE for the first time, science I s a chance to study five of identical heredity; and ts will be citing the five lite girls from Callander on one side | the other of the perennial argu- | ment (or possibly on both sides) | for many years to come. Anyway, what the scientists were primarily interested in was in finding out whether the quints actually are identical. Indentical re usualls

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twins, they point out the same only in a few ics—such as sex, blood of eves, hair and skin, In other instances—the r ears, their finger and the shape of face and re very different ® ww = had had an early ex-| with fingerprinting which left them and everyone con- | nected with them very cold. When were quite small, the provincial government sent a couple of policemen to the place to record the quints’ prints. The detectives brought their regulation fingerprinting equipment, with ink and every- | thing So

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the quints got ink on their | Then they got it smudged | themselves. They got it detectives, on the furniture, on the virginal whiteness of 1e nurses’ uniforms. And--to wind smeared the paper so that no readable prints could be ob-| tained, and then they got offended | so much ink and began to cry, 1 unison.

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HE detectives retired, baffled. The scientists, being also psy= chologists, solved the problem. They | rubbed a cold-cream-and honey lotion into the skin of a quint’s hand. | The hand was then pressed lightiy| on a sheet of glossy paper laid on a rubber pad. The hand being removed, the paper was treated with | finely powdered and sifted lamp black, and after the excess powder was shaken off, the print was fixed | bv putting the paper in a solution | of resin end alcohol. The result was a set of prints which would delight J. Edgar Hoo- | ver—and which did delight Drs. | MacArthur and Ford. To supple- | ment them, plaster casts were made of the hands and feet, which brought out the fine details even better than the ink. »

N elaborate study of these prints | LY everes that the quints are | identical throughout. The total ridge count of the finger | patterns differed very little among the quints, for instance, but was considerably different in their brother! Ernest and their sisters Rose and

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AGE MARI} EMILIE

CECILE ANNETTE YVONNE

Three months

Nine months

18 months

40 months

Brint of right foot

Blood group

Iris color

Iris pattern

Eye refractive

error

long curled dark brown

Eye lashes

long curled dark brown

Eyebrow light brown light brown

light brown light brown light brown

8 (Dark, slightly reddish-brown)

Hair color

8 (Dark, slightly reddish-brown)

Hair form wavy wavy

wavy wavy wavy

Counter

Clock-wise : clock-wise

Hair whorl

Counter clock-wise

3 Skin color

3 (Light and fair) | (Light and fair)

3 (Light and fair)

(University of The remarkable physical similarity of the Dionne quintuplets 1s graphically expressed in this chart, based on the findings of Biologists John W. MacArthur and Norma Ford. Note how even iris colors and patterns—expressed by measurements on the VsSiny charts—are the same for all five |

Therese, whose prints were taken for

comparison The shape of the finger

| twin’s right hand. | Marie { through their left the quints| and Annette more interdigital | whorls—tiny whirlpool effects on the palm at the base of the fingers: a rare feature possessed by less than 1 per cent of the general population. Neither Ernest, Rose nor Therese has one of these, Here is another thing. If you are | one of a pair of identical twins, your right hand will resemble your |

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sisters. Prints were made of the quints’ palms, fingers and soles of their feet, and diagramed as illustrated in the footprints reproduced here. The ridges (lines) were counted and the shape of the curves tabulated. The result shows that the quintuplets "are an identical set.

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Times Specinl CRAWFORDSVILLE M. Cooney Jr. Danville, Til, was the new president of Senior Class of Wabash College Others elected were Herbert Risely, Crawfordsville, vice president, and Vietor Hough, Chicago,

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[iris color is a medium brown mixed | secretary-treasurer.

with gray, by the way. Eyelashes { are all long, curled and dark brown. | The hair is all wavy, a dark, slightly=reddish brown, uniform in | texture. Contours of the hairline | one forehead, temple and neck are | the same.

{ One difference hair whorls an the crowns of the {quints’ heads all go countemclockwise with the exception of Marie. [Hers swirls the other way. Complexion and skin texture for 11 five children are the same Complexion: Fair, rosy. It tans deeply, | freckle. Cecile and Annette each | had a small temporary mole on the right cheek near the eye, at | one time; they're gone now.

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