Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 6 August 1938 — Page 9

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“From Indiana = Ernie Pyle

Dionnes Aren't Dolls Any Longer But Humans—Yet They're Still as Beautiful _as- They ‘Were - in 1935.

(CALLANDER, Ontario, Aug. 6.—Three ‘fears ago this month we visited the . famous Dionne Quintuplets and their equally famous mentor, Dr. Allan Roy Dafoe. We came back on this return trip rather half-heartedly. But ome look—and now 1

am all worked up again. . These almost mythical babies have grown-up into

real live children. They aren't dolls any longer, ‘they're humans. And they're just

‘a8 beautifull as they used to be. ° + Everything has changed greatly ‘since our last visit. The town of Callander is full of new buildings, “and nearly every house has a four-

sign. < “Quintuplet Village,” two miles away, has changed, too. Three years ago the road was a rutted dirt lane. The hew Dafoe log hospital has just : been . There was one curio store by the roadside. Today a paved highway leads out. The. place itself looks like a county fair. There are acres and acres for parking. The hospital grounds have been ‘ enlarged, and there is an inclosed playground for the children. There are four stores, instead of one. Two of them belong to Oliva “Dionne. Ori three sides of Oliva’s biggest store are immense signboards, sticking high above the roof. On them are painted the Quintuplets’ pictures. In big letters it says “The Only Souvenir and Refreshment booth operated by the Father of the Quintuplets—OLIVA DIONNE.” The store is large, they sell everything you can . think of, and there must be a dozen Oe Oliva himself stays in a curtained booth at the rear. Across In top a sign says “Autographs.” Oliva was there I on in. ere is nothing of the north woods farmer about ) now. He looks much more New York than does Corbeil, Ontario, In fact, he’s a good looking

friend: introduced us. ‘Oliva. wasn’t surly, but 't ‘say that he helped any with the conversation. was suspicious, as he apparently is with everyI didn’t try to make anything but small

= At 9: -30 sharp the hospital gates open for half an hour, and the crowd jams in. We string out in two single files, and go through turnstiles at the of the nity house. : The playground is horseshoe shaped, with no roof. Sort of like: a miniature ‘football stadium, except thatthe audience is.only one row deep, stands ‘up, looks through windows and has a roof over its head.

The playground is probably 100 feet long, and 60 feet wide. You look at the children through ordi-.nary-sized windows, with a screen on the outside. : The glass is clear, but the screen is very fine, and is sprayed with a bright aluminum solution. This permits you to see through, while the-children can’t see back at you.

' Quins Unconscious of Crowd

To tell the truth, your vision is not a clear one. The screen is too fine. And the children are always at least 20 feet away. A little fence keeps them from getting closer to the windows. “You watch, fascinated, for “about a minute. Then policeman makes you move on, and-out. The sight of Phe children is much less- satisfactory than it was three years ago, when nurses brought them out on ; the porch.. But as they say up-here, conditions have changed, and how can you show them any better? I - don’t know. - The playground is neat and ordered, like a Holly- . wood movie playground. -Each child has a tricycle. And a sand bucket and shovel.’ And one of these steel spring horsey-back things. A tse in a white uniform sits in a lawn swing. ~The children. are on the move all the time. They: seem not to be conscious that scores of people are watching them. They talk 4 great deal, but you can’t hear from where you stand. They carry the horses around more than they ride on them. They make mud pies. They go talk to the nurse frequently. You can’t help but be touched by the sight of them in:there. Having seen them before, I was probably less thrilled than most people. .You can travel thousands of miles, and I'll bet not one in a hundred of you will be disappointed in the «Quintuplets. The screened windows may disappoint ‘you, but the children won't.

My Diary By Mrs. Eleanor Roosevelt

Those Who Can Live Outside Cities

During the Summer Can Be Thankful.

YDE PARK, N, Y., Friday.—Last evening we spent another perfectly gorgeous evening on the beach at Fire Island. For a short time in the afternoon, it looked like rain. Mr. Ross had told me that the only reporter who had found the way down to his house, which is near us, had said that she wanted to’ see me just to ask how I liked loafing. He told her that, from his observation, he didn’t think I went in. for it very heavily. This was because he had seen me laboriously using my typewriter and decided that my speed was no greater than his. Today I am doing this column with Mrs. Scheider and the rapidity astounds me after five days of doing “it alone. The moon shone on the heach rather fitfully last evening. When it did, there was a glorious path of silver out into the ocean and we sat for a long while in front of a burning campfire and listened to the waves break upon the beach. As we were leaving, some friends who are spending their vacation in a cabin on the island-appeared on the dock. They were laden down and announced that their outboard motor had refused to work all day and so they had been rowing back and forth. Rather ruefully the gentleman said: “Of course, I came for exercise, so I suppose it is all right.” Mentally I calculated that on his first day he had rowed about 10 miles and I know rather few people who enjoy quite such a rapid transition from business office to rowboat. ;

~ Seeks to Transplant Weed

My brother’s car and chauffeur came for me this morning and I left at 9 o'clock, having added to my baggage a few things bought at the Arthurdale sale and a butterfly weed plant. It may seem odd to try to transplant a weed, but this looks so lovely with the wild carrots that I could not help making the effort. It will probably die, but I am putting it in the ground up here with plenty of water and much prayer. The heat here has evidently been very bad. When I came through New York City and stopped at my apartment for a few minutes, I could not help thinking of how much those of us who do not have to live in the city during the summer months have to be thankful for, -I looked at the children in the parks and thought parks a poor substitute for the country and real farm life. It seems top me that animals are aimost essential to the normal growing up of children. I am glad that inexpensive cars, good roads and camping sites’ are making it more and more possible for city children to have some part of the summer in rural surroundings.

Bob Burns Says—

OLLYWOOD, Aug. 6—Some people always seem to know jest what to say "and do in any situa-

tion and some folks don’t ever seem to be able to get

the knack. I suppose it's that born knack that makes salesmen and diplomats. That's why I admire my Uncle Skinny Flint. He always knows the right answer.

He rented a house to a fella one time and a few -

days later his tenant came to him and says, “Skinny, ‘that place is the draughtiest place I've ever lived in. “When I sit in the dining room, my hair blows down ' ‘all over my. face. San you do somethin’ about it?” Quick a8 a Sash, U le Skinny said, en 1 tell

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Five in an old-fashioned hammock . ... the Dionne Quintuplets - just taking things easy ok a hot afternoon. Ernie Pyle, the Vagabond from Indiana, tells in his accompanying column how he

(Copyright, 1938. NEA Service, Inc.) Here four of the Quins are having tush sprinkling Tie lawn of their playground. Left to right are Cecile, Annette (almost hidden behind

Cecile), Yvonne and Marie. The Quins, our columnist says, are no longer dolls but humans.

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Going right up in. the world is Annette. Her . instructors say

Here's Emilie, pleased as pie over discovering how to turn on the garden faucet. The five sisters play in the large playground which,

" Ernie says, is as neat and orderly as a Hollywood movie playground. ‘Among their playthings are tricycles, sand buckets and shovels.

The playground is about 100 feet long and 60 feet wide. The large

audiences attracted. daily look at the children through ordinary sized

glass windows, with a screen on the outside. The glass is clear, but

“the screen is very fine and is sprayed with a bright aluminum solution.

This permits the audience to wateh the sisters without their seeing the ‘audience!’ On the move the time, the children do not seem to be comscious that scores of le are wafching them. They talk a great deal and like to make mud pies. ; -

she may climb _the. ladder of |

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in 1935. This is Annette in one of

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Annette, seated, and Emilie stop their play for several moments

~ the carriages presented to the sisters. Ernie predicts that not one in a hundred would be disappointed in to visit with their nurse. Ernie explains that the Quins frequently talk

to the nurse, who is always with them at play. i

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By Anton Scherrer

Sarah Bemhardt Had fo Have Nice, ii Quiet Siding for Her Private Car; William Taylor Knew Just the Spot. you've kept track of things around here you probably know, without my telling

you, that William A. Taylor is a pretty com«

petent railroad man; that he gave 52 years,

‘the best years of his life, to the Pennsylvania

people; and that the Pennsylvania Railroad,

* in return for his loyalty, pensioned him a short time

ago. Chances are, though, that you don't know the

“first thing about Mr. Taylor's affair with Sarah

Bernhardt. To hear Mr. Taylor

_tell it, Sarah Bernhardt arrived in

in her private car, he i

that, the “Coronet” carried a lot of red geraniums distributed in win--

dow boxes on both sides of the car.

It didn’t interfere with the working of the windows Because back in ose days you couldn't open a railroad car window Mr. Scherrer | Well, soon as the “Coronet” came to a stop in the | Union Station, Madame | jumped out and said he wan | right away. When they showed up, | t was Madame's desire that the car be | Switched to sbme Place in she country; that she wan surrounded with pastoral scenery during her stay in Indianapolis, and that it had to be the . Tignt king of scanery, loo, something like the environs | of Barbizon, or at least something as good as the

| forests of Foritainebleau.

That's where Mr. Taylor entered the picture. The | Pennsylvania people said it ‘was Mr. Taylor's busie ness to switch Madame’s car into the country and SyrTung Bek with the Kind ef seenigsy she Mie ‘Ime | mediately, Mr. Taylor thought of S04 2 Switch engige sha Sak te out The manager said it wouldn't do. at 2!

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he that, Next, Mr. Taylor thought of Irvington.

The manager was delighted -wi Irvington, and eis ued With Irvingien, Brot Mr. Taylor thought he had: everything a when, all of a sudden, the manager spied a big building in the distance, and demanded to know what it was, Proud as Punch, Mr. Taylor said it was Butler UniYossity, Whereupon ihe manager had a French fit and e e Sarah co 't think of spending a . night in a college town.

Too Late for Scenery Seeking

By this time it was getting pretty late. Too late, anyway, to be out for scenery to suit Sarah. Mr. Taylor didn’t -know what to do next, and that’s why he went to his superiors for further

instructions. His superiors said it was up to Mr. Tay-

lor to get Madame Bernhardt out of the Union Sta tion. They didn't care where he put her, just so he got. her oh of the depot. Well, the only thing left for Mr. Taylor to do was

| to move Madame into the Pennsylvania workshops in

the neighborhood of the old Deaf and Dumb School on State Ave. It. was the noisiest place in town, bar-

- ring: none, because that’s where they kept the riveting terrifying

gang and the Wrecking whistle, the most noise in Indianapo) When Sarah att awoke next morning + afte a good night's sleep, she couldn't say enough She said the noise deligh i beyond measure, and: she-meant:it, too, because when

-Mr. Taylor turned up next morning: to see how she

was getting along, she gave him a swig of French brandy. Poured it out with her own:hands, too, says Me. Tayler

Jane Jordan—

Boy Seeking to Change Fiancee's Views Told She May Have Same Idea,

Des JANE JORDAN—In one of her daily columns a woman writer advises marrying a man and then expecting to reform him of his bad habits. This admonition set me wondering. I am engaged to marry & young woman whom I love very much, but she has some bad habits. She smokes cigarets and drinks. At heart I believe she is refined; it is simply the crowd she mixes with that condones these prace tices. At least this is my opinion. However, I wonder if it will be wise for me to expect to reform her of these habits. Do you think she will give them up if I can get her away from old associates? In a word, do you think it is as hopeless for a man to reform a woman after niarriage as it is for a woman to ree form a man? > QUANDARY.

Answer—I wonder if the girl needs reforming. Isn't

. it simply that she has a different point of view and

moves in a group of people who are not shocked by moderate social drinking and smoking? Perhaps she

| feels that you are the one who is out of step.

The only thing you can do is talk it over with the girl and see if she feels the need of being reformed. Does she know that you hope to deprive her of her friends after your marriage? Is it impossible for you to like these people in spite of the fact that their out look on life is different from yours? If it is, you owe it to the girl to tell her so before your riage and not afterward. What would you do if you discovered that she

- was secretly ‘intending to reform you after marriage?

It is possible that she considers you old-fashioned and prudish. : - If both of you young people are too rigidly set in your ideas and neither will give way to the other, you are foolish to marry, . 8 » 8

EAR JANE JORDAN—I am a girl of 16. I love to have good times. ‘My mother has been making me come in by 9:30 and I have been obeying, -There were two nights when I came in late and now my mother will not let me go away. from house even on a date. Please give me some advice, : A CONSTANT READER.

Answer—Ask her how many nights you have to stay in to atone for being late twice. After you have stayed in the requisite number of nights, ask her to step up the deadline a half hour. Then when you are older, ask her to step it up another half hour. I imagine that she will be reasonable with you if you will be reasonable with her, JANE JORDAN.

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